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Headline news on the Greater Bay Area’s cities and companies

Here’s a selection of Week in China’s stories from the GBA, which is fast emerging as one of the world’s leading economies. For a free subscription to WiC’s digital magazine, which keeps track of news from China in general, click here

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Sometimes the house loses

Macau imposes half-month casino ban amid coronavirus outbreak
Feb 14, 2020 (WiC 482)

Such was the clamour to get into the Sands Macao on opening night in May 2004 that many of the casino’s doors were ripped off their hinges. The scenes this week in the former Portuguese colony couldn’t have been more different. All 41 of ...

Training its sights

Sun Hung Kai in massive bid for West Kowloon site – but was it a bargain?
Dec 6, 2019 (WiC 477)

Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme has long been a fan of Hong Kong. In 2004 the martial arts star spent HK$80 million ($10 million) on two top-floor units at a luxury development in West Kowloon. They’re now up for sale, at a combined asking ...

Baying for business

Now a year old, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge needs more traffic
Nov 1, 2019 (WiC 472)

Opening at about the same time as the high-speed railway line between Hong Kong and Guangzhou last October (see WiC429), the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge was long-delayed and heavily over budget. Backers of the world’s longest ...

Profits set to flow

What is driving GDI’s HK$100 billion market valuation?
Sep 13, 2019 (WiC 466)

Bank of East Asia’s chairman David Li isn’t viewed as an active investor in stocks. Yet the veteran banker has been taking a keen interest in Guangdong Investment (GDI), a state-owned enterprise described by some analysts as one of the best ...

Parking the cash

Hong Kong investors turn to GBA car parks
Aug 2, 2019 (WiC 462)

Many Hongkongers who ‘dream’ of owning their own home believe that it will remain a dream following a tripling of house prices over the past decade. Only this month, a buyer paid HK$5.26 million ($674,000) for a tiny 598 square foot flat in ...

Why an emissions database is needed in the GBA
Jul 12, 2019 (WiC 459)

Pollution is a problem that doesn’t respect borders, as American scientists highlighted again in a study of their national parks two years ago. Ozone levels were well above normal in the summer months in places like Yellowstone, Yosemite and ...

Welcome to ‘GBA University’

Will China’s future answer to Stanford be based in Dongguan?
May 31, 2019 (WiC 454)

Such is the blizzard of announcements about new investment in the Greater Bay Area in southern China that some of the projects barely make it into media view. Someone who evidently knows how to cut through the noise is Xiao Yafei, the mayor of ...

Project runways

Will Shenzhen airport’s expansion contest or complement Hong Kong’s?
Apr 26, 2019 (WiC 449)

China’s first time fliers are back in the news this year after at least five more cases in which superstitious passengers have thrown coins at their aircraft for good luck. In the latest instance a woman hurled nine coins into the engines ahead ...

Under starter’s orders

Hong Kong Jockey Club hosts race meeting in Guangdong
Mar 29, 2019 (WiC 446)

Founded in 1993, the Guangzhou Jockey Club had 5,000 members at its peak, with more than 1,200 horses. Monies bet topped Rmb10 million ($1.48 million) a race and in less than seven years it had contributed more than Rmb300 million to ...

The GBA’s innovation hub

HSBC’s Co-CEOs of Guangdong reveal the reasons for Shenzhen’s success
Mar 15, 2019 (WiC 444)

Famously it was once a fishing village but its economy is now bigger than Hong Kong’s (see WiC443). Shenzhen’s new billing as China’s innovation capital has put it centre-stage in the plan to supercharge a vast new economy across the ...

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