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The Zhuhai section of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge is pictured on June 12, 2020 in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

Outside In | Can Hong Kong bring its ‘ghost bridge’ back to life?

With the new Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link boosting prospects for the Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong must move fast to improve transport links with nearby cities.

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Why 2 Hong Kong entrepreneurs decided to move their start-ups over the border

Hong Kong’s elderly to feel benefit with expansion of health voucher plan

Elderly able to use Hong Kong healthcare vouchers at 7 more bay area centres

Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau says expansion of voucher scheme aims to benefit elderly Hong Kong residents retiring in bay area cities.

The government has seen a demand from Hong Kong residents for health services in the bay area, Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau has said. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

John Lee calls for Hong Kong and Dongguan cooperation on innovation

Chief executive cites cities’ complementary strengths: Dongguan in hi-tech manufacturing, Hong Kong in connecting the Greater Bay Area to the world.

More Hong Kong border checkpoints with mainland China to operate around the clock

Proposals revealed in National Development and Reform Commission action plan, which also calls for incentives to attract Hong Kong talent across border.

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Hong Kong retirees look to buy homes in bay area amid cheap yuan, home loans

Since the border reopened, Hongkongers, particularly retirees, have started to think once again about buying property in the bay area, say analysts. The falling yuan and a slew of measures to boost the market are making the prospect more attractive.

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K Wah International has set aside a whole building containing about 100 flats for Hongkongers at its Bayview project in Dongguan. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Hong Kong employees get highest salary increases in Greater Bay Area this year

Hong Kong pay increases this year ranged from 3.2 to 3.8 per cent, higher than Macau at between 1.9 and 2.7 per cent, but financial hub also had high staff turnover.

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Fancy US$1.4 million for a home? A China export hub might have the job for you

China’s southern export hub of Dongguan will offer a home-purchase subsidy of up to 10 million yuan (US$1.37 million) in an attempt to lure talent, as the city seeks to upgrade advanced industries.

Hi-tech direction on show as premier visits barometer of China’s economy

Premier Li Qiang concluded a three-day visit to Guangdong province on Thursday, saying China was at a critical period of economic transformation and upgrading.

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Premier Li Qiang inspects Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory in Guangdong province. Photo: Xinhua

Explainer | How will Hainan free-trade port affect the Greater Bay Area and Asean?

China’s plan to turn Hainan into the world’s largest free-trade port by 2025 will – for the most part – be complementary to Hong Kong and Guangdong, and open up trade opportunities with Southeast Asia.

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Haikou City, the capital of Hainan’s free-trade zone. Photo: Shutterstock

Consular officials, business leaders depart Hong Kong for tour of Greater Bay Area

Five-day trip organised by China’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong to boost confidence in country’s economic recovery.

Dongguan lifts property-buying restrictions to stimulate demand

Dongguan lifts home-buying curbs in the city’s last five remaining neighbourhoods, but maintains restrictions on resales for two years to dampen speculation.

Chinese headphone maker shuts down amid economic headwinds, trading woes

The collapse of Koppo Electronics reflects more signs of trouble for the ‘Made in China, Sold on Amazon’ community.

A production line inside the factory of Dongguan Koppo Electronics Co, a major Bluetooth headphone maker in China. Photo: Handout

China opens multibillion-dollar link for cross-border wealth management

Greater Bay Area, which is home to four top 10 richest people in China, will have a new cross-border trading scheme for investment products, a core project by Beijing to promote capital flows and investment among the 11 cities in the plan.

Students visiting a booth set up by The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office (GBA Development Office) at the HKTDC Education & Careers Expo 2021 in Wan Chai on 15 July 2021. Photo: Nora Tam

China’s ‘MIT of GBA’ is a bid to create a southern innovation powerhouse

A new university is planned to open in Dongguan in 2023, and offer a focus on science and technology to enhance the area as an economic and business hub.

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Hong Kong can be the Greater Bay Area’s San Francisco, US think tank says

Hong Kong can connect the Greater Bay Area with the rest of the world, much like San Francisco’s role in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Bay Area.

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Mass testing in Dongguan as China tries to keep lid on Covid-19

Strict disinfection and quarantine measures lead to congestion of vessels waiting to berth at one of the busiest Chinese container ports.

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Residents line up to get tested in the township of Changan in Dongguan on Saturday. Photo: VCG

Spending spree on bay area land is likely to prop up home prices

Developers forked out US$12.59 billion on land in the nine mainland Chinese cities of the future economic hub in the first quarter, up 30 per cent from pre-Covid levels.

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17 things you may not know about southern China's Greater Bay Area (GBA)

The "Greater Bay Area" refers to the Chinese government's scheme to link the cities of Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing into an integrated economic and business hub.

Multinational factories make Dongguan the ideal bay area manufacturing hub

Dongguan is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Bay Area by size of economy, boosted by investments by the likes of Swire Pacific, Samsung and Gillette.

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Workers produce undergarments at a Cosmo Lady factory in Dongguan. Photo: Reuters

Huawei building near its research lab in Dongguan hit by fire

The fire was extinguished more than hour after it broke out in the middle of the afternoon on Friday.

Thick plumes of smoke are seen coming out of a building at a Huawei Technologies complex in the city of Dongguan, in southern Guangdong province, that caught fire on Friday afternoon. Photo: Weibo

China’s days as the world’s factory numbered leaving 290 million workers at risk

China’s 290 million migrant workers have been the hardest hit by the coronavirus having already been under pressure from the US-China trade war.

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Dongguan sees rise in home prices amid increased liquidity, speculation

Dongguan, a city in China’s Greater Bay Area development zone that is also home to Huawei Technologies’ new campus, has recorded a sharp increase in home prices, which have been boosted by increased liquidity and speculative buying driven by hopes around its economy.

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Sock maker fights to survive pandemic as 4 million pairs go unsold

In China’s manufacturing hub of Dongguan, a sock factory has survived Sars, the global financial crisis and the US-China trade war, but ‘it can’t survive 2020’.

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After nearly three decades, Lin Danru, 54, fears that his sock factory is running on borrowed time. Export orders have dried up amid the coronavirus pandemic. Domestic sales have plunged. And frankly, none of his five daughters want anything to do with the antiquated manufacturing business model. Photo: He Huifeng

China manufacturing hub faces test as virus erodes orders

Dongguan, once a thriving manufacturing hub, is on the frontline of a second wave demand shock that is hitting Chinese exporters trying to recover from the coronavirus.

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China is battling to get its manufacturing industry back on track after months of coronavirus-related delays. Photo: SCMP

Huawei, Chinese chip makers keep factories humming despite coronavirus outbreak

Hi-tech Chinese companies Huawei, SMIC and YMTC, along with the local units of Samsung, SK Hynix and LG Display, maintained operations to manufacture parts and products, despite Beijing’s call to halt all work in some cities and provinces.

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‘World’s factory’ Dongguan tries to cool its soaring land prices

Land prices in the manufacturing hub have soared as builders have used increasingly aggressive bidding tactics to get a foothold in the Greater Bay Area

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Latest news, analysis, explainers and updates on policy announcements, corporate developments and investment opportunities focused on Dongguan under the Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative in southern China’s Pearl River Delta The coverage includes politics and policies, business, lifestyle and culture and useful to-do guides about living, working and studying in the GBA.
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Party Secretary of Dongguan Xiao Yafei
last updated:
25 September, 2024
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