Message from Commissioner

for the Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

At the dawn of the Chinese New Year, I sincerely wish our country prosperity and strength, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area) success and harmony, and everyone abundance and joy!

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office (the Office) has continued, through diversified means and channels, to promote the significant opportunities of Greater Bay Area development and Hong Kong’s important roles as a core city and a core engine for regional development in the Greater Bay Area to stakeholders in Hong Kong, Mainland and overseas. We aim to let everyone know that the Greater Bay Area is full of vitality and potential, with a view to attracting overseas talents, enterprises and capital to Hong Kong and access the enormous markets of the Greater Bay Area and the Mainland through Hong Kong.

In November and December last year, my colleagues and I continued to go global by conducting duty visits to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Melbourne in Australia, and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. We proactively reached out to more overseas talents and enterprises, and encouraged them to capitalise on Hong Kong’s roles as a “super connector” and a “super value-adder” under “one country, two systems”, to tap into the vast markets of the Greater Bay Area and the Mainland. Looking back on 2024, we left footprints in both well-developed and traditional markets as well as emerging ASEAN countries. During each overseas duty visit, I seized every opportunity to tell good stories of Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area with facts, promote Hong Kong as a place with the world’s best business environment as well as the best dual platform for “going global and attracting foreign investment”, and invite them to come and visit Hong Kong.

Moreover, the Office has actively organised and participated in various large-scale exhibition events. For example, booths were set up at the Entrepreneur Day on 5 and 6 December last year and at the Education & Careers Expo from 16 to 19 January this year, and a roving exhibition is being staged at local universities and the Civic Education Resource Centre of Youth Square from 11 January to 28 March this year. These exhibition events aim to introduce to young people and the public the choices and opportunities for study, internship, employment and entrepreneurship in the Mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area, and to help young people realise their aspirations on a bigger stage in the Greater Bay Area. All of these exhibition events were well-received by participants.

In the Year of the Snake, the HKSAR Government will continue to consolidate and enhance Hong Kong’s institutional strengths under “one country, two systems”, foster high-level connectivity in the Greater Bay Area continuously, expedite the development of various major co-operation platforms across the Greater Bay Area, and keep on telling good stories of Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, so as to compose a new chapter on the practice of developing the Greater Bay Area with Chinese modernisation.