Transformation begins on Hengqin Island

SHENZHEN: Four massive projects launched yesterday on Hengqin Island will give a facelift to an island currently scattered with farmland and banana trees.

It is another significant step in the development of the Zhuhai area of Guangdong province into a major business zone, one day after construction started on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.

The island, the largest of 146 islands in Zhuhai linked to Macao by bridge, got approval from the central government in mid-August to be China's third State-level strategic new zone, after Shanghai's Pudong district and Tianjin's Binhai area.