Hong Kong: Cross-border trips by HK vehicles via HZMB hit 1 m

Hong Kong vehicles had made more than 1 million cross-border trips via Zhuhai Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge as of July 1 under the Northbound Travel for Hong Kong Vehicles program.

The program enables eligible private cars from Hong Kong to travel between the special administrative region and Guangdong province via the HZMB without having to meet the quotas.

Over 68,000 Hong Kong vehicles have registered for the program so far, and more than 300 new vehicle registrations are recorded daily. The monthly growth rate of Hong Kong vehicles entering and leaving the SAR via the bridge has reached 33.8 percent.

Macao: Elderly to move into govt flats from October

Online and offline selection of flats offered to the elderly by the Macao Special Administrative Region began on July 8, with eligible applicants able to move into the first batch of 759 apartments from October.

The saleable area of each unit under the project is 33.17 square meters and can accommodate two people. More than 1,800 units are provided, with rents starting from 4,328 patacas ($537) a month.

Applicants must be permanent residents of the SAR aged 65 or above, and be able to take care of themselves.

Guangzhou: Provincial capital pledges to drive low-altitude economy

Guangzhou has rolled out 20 measures to lift the low-altitude economy and related industries, such as offering subsidies of up to 1 million yuan ($137,000) to leading enterprises in the sector.

Besides financial support, the Guangdong provincial capital pledged to speed up efforts to upgrade infrastructure, develop core technologies, expand application scenarios and cultivate talent in the field.

Under the new measures, the city will subsidize applications for operating unmanned aerial vehicles to carry passengers for short-haul destinations, freight transportation, and flagship culture and sports projects. The local municipal government is also encouraged to operate UAVs in more public services.

Shenzhen: Trade with RCEP member economies up 48.5%

Shenzhen’s trade with member states of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership reached 522.2 billion yuan in the first five months of this year — up 48.5 percent from a year earlier.

Data showed that exports and imports among Shenzhen and RCEP member countries saw growth of 77.3 percent and 27.8 percent during the period, compared with a year ago, to 260.9 yuan and 261.3 billion yuan, respectively.

Zhuhai: City handled over 100 million cross-border passengers

Cross-border passenger traffic between Zhuhai and the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions exceeded 100 million as of July 7, representing a year-on-year increase of 31.3 percent.

The century-old Gongbei Port has seen 56 million cross-border passengers passing through so far this year — up 16 percent from a year earlier. Zhuhai Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge logged 13 million passengers — a surge of 114 percent.

Foshan: City clinches 2b yuan pacts with State-owned developer

The Gaoming district government in Foshan signed two agreements worth 2 billion yuan on July 4 with Shenzhen International Holdings — a State-owned developer and operator of logistics infrastructure projects.

The first project, with an investment of $140 million, is the Advanced Manufacturing and Airport Supply Chain Center (Phase II), covering an area of 111.57 mu (7.43 hectares). The facility plans to speed up the integrated development of manufacturing and modern logistics.

Another project involves an operating wharf at the Fuwan area of Gaoming Port, with an investment of about 1 billion yuan. It aims to construct four 3,000-metric-ton berths for general use, while the wharf itself is designed for 5,000-ton berths.

Huizhou: Value of city’s imports, exports hits 154b yuan

The total value of Huizhou’s imports and exports reached 153.9 billion yuan in the first five months of 2024, representing a year-on-year growth of 29.6 percent, according to the Huizhou Customs authorities.

For the same period, the value of exports of high-tech products hit 38.3 billion yuan, accounting for 45 percent of the total exports value. The total value of the city’s total imports and exports has gone up for 16 consecutive months since February last year.

As a trillion-yuan industrial city, Huizhou is turning the electronics information, and petrochemical energy and new materials sectors into trillion-yuan advanced manufacturing clusters and promoting its manufacturing business abroad.

Dongguan: HKIA logistics park opens new route to Argentina

The HKIA Dongguan Logistics Park, developed by the Airport Authority Hong Kong, has started a new route to Argentina.

Carrying goods from the logistics park in Dongguan, the route’s first flight took off from Hong Kong International Airport, stopped at Hamad International Airport in Doha, the capital of Qatar, and landed at Ministro Pistarini International Airport in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.

From June 19, cargos exported from the logistics park can reach 220 countries and regions, as well as 98 airports worldwide.

Zhongshan: Helicopter trip to Shenzhen to take 25 minutes or less

Zhongshan residents can fly to Shenzhen on a Heli-Eastern AW139 helicopter within 25 minutes from July 2. The city’s takeoff and landing point for the air taxis is at Tianyi International Plaza.

Passengers are able to book the service at Air Taxi — a mini program on WeChat — while the price for a one-way charter flight is 39,800 yuan for six people. The time slots available are from 9 am to 6 pm, with the aircraft taking off every half an hour.

The trip’s destination is Shenzhen North Station. In conjunction with Shenzhen Metro Group, Heli-Eastern chose the high-speed railway station as a helicopter landing point, marking the first low-altitude air-rail transport project on the Chinese mainland.

Jiangmen: City among ‘most promising cities’ for culture, tourism

Jiangmen was chosen as one of 12 “most promising” cities on the Chinese mainland for culture and tourism at a forum in Xinzhou, Shanxi province, on July 3.

Jiangmen is renowned as the hometown of many overseas Chinese, with its descendants scattered across more than 100 countries. The city is also home to significant cultural heritage sites, including the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Kaiping Diaolou and Villages.

The 12 cities were selected by the Liaowang Institute, a think tank run by the Xinhua News Agency, and the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University.

Zhaoqing: Shein’s storage center in industrial park ready

Leading Chinese mainland e-commerce platform Shein has set up its storage center in a smart industrial park in Zhaoqing, which is operated by e-commerce giant JD.

The logistics center aims to be a major smart supply chain hub for Shein’s collection, dispatch and sorting operations in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The facility, located in Zhao-qing’s new district, has a total construction area exceeding 250,000 sq m. It’s expected to have a daily sorting capacity of 4 million pieces, as well as an express delivery capacity of 5,000 tons per day, when it begins operations.