The escalating US-China trade tensions have prompted more European business chambers to seek collaboration opportunities in Qianhai, a special economic zone in Shenzhen near Hong Kong, according to a mainland-based incubator on Wednesday. Tech firms in Qianhai and Nansha, a district in southern Guangzhou, also said Hong Kong, as an international hub, now played a…
A significant number of ferry trips from Hong Kong to mainland China have been cancelled due to expected thunderstorms hitting the city on Saturday afternoon. The Hong Kong Observatory reported that a cold front moving southward from northern Guangdong province was bringing showers and squally thunderstorms closer to the Pearl River Delta. It warned that…
Students at a proposed medical school at Hong Kong’s Baptist University will have some exposure to traditional Chinese medicine in their studies, while the institution aims to admit its first cohort of 50 to 60 next year at the earliest. The university said on Monday that it had completed a draft of its proposal for…
The national drive to turn 11 southern cities into an economic powerhouse was little more than a concept when it was first rolled out in early 2019. Today, the development of the Greater Bay Area has become a reality, with cross-border integration and collaboration advancing in a way that seemed unimaginable just a few years…
Infrastructure development in the Greater Bay Area has been so rapid that some major projects have not even registered on maps, a Hong Kong-based scholar has said as he and other experts called for better “narratives” and promotion of the new economic region amid shifting geopolitics. During the South China Morning Post’s annual China Conference…
Semiconductor companies in Guangzhou’s Nansha district are betting on regional synergies in the Greater Bay Area to meet the increasing industrial demand for next-generation chip materials, company executives said at the China Conference hosted by the South China Morning Post on Wednesday. Nansha, located in the south of Guangdong’s provincial capital, is capitalising on local…
It is no coincidence that Nansha, a district in Guangdong province’s capital city of Guangzhou, chose to showcase China’s advances in drones, electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and unmanned boat technology during the week-long National Day holiday. In particular, a demonstration by an EH216-S – a passenger-carrying pilotless eVTOL aircraft manufactured by the…