China’s Guangdong province is driving toward developing the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, aiming to make itself the nation’s major innovation engine and gateway for the province to connect to global innovation trends.
This March, journalists from Nanfang Daily, one of the Guangdong’s leading media publications, were sent to the US, UK, Germany, Singapore and other international financial hubs and had conversations with experts there, attempting to explore experiences that the province can learn from.
Guangdong could develop a unique financial ecosystem with its advantages in the manufacturing industry and its location in the Greater Bay Area, rather than simply being a copycat of Silicon Valley.
Guangdong is dominant in traditional industries, logistics and marketing. It’s a wrong thinking that the traditional industries are out of time. Combining the traditional industries with modern developing methods would accelerate the process of the province’s development.”
So the ecosystem, it’s very similar to what I described was allowed Silicon Valley to be successful here in California. You need kind of all the pieces to work together.
You need the venture capital support. You need the universities to help support innovation and entrepreneurs coming out of university to train them to help them start new ideas.
You need government support, you need the lawyers, you need the accounts. ”
So the ecosystem, it’s very similar to what I described was allowed Silicon Valley to be successful here in California. You need kind of all the pieces to work together.
You need the venture capital support. You need the universities to help support innovation and entrepreneurs coming out of university to train them to help them start new ideas.
You need government support, you need the lawyers, you need the accounts. ”
How Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong jointly build up a regional financial center
I think whether it's Hong Kong, whether it's Shenzhen or any of these cities, if you have two or three strong centers nearby, I think that will act as a magnet for capability or capital, or rather a company's investment more generally, as opposed to if you only had one.
So I think together they can be stronger. If we're able to get the best out of each and collaborate, I think it'll make for a stronger regional center of excellence. ”
Hong Kong can improve its comprehensive competitive power among financial centers, with the help of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In future Hong Kong will lead the bay area to be a global financial center.
Guangdong has many comparative advantages in nature resources, living conditions and so on. Shenzhen of Guangdong should, under the Belt and Road Initiative, have closer cooperation with Hong Kong in internationalizing the RMB.”
Hong Kong can improve its comprehensive competitive power among financial centers, with the help of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. In future Hong Kong will lead the bay area to be a global financial center.
Guangdong has many comparative advantages in nature resources, living conditions and so on. Shenzhen of Guangdong should, under the Belt and Road Initiative, have closer cooperation with Hong Kong in internationalizing the RMB.”
What financial tycoons value most in Guangdong?
We see that (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area) as a trade area. This economic area is very important. We have partners like HSBC, a very important partner that also see the same as we see that's a very important area.
Not necessarily in shanghai, but a secondary financial center, because of its geographic location, because of the growth that's happening in that geography and its connectivity to Hong Kong. "
Guangdong need an overall and long-term plan, and tell the world its development stories with international language.
Since you need to attract foreign investment and business, you should let those with international prospective and strategic thinking see the blueprint, and tell Guangdong’s story in the international context.”
Guangdong need an overall and long-term plan, and tell the world its development stories with international language.
Since you need to attract foreign investment and business, you should let those with international prospective and strategic thinking see the blueprint, and tell Guangdong’s story in the international context.”
How Guangdong can balance financial regulation and innovation?
Financial regulation aims to serve for economic development. The regulatory organizations should just stipulate a general plan or strategy, aiming to optimize the financial mechanism, create a better environment and cultivate a proper ecosystem, and should leave detailed businesses to institutions and professionals.
Guangdong should focus on accelerate supply chain financing, international trade financing and FinTech innovation, based on its own conditions. For instance, the province could accelerate the deployment of block chain technologies in logistics to increase the productivity.”
How Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area can integrate financial resources?
I think there’s always the chance we work with exchanges around the world. We provide technology to them. We do consultation with them. We do assistance for them. Over the years we’ve met with Chinese stock exchanges on multiple occasions, talking about different opportunities and projects.
We think that markets should be open, should be transparent, should be global, and should be cooperative in order to make the global capital markets better. And so we certainly think there could be opportunities for us to work with them in many different ways in the future, as the markets continue to evolve.”
The biggest problem of financial development in the Area lies in how to integrate the flows of capital, human resources and logistics between Hong Kong, Macao and mainland China.
Guangzhou and Shenzhen could duplicate the advantages and learn from Hong Kong’s experience in the integration process of the financial market within the region.”
The biggest problem of financial development in the Area lies in how to integrate the flows of capital, human resources and logistics between Hong Kong, Macao and mainland China.
Guangzhou and Shenzhen could duplicate the advantages and learn from Hong Kong’s experience in the integration process of the financial market within the region.”
We’re very keen to work with them as they move along that journey. Plainly they made such advances already. We’re particularly keen to work on the questions for further internationalization of the RMB and green finance, which I think is of interest to all of us.
And then I think tech and tech developments, where actually Shenzhen is obviously leading the way in many respects. So we will begin to partner with them, and indeed on Belt and Road is that unfold.”
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