Hong Kong and mainland China resumed the full customs clearance earlier this year, and the exchanges between the two places were active again after three years of interruption.
The Hong Kong Youth Alliance, composed of a group of young people, led some members to visit Dongguan City, Guangdong from May 5th to 7th to promote young people in the two places.
A group of 26 people in the exchange group are young people who are engaged in finance, information technology (IT), engineering and accounting in Hong Kong. The average age is only 28 years old.During the interview in just three days, in addition to holding a symposium with the Dongguan Municipal Government, the exchange group also visited some local companies, such as the stone -row large hat cultural and creative park, and the tide playing enterprise.Opportunities for development.
Huang Guosheng, president of the Hong Kong Youth Alliance, said in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao that nearly 80 % of members were visiting Dongguan for the first time.Many people have expressed their interest in starting a business in the Greater Bay Area after the trip.
He said: "The cost of entrepreneurship in Hong Kong is very high, and once it fails, it is difficult to turn over. However, according to the official friends of Dongguan, the mainland (Mainland) is very supportive of Hong Kong Youth Entrepreneurship.Many group friends want to go north to start a business. "
The unprecedented anti -repair movement broke out in Hong Kong in 2019, which lasted more than half a year.In addition to reflecting the great grievances of Hong Kong society, the incident also revealed the problem of lack of upward liquidity in Hong Kong.In view of this, there has been a series of preferential policies in mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in the past few years to encourage young people in Hong Kong to start a business in the mainland.
Taking Guangdong Province near Hong Kong as an example, the provincial government has printed and issued the implementation rules for employment and entrepreneurship of Hong Kong, Macao youth in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area in May last year. Among them, there are six chapters and 36 articles.The series supports new measures for Hong Kong and Macau Youth to integrate into the Greater Bay Area to enter the Greater Bay Area.
In terms of entrepreneurship, the implementation rules clearly states that the start -ups founded by Hong Kong and Macao youths in Guangdong Province can apply for one -time entrepreneurial funding as long as they register for the registration for six months and are in normal business state.10,000 yuan (RMB, the same below, S $ 1916).In addition, start -ups founded by Hong Kong and Macao youths can also apply for entrepreneurial rental subsidies. The subsidy standard is up to 6,000 yuan per year, and it does not exceed three years.
As for Hong Kong and Macao youths who have self -employed in the Greater Bay Area and insufficient funds, you can apply for a business guarantee loan.Personal entrepreneurial guarantee loan quota does not exceed 500,000 yuan; partnership management or founding enterprises can implement "binding" loans at a standard of 300,000 yuan per person and a total of 3 million yuan per person.
In Hong Kong, the Youth Development Commission under the SAR Government also launched two new plans- "Youth Entrepreneurship Funding Plan for the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area" and "Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base Experience Plan".Hong Kong youth entrepreneurship in mainland China in the Greater Bay Area provides more entrepreneurial support.
Under the "Entrepreneurship Plan", each youth entrepreneurial team can receive a maximum of HK $ 600,000 (S $ 103,401) capital funding, with a funding period of up to three years.The "Experience Plan" is to provide startups with short -term experience items, including participation or observation of entrepreneurial competitions, understanding the operation mode of dual -innovation bases, and entrepreneurial atmosphere, so that startups can get a specific impression of entrepreneurship in the mainland.
The Hong Kong Civil Affairs and Youth Affairs Bureau disclosed in the document submitted to the Legislative Council in early April this year that the "Entrepreneurship Plan" has been approved to be approved to 16 institutions.Section, retail, information technology, medical care, brand design, education services, etc.As for the "Experience Plan", approximately HK $ 5 million is approved to give 15 non -governmental institutions to organize experience projects in mainland cities in the short -term Greater Bay Area.
With the full support of the government of Lu and Hong Kong, in recent years, young people in Hong Kong have gradually become a trend in starting a business in Guangdong.The youth of the Tongxiang Club in Hong Kong carried out an opinion survey of Hong Kong and Youth into the Greater Bay Area earlier, and announced the results of the investigation in early May.The results showed that more than 70 % of the respondents were willing to go to the mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area for employment and entrepreneurship.
"Hong Kong Youth · Professional Network" and the Hong Kong Youth Federation visited 961 citizens through online questionnaires this year, of which more than 70%belonged to youth groups aged 18 to 40.The results of their earlier investigations also showed that 65.5%of the respondents agreed that the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area brought opportunities for their career development. 71.3%of the respondents also expressed their willingness to work or develop their careers in the mainland.
Young Singer Shenzhen Kai Music Studio
Hong Kong young singer Ding Zhengkai (27 years old) is an example of participating in the mainland entrepreneurship.In November 2020, the Hong Kong "post -95s" built his own music studio Livehouse in a cultural and creative park in Longgang District, Shenzhen.
Ding Zhengkai's mother loves singing. He has been dazzling since he was a child. He has been learning piano and vocal since the second grade of elementary school. At the age of 12, he tried music creation.Six years ago, he and two friends form a band to formally start the road of music creation.
Like the popular bands of all young people, Ding Zhengkai's initial creation is mainly lyric, hip -hop, and rock music. He has participated in large and small performance activities in Hong Kong, but the Hong Kong market is small and the prospects are average.In recent years, the government of Lu and Hong Kong has issued many development planning policies in the Greater Bay Area, and Ding Zhengkai has decided to develop in the mainland.
Ding Zhengkai said in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao that Hong Kong's real estate and financial trade industry occupied nearly 70 % of the entire economic structure, and the opportunities for development to young people in Hong Kong were very limited."For Hong Kong youth, I think the Greater Bay Area is an opportunity to seize, and it can even be said that they can find the most valuable development opportunities that they can find around the world."
Ding Zhengkai took his music studio in Longgang District, Shenzhen as an example. The studio has seven or eight hundred square meters, integrating video, photography, performance, and practice.There are such large venues engaged in music creation. "
Ding Zhengkai said that he is just a musician in Hong Kong. The business with the most contact is to write songs and performances.But after coming to the mainland, I found that in addition to music creation, I can also run Livehouse. It involves equipment, operations, video output, etc. In the process, it has also made breakthroughs and extensions in its own majors.
Ding Zhengkai acknowledged that the benefits of mainland policies are also where Hong Kong Qingbei is attracting Hong Kong.When he established Livehouse, the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Shenzhen Youth Federation organized many policy preaching meetings to give policy guidance and support. "They let us have more understanding of the entrepreneurial policy and information of the mainland."
He said: "I am a young man who grew up at the grassroots level in Hong Kong. When he raised entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, I would feel that I did not have sufficient funds, nor was the second generation of Shang.It may not work.But this is not the case in the mainland. The government gives a lot of support, and it is often impossible to become possible."
In the past two years, Ding Zhengkai had rarely reached the mainland due to the epidemic.With Hong Kong and Shenzhen this year, he often traveled to and from two places. At present, he has put half of his time in Shenzhen, showing his personal career.
The Hong Kong and Macau Youth Center provides one -stop service
Shenzhen North Station Hong Kong, Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, which is located in Longhua District, Shenzhen, has an area of about 5,000 square meters. It has been invested and constructed by the Shenzhen Longhua District Government.Service platforms such as service and capital links.
Dr. Chen Xiaofeng, Secretary -General of the Hong Kong Law Exchange Foundation, who served as a legal adviser in the center, said in an interview with Lianhe Zaobao that since the opening of the Hong Kong and Macao Center, it has attracted more than 200 batches of Hong Kong and Macao Youth Entrepreneurship teams from eight cities in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area.The center visited and inspected, and received more than 180 applications for the Hong Kong and Macao Youth Team and Hong Kong and Macao Young Enterprises, of which 242 of 46 enterprise teams successfully passed the review. The current entry rate of the Hong Kong and Macau Center exceeded 90 %.
Chen Xiaofeng observed that young people in Hong Kong have generally resisted the mainland in the past few years, but in recent years, they have gradually accepted options for development to the mainland.As the mainland and Hong Kong resumed normal cross -border exchanges, more and more young people in Hong Kong asked him how to find opportunities for development in mainland cities in the Bay Area.
Chen Xiaofeng believes that Hong Kong's industrial structure is unique, and many Hong Kong Qing Dynasty lacks a stage for exhibition.If conditions permit, Hong Kong Youth University can take into account the mainland entrepreneurship.He pointed out that mainland China has developed rapidly and the market is huge, providing great opportunities for emerging enterprises and entrepreneurs, and providing more development space and platforms for Hong Kong Qing.
The mainland government has always promoted the interconnection between Hong Kong and Macao and the mainland, continuously strengthened cooperation and exchanges between the three places, and provided more policies and institutional concessions for Hong Kong Youth to start a business in mainland China.
The unique advantage and potential of Hong Kong Qingdi
He said: "Hong Kong Qing has excellent educational background and professional skills, flexible thinking, and has unique advantages and potential in starting a business in the mainland."
Ye Deping, a senior lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Education, also pointed out in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that in recent years, the development of the Greater Bay Area has flourished, which is a major opportunity for Hong Kong Qing.For example, he said that the global entrepreneurial research institution Startup Blink's 2022 global entrepreneurial ecosystem index report showed that Shenzhen's entrepreneurial ecology ranked 18th among cities in various cities around the world, while Hong Kong ranked 36th.This data shows that the neighboring Shenzhen is more ideal than Hong Kong in the entrepreneurial ecology than Hong Kong.
But it is worth noting that in recent years, China's economy has been plagued by the epidemic of the economy, and economic development has slowed down.Ye Deping agreed that the mainland is currently in a period of recurrence of the crown disease, and the difficulty of starting a business is relatively greater than before.This has undoubtedly sounded the alarm for Hong Kong Qingbei to start a business. They need enough funds, patience and mind to persist.
Ye Deping pointed out: "In addition to the government to teach young entrepreneurs to keep their careers, the government also needs to teach young people to deal with failure, because there are a lot of young people who experience their entrepreneurial failures.Mental. "
In addition, Hong Kong youth will face the problem of "unfamiliar life" compared with mainland youth.Ye Deping pointed out that the government of the two places in Lu and Hong Kong is also necessary to prepare some preparations before the Hong Kong Youth to start a business in the Greater Bay Area. For example, to introduce more cases to share the life experience and assist Hong Kong Qing to make a good plan for starting a business.
Chen Xiaofeng had started a business in Guangdong Province in his early years.He believes that when young people in Hong Kong go to the mainland to start a business, due to the different systems and environments of the two places, the most important thing is to understand mainland policies and regulations, especially in terms of financing, personnel management, and intellectual property rights.Operation.
Secondly, Hong Kong Qing must also master the market situation in the mainland.Chen Xiaofeng said that the mainland market is a new market for many Hong Kong youths. They need to accurately grasp market demand and competition, and formulate corresponding marketing and brand strategies. "In this regard, Hong Kong Qing can find experienced mainland companies orAs a partner, the entrepreneurial incubator obtains market insights and resource support. "
