Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Winners 2020 | Page 21

Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2020
Non-Fiction – Group 1
WINNER
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 soft-boiled 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?
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