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What is the difference between a state-level new area, a special economic zone, a development zone, a high-tech zone, and a free trade zone? Greater Bay Insights explains The Greater Bay Area (the area linking Hong Kong, Macau, and nine cities in mainland China around the Pearl River Delta including Guangdong and Shenzhen) was conceived as an integrated economic and commercial hub, designed to make doing business in the region …

The Greater Bay Area’s response to the need for high-quality basic research institutions is to build them, with four clusters of scientific institutions in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan and Cuiheng now emerging – here’s what to expect When it comes to technology, Guangdong is known for designing, building and selling things. However, there is a step before all of that in the tech industry’s value chain, and it is a step …

Sir Douglas Flint, Chairman of Standard Life Aberdeen, was formerly chairman of HSBC and says the opportunities for British companies in China’s finance sector are only now becoming clear, writes Andrew Peaple Talk to Sir Douglas Flint for any length of time about China and there’s one word you will hear often: ‘opportunity.’ The Standard Life Aberdeen chairman has spent much of his career working in and around China, both …

Mabel Liu is a corporate lawyer focusing on cross-border and international mergers and acquisitions. She has 40 years of experience advising clients on Sino-foreign joint ventures having worked on China’s first modern JV in 1979. Tom pattinson quizzes her on the Greater Bay Area TP: Can you introduce yourself, where you were born, grew up and educated? ML: I am a mother of three sons, born and raised in Hong …

The special economic zone on the southern tip of Guangzhou is experimenting with some bold, innovative reforms. From the farmlands of Hengli Island, a new financial powerhouse is rising, writes Anthony Lawrance of Greater Bay Insights It seems like every city wants to be a World Finance Centre these days. In fact, many Chinese cities have more than one tall building with such a name on its door. In the …

The Greater Bay Area cluster will see the creation of a vast administrative region in south China that will overhaul infrastructure, strengthen economic growth and become a leader in R&D, writes Torsten Weller Last year, China celebrated the 40th anniversary of the economic reform that accompanied its opening-up policies. Deng Xiaoping’s decision to swap Soviet-style planning for market forces and free enterprise has created one of the biggest economic success …

Anthony Lawrance of Greater Bay Insights explains the basics of the Greater Bay Area’s Innovation Corridor Shenzhen is often called China’s Palo Alto, the city at the heart of Silicon Valley, a reflection of the way in which the Greater Bay Area is often called China’s Silicon Valley. Yet what many observers do not realize is that there is, in fact, a blueprint for China’s Silicon Valley within the overall …