Themed “To Promote High-quality Health Development in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area,” the second Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Health Cooperation Conference was held at Wuzhou Guest House in Futian District yesterday.
The conference aimed to serve as a platform to boost the flow and integration of public health resources in the Greater Bay Area.
Yu Xuejun, vice director of the National Health Commission, Zhang Guangjun, vice governor of Guangdong Province, Wu Yihuan, vice mayor of Shenzhen, and relevant government leaders of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Macao SAR, attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
According to Zhang, since the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area became a national strategy, Guangdong, along with Hong Kong and Macao, has set the goal of building a world-class bay area and initiated cooperation to promote high-quality health development with each other.
Guangdong will fully implement the development plan of the Greater Bay Area and join hands with Hong Kong and Macao to deepen collaboration in various fields, including the health sector, while striving to bring more health benefits to residents in the three regions, Zhang told the conference.
At the opening ceremony, Duan Yufei, director of the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission, Chan Siu-chee, secretary of Hong Kong’s food and health bureau, and Tam Chon-weng, secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR Government, signed the Consensus of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Health Cooperation.
Meanwhile, the conference also witnessed the signing of a total of 62 cooperative projects, which include the establishment of an imported tropical disease prevention and control alliance and a respiratory disease research center in the Greater Bay Area.
The projects cover areas such as disease research, infectious disease control and prevention, talent training, and the construction of high-level international hospitals.
Shenzhen will participate in 18 of the 62 cooperative projects, accounting for nearly one-third of the total.
Industry-university research cooperation is a major feature of the projects. For instance, an intelligent nursing platform will be built to develop various types of intelligent nursing products through such cooperation.
Additionally, the Longgang District Government and Chinese University of Hong Kong will cooperate in such fields as clinical care and medical education, jointly train postgraduate and doctoral students in ear, nose, throat, head and neck surgery, and establish special labs for scientific research.