Celebrate the Spring Festival on the charming Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater 
Bay Area! On January 24, the Spring Festival's Eve, the Greater Bay Area sub 
venue gala of the 2020 Spring Festival Gala took place at the artificial island 
of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. Against the brilliant landscape of the 
55-kilometer bridge, the bell of the Spring Festival rang. Zhuhai, as the host 
of the sub venue gala and the forerunner of opening up, sent the new year 
wishes to the world and drew a new picture of openness and innovation with 
other cities in this Area. 

Dazzling fireworks display, lion dancing with LED and technology of light and 
shadow, special effect beam and human-screen interaction created fantastic 
atmosphere. Thousands of residents of the three cities sang a song together and 
expressed their aspirations for 2020 by wonderful performances on the "Super 
Project". Performances with Chinese science and technology innovation products 
and culture presented a dynamic Greater Bay Area that integrates tradition and 
innovation, classic and fashion to the world. 

While the three places celebrate the new year together, the Greater Bay Area 
embraces a better future. Today, as one of the most open and economically 
vibrant regions, the Area is presenting great prospects. Thanks to the "golden 
channel", namely the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Zhuhai is promoting the 
in-depth cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao. Resources including innovation, 
talents, capital, technology and culture of the Area and even the world are 
gathered, connected, allocated and integrated in Zhuhai, stimulating its 
development continuously. 

With the operation of the Bridge, industrial giants such as Huawei, Alibaba, 
Tencent, and Foxconn have carried out in-depth cooperation with Zhuhai in 
fields including smart cities, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and 
chips to expand a broad prospect for a new economy. "With further development 
of the Greater Bay Area, Zhuhai enjoys strong momentum and bright prospects 
based on prominent geographical advantages," said Zhang Jianfeng, partner and 
Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Group. 

At present, the construction of the Area goes into the fast lane, which 
promotes the exchange and cooperation between Zhuhai and Macao. According to 
data from the People's Government of Zhuhai Municipality, in the first half of 
2019 alone, there were 310 newly established Macao-invested companies in 
Zhuhai, accounting for more than half of the newly established enterprises in 
the city. 

In addition, the connectivity between Zhuhai and Macao also provides benefits 
for the residents of both sides. Recently, the Zhuhai Real Estate Registration 
Center and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China(Macau) Co., Ltd. signed 
a cooperation agreement to set up a warmly-welcomed real estate registration 
service center in Macao, allowing Macao enterprises and individuals to deal 
with the cross-border real estate mortgage registration within Macao. 

The continuously-expanding Zhuhai-Macao cooperation space witnesses the 
speeding opening-up of the Area and also reflects China's actions and 
determination to make a new ground in pursuing opening up. 

By 2020, the time limit for foreign investment putting on files outside the 
negative list will be reduced to less than one working day, and the time limit 
for starting a business will be controlled within four working days. The number 
of newly registered Hong Kong and Macao-funded enterprises will reach to 
12,000. The business scope of individual industrial and commercial households 
of Hong Kong and Macao residents will be fully liberalized. Guangdong has made 
it clear that in the future, it will promote the integration of resources, the 
complementarity of advantages and the linkage of opening-up measures in the 
Area to lead an opening pattern with the connection of land and sea, domestic 
and overseas areas and mutual beneficial cooperation between the east and the 
west bank of the Pearl River. 

The sub-venue of the Spring Festival Gala on the Bridge not only reflects the 
continuously improving city-to-city connectivity but also witnesses the 
expansion of cooperation fields between these three places. It is foreseeable 
that the construction of the Area will promote the development of Hong Kong and 
Macao, and expand new space for cooperation between China and the world. 

Source: The People's Government of Zhuhai Municipality