Greater Bay Area cooperation set to deepen

The southern province of Guangdong has vowed to expand cooperation with the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, under the "one country, two systems" framework, to speed up the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

In his government work report delivered to Guangdong Provincial People's Congress on Thursday, Ma Xingrui, governor of Guangdong, said the province aims to build a world-class bay area through cooperation with the two SARs, and to ensure new opening-up to the outside world.

In addition to Hong Kong and Macao, the Greater Bay Area includes the cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing in Guangdong province.