https://www.scmp.com/rss/324993/feed Liang Hai Ming is chairman and chief economist of the institute en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The release of a “Greater Bay Area” development plan for linking Hong Kong and Macau with nine cities in Guangdong province is expected to be released early this year. The plan may be a sign of China’s ascent, but this area will be starkly different from, for example, the San Francisco, New York and Tokyo bay areas. While it is all within one nation, it also links two “systems”, three currencies and multiple cities. This makes the plan highly convoluted, and such complexity could pose far more... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2126539/four-challenges-greater-bay-area-planners-must-overcome?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2126539/four-challenges-greater-bay-area-planners-must-overcome?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Jan 2018 04:06:02 +0000 At the recent Business China Awards in Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong ­emphasised that the Belt and Road Initiative welcomes participation and planning from all nations. As an important belt and road node, he said, Singapore can and will benefit from it. Indeed, Singapore’s political, business and academic communities seem collectively convinced that, by participating in the initiative, the city state can increase its future connectivity in the real-world, digital, financial and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2107639/how-chinas-belt-and-road-can-show-singapore-route-greater?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2107639/how-chinas-belt-and-road-can-show-singapore-route-greater?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:01:21 +0000