Technological Innovation Creates A Super Development Engine—5-year Observation Of High-quality Development in The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

The subway with a speed of 160 kilometers per hour is speeding through the tunnel. Innovation platforms such as Dongguan Songshan Lake International Robot Industry Base and Guangzhou University Town are in series. The "Macau Science No. 1" space science satellite was successfully launched at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center... "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau University" In the five years since the implementation of the "Bay Area Development Plan Outline", the scientific and technological innovation strength and attractiveness of the Greater Bay Area have continued to increase, and the flow of data, funds, talents and other scientific and technological elements between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has accelerated. Relying on the unique advantages of collaborative innovation, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is accelerating to build China's technological innovation highland and economic development super engine, emerging in the wave of global technological competition.

Innovation vitality continues to improve

Standing on the observation deck of a building in Shenzhen, the glass curtain wall clearly indicates the geographical advantages of the place: it is about 10 kilometers away from Hong Kong and about 48 kilometers away from Macau. Downstairs, the Shenzhen River flows through, with Shenzhen on the north and Hong Kong on the south. The Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as the "Loop") is located at the border between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

Up to now, more than 150 high-end scientific research projects have been substantially promoted and implemented in the Shenzhen Park of the Loop Cooperation Zone. A group of high-quality talents, R&D platforms, and industrialization bases have formed a convergence effect here. The LMC Loop Cooperation Zone is the epitome of the continuous improvement of the scientific and technological innovation capabilities and vitality of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

In February 2019, the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" was released, clearly proposing to "build an international science and technology innovation center." Today, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has more than 60,000 national high-tech enterprises, many of the world's top 50 universities, 9 major national science and technology infrastructures and 50 national key laboratories. The "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou Technology Cluster" has ranked second in the Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization for four consecutive years.

Gong Guoping, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said that the Greater Bay Area has continued to outperform the "acceleration" of innovation and become one of the world's top technology clusters, relying on the continuous improvement of the entire process innovation ecological chain and the continuous optimization of the regional innovation system. With the construction of a series of platform carriers, the "two points" of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Loop and Zhuhai Hengqin, and the "two corridors" of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao science and technology innovation corridors, the spatial layout of the Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center has gradually taken shape.

The multiplier effect is accelerating

According to Liu Yanshen, President of Shenzhen Painova Medical Technology Co., Ltd., Hong Kong has strong scientific research capabilities, while mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou have complete industrial chains. Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have complementary advantages in science and technology innovation, and can integrate resources to build a world-class science and technology innovation ecology.

Painova is a high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development and manufacturing of high-performance neurosurgery medical devices. Many of the company's R&D projects are in Hong Kong, leveraging the synergistic advantages of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the Bay Area. Recently, the company and Shenzhen People's Hospital jointly applied for the research and development of a "new generation AI-assisted intracranial multi-parameter monitoring system" and received an incentive fund support of 2 million yuan from the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission.

The Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology revealed that it is organizing a joint funding plan for scientific and technological innovation with the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission and the Macau Science and Technology Development Fund. Liu Yanshen was encouraged by similar support. He said he would continue to work hard: "Through the innovation of new technologies such as sensors and artificial intelligence to empower traditional instruments, we will join the team to develop minimally invasive neurosurgery robots in the next step."

It is not just financial support and cooperation. In the past five years, the scientific research gene of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has become stronger and stronger, and joint innovation results have continued to emerge.

Relevant data shows that the number of joint laboratory construction projects in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has reached 31; the Guangzhou Supercomputing Center has opened the country's first dedicated network line with super computing power directly to Hong Kong, which has served nearly 300 users in Hong Kong and Macao; large-scale scientific research equipment in the Bay Area You can make an appointment 24 hours a day to clear the customs with "report and release, and go to the factory for inspection"... Institutional and mechanism barriers have been broken down one by one, and the flow of innovative elements has become smoother. Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are moving from cooperation to in-depth integration, and the integration in turn is further Promote cooperation and innovation in the field of science and technology.

Broader development space

The first resource for scientific and technological innovation is talent. In order to create a high-level scientific and technological innovation highland, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area continues to work hard. "When talents make choices, they consider more and more comprehensive factors. They look at the present and the future; they look at work and life." Liu Yanshen said that Pingshan District, Shenzhen City, where Panova Company is located, started to look at the Bay Area three years ago. The attraction of internal innovative talents is not as great as it is now. Nowadays, the construction of local employment, elderly care, consumption and other supporting facilities is progressing with each passing day, which has aroused strong interest among Bay Area people, including Hong Kong youth.

Mai Peiran, director of the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI at the University of Macau, believes that attracting talents in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area not only contributes to creating a "livable bay area", but also opens up a broad space for them to perform. . He and his team established a laboratory branch in Hengqin, Zhuhai, and took the lead in establishing the Institute of Integrated Circuit Microelectronics of the University of Macau, focusing on research in the chip field.

Deeply rooted in the fertile soil of science and technology innovation in the Greater Bay Area, many scientific researchers are full of confidence in the future development of science and technology innovation in the Greater Bay Area. In Mai Peiran's view, the technological research and development he loves can break through the geographical limitations of Macau and complete the transformation from "0 to 100" in the Greater Bay Area.

Attracting talents and bringing together the "strongest brains", the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is forming an "innovation axis" to continuously transmit the "knowledge momentum" of the Greater Bay Area and accelerate the development of the Bay Area into the world's top science and technology innovation bay area.

It is expected that by 2030, the scale of strategic emerging industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will reach the trillion-dollar level, there will be more than 100 unicorn companies, and there will be more than 1,000 "specialized and innovative" companies, focusing on market segments and innovation Companies with strong capabilities, high market shares, mastery of key core technologies, and important responsibilities in the global industrial chain will continue to emerge.

The wind is rising and the tide is rising in the Greater Bay Area, and it is the right time for scientific and technological innovation to set sail.