The central authorities has positioned higher emphasis on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area’s role in driving technological innovation, with the imaginative and prescient of making a world-class hub nurturing tech-driven developments.
In the most recent Government Work Report delivered by Premier Li Qiang on Thursday, the nation recognized growing worldwide technological innovation facilities within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster, the Yangtze River Delta, and the 11-city Greater Bay Area as pivotal to its aim of attaining high-level technological self-reliance.
Zhang Guoping, an affiliate researcher on the Shenzhen Academy of Social Sciences, mentioned that in comparison with latest Government Work Reports — which underlined the Greater Bay Area’s financial radiation impact in accelerating regional improvement — this yr the nation expects it to play a higher main role within the area of science and expertise.
This shift aligns with the heightened strategic significance of technological development in nationwide improvement, he mentioned. “In the current international landscape, securing a leading position in the tech field has become a cornerstone of the survival and progress of nations and regions, which has raised the goal of accelerating technological advancement to unprecedented heights.”
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In addition to safeguarding nationwide safety and enhancing worldwide competitiveness, technological innovation can foster new types of manufacturing forces and increase providers commerce. It can be vital for different improvement priorities like increasing home demand and cultivating new development drivers, Zhang added.
Compared to city clusters round Beijing and Shanghai, he believes the Greater Bay Area’s benefit within the sci-tech area lies in its aggressive tech enterprises, complete industrial chains, and connections with Hong Kong universities famend for their sturdy analysis capabilities.
Calling for deeper collaboration among the many nation’s main innovation hubs, Zhang mentioned he hopes tech giants within the Greater Bay Area will accomplice with extra prime instructional and scientific establishments in Beijing and Shanghai for expertise transfers.
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