What’s the Greater Bay Area and how can I do more business there? That was the basic proposition of HSBC’s GBA Connections conference at the end of June, when 60 clients from 13 countries came to Hong Kong for two days...
HSBC’s GBA Connections event in Hong Kong last month brought together a wide range of clients: the Brief spoke to the CFO of a British-based firm of architects, the head of a family investment office in the Middle East...
A month ago we reported how the GBA’s skies were buzzing with drone trials. But the daddy of the drone industry – Shenzhen’s DJI – has set its sights on more distant horizons, including new customers from the federal...
Shenzhen’s Ping An is pressing ahead with tech investment, after its startling successes in seeding four multi-billion dollar start-ups. About 50 new unicorns – privately held start-ups with valuations north of $1...
An auction for residential land in Shenzhen attracted record deposits of Rmb98.7 billion ($14.3 billion) from more than 80 developers on Monday. The winners paid the highest possible premiums, which the government caps...
A star was born last week as the Shanghai Stock Exchange launched its much-anticipated technology and innovation board. But how might the launch affect Shenzhen’s GEM board, which was set up to entice similar companies...
Retail sales in Guangdong grew 6.9% year-on-year to Rmb1.02 trillion in the first quarter, according to the statistics bureau. That makes the Greater Bay Area’s home province the biggest consumer market nationwide...
Special zone Nansha is trying to establish itself as a testing ground for new ideas in artificial intelligence. Local start-up Pony.ai – already a unicorn – is one of its pioneering companies in driverless cars. As the...
Smaller cities in the GBA have a challenge. Many outsiders won’t know where they are on the map, let alone what they contribute. Another problem is the cities themselves may not have a clear idea about their positioning...
Macau investor Joe Lo talks about some of the social challenges that the gaming enclave still has to overcome, despite the city’s runaway economic success. A few years ago, a Macau company I was involved with...
The trade war may be making more of the headlines but a ‘war for talent’ is being waged in Guangdong, home to the Greater Bay Area and also China’s most populated province, with 113.5 million people. Last month we...
Two weeks of tumultuous protest have forced Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, to suspend indefinitely a controversial bill that would allow people to be extradited to mainland China. After a turbulent 10 days...
Local investor Joe Lo looks at the prospects for Hengqin, a small island a stone’s throw from teeming Macau. What is happening on Hengqin and how is it supposed to help the world’s biggest casino economy? Macau is one...
Regulators have just granted the much-awaited commercial licences for 5G. Services should be available to customers within three or four months. Expect the GBA to be a touchstone market. That didn’t take long. Only a...
Recent reports have highlighted how the skies in the Greater Bay Area could soon be buzzing with drones – and even the occasional air taxi. Put some of that down to the pioneering spirit of cities like Shenzhen. Amazon...
China’s government is about to grant the first commercial licences for 5G services. But will it even be able to roll out the new network? The GBA has a solid claim as ground zero in the battleground for the next...
A new pledge to cut income taxes in key sectors in Shenzhen is a sign of how the implications of the trade war with the US are reverberating through the city. Employees in areas like electronics and telecoms are set to...
Dongguan is often perceived as Shenzhen’s poorer cousin, with a reputation for lower-end manufacturing and seedy nightlife. But its bid to rebrand has just been bolstered by news that a ‘GBA University’ is going to be...
In the second of a series on Macau, local investor Joe Lo asks if the city can generate more of its growth from tourism and entertainment, and a little less from gaming. The pressure is on the casinos to take the lead...
What does the Magic Circle mean to you? For the legal profession in the UK it’s the most prestigious of their law firms. For magicians, it’s their trade union (motto indocilis privata loqui or ‘don’t tell...
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