Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Non-Fiction 2020 | Page 5
Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2020
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Macau’s fantastic tourism industry. In GBA, each city can contribute her advantage
and strength, complement other’s weakness for the aim of spurring the mutual
economic growth. This is especially important for Hong Kong as can concentrate
effort in developing certain industries, but without considering some in-born
hindrances such as land and manpower shortage.
Seamless connection of infrastructure facilities and public services
With the completion of a series of infrastructure projects such as Hong Kong-Zhuhai-
Macau Bridge, and the continuous development of high-speed rail, all eleven cities
in GBA are easily connected – which mean we can enjoy greatly improved traffic
convenience in the future, the so-called 3 hours living zone! Besides of the close
connection of infrastructure facilities, it is important to connect and integrate public
services among cities as well, e.g. education, medical care etc, so as to speed up the
rapid growth of production as quickly as possible, and finally achieve an integrated
single market in GBA! We can imagine how large the potential it will unleash!
Development of financial and innovative industry
In an era of globalization, it is imperative for us to develop world-leading industries
thus to maintain our competitiveness in the world. Hong Kong, besides being named
the “Pearl of Orient”, has matured into a well-established finance centre since the
1970s, while our home country, China, has also shown tremendous progress in
technological sector (look at your mobile, check your social media apps, see how
you shop in Internet!) for recent decades. If cooperation among GBA cities can be
strengthened, our world-leading financial and technology position will definitely be
further secured.
The Belt and Road
This modern “Silk Road” covers more than 70 countries which enables China
to deepen cooperation and connection with other Asia, Europe and Middle-East
countries, no matter in economy (broaden the market coverage), culture (West-
meet-East fusion), environment protection etc. GBA’s development plan facilitate
China’s southern cities to jointly open a platform to the world which exposes our
global presence. Imagine one day you might be invited to participate in a forum held
in Saudi Arabia, just because you invented an innovative product which sold there via
The Belt and Road! What an amazing experience!
Limited natural resources, esp. in Hong Kong and Macau Vs Quality of life!
Hong Kong and Macau are sometimes notorious as one of ‘The most difficult place
to live”. Why? This is the truth that Hong Kong and Macau are such tiny cities, but
with a dense population. People there find life is always not easy – so polluted, so
crowded, so expensive, it is hard to find a solution at all! For the GBA development
plan, cities are all linked up. We can share our natural resources together – think
about to living in Guangzhou, or take a break in Zhaoqing village, or have a nice
meal with family in Zhongshan - just by 1 or 2 hours travelling! Or think about
our retirement life, cities in GBA with relatively low living cost and ideal living
environment can attract retirees from other cities to move in – making them suitable
for the development of high-end elderly care services.
Development of integrated shopping and tourist centre
In every year, eleven cities in GBA receive more than 400 million tourists which
contribute revenue around RMB one trillion in 2016. However the major cities are
almost independent with each other in terms of tourism destination – an integrated