Bay Area cultural links promoted

Cross-border cultural cooperation will open a bigger market for Hong Kong and Macao culture-related businesses and help ease disharmony in Hong Kong, officials said on Friday.

The report given in October to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China by General Secretary Xi Jinping and this year's Government Work Report delivered in March by Premier Li Keqiang both said the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao should deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields, Xiang Zhaolun, vice-minister of culture and tourism, noted.

Cultural industries in the three areas should take advantage of development opportunities created by the new era and use their strengths in tourism, the arts and cultivation of young artistic talent to contribute to the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and promote Chinese culture to the world, he said.