Promote the construction of the Greater Bay Area

Policy Interpretation of "Implementation Opinions on the Pearl River Water Transport Helping the Construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area"

1. Background

The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a national strategy personally planned, deployed, and personally promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping. It is a new measure to promote the formation of a comprehensive and open new pattern in the new era, and a new practice to promote the development of the "one country, two systems" cause. In order to deeply implement the spirit of the "Development Outline of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", to further give play to the comparative advantage of the Pearl River's water transportation, to promote the construction of the comprehensive transportation system of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, to serve the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Ministry of Transport has consulted Guangdong and Guangxi , Guizhou and Yunnan Province (Autonomous Region) People's Governments will use "Pearl River Water Transport Services for the Construction and Development of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" as the theme of the 2019 Pearl River Water Transport Development High-level Coordination Conference, and in principle review and approval of the "Opinions" discussion draft, after the meeting, the Ministry of Transport We further solicited opinions from Hong Kong and Macao, relevant ministries and commissions, the people's governments of four provinces and regions, and port and shipping companies.

The "Opinions" are guided by Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, with the deepening of supply-side structural reforms as the main line, and in accordance with the requirements of overall coordination, complementary advantages, and innovation-driven requirements, water transportation infrastructure construction, service quality improvement, and opening to the outside world , Technological innovation, green development, safety guarantee, system and mechanism improvement, etc., with all efforts to promote the comprehensive promotion, aiming to further play the role of the Pearl River Water Transport in serving the economic and social development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

2. the main content

The Opinions put forward 18 policy measures in 7 areas. content include: 

One is to build interconnected water transportation infrastructure and promote infrastructure construction in the Greater Bay Area. Including the promotion of the construction of the waterway network, the construction of the port network, the construction of the multimodal transport system, and the acceleration of the construction of water transportation informatization.

The second is to improve the quality of water transportation services and promote the high-quality development of transportation services in the Greater Bay Area. It includes four items: comprehensively improving water transportation service capabilities, building a modern water transportation system, building a modern shipping service industry, and promoting the healthy development of the cruise and yacht industries.

The third is to cultivate new advantages in opening up to the outside world and promote greater opening up in the Greater Bay Area. This includes optimizing the business environment for the opening up of the Pearl River Water Transport and building a new pattern for opening up the Pearl River Water Transport.

The fourth is to accelerate innovation in water transportation technology and promote innovation and development in the Greater Bay Area. This includes optimizing the water transport innovation environment and enhancing the water transport technology innovation capability.

Fifth, promote the construction of ecological civilization in water transport and promote the green development of the Greater Bay Area. Including the promotion of green water transport infrastructure construction, strengthening the Pearl River water transport pollution prevention and control 2 items.

Sixth, strengthen the safety guarantee of water transportation quality and promote the safe development of the Greater Bay Area. Including the improvement of infrastructure quality and safety guarantee capabilities, the improvement of the safety level of water transport equipment, and the enhancement of administrative law enforcement capabilities.

Seventh, improve and perfect the water transport development system and mechanism. This includes optimizing the management of the Pearl River's water transport, and improving the high-level coordination mechanism for the development of the Pearl River's water transport.

        3. Safeguards.

        Corresponding measures were proposed from three aspects: strengthening organizational coordination and implementation, formulating policy guarantee measures and strengthening propaganda and guidance.