Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area

So yes, we are committed to China, and I think also with the news and the deep dive we took into the 15th five-year plan of China, I think we are in a very, very good position to continue our investment and continue our presence in China.

Also, we noticed that there has been announcement of the completion of this Greater Bay Area Innovation and Collaboration Center of Merck China in Shenzhen with a focus on life sciences and healthcare.

How does this center fit into the broader strategy and positioning of Merck China?

Yes, thank you also again for recognizing that ceremony which took place some months ago.

The Greater Bay Area is of increasing importance to our activities in China.

Shenzhen, we have established a laboratory and a collaboration center which is going to help us, provide us a platform to collaborate with all the stakeholders in the ecosystem.

So for instance, we are very, very nicely located to the China Academy of Science in Shenzhen.

Shenzhen is known for the technological advancements.

Before founding Nexus Alliance, Thomas held leadership roles with multinational organizations headquartered across the US, Europe, Japan and South Korea, while also launching and scaling multiple startups across Asia.

He's generated more than 100 million US dollars in revenue through China and Southeast Asian focused initiatives, serves as cultural and tourism ambassador, for this Guaoshouzhou Nansha District and mentors entrepreneurs and emerging business leaders across the Greater Bay Area.

Let's have a conversation now.

Thomas, welcome to Heads Talk.

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Hong Kong's newly unveiled five-year plan sees the regional government doubling down on traditional strengths, deepening Greater Bay Area integration, and charting a course to become a global hub for gold trading and international cooperation.

Zheng Junfeng sat down with top executive Genevieve Chou Kua-wing from jewelry brand Chou San San to discuss what this blueprint means for local businesses.

Hong Kong's first five-year plan stresses the integration of the Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, Greater Bay Area.

How does Chosin Sen take advantage of its Cantonese cultural heritage to strengthen its layout in the Greater Bay Area?

We have our roots in Guangzhou and then subsequently Hong Kong.

It's only natural for us to build our network from South China and spread out to the rest of China.

We currently have 150 stores in the Greater Bay Area.

There's already high voltage transmission supplying power to local regions around the plateau, but this new line will bring a whole new dimension to the network.

When it comes into operation in 2029, which of course it actually will do because it's a Chinese project, it'll displace enough coal combustion in the Greater Bay Area to save roughly 33 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year.

The Chinese government reckons the project will lead to a further $14 billion worth of investment in secondary power equipment and the wider industrial chain, creating more than 100,000 jobs.

By 2050, the plan is for more than 10 HVDC and new HVDC power corridors to be coming out of the Tibetan plateau, exporting more than 500 billion kWh of electricity every year.

Because about, let's say, 45 years ago, this was just a small fishing village, 30,000 people, and now it's 18 million, and it's the center of, like, the strongest tech companies in China and all manufacturing as well.

So it's part of the Greater Bay Area.

So all these cities are Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhuhai, uh, Macau, all of these, Hong Kong, they are considered...

They have defined it as a great- Greater Bay Area.

Maybe sounds similar to the Bay Area in the US.

Uh, but it's, like, really amazing.

And of course, the outcome here feeds directly into the leaders meeting in Shenzhen in November.

That connection between Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area is really, you know, with Hong Kong doing the finance and Shenzhen doing the innovation, it's really a preview of how the region can prosper together.

That, to me, is the long-term significance.

That was Clarence Ling speaking.

The city boasts globally recognized testing and certification services, as well as a well-regulated legal system and intellectual property protection, which help ensure that products comply with international standards while reducing the risk of non-compliance.

Furthermore, Mexican companies can take advantage of the manufacturing base and scientific resource resources of the Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau, Greater Bay Area, for example, by collaborating with Hong Kong universities on research and development, or by utilizing its innovation and technology platforms and clusters to accelerate industrialization and reduce research, development, and manufacturing costs.

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So all you need to do is point it to, uh, our service instead, and it will just work, and you can then add the extra headers to say, uh, "I want it, uh, within this jurisdiction," and you will get back the extra X headers telling you, uh, where it actually run.

Now to a more complicated situation, right? Um, let's talk about where I am in the GBA, the Greater Bay Area, as it's called over here.

So Hong Kong, Macau, Zhuhai, these kinds of places that are basically in what we call the Greater Bay Area, um, they have different policies and different rules.

Basically, Shenzhen and Zhuhai have the same area, uh, same kind of rules to a certain extent.

But, um, even more interesting is that I actually found out that there is a place on the border between Shenzhen and Hong Kong where they actually have it so that you can, uh, your algorithm can stay in Hong Kong, and the data can somehow stay in Shenzhen, but you can run your, your processing, which is kind of interesting.