Beijing official calls on Hong Kong universities to play a more active role in Greater Bay Area development
- Local universities must now start making their mark by contributing to economic advances on national level, according to Beijing’s top agency in Hong Kong
- Liaison office’s education director says universities ‘should step up their role in joint building’ of the bay area
Jiang Jianxiang, of the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong, acknowledged the contribution of the city’s universities to the country over the years, but said on Thursday their main task was shifting from helping mainland Chinese counterparts improve education standards to working in partnership with them to push forward development on a national level.
“In the past, when our country came up with important development, it would mention Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou,” Jiang, the director-general of the office’s department of educational, scientific and technological affairs, told a university forum.
The bay area is Beijing’s ambitious plan to turn Hong Kong, Macau and nine other southern Chinese cities into an economic and innovation powerhouse.
