China News Service, Guangzhou, October 27 (Reporter Wang Jian) The press conference of the 2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum was held in Guangzhou on the 27th. At the meeting, Wang Yueqin, director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, introduced that Guangdong is building "Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Collaborative Innovation Version 2.0", and the cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will shift to all-round innovation collaboration in projects, platforms, talents, industries, and finance.
At the press conference, Wang Yueqin said that this year's "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" innovation cluster has topped the list. It is not the "individual effort" of a single city, but the result of the "working together" and collaborative innovation of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area city cluster. In recent years, Guangdong, in collaboration with Hong Kong and Macao, has continued to promote scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation among the three places, closely following the industrial development needs of the Greater Bay Area, leveraging the basic research and international advantages of Hong Kong and Macao, and continuously improving the level of in-depth cross-border integration of industrial science and technology, achieving positive results.
Wang Yueqin introduced that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao collaborative innovation 1.0 phase focuses on promoting the cross-border flow of innovative elements such as "money transit, people exchanges, tax balance, and logistics circulation". In the 2.0 stage, cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has turned to all-round innovative collaboration in projects, platforms, talents, industries, and finance. Optimize the implementation of joint funding plans between Guangdong and Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macao, and Shenzhen and Hong Kong, support the joint construction of major scientific and technological innovation platforms, jointly undertake major national scientific research projects, and deepen cooperation in industry, finance, talent and other services. Support participation in or launch of international major science plans and major science projects in the fields of life and health, marine science and technology, and officially launch the implementation of the international major science program for human proteome navigation.
At the same time, Guangdong will continue to implement the “1+1+1” joint funding plan for universities in Guangdong and Hong Kong. In the past three years, the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province has joined forces with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University and their cooperative universities in Guangdong. The three parties have jointly funded a seed capital pool to implement collaborative innovation plans in the form of "1+1+1" joint funding.
Wang Yueqin said that in the future, we will continue to consolidate and improve the global competitiveness of the two major innovation clusters, actively integrate into the global open innovation network, gather global innovation resources into the Greater Bay Area, accelerate the mutual promotion of industry and technology, and make new contributions to the construction of a technologically powerful country.
