The central government has started a three-year pilot programme to enable law practitioners from Hong Kong and Macao to practice law in nine cities of Guangdong province.
Greater Bay Area
Macao can learn how to develop through innovation from Shenzhen’s experience of its 40-year reform and opening-up, and play a unique role in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and the national development, said a Macao scholar Ip Kuai Peng in a recent interview with Xinhua.
The government’s urban development plans for the next 20 years were unveiled on Thursday when the public consultation document was presented by the interdepartmental group in charge of the Urban Master Plan.
The new Hengqin immigration port to facilitate travel between Macao and Zhuhai was officially put into use on Tuesday.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng met with the leading officials from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the National Development and Reform Commission to discuss Macao’s economic diversification strategy.
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) adopted a decision to allow law practitioners in Hong Kong and practising lawyers in Macao to qualify and work as lawyers in nine cities of Guangdong province on a trial basis.
A review of the Greater Bay Area in southern China has identified shortcomings that have slowed progress on Beijing’s plan for the region to become a hi-tech hub, including not enough research facilities and poor coordination and flow of talent and capital between the cities.
China will invest CNY 474.1 billion (US$67.9 billion) to improve rail connection in the Greater Bay Area, building 775 km (480 miles) of intercity railway and five transport hubs, according to a plan approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.
Major airports within the Greater Bay Area (GBA) would achieve consolidation into a single airport cluster by 2025 under a proposal issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China.