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The Greater Bay Area
Regents Primary School of Shenzhen, Su, Curran - 8
The Greater Bay Area locates in the south of China. It is the fourth largest bay area in the world after the
New York Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area and Tokyo Bay Area. It includes Hong Kong, Macau,
Shenzhen, Dongguan, Huizhou, Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhaoqing, Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Jiangmen. The
four central cities of this area are Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Hong Kong will reinforce
and enhance the center as an international financial, shipping, trade and aviation hub. Macau will build a
world tourism and leisure center. Guangzhou and Shenzhen will play an important role of national central
city and comprehensive gateway city. With the development of the central cities, Dongguan, Huizhou,
Foshan, Zhaoqing Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Jiangmen will form idiomatic and multi-functional cities.
The government has issued a series of policies to support business environment in the GBA. For
example, the enterprise income tax rate reduced to 13 percents from April 2019. Many young top talents
choose to work in this big city group under the government’s policy. The government also issued protection
policy of the ecological environment to keep sustainable development.
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge was officially opened in October 2018. People can drive
from Hong Kong to Zhuhai in about 45 minutes. Many railways and bridges are under construction. The
convenient transportation will drive more diversified business and other economic activities into the GBA in
the near future.
More and more technology invented and applied in the China markets. With the growing demand for
mobile data, the fifth generation mobile network is developing fast in the world. It will provide more
services to customers, for example ultra HD television and smart home, while WeChat pay can be widely
used in our daily lives.
There are kinds of distinctive food in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou and Foshan. The delicious
snacks and drinks in Hong Kong are pudding cake, egg tart, mango pancake, curry fish ball, Hong Kong-
Style milk tea and so on. People can taste cantonese cuisine, such as roast goose, crab porridge and the softboiled
chicken. As the birthplace of tea culture, people like to drink tea with many snacks from the Tang
dynasty. People celebrate the traditional festivals with many folk-custom, such as Dancing Lion, Cantonese
Opera and Chinese Kung Fu.
People are polite, friendly and hard-working in this area and their languages are Hakka Chinese,
Cantonese, Teochewese and Mandarin. They can also speak international English. Guangdong is the earliest
birthplace of the Maritime Silk Road. Cantonese businessmen are talents in merchandise. Most of them are
very smart and clever.
People will have better work and living environment with their corporation and hard-working in future.
Will you join this adventure?