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Aim
Aim
To understand that the major policies adopted by the country to support the development of the HKSAR are the important foundation for Hong Kong to maintain its prosperity and stability;
Understand the main contributions of Hong Kong in participating in national affairs
To understand that Hong Kong has the advantages of “one country, two systems”
To explain that Hong Kong is a beneficiary of and a contributor to the development of the country
Task 1: An overview of measures from China (Aim 1)
Task 1: An overview of measures from China (Aim 1)
Timeline is a cognitive tool commonly used to arrange activities and procedures in a chronological order. We mark the events on a timeline in accordance with their time of occurrence to facilitate analysis or planning. In particular, for historical events, we often use a timeline to show the progression of incidents. Finish the task by clicking the button below.
Task 2: Understanding CEPA (for Aim 1)
Task 2: Understanding CEPA (for Aim 1)
The Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) is an economic agreement between the government of Hong Kong and the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China. Signed on June 29, 2003, it is a free trade agreement that allows qualifying products, companies and residents of Hong Kong preferential access to the mainland Chinese market. For Hong Kong, CEPA provides a window of opportunity for Hong Kong businesses to gain greater access to the Mainland market. During the lesson, you are to do case studies on companies that benefitted from CEPA. Click on the button below for details. [T]
Task 3: The Central Government supports Hong Kong's ____________ by _______. (for Aim 1)
Task 3: The Central Government supports Hong Kong's ____________ by _______. (for Aim 1)
What measures did the Central government actually carry out to support Hong Kong's economic development or to overcome its challenges? Learn them by completing this task using your School-based booklet found in the Resources section. (T)
The suggested answer for this task can be found here.
Greater Bay Area
Greater Bay Area
（For Chinese translation, please click here for Evernote document)
Introduction
Introduction
The Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative is an ambitious scheme to link the nine cities in Guangdong’s Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong and Macau into an integrated economy and world-class business area that is good for living, working and visiting. Leveraging each city’s individual strengths, the project will oversee improved transport infrastructure, the creation of an international innovation and technology centre, and the development of a globally competitive modern industrial system, while promoting the free flow of people, goods, capital and information within the region.
Importance to China as a whole
Importance to China as a whole
Hong Kong and Guangdong play an important role in China's economy, and both are under pressure to transform. Guangdong is the largest economic province in the Mainland, a pioneer of reform in China, a manufacturing base and, as an economically developed region, the first to face the problem of restructuring and upgrading. With the rapid economic development and increasing openness of the Mainland, Hong Kong's status as the only window to the Mainland has been weakened and its competitiveness is not as competitive as it used to be.
Therefore, promoting the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is to leverage on the comparative advantages of the three places and promote their integrated development, which will help the three places to overcome the barriers to transformation and development, join hands to build a world-class bay area and a world-class city cluster, and provide impetus and experience to China's overall economic development and transformation.
Strength of the Greater Bay Area
Strength of the Greater Bay Area
Demography 人口優勢
Demography 人口優勢
Comprising 11 (9+2) cities and 66 million people (more than the total population of Italy or the UK)
In terms of land area, population size and corresponding population density and productivity, the Greater Bay Area have surpassed the three world-renowned Bay Area economic zones of San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. According to data compiled by Goldman Sachs, the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Bay Area covers an area of 57,000 square kilometres, which is larger than the combined area of New York, San Francisco and Tokyo. The region's population of 66.7 million is nearly double that of Greater Tokyo.
Population in comparison
Economic productivity 強大的生產力
Economic productivity 強大的生產力
Though the Greater Bay Area accounts for only 1% of the country's land area and has only 5% of the country's population, it contributes 12% of the country's GDP. In 2016, the total GDP of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao reached US$1.7 trillion, nearly the GDP of Australia.
Inter-connectivity 城際地鐵
Inter-connectivity 城際地鐵
People are able to travel between cities within 2 hours. For example, the Intercity Rail in the region is connecting major cities in the region such as going from one city to another is just as convenient as taking the MTR! See Wiki here for the extent of the network.
Industrial system 產業優勢互補
Industrial system 產業優勢互補
A well-established industrial system such that different sectors of production chains can complement each other (產業優勢互補). For example, Shenzhen has a strong R&D capability to quickly turn an innovative idea into a "prototype" product, while other cities have a strong competitive advantage in mass production, etc.
National policy 國策扶持
National policy 國策扶持
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is included in the National 13th Five-Year Plan and the "Belt and Road Vision and Action" national strategy. It can play a gateway role in the Belt and Road national strategy, allowing foreign investment to enter the Mainland and domestic enterprises to go global (走出去).
Dajiang is one of the leading drone companies in the world
Leading in innovation and technology 創新領先
Leading in innovation and technology 創新領先
Already home to 18 of the world's top 500 companies, the Greater Bay Area will bring in more investment and demand for business development in the region, leading to further innovation and technological development. Hopefully, this will then stimulate the creation of more successful businesses. For example, mobile payments.
R&D investment by Shenzhen leads the world, hopefully leading to more innovation
Hong Kong as a beneficiary of the development of the Greater Bay Area
Hong Kong as a beneficiary of the development of the Greater Bay Area
A series of national and local policies have been launched to benefit Hong Kong and Macao in the Greater Bay Area, such as:
Supporting the open recruitment of Hong Kong and Macao residents by public institutions in the Greater Bay Area; 國內公營機構公開招聘港澳居民
Encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship in the nine Mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area by the youth of Hong Kong and Macao; 鼓勵港澳青年往大灣區城市創業
Hong Kong and Macao residents to be treated as local residents in purchasing properties in the Mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area; 港澳居民能以內地居民身份置業
Improving the education policy for children of Hong Kong and Macao residents in Guangdong Province, etc.
Hong Kong as a contributor to the development of the Greater Bay Area
Hong Kong as a contributor to the development of the Greater Bay Area
As a highly open and international city in the Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong is
an international financial centre 國際金融中心
transportation and trading centre as well as 物流和貿易中心
an aviation hub 航空樞紐
with a global reputation for professional services and 專業服務業
has the the advantage of “one country, two systems" 擁有一國兩制的優勢
It plays an important role in the Greater Bay Area Development. Hong Kong will facilitate and support the economic development of the region, with a view to enhancing the role and functions of the Greater Bay Area (提升大灣區的角色與功能) in the country’s two-way opening-up.
Task 4: Note making
Task 4: Note making
Even the best student has to make his own note for learning.
For this task, you have to make your own note after reading the information above on the Greater Bay Area. The objective is to demonstrate that you have really understood the learning focuses as guided by the questions given in the assignment.
An example of the Cornell Note format is given here for your reference.
Exercise:
Exercise:
Resources
Resources
(OLD) School-based booklet (For Chinese, link here.)
Youtube video: What are China's five-year plans?
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