Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
This refers to the city clusters that encompass China’s two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, and nine cities of neighboring Guangdong Province: Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Shenzhen, Zhaoqing, Zhongshan and Zhuhai. The gross economy of this greater bay area now ranks among the world’s top four bay areas.
The idea of building a city cluster in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is an outcome of the constant integration of the cities in the Pearl River Delta region.
The Framework Agreement on Guangdong-Hong Kong Cooperation, in 2010, contained a key program to build a pleasant livable zone along the Pearl River estuary. Four years later in 2014, the Report on the Work of the Shenzhen Municipal Government set the goal of developing a bay area economy, and included Guangdong’s city clusters located in the bay area and the nearby Hong Kong and Macao into a complete plan.
Thewhite paper Joining Hands to Build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road – Vision and Actions, jointly released in 2015 byChina’s National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce, called for further cooperation with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to build the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In 2016 China’s 13th Five-year Plan contained a provision “to support Hong Kong and Macao to play an important role in the cooperation in the pan-Pearl River Delta and promote a platform for cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and cross-provincial cooperation.” In 2017, the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area appeared in both the Report on the Work of the Government and the report to the 19th National Congress of the CPC, becoming a national strategy.
The Central Economic Work Conference in December 2017 listed the planning of the Greater Bay Area as a task for 2018. This marked the formal start of strategic planning.
The Greater Bay Area is important to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and a new round of high-level opening up. It is conducive to the exchanges and cooperation between China’s interior and Hong Kong and Macao, to the two special regions’ participation in national development strategies, and to their competitiveness and long-lasting prosperity and stability.
粵港澳大灣區(qū)
粵港澳大灣區(qū)是指由香港、澳門(mén)兩個(gè)特別行政區(qū)和廣東省的廣州、深圳、珠海、佛山、中山、東莞、肇慶、江門(mén)、惠州等九市組成的城市群。粵港澳大灣區(qū)經(jīng)濟(jì)體量已躋身世界前四大灣區(qū)。
粵港澳大灣區(qū)城市群概念的提出是一個(gè)逐步的過(guò)程，是包括港澳在內(nèi)的珠三角城市融合發(fā)展不斷深化的結(jié)果。2010年，《粵港合作框架協(xié)議》將建設(shè)環(huán)珠江口宜居灣區(qū)列為重點(diǎn)行動(dòng)計(jì)劃。2014年，深圳市政府工作報(bào)告明確提出構(gòu)建“灣區(qū)經(jīng)濟(jì)”，把粵港澳城市群勾連起的灣區(qū)作為一個(gè)整體規(guī)劃。2015年，由國(guó)家發(fā)展改革委、外交部、商務(wù)部聯(lián)合發(fā)布的《推動(dòng)共建絲綢之路經(jīng)濟(jì)帶和21世紀(jì)海上絲綢之路的愿景和行動(dòng)》提出，要深化與港澳臺(tái)合作，打造粵港澳大灣區(qū)。2016年，“支持港澳在泛珠三角合作中發(fā)揮重要作用,推動(dòng)粵港澳大灣區(qū)和跨省區(qū)重大合作平臺(tái)建設(shè)”被寫(xiě)入“十三五”規(guī)劃。2017年，粵港澳大灣區(qū)建設(shè)先后被寫(xiě)入政府工作報(bào)告和十九大報(bào)告，被提升到國(guó)家發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略層面。2017年12月，中央經(jīng)濟(jì)工作會(huì)議將“科學(xué)規(guī)劃粵港澳大灣區(qū)”納入2018年經(jīng)濟(jì)工作，這標(biāo)志著粵港澳大灣區(qū)戰(zhàn)略規(guī)劃進(jìn)入正式實(shí)施、全面啟動(dòng)的新階段。
粵港澳大灣區(qū)將在中國(guó)“一帶一路”倡議推進(jìn)和新一輪高水平對(duì)外開(kāi)放中發(fā)揮重要作用。推進(jìn)建設(shè)粵港澳大灣區(qū)，有利于深化內(nèi)地和港澳交流合作，對(duì)港澳參與國(guó)家發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略，提升競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力，保持長(zhǎng)期繁榮穩(wěn)定具有重要意義。
