Although the apartments are not available for sale yet, interest in the 27-block development has been growing.
Hengqin island
Rules aim to bridge differences between Macao and mainland China and speed up development of Hengqin.
Macao government also considers other major infrastructure projects such as extending airport and dredging coastal waters to accommodate more aircraft and larger ships.
Over 30% of students are drawn from Macao; Hengqin bilingual school seeks to attract more Cantonese-speaking students and teachers.
Inducements include subsidies for investors and rewards for highly qualified young workers; plans for convention and exhibition centre also mooted.
New infrastructure projects include links to Zhuhai airport as well as major road and rail routes.
More than 100 university students from the Macao Special Administrative Region have started internships on Hengqin Island of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone in Guangdong province after a launch ceremony was held earlier this week.
Zhang Yaqin, president of Beijing-based internet giant Baidu, will be giving a lecture on “Advances in Autonomous Driving” on Monday at the University of Macau.
Hengqin will continue to support Macau’s economic diversification, Chi Tenghui, director of the Hengqin Finance Association, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference yesterday at the Sheraton hotel in Cotai.
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