40 supporting measures for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center released.

On November 1, the opening ceremony of the 2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum was held in Nansha, Guangzhou, where 40 supporting measures for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center were released. In terms of strengthening the source of original innovation, measures were introduced to support the Greater Bay Area in building a world-class cluster of major science and technology infrastructure, building national highlands in quantum, brain-computer interfaces, and biomanufacturing, supporting high-level universities in Hong Kong and Macao in consolidating and enhancing their globally leading positions, and exploring the establishment of a Greater Bay Area Joint Fund for Basic Research under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In terms of forging world-class industrial clusters, measures were introduced to support the construction of the Hong Kong Northern Metropolis industrial park and the Macao Science and Technology Research and Development Industrial Park, support cross-border deep integration of the science and technology industries of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, and forge more trillion-level emerging industrial clusters in fields such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, communications and networks, intelligent connected vehicles, new energy vehicles, biomedicine, the low-altitude economy, new energy, and marine science and technology. In terms of advancing Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao collaborative innovation and deeply integrating into the global innovation network, measures were introduced to support the Greater Bay Area in accelerating the cross-border flow of innovation factors and the alignment of science and technology rules, enable Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao to jointly undertake major national science and technology research tasks, build high-level clusters of international science and technology organizations, and implement the international big science program on the Human Proteome Navigation at a high standard.