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Winning Entries
Non-Fiction – Group 5
WINNER
Future Adventures of The Greater
Bay Area: A Fusion of All That
is Great
St Margaret’s Co–Educational English Secondary and Primary School, Bajaj, Sasha – 16
Have you ever wondered what a place would look like that fuses diversity in education,
culture, and finance? Well you don’t need to wonder, the Greater Bay Area (henceforth
referred to as the GBA) will foster its cities’ strengths to encourage future success in the area.
Hong Kong is a regional education hub that possesses a leading position in global rankings
of students’ strengths, while China strives to develop itself as a world-class research center.
Out of 1400 universities across 92 countries, the top 2 universities of Hong Kong ranked 35th
and 47th, while the top universities in China ranked 23rd and 24th. Hong Kong’s innovation
and technology sector, tallied with that of Shenzhen – the Shenzhen-Hong Kong technology
cluster – ranked the world’s second largest (based on the Global Innovation Index 2019).
Of the top 100 science and technology clusters, China has racked up 18, second only to the
United States. The success of the GBA depends on whether the area’s strong cluster of top
universities can demonstrate leading and path-breaking research, innovation, and technological
advancements. This will help develop the Greater Bay Area as an international education
base as well as open up collaborative innovation opportunities for students in Hong Kong
and Guangdong. Educational cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland will be
able to reach a new pedestal, achieving good progress in areas such as variety of educational
programmes, student exchange, scientific research collaboration, and professional training.
To further foster creativity and innovation within the region, people studying in the area could
stay after their graduation to seek economic, creative, or employment opportunities in nearby
cities. Thus, the present-day problem of fluctuating social mobility in the cities of the GBA
can be alleviated. Moreover, joining the GBA initiative would bring the SARs and also the
Guangdong province new technology, knowledge, and an influx of new talents. For example,
Shenzhen is known as a forefront technology hub. Hong Kong may experience exchanges in
the technology sector, such as submitting technological issues across the border and receiving
unparalleled advice from certified professionals within the GBA. By providing resources
which bolster productivity, learning, growth, and aiding collaboration with leading industry
professionals from Shenzhen (which will definitely help to improve the technological level of
local products) both Hong Kong and Macau will see the benefits of these type of exchanges.
There are considerable perks of building an open community of innovation and technology
throughout the GBA. For example, it will form alliance across diverse crucial sectors such as
entrepreneurship, financial technology, and commercial applications. Further, it would also
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