Professor Fu Zhengping: "Strengthening Interconnectivity and Integration for Development" boosts the safe and sound construction of pilot free trade zones

"The interconnected development of the free trade zones (FTZ) can give greater play to FTZ benefits and institutional innovation replication and promotion functions," said Professor Fu Zhengping from the Institute of Free Trade Zones and the School of Business, Sun Yat-sun University, at the "2021-2022 China Pilot Free Trade Zone Institutional Innovation Index" conference.

Professor Fu Zhengping said that the three FTZs in Guangdong play a role of engine in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Although each has its own emphasis, the core is institutional innovation, which all involve the task of reform and opening up. Through interconnectivity development, national strategic effects and opportunities will be superimposed, complementary advantages will be realized, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will be built into a highland for opening to the outside world.

Professor Fu Zhengping said that Nansha, as the main bearing area of the comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area, can continue to promote the "physical connectivity" of infrastructure in the future, accelerate the construction of "institutional connectivity" of rules and mechanisms, and improve the integration of science and technology, talents, and industries, so as to continuously expand the depth and breadth of the integrated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.