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Places to visit:
If you like to watch plays or are interested with dancing, then you could go to the House of Dancing
Theater Pool. It’s larger than 5 Olympic swimming pools placed side by side and the
show’s spectacular! If you would like to go on something stimulate and fun, The Macau Tower Bungy
Jump is the upmost in the world but there’s also the first ever figure-8 Ferris wheel in the world.
Fun Facts:
• Although RMB and Hong Kong dollars also can be used, the main currency in Macau is called
Pataca.
• The name Macau comes from a misunderstanding between the Chinese and Portuguese people, so
it has two spellings: one “Macau” and one “Macao”.
• Most people in Macau now speaks Cantonese, so the real language is endangered.
What’s life like in the GBA?
China's motivated plan to develop the so-called Greater Bay Area is designed to improve the economy.
The Greater Bay Area plan would link Hong Kong, Macau and nine other cities in southern China.
The GBA (Greater Bay Area) aims is to help China to grow by developing technology and innovation,
improving transport and building work and trading more between the cities.
Some say China’s trying to create an area that will be similar to Silicon Valley in the USA. The Greater Bay
Area is already very important to China.
Some building projects are already under way. Chinese Chairman Xi last year officially opened a bridge
connecting Hong Kong to Macau and Zhuhai - the world's longest sea crossing bridge, which is 55km,
about 20 times the length of The Golden Gate Bridge in the U.S.A.- as part of China's plan to better
connect the cities in the Greater Bay Area.
If the GBA plan succeeds, Hong Kong would continue to be a place where lots of business happened,
Shenzhen (home to the Chinese telecom Huawei) would be a centre of technological invention, while
Macau would encourage tourists and trade with the Portuguese-speaking world (including Portugal and
Brazil.)
Conclusion:
The different cities that are included in the Greater Bay Area work well together. It therefore makes a lot of
sense to try to improve how these cities connect and work together. If the GBA idea all went to plan, the
area could well be more successful than each of these individual cities would manage on their own.