The present and future of Greater Bay Area – 2023.03.15

Macau-Hengqin and Hong Kong-Shenzhen integration

With the pandemic now behind us, regional integration in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area is set to be fast-paced. The joint development of the Guangdong-Macau In-depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin is expected to take centre stage with a set of incentives being adopted, and additional measures in the pipeline. In the neighboring region, the Qinghai Cooperation Zone is aimed at facilitating financial, logistics, and IT services activity between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. How far and how fast will regional integration go in the coming years?

Guest Speaker

Sonny Lo Shiu-Hing

Political Science Professor at HKU SPACE

Senior Columnist at Macau News Agency

Moderator:

José Carlos Matias

Director of Macau Business and Macau News Agency

Free admission

This event will be held in English.

Speaker’s profile:

Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo is Professor at HKU SPACE. He is a veteran commentator and long-time political observer of Hong Kong, Macau and Greater China. His books include Casino Capitalism, Society and Politics of China’s Macau (First Prize awarded by Macau Foundation in 2022), Political Change in Macao (First Prize awarded by Macau Foundation in 2009), Macau in the Second World War, 1937-1945, Political Development in Macau, The Politics of Cross-Border Crime in Greater China, Hong Kong’s Indigenous Democracy, and The Politics of Democratization in Hong Kong. His forthcoming new book is The Politics of District Elections and Administration in Hong Kong. He is also Senior Columnist at Macau News Agency/Macau Business.