Hong Kong In The Greater Bay Area: Can Pearl Of The Orient Regain Its Shine? | Insight

Slowing growth, weak investor confidence and brain drain - Hong Kong, the Pearl of the Orient, may be losing its lustre. Could its future lie in the Greater Bay Area, an economic integration project joining the Special Administrative Region to Guangdong and Macau? Over the next decade, greater transport, administrative and economic links will tie Hong Kong inextricably to Southern China. But will Hong Kong find opportunity or obsolescence in the Greater Bay Area? And with around two decades till the end of “One Country Two Systems“ in 2047, is the Greater Bay Area a way to assimilate Hong Kong with the Mainland? 0:00 Introduction 2:01 What is the Greater Bay Area? 5:11 What ails Hong Kong’s economy? 6:45 Greater Bay Area Economic Zone 14:19 Hong Kong lion dance masters expand into GBA 18:47 Dongguan, a manufacturing hub in the GBA 21:11 Shenzhen and Zhuhai 27:47 Greater Bay Area: a “social experiment” 28:30 Why is Hong Kong losing talent? 38:02 How young Hon