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Latest news, analysis, explainers and updates on policy announcements, corporate developments and investment opportunities focused on this particular city under the Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative in southern China’s Pearl River Delta The coverage includes politics and policies, business, lifestyle and culture and useful to-do guides about living, working and studying in the GBA.
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Party Secretary of Zhaoqing Zhang Aijun
More cross-border checkpoints could join the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Hong Kong Port (pictured) and Lok Ma Chau control point as 24-hour crossings. Photo: Sun Yeung
Hong Kong society

More Hong Kong border checkpoints with mainland China to operate around the clock

Proposals revealed in National Development and Reform Commission action plan, which also calls for incentives to attract Hong Kong talent across border.

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China trade

Explainer | How will Hainan free-trade port affect the Greater Bay Area and Asean?

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Hong Kong transport

High-speed rail services from Hong Kong to Beijing to return on April 1

Greater Bay Area

China opens multibillion-dollar link for cross-border wealth management

Greater Bay Area, which is home to four top 10 richest people in China, will have a new cross-border trading scheme for investment products, a core project by Beijing to promote capital flows and investment among the 11 cities in the plan.

Students visiting a booth set up by The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office (GBA Development Office) at the HKTDC Education & Careers Expo 2021 in Wan Chai on 15 July 2021. Photo: Nora Tam
Greater Bay Area

Greater Bay Area: Hong Kong education firm to expand amid regulatory storm

Hong Kong-listed Edvantage Group to expand Zhaoqing and Jiangmen campuses as it takes advantage of transport network, government support and cheap land in the bay area.

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Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong can be the Greater Bay Area’s San Francisco, US think tank says

Hong Kong can connect the Greater Bay Area with the rest of the world, much like San Francisco’s role in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Bay Area.

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Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong-owned F&B outlets in Zhaoqing start Year of the Ox on a high

Hong Kong entrepreneurs said their businesses in the Greater Bay Area city were buoyed after mainland authorities asked workers to stay back instead of travelling to their hometowns during the Lunar New Year.

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Zhaoqing is one of the most picturesque cities in the Greater Bay Area. Photo: Shutterstock
Greater Bay Area

Greater Bay Area riches uplift Hong Kong celebrity chef, food investors

The Greater Bay Area’s vibrant economy has enabled 73-year old Hong Kong celebrity chef Master Ko to grow his ‘private kitchen’ in his hometown Guangzhou, at the expense of his retirement plan.

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Coronavirus pandemic

Beijing tops the world as most competitive city in the era of Covid-19

The study underscores how the persistent pandemic – and how governments and societies are adapting to contain and overcome the disease – will have long-term effects on global economies and populations.

Greater Bay Area

Explainer | Zhuhai touts upbeat economic growth to attract Greater Bay Area’s best

Zhuhai, which led the Top 10 Livable Cities in China rankings last year, holds up its economic achievements to attract talent from other Greater Bay Area cities.

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An aerial photo of Zhuhai Hengqin International Financial Center in southern Guangdong province. Photo: Xinhua
Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong start-up offers business template to succeed in Greater Bay Area

A Hong Kong start-up’s experience shows how the Greater Bay Area can help businesses overcome two major hurdles in the city – high land and labour costs.

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Hong Kong businessman Sunny Yip Yuk-chik in front of his sewage treatment plant in Huaiji Guangfozhao Industrial Zone, in Zhaoqing. Photo: Handout
Greater Bay Area

Explainer | Zhaoqing Guozheng rice dumpling a household name in Greater Bay Area

Zhaoqing has been promoting its agricultural products to improve the livelihood of 89,000 relatively poor people.

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Dalian Wanda signs ambitious China tourism plan in bet on Greater Bay Area

Dalian Wanda, controlled by Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin, is embarking on an ambitious plan to develop the tourism potentials of Zhaoqing city in Greater Bay Area.

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Greater Bay Area

Explainer | Zhaoqing pins tourism edge on Seven Star Crags, Justice Bao, Jesuit legends

The inclusion of Zhaoqing in the Greater Bay Area initiative has put the city’s rich history and natural attractions in the spotlight. Here are six top spots to visit on your next trip.

Seven Star Crags is ranked as the No. 1 tourist site in Zhaoqing city by TripAdvisor. Photo: Handout
Greater Bay Area

How a 16th Century Jesuit scholar first put China on the map

Matteo Ricci worked in Zhaoqing for six years, during which he compiled the very first dictionary between Chinese and a Western language, and drew the first modern Chinese world map.

Modern Zhaoqing – the largest city in the bay area project but also one of the least developed. Photo: WEIBO
Greater Bay Area

Exclusive | Hong Kong sees Zhaoqing as partner to help modernise construction industry

Hong Kong sees Zhaoqing in bay area as a partner to spur modern technology in local construction industry and alleviate long-term labour crunch.

Greater Bay Area

Exclusive | Hong Kong’s youth to benefit from varsity’s bay area expansion: Paul Chan

The Open University’s Zhaoqing campus is a significant milestone of talent exchanges and nurturing in the Greater Bay Area, says Paul Chan.

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Greater Bay Area

Exclusive | Greater Bay Area offers exit from Hong Kong’s recession, Chan says

The cluster of 11 cities, with a combined population of 72 million residents and an economy estimated at US$1.65 trillion – equivalent to the world’s 11th-largest economy behind Canada and ahead of Russia, if it were a stand-alone entity – provides a potential market 10 times the size of Hong Kong.

A screen shows a map of Greater Bay Area during a symposium on the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao, Greater Bay Area" in Hong Kong on Thursday, February 21, 2019. Photo: AP
Greater Bay Area

Zhaoqing’s high-speed railway connections key to property price growth

Zhaoqing’s home prices are rising as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic wears off. And more relaxed government policies and faster train services will only boost its property market further, analysts say.

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Greater Bay Area

Bay area’s biggest, poorest city ‘could become’ tourism, retirement hub

Zhaoqing, which covers 27 per cent of the bay area, is starting from a low base which gives it huge growth potential in certain sectors, says head of Hong Kong Institute of Securities Dealers.

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Mainland China’s ‘Hong Kong town’ could become a police retirement site

Junior Police Officers’ Association head says it is in talks with Guangzhou-based developer over such homes, with first phase to be completed in 2020.

It takes at least four hours to get from Hong Kong to Zhaoqing by bus.

High-speed rail link boosted with 4 new long-haul routes to mainland

MTR Corp says lines will feature 14 destinations, as lawmaker expresses hope that the move will also benefit tourism

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The high-speed rail link from Hong Kong to other parts on the mainland have been underutilised. Photo: Edward Wong
Greater Bay Area

A look at the Greater Bay Area cities with the best property outlook

Zhuhai tops the list of Greater Bay Area cities on the mainland with price gains of 1.8 per cent since February, closely followed by Dongguan at 1.7 per cent.

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