China's Nansha Injects New Impetus into Opening-up and Cooperation in the GBA
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GUANGZHOU, China, June 17, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--
China's State Council issued an overall plan to promote comprehensive
cooperation among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao by further deepening
opening-up in the Nansha district of South China's Guangdong province,
according to a circular released on June 14.
Nansha will step up such cooperation to build it into a center of strategic
importance that collaborates with Hong Kong and Macao and benefits the Greater
Bay Area (GBA) and beyond, the circular said. The district is set to further
drive cooperation and opening-up in the GBA as it embraces an opportunity to
evolve from the region's geographic center to a key functional role.
The district significantly connects to urban clusters in the GBA as it serves
as Guangzhou's only gateway to sea routes. "About 38 nautical miles away from
Hong Kong and 41 nautical miles away from Macao, Nansha can link to the GBA's
11 cities and the international airports of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong
within a 100-kilometer radius," noted Dong Ke, mayor of Nansha. The district
has put the building of a "half-hour transportation circle" on a fast track
since the start of constructing the GBA. That provides more solid groundwork
for collaboration with Hong Kong and Macao to develop Nansha into a door for
high-level opening-up, according to Nansha District People's Government of
Guangzhou City.
Colored container trucks shuttle back and forth throughout the Nansha Port area
dominated by the sounds of cranes humming. In 2021, the port became one of the
world's busiest seaports, seeing up to 17.66 million TEU containers shipped
across its foreign trade network that comprises 135 sea routes. On May 30,
2022, a China-Europe freight train departed from the Nansha Port, a move
marking the integration of the Silk Road Economic Belt with the 21st Century
Maritime Silk Road. The multimodal rail-water-road transport system was made
possible by the operation of the Nansha Port Railway, said Song Xiaoming, vice
general manager of Guangzhou Port Company, adding that an increase in
China-Europe freight-train services put the district in a better position to
support the GBA in building the Belt and Road and to connect with the rest of
the world.
Buy from and sell to the world. The commitment to opening up has turned Nansha
into a hub for cross-border e-commerce, with a total of nearly 600 companies
registered for that particular business to date. The value of trade in
cross-border e-commerce between January and May grew by some 87% year-on-year
to about RMB 15 billion.
At the same time, Nansha features more prominently in the global business
landscape as it is on track to emerge as a brand-new center for international
exchanges. While the permanent site of the Greater-Bay Science Forum is being
planned, the International Finance Forum (IFF) annual meeting has been hosted
nonstop. That being said, Nansha will build a new platform for the GBA to
increase international economic cooperation under the Belt and Road framework.
This is how Nansha further integrates into the regional and global economy.
Nansha now leads the GBA in sci-tech innovation endeavors. To be specific, it
is home to over 620 companies in artificial intelligence and biotechnology. A
host of homegrown high-tech firms, such as Zhaoke Ophthalmology and CloudWalk
Technology, went public, and CAS Space Exploration, Guangdong's first unicorn
company in commercial spaceflight, was relocated to Nansha. Innovations emerge
at a faster rate. Moreover, the district has stayed committed to Guangdong-Hong
Kong-Macao joint sci-tech innovation systems and mechanisms, as evidenced by
the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), which will
start operation this September. The HKUST (GZ) project, in turn, enables Nansha
to motivate universities to play their inherent role in driving innovation. And
among others, an industrial park for entrepreneurs and innovators from
Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will be in place around the HKUST (GZ) campus as
a way to create synergy among the government, industries, universities and
research institutes.
Founded as a state-level new area and part of China (Guangdong) Pilot Free
Trade Zone, Nansha has grown from a demonstration zone of all-round cooperation
among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to the world-facing carrier of strategic
importance for greater collaboration with Hong Kong and Macao. That means the
district has an increasingly significant role to play in national development
strategies. More importantly, it shows the world where the GBA will go and how
China remains committed to reform and opening up.
Source: Nansha District People's Government of Guangzhou City
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