(Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area) 2026 International Bay Area Economic Forum focuses on global Bay Area economic cooperation

China News Service, Guangzhou, November 8 (Reporter Wang Jian) ​​The three-day 2026 International Bay Area Economic Forum concluded in Guangzhou on the 8th. During the forum, representatives from major bay areas around the world jointly released the "Top Ten Initiatives for Global Bay Area Economic Cooperation". This initiative provides a directional framework for global bay area cooperation and marks a new stage of global bay area cooperation moving from conceptual consensus to mechanism construction.

According to reports, the forum has been held twice. The first one will be held in Hong Kong in 2025, and will be held alternately in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in the future. This forum is co-sponsored by the Guangzhou Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Institute, United Hong Kong Fund, and Macau Foundation. It brings together global industry experts and industry representatives for in-depth exchanges around core topics such as economic innovation drive, open cooperation, coordinated development, and green transformation in the Bay Area.

During the forum, 18 representatives from enterprises, research institutions and industry associations from global Bay Area economies jointly took the stage to release the "Top Ten Initiatives for Global Bay Area Economic Cooperation". The initiative puts forward systematic proposals around ten aspects of openness and inclusiveness, mutual benefit and win-win, shipping connectivity, real economy, science and technology sources, rule convergence, green and low carbon, disaster prevention and reduction, cultural mutual learning and multilateral governance. It not only covers traditional cooperation areas such as economic and trade exchanges and industrial upgrading, but also responds to common concerns such as rule barriers, marine ecology, and bay area security. It lists open collaboration and mechanism building as a priority direction for global bay area cooperation.

Zhang Hu, Executive Vice Governor of the Guangdong Provincial Government, pointed out that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is increasingly characterized by openness, inclusiveness, innovation-driven, and collaborative cooperation. It has huge space and potential for future development. It has the conditions and capabilities to inject more stability and create more development opportunities for the development of the Asia-Pacific region and even the global Bay Area economies.

Yau Ying-wah, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said that Hong Kong will continue to work closely with Guangdong and Macao to actively promote the construction of the Greater Bay Area and strengthen connections with different bay areas around the world, so that the Greater Bay Area can better play its role as an international cooperation platform and contribute to regional and world economic development.

Secretary for Economy and Finance of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, Ng Wai Hin, said that in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Macao has become a test field for institutional innovation, a precise contact for the China-Portuguese platform, and an important co-builder of openness and collaboration.