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SCMA visits Greater Bay Area cities with students (with photos)
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     The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Patrick Nip, and the Under Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Andy Chan, together with five students who joined the "Be a Government Official for a Day" programme this year and last year, as well as 10 summer interns working in the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau and Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Guangdong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, visited Shenzhen and Dongguan today (July 30) to see for themselves the development of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area) cities. They also exchanged views with Mainland scholars and Hong Kong young people who started businesses there.

     Upon arrival in Shenzhen this morning, the group visited a high-tech enterprise specialising in cultural technology to learn about its development of theme parks with a culture-and-technology mix, comics and animation products as well as movie system with special effects.

     They then met with several Mainland scholars to exchange views on the development of Hong Kong and the Mainland as well as mutually beneficial co-operation between two places.

     The group departed for the Songshan Lake Xbot Park in Dongguan in the afternoon to keep abreast of the development of the robot industry in Dongguan and the co-operation between universities in Hong Kong and the Mainland on nurturing talents for the industry. They also toured two enterprises in the park specialising in biomedical engineering and robot development.

     Afterwards, they visited an innovation and entrepreneurship base for Hong Kong and Macao youths in Songshan Lake and met with young entrepreneurs from Hong Kong stationed in the base to gain a better understanding on starting business in the Mainland.

     The group will return to Hong Kong this evening.
 
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The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Patrick Nip, together with five students who joined the "Be a Government Official for a Day" programme this year and last year, as well as 10 summer interns working in the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau and Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Guangdong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, visited Shenzhen and Dongguan today (July 30). Picture shows Mr Nip (first right) and students watching a demonstration of a computer operation while visiting a high-tech enterprise specialising in developing cultural technology in Shenzhen.
The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Patrick Nip, together with students, visited the Songshan Lake Xbot Park in Dongguan today (July 30). Photo shows Mr Nip (first left) being briefed on the operation of the robots.
The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Patrick Nip (second left), together with students toured a biomedical engineering enterprise in the Songshan Lake Xbot Park in Dongguan today (July 30).
The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Patrick Nip (third left, front row), and the Under Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Andy Chan (fourth left, front row), together with students toured the innovation and entrepreneurship base for Hong Kong and Macao youths in Songshan Lake in Dongguan today (July 30). Photo shows the group exchanging views with Hong Kong young entrepreneurs stationed at the base on starting businesses in the Mainland.
The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Patrick Nip (third right), and the Under Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Andy Chan (second left), together with their "shadow ministers" joining the "Be a Government Official" programme taking a group photo at the platform of the Humen high-speed rail station in Dongguan after finishing their visit to Shenzhen and Dongguan today (July 30).