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Latest news, analysis, explainers and updates on policy announcements, corporate developments and investment opportunities focused on this particular city 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.
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Party Secretary of Jiangmen Chen Anming
The “Southbound Travel for Guangdong Vehicles” scheme allows approved private cars from Guangdong to enter the city directly via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. Photo: Martin Chan
Hong Kong transport

Over 700 mainland Chinese drivers apply to enter Hong Kong under travel scheme

Authorities say number of applications in line with expectations, stressing scheme not expected to worsen traffic conditions.

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Hong Kong transport

Nearly 2,400 Guangdong drivers apply for cross-border entry scheme into Hong Kong

Hong Kong transport

Hong Kong expands cross-border access to Guangdong motorists under new scheme

Accidents and disasters in China

China’s Guangdong evacuates 371,000, suspends flights as Ragasa nears

Cities now under highest alerts as tens of millions brace for the storm’s impact.

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Fishing boats are docked at a port in Xiamen, Fujian province. As of Tuesday morning, Guangdong’s typhoon alert was at Level 1, the highest in a four-tier warning system. Photo: Xinhua
Climate change

Opinion | Hong Kong can find its niche in Greater Bay Area climate resilience

Preparing for extreme weather is not just an environmental imperative but a strategy to safeguard regional prosperity for decades to come.

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Hong Kong economy

Editorial | Link leads to brighter future for Greater Bay Area

Opening of Huangmaohai Cross-sea Passage to ease flow of goods between Hong Kong and other cities in development zone.

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Hong Kong property

Lui Che-woo, property and casino magnate of K. Wah and Galaxy, dies at 95

Lui, the chairman of the K. Wah Group of companies, died peacefully on November 7, according to filings to the Hong Kong stock exchange by his companies.

Lui Che-woo, the founder and chairman of K. Wah Group, during an interview in North Point, Hong Kong on 24 July 2017. Photo: David Wong
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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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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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.

Students visiting a booth set up by The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office (GBA Development Office) at the HKTDC Education & Careers Expo 2021 in Wan Chai on 15 July 2021. Photo: Nora Tam
Greater Bay Area

Greater Bay Area: Hong Kong education firm to expand amid regulatory storm

Hong Kong-listed Edvantage Group to expand Zhaoqing and Jiangmen campuses as it takes advantage of transport network, government support and cheap land in the bay area.

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The Zhaoqing campus of Edvantage Group, where it offers courses in finance and hospitality. Photo: Handout
Greater Bay Area

From heritage to birdwatching, here are five must-see places in Jiangmen

The city boasts the Kaiping Diaolou and Villages, which was listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2007, as well as Birds’ Paradise, a natural wetland park.

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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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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.

17 things you may not know about southern China's Greater Bay Area (GBA)
Coronavirus pandemic

Beijing tops the world as most competitive city in the era of Covid-19

The study underscores how the persistent pandemic – and how governments and societies are adapting to contain and overcome the disease – will have long-term effects on global economies and populations.

Medical workers in protective suits conduct nucleic acid test for residents, following a new outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beijing, on June 20, 2020. Photo: Reuters
Greater Bay Area

Jiangmen ‘needs a signature firm’ to thrive as a bay area industrial hub

The manufacturing city in the west of the bay area is attracting new businesses as it modernises, but it needs a ‘core industry’, says Bryan Chan of Colliers.

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Greater Bay Area

Exclusive | Greater Bay Area offers exit from Hong Kong’s recession, Chan says

The cluster of 11 cities, with a combined population of 72 million residents and an economy estimated at US$1.65 trillion – equivalent to the world’s 11th-largest economy behind Canada and ahead of Russia, if it were a stand-alone entity – provides a potential market 10 times the size of Hong Kong.

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Greater Bay Area

Coronavirus-hit Jiangmen launches campaign to drive nighttime economy

Jiangmen’s nighttime programme that runs up to late October will see the government handing out 10 million yuan worth of vouchers and discount coupons and organise dozens of events and activities.

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Jiangmen, a city in Guangdong province, has launched a campaign to boost its nighttime economy. Photo: Wibo
Greater Bay Area

Why Jiangmen is investing heavily on quality education in bay area push

Some 17 schools are currently being built in the third-tier Greater Bay Area city of Jiangmen, which will have 30,000 places when the campuses are ready

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China property

Property firms drawn by Jiangmen’s cheap land, development potential

Jiangmen, which is part of Beijing’s Greater Bay Area development zone, is attracting interest from mainland Chinese as well as Hong Kong-based property developers.

Greater Bay Area

Developers compete for land next to bay area high-speed train stations

Competition is becoming fierce as Hong Kong property giants join their mainland Chinese rivals in bidding for projects that can profit from their transport links within the future economic hub.

High-speed and intercity railways will form vital transport links in the bay area. Photo: Xinhua
China property

Why Jiangmen’s home prices could be restrained by its ‘minor’ GBA status

One analyst expects Jiangmen’s home prices to be aided by relaxed buying restrictions and economic recovery after the coronavirus outbreak.

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Jiangmen, in China’s southern Guangdong province, is one of the 11 cities that form the Greater Bay Area. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Fame and celebrity

Explainer | Family town of Lui Che-woo and Andy Lau is GBA’s second poorest

Jiangmen ranks as the second poorest city in the Greater Bay Area. Yet, it is rich in its own way, counting a casino tycoon, an ex-NBA star, the king of oyster sauce, and Hong Kong’s movie icons among its natives and benefactors.

Greater Bay Area

A look at the Greater Bay Area cities with the best property outlook

Zhuhai tops the list of Greater Bay Area cities on the mainland with price gains of 1.8 per cent since February, closely followed by Dongguan at 1.7 per cent.

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Jiangmen government gives written pledge to scrap uranium processing plant

Jiangmen handed over an official document reaffirming the city's plans to scrap a proposed uranium processing plant yesterday after residents refused to believe that the project was dead.

Hundreds of protesters gather outside the municipal headquarters in Jiangmen, even though the government there had pledged to scrap plans for a uranium processing plant. The government later issued the pledge in writing. One protester said the letter would justify further protests if the government broke its promise. Photo: Dickson Lee

Jiangmen uranium plant is scrapped after thousands take part in protests

The abrupt withdrawal of plans for the 37 billion yuan (HK$46.4 billion) plant, which could have provided enough fuel to meet half the country's nuclear power needs, came just a day after more than 2,000 people gathered to protest against its construction.

Residents of Jiangmen take to the street to protest against the purposed nuclear plant in the region. Photo: Dickson Lee

Jiangmen residents protest against uranium processing plant

Several hundred people gathered in Jiangmen's city centre on Friday morning to protest against a planned uranium processing plant in the Guangdong city.

Jiangmen in search of the future

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