China News Service, Shenzhen, October 24 (Reporter Liu Dawei) At the "One Country, Two Systems" academic seminar held in Shenzhen on the 24th, many experts believed that Hong Kong and Macao would formulate a five-year plan and dock it with the national "15th Five-Year Plan" to complete the role transformation from a beneficiary to a contributor to national development, which would be conducive to better integrating into and serving the overall development of the country.
"Hong Kong and Macao have long adopted a governance model of 'active non-intervention'. Under the new situation, this model can no longer meet the development needs of the two places." Zhang Jian, secretary-general of the Shanghai-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperative Research Center of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies, said in an interview with China News Service that the formulation of five-year plans for Hong Kong and Macao is a sign of the change in governance thinking from "active non-intervention" to "active and proactive".
“Whether a country or region has planning is no longer the ‘standard’ for judging capitalism and socialism.” Wang Zhenmin, dean of the Institute of National Governance at Tsinghua University, believes that the best development model for society is a combination of effective markets and effective governments, with the market and planning each performing their respective duties and working together.
Grzegoz Koledek, former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, said that government intervention and market mechanisms can reinforce each other if they achieve the right balance. The market should play a decisive role in resource allocation, while the government provides strategic direction, institutional support and long-term planning.
Zhang Jian believes that implementing the five-year plan and aligning with the overall development of the country will not only help enhance the core competitiveness of Hong Kong and Macao, but also help combine the original institutional advantages of Hong Kong and Macao with the development trend of emerging industries to cultivate new economic growth points.
"In the past, when we talked about 'integration', the core was how to leverage the general development trend of the country to achieve our own prosperity. Now with the addition of 'service', the core is how to transform our unique advantages into actual effectiveness in serving the national strategy." Wu Zhiliang, Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Macau Foundation, said that Macao's core advantage lies in culture. It has a history of more than 400 years of symbiosis between Chinese and Western civilizations. It is not only rooted in Chinese culture, but also has a long-term mission of cultural exchanges and mutual learning.
He believes that Macao should proactively upgrade to a "civilization converter" and elevate the dialogue between Chinese and Western civilizations from a "historical phenomenon" to an engine of "future creation."
Cai Guanshen, president of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong, told a reporter from China News Service that Hong Kong is a "super contact" and "super value-added person" between the mainland and the world, and will become a "super partner" in the future. With the announcement and implementation of Hong Kong's first five-year plan, Hong Kong's industrial and commercial community must not only seize the development opportunities in the northern metropolitan area and promote more comprehensive integration between Hong Kong and mainland innovation and technology enterprises, but also "merge ship" with mainland enterprises to go global.
Pompeo de la Posta, a professor at Beijing Normal University's Belt and Road Institute, said that the combination of Hong Kong's financial and professional services with the mainland's manufacturing capabilities and industrial supply chains has created opportunities for R&D, production and other aspects of the two places; Macao's rich tourism and cultural resources and international networks have also brought new opportunities for business cooperation. He believes that in the future, the Pearl River Delta will form an ecosystem with multiple development centers, promoting mutual promotion in finance, manufacturing, tourism and other fields.
