Let's take a look at Qianhai's rapid development through a series of numbers.

The 2024 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Innovation Achievements Exhibition, organized by the Hong Kong Commercial Daily and iHorizon Group (HK) Ltd., was launched in Hong Kong recently.

The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster ranked second on the 2024 Global Innovation Index (GII), according to a pre-release by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Tuesday. The 2024 GII will be officially released Sept. 26.

Known as “Penguin Island,” Tencent’s new headquarters building in Qianhai​ is slated to begin construction in early 2025. The project will cover a land area of over 800,000 square meters, with a total floor area of 2 million square meters.

Qualified entrepreneurial teams from Hong Kong can now rent office space in the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneur Hub (E-hub) for only 1 yuan (US$0.14) per square meter per month, according to a series of new initiatives announced by the Qianhai Authority on Monday.

Shanghai Blue Dream International Cruises Co. Ltd. will become the latest luxury cruise operator to offer services in Shenzhen when one of its Blue Dream Melody cruise ships debuts at the Shenzhen Cruise Homeport in Shekou next month.

The Qianhai court has recently achieved a milestone in cross-border dispute resolution by successfully applying the innovative "bilingual mediation plus Hong Kong mediation organization" model.

A delegation of Chinese mainland athletes returning from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will visit Hong Kong from Aug. 29 to 31, and Macao from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2, the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative region (SAR) governments announced on Sunday.