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Mainland and Local Visits

Greater Bay Area

A delegation of the Board led by the Chairperson visited Zhaoqing, Foshan, Zhuhai and Nansha of the
Guangdong Province from 19 to 21 May 2019. The main themes of the visit were on the state-of-
the-art development of the Greater Bay Area after the promulgation of the Outline Development Plan
(ODP) for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area).

In Zhaoqing, the delegation was received by the Deputy-secretary of Municipal Committee, Mayor
and Deputy-mayors, and the Zhaoqing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau arranged a
detailed briefing of Zhaoqing’s planning vision and the strategies, in particular the new business area.
The delegation visited the new business area and the control room of the urban underground utility
tunnel, which is one of the largest underground integrated pipeline systems in the Mainland. The

underground utility tunnel, which includes separate compartments for electricity, gas, water and
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telecommunication pipelines with an intelligent control system, covers 65km of the new business area.
The delegation also visited Dinghu Mountain National Nature Reserve, the first nature reserve in the
Mainland and a major green lung of Zhaoqing.

Zhaoqing Municipal Government officials received the delegation

Underground utility tunnel

Briefing on the integrated pipeline system

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