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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.
Head of Government
Party Secretary of Dongguan Xiao Yafei
last updated:
25 September, 2024
Hongkongers head to Shenzhen via Lo Wu station during the National Day holiday in October. Photo: Eugene Lee
Shenzhen

Hongkongers find lure of Greater Bay Area’s attractions hard to resist: survey

Hong Kong residents are flocking to the Greater Bay Area for shopping, hot springs and more, attracted by cheaper prices and new experiences.

Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong leads Greater Bay Area in finance, logistics and tourism: index

Amazon

Chinese cities dominate Amazon seller network, outnumbering US hubs

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong tops Greater Bay Area in fresh graduate salaries with 9.3% rise

City’s fresh graduates commanded average of HK$19,806 this year, outperforming peers in Macau and Guangdong province.

Fresh graduates in Hong Kong are the highest paid among peers in the Greater Bay Area, a study has found. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong economy

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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Hong Kong economy

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

Biotech firm founder Elvis Yu and AI content company founder Wang Cong explain why they moved to Qianhai, but Hong Kong is key to plans.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

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

Hongkongers eligible for subsidies will by the third quarter be able to spend them at seven additional hospitals and dental clinics in southern China. Fostering a stronger culture of preventive medicine will help ease the burden on local hospitals and clinics

Hong Kong Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau at the announcement of the “Elderly Health Care Voucher Greater Bay Area Pilot Scheme”. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

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.

Greater Bay Area

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.

Hong Kong society

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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More cross-border checkpoints could join the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Hong Kong Port (pictured) and Lok Ma Chau control point as 24-hour crossings. Photo: Sun Yeung
China property

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 economy

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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China jobs

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.

China's economic recovery

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
China trade

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
Hong Kong economy

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.

China property

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.

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China manufacturing

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
Greater Bay Area

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.

Greater Bay Area

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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Greater Bay Area

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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Hong Kong is intended to play a role as an Asia-Pacific headquarters and business services and innovation centre for the Greater Bay Area region, the report says. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Coronavirus pandemic

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
Greater Bay Area

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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Greater Bay Area

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.

Greater Bay Area

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

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
Migrant workers in China

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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Greater Bay Area

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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