Greater Bay Area looks to foster innovation, tech hub

China is committed to developing an international innovation and technology hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which will serve as a leading force for national innovative development, the country's top economic regulator said.

"To develop a vibrant and internationally competitive first-class bay area, the primary task is to build an international innovation and technology hub. And it will take the lead in driving the innovative transformative and innovative development in the Pearl River Delta," said Luo Wen, vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission.

More efforts are needed to build the work mechanism, deepen the reform of innovation systems and mechanisms, implement a number of high-level innovative projects and deepen reform and innovative cooperation in the Greater Bay Area, Luo said at a State Council Information Office news conference on Thursday.