'The purpose is to use Hong Kong to get special favours from the central government at a time when the central government is very worried about the economic future of Hong Kong.'
Thomas Chan Man-hung,
China Business Centre,
Polytechnic University
It is the most interesting statement I have yet seen of Shenzhen's objective in supporting the politically correct notion that Hong Kong get together with other towns of the Pearl River Delta to create a megalopolis, which is a word for dinosau ... oops ... sorry, I mean dynamic big city.
Given that Mr Chan also claims status as a special researcher for the Guangdong provincial government, you have to believe that he knows a little whereof he speaks and that there is something to this cynicism he attributes to the Shenzhen authorities.