Highlights of development plan for Bay Area

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. [Photo/Xinhua]

Chinese authorities unveiled the outline development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area late Monday, aiming to develop the region into "a role model of high-quality development".

The plan, an important outline document guiding the current and future cooperation and development of the Greater Bay Area, was released by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. It covers the period from now to 2022 in the immediate term and extends to 2035 in the long term.

Let's take a look at its highlights.

Aerial photo shows the Zhuhai Port of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong province, Oct 19, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

Greater Bay Area possesses fundamental conditions for world-class city cluster

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with a marked increase in its economic strength and regional competitiveness, already possesses the fundamental conditions for developing into an international first-class bay area and a world-class city cluster, says the outline development plan.

Such foundation of development is made up of distinctive geographical advantages, robust economic strength, high concentration of key factors of innovation, advanced level of internationalization and solid cooperation foundations, the plan says.

The plan also notes the opportunities and challenges for the development and stresses the plan's significance.