This is the longest sea bridge in the world
It links Hong Kong Macau and Zhuhai in mainland China and is one of the most ambitious engineering
projects ever built
It's not just about concrete and steel it's about binding Hong Kong into the mainland and
accelerating the development of southern China
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President Xi Jinping has a grand plan to transform this part of China into a greater Bay Area
That will be the third pole of economic growth alongside Beijing and Shanghai
The bridge will open later this year alongside an 11 billion dollar high-speed rail link
Connecting Hong Kong to the rest of China
The Bay Area already has three of the world's top ten ports and three of Asia's busiest airports
Next investors want to see reforms to ease the movement of people goods and capital across the border
The scale of China's ambition is I popping
The bay area is home to eleven different cities and nearly 70 million people
If it was a country, it would be a member of the g20 with a trillion dollar economy
bigger than Indonesia Mexico and the Netherlands
The goal is to attract entrepreneurs
Like Hong Kong at Joe's ever. Say we set up a robotics company inch engine
Components from the traditional financing is very strong. This is connect to the world in to easily get to
contact to the
Investor. Yeah, right
So Hong Kong is still a place that nobody can replace Gingin is the developers happen with hardware software
You want to do something nice quick. You can pursue your own
iPhone downstair for just two hours
but building an integrated economic zone across three political
Jurisdictions is much more complicated than plugging chips into a circuit board
The economic links between the Bay Area cities go back several decades
but further integration has been limited by Beijing's capital controls the great internet firewall and
travel restrictions as
This government advert shows to simply drive from Hong Kong to Macau over the new bridge
You'll have to navigate a minefield of bureaucracy
Many Hong Kongers fear that the political drive behind the project is to find them to the mainland
Eroding Hong Kong's democratic freedoms, which are already under threat
but the business community says that unless Hong Kongers can put aside their fears and
Embrace Beijing's towering economic ambitions. The city will be left behind
I think Hong Kong could be see as the
superconductor or for quick the Bay Area because of our
Legal structure, we our excellent kind of communication and infrastructure
technologies if not
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Xi Jinping isn't going to let his plans beasts covered by the fears of Hong Kongers
But overcoming the challenges
From capital controls to free movement of people may yet prove a bridge too far