Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Non-Fiction 2020 | Page 4

Non-Fiction – Group 2
Future Adventure of the Greater
Bay Area
Ching Chung Hau Po Woon Primary School, Kwok, Ho Yu – 12
‘What is Greater Bay Area?’ ‘Where is it?’ ‘When and why did Greater Bay Area appear?’
These are the questions that usually knock my brain and drive me to explore more about
this “mysterious zone”!
In fact, more than half of Hong Kong’s young people have never heard about the “Greater
Bay Area’’’s(GBA) development plan, this kind of ignorance means we are continually missing
the development opportunities there – what a pity!
I would like to sum up certain truths and facts I have researched as below :
1. GBA’s master plan concept was primarily announced on the occasion of the 20th
anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to China.
2. Greater Bay Area (GBA) physically is neither a city or province, for easy
understanding we can describe it as a ZONE.
3. GBA consists of total eleven cities which encircle Pearl River Delta area, nine of
them are situated in Guangdong Province. These eleven cities include :
Hong Kong
Macau
Guangzhou
Shenzhen
Zhuhai
Foshan
Jiangmen
Zhaoqing
Huizhou
Dongguan
Zhongshan
4. More than 70 million people are living in GBA – nearly 10 times more than Hong
Kong’s people right now!
5. Total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in GBA reach RMB 10.49 trillion, comparable
to the world’s tenth largest economy.
6. The GBA development plan is not only a local and regional strategy, in fact it is a
long-term plan at the national level leaded by China government.
So what are the new opportunities and challenges can we dig out from this important
plan? And the impacts towards Hong Kong? I believe we need to analyze these issues in the
following aspects :
1. Complimentary effect among cities
Each city has its own special strength and characteristics – Hong Kong is famous in
finance, logistics, professional service and asset management; Guangzhou, Dongguan
and Foshan are well-known for their large scale production plants; Shenzhen,
needless to say, has turned into “Silicon Valley” in China – see how well Tencent,
Huawei and DJI perform in the world stage; and we are always easily entranced by
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