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Hong Kong and Zhujiang Delta Regional Development. HK is a world city. Hong Kong is a small village 100 years ago. It is still classified as a third world city in 1987 in a book written by David Drakakis-Smith. Shenzhen grows rapidly. It grows rapidly due to Hong Kong ’ s help.
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HK is a world city • Hong Kong is a small village 100 years ago. It is still classified as a third world city in 1987 in a book written by David Drakakis-Smith
Shenzhen grows rapidly • It grows rapidly due to Hong Kong’s help. • The studying cycle of it is shorter as it absorbed the capital, technology, and people from Hong Kong.
Future of Hong Kong, will it be similar to Liverpool, or Venice? • Liverpool is a break-of-bulk points in middle England. • The hinder land of it is Manchester and Birmingham, the biggest industrial in UK. • However, the relationship is changed due to the globalization
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Advantage Loss in Hong Kong • Taiwan← China • Open door in 1978 • Globalization
Interaction between Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta (PRD) • Pre-1978: No interaction • 1978-1992: Front shops, back factories • 1992-1997: Diversification of HK investment, to tertiary and property development in PRD • 1997-: Rapid growth of industry and service, competition and cooperation between PRD and Hong Kong
The competition between HK & PRD • Graph showing GPD of Hong Kong and PRD • Graph showing GPD of each people in China • Conclusion: They will be ahead of us
China & WTO • Opportunities: • Market expansion • Market access • Middleman’s new role of HKSAR • Challenges: • Mainland’s barriers and constraints • Increasing competition • Diminishing gateway function of HKSAR
Growing local strength of PRD • Stronger industrial network and agglomerated economy • Better manpower • More mature technology • Improved service quality
Hong Kong’s strength • The producer service is mature • Good financial and legal system • Efficiency • International connections • High quality service • One country, two systems
Future attraction • High-order goods & service • Attraction from tourist in whole China • The peak of tourism in 2005 as the Disneyland is built
Example to Follow • London and Paris • Only small proportion of international tourist but most of them come from their own countries • It is hard to displace their goodwill and scale
Improvement of HK • Study the system of Mainland China • Decrease the cost • Improvement of population policy • Cannot only depends on tourism, it is temperate • Become a regional centre, similar to London and Manhattan