After more than two years since the outline for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area hereafter) Development Plan was released, the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) conducted a survey from 15 to 26 July 2021 to gauge public views on the plan. A total of 706 respondents aged 18 or above were successfully interviewed, through both mobile phones (356) and landlines (350), with response rates of 28.1% (landlines) and 31.9% (mobile phones). The sampling error was estimated at plus or minus 3.69 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.<\/p>\r\n
Major findings are summarised as follows: <\/strong><\/p>\r\n More than a third (35.9%) of the respondents deemed the development plan an opportunity for Hong Kong, while around a quarter (23.5%) disagreed and a third (34.3%) were neutral.<\/p>\r\n The finance, innovative technology, transport and logistics industries in Hong Kong have the potential to grow under the Greater Bay Area Development Plan. Of the total respondents, 38.3% agreed the plan would benefit the finance industry, while 30.0% objected and 25.0% were neutral. As to benefiting the innovative technology industry, 38.8% agreed, but 24.6% of the respondents disagreed and 28.3% were neutral. In contrast to the former two industries, more respondents (43.7%) believed the plan could benefit the transport and logistics industry, while 25.9% did not and 19.3% were neutral.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u00a0Of the 701 respondents, 45.1% of the respondents believed that the participation of Hong Kong in the plan brought both opportunities and challenges. While 30.1% highlighted more opportunities that the plan would bring to Hong Kong and 16.3% emphasised more challenges would be brought to Hong Kong.<\/p>\r\n The development plan offers to facilitate movement of Hongkongers to work or to live in Mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area, but 55.7% of the respondents saw the competitiveness of Hongkongers in Mainland cities as \u201cvery little\u201d (35.2%) or \u201cnone at all\u201d (20.5%), while 28.1% saw it as \u201clarge\u201d (22.4%) or \u201cvery large\u201d (5.7%).<\/p>\r\n Of the 701 respondents, 54.5% of them did not intend to move to Mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area, while 31.2% would like to. When asked whether they would encourage young people in Hong Kong to move to Mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area, 45.9% of the respondents would not do so, while 37.0% would encourage young people to go and 9.2% would do so under certain conditions.<\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":[{"text":"Attachment (Chinese version only)","link":"","file":117821}],"video_source":"","video_file":"","add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":0,"photos_original":null,"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/117818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/117818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117829,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/117818\/revisions\/117829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}