30 May 2023
On 30 May 2023, the Guangdong Provincial Committees of the Communist Party of China and the People's Government of Guangdong Province issued the “Various Opinions on High-quality Development of Guangdong Province in the New Era” (“the Opinions”). The Opinions proposed to accelerate the construction of an international science and technology innovation centre in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (“GBA”), specifically including the establishment of an innovation pattern with the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong and the Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao science and technology innovation corridors as the main axes and supported by other cities. The Opinions also collaborate with Hong Kong and Macao in developing various major innovation platforms, expand and strengthen the national technology innovation centre and build several industrial innovation highlands in the GBA.