Hong Kong Commercial Daily:

The HTCZ is the fourth cooperation platform deployed by the central government in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao GBA after those in Hengqin, Qianhai, and Nansha. How will Guangdong province strengthen overall planning and accelerate the implementation of the plan for the Shenzhen park of the HTCZ? Thank you.

Sun Zhiyang:

Your question involves Guangdong province, so I will answer it. First of all, thank you for the question. Guangdong province has firmly implemented the decisions and deployments of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the CPC Central Committee. Huang Kunming, secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, and Wang Weizhong, governor of Guangdong province, convened several meetings on studying and accelerating the construction of the HTCZ. Next, we will actively seize opportunities upon the release of the plan, focus on the central task of promoting international scientific and technological innovation in collaboration with Hong Kong, provide qualified resources, offer preferable conditions, build good platforms, and ensure the implementation of various tasks and targets. In my opinion, the work mainly involves three aspects:

First, we will launch campaigns to study, publicize, and implement the plan. We will strengthen organization and leadership and carefully plan province-wide promotion campaigns that combine the study of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches during his inspection in Guangdong and his important instructions. Meanwhile, we will also combine accelerating the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao GBA and the Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Zone for Chinese Socialism and the three major cooperation platforms in Hengqin, Qianhai, and Nansha. We will build a clear understanding of the strategic deployment and intention of the CPC Central Committee, have a profound and accurate understanding of relevant principles and requirements, and concentrate on fully implementing the principles and requirements. We will closely follow, in both thought and action, the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and ensure that we advance all our initiatives in an effective and orderly way.

Second, we will accelerate the development of the high-standard implementation system. We will sort out relevant reform tasks, construction projects, policies, and measures outlined in the plan, quicken our steps in working out provincial-level key task lists and lists of responsibilities, do our work according to plans, schedules, and requirements, carry out dynamic and close-loop management, and faithfully implement the decisions and arrangements of the central government. Meanwhile, we will guide Shenzhen in accelerating the introduction of implementation plans and special plans related to space, scientific research, transportation, and so on, and actively make our efforts in delegating administrative powers of provinces and cities to lower levels to grant more autonomy in reforms to the cooperation zone. We will also strengthen coordination and communications with state ministries and commissions and make greater efforts to ensure that detailed rules and regulations of major policies related to "whitelists," line-division management, and fiscal and tax incentives can be implemented in Hetao as soon as possible. 

Third, we will solidly advance the implementation of a number of landmark cooperation projects. We will take the initiative to enhance coordination in planning and infrastructure alignment with the Hong Kong park, jointly build a cluster of world-class scientific research and experimental facilities, accelerate the overall reconstruction of Huanggang Port and the continued transformation of the Futian Port area, and bring the Shenzhen branch of the Hong Kong Science Park into operation as soon as possible. With a focus on key research and development areas such as information, materials, life science and technology, we will actively introduce and deploy a number of advantageous disciplines and key research projects in universities of Hong Kong and Macao, support scientific research institutions in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to jointly undertake major national and provincial science and technology special projects and key research and development plans, and jointly build a hub in the GBA for pilot-scale industrial testing and transformation. Efforts will be made to create a highly open international scientific research system environment, support the BRICS Institute of Future Networks and other international scientific and technological organizations to settle in Hetao, and create a scientific and technological cooperation platform that gathers global wisdom. Thank you.