Phoenix TV:

As a national strategy, construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) has a promising future, and a number of nearby provinces are jointly promoting its progress. My question therefore, is what competitive advantages does Guizhou have in this respect? And how can the province integrate with the GBA to achieve win-win results?

Shen Yiqin:

Thank you for your question. I'll answer this one. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that we should actively integrate with the development of the GBA and accelerate the process of going global along the route of the Belt and Road countries. We have followed the important guidance made by General Secretary Xi, and taken Guizhou's integration with the GBA as a major strategic breakthrough in expanding opening-up so as to achieve cooperation by means of "borrowing another's boat to sail or borrowing another's ladder to climb." The advantages of Guizhou's integration with the GBA include: First, Guizhou's special industrial complementary advantages. Technology, capital and talents are prominent strengths of the GBA, while comparatively cheaper prices for electricity, land, water and workforce are advantages of Guizhou. A vivid practice is the project to deliver electricity from Guizhou to Guangdong. Besides, high-tech giants such as Huawei and Tencent have located their big data centers in Guizhou, which demonstrates that Guizhou and the GBA have well complemented each other in terms of their industrial resources. With regards to tourism resources, most of Guizhou's tourists come from the GBA because the weather and geography between the two sides can bring out the best in each other. Second, Guizhou's unique transportation location. Both the GBA and Guizhou are part of the Pan-Pearl River Delta region, and have enjoyed years of cooperation. It just takes over an hour to fly from Guizhou to Guangdong nowadays. Since the Guiyang-Guangzhou high-speed railway entered operation in 2014, the four-hour economic circle has been formed between the two cities. The commuting time will be shortened to 2 hours and 40 minutes after the railway between the two cities is upgraded. Third, the special friendship based on pairing-up support. Guangdong has been providing support to Guizhou since 1996. During the new round of cooperation between China's eastern and western regions, Guangdong has again been assisting Guizhou across the board. Macao has also helped assist Guizhou in winning the battle against poverty in Congjiang county, and Hong Kong compatriots have contributed their wisdom and strength to help Guizhou escape poverty. Both are great practices in our poverty-alleviation course in which the "one country, two systems" principle is fully applicable. During these years of pairing-up support, Guizhou has established a deep friendship with the GBA. 

Going forward, we will focus our work on building up the new development paradigm, and accelerate Guizhou's integration with the construction of the GBA. First, we will deepen industrial cooperation. The "Four Plus" industrial cooperation models of "GBA enterprises plus Guizhou resources," "GBA markets plus Guizhou products," "GBA headquarters plus Guizhou bases" and "GBA R&D plus Guizhou manufacturing" will be expanded, and collaborative industrial parks will be actively promoted between the two sides. We will take the initiative to introduce the GBA's high- and new-tech enterprises as well as labor-intensive enterprises to invest and explore new markets in Guizhou. We will further deepen economic and trade cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao, particularly in the fields of big data, traditional Chinese medicine, technology and finance. Second, we will strengthen cooperation in tourism. Aiming at the GBA tourist market, we will improve our tourism service and make Guizhou a first-choice summer resort for people living in the GBA. We will also intensify our efforts to invite more investment and capital, attracting more and more GBA firms to explore tourist products related to health care and leisure in Guizhou. Third, we will deepen cooperation in consumption. Guizhou has established 54 "vegetable basket" bases for the GBA, and green and healthy agricultural products as well as local specialties from Guizhou have been quite popular in the GBA. We will continue to enhance the integration of production and marketing, and introduce more and more high-quality Guizhou specialties to the GBA. Fourth, we will collaborate with the GBA in talent exchanges. Based on the cooperation between Guangdong and Guizhou provinces, we will hold large-scale exchanges among officials and talents with Guangdong, work together to cultivate technical personnel, and send batches of "Guangdong cuisine chefs," "Guangdong technicians," "southern Guangdong household service personnel" and others to the GBA. We would also like to invite "weekend engineers" as well as retired veteran teachers and doctors from the GBA in a flexible manner to bring their cutting-edge theories, techniques and experiences into Guizhou. Thank you.