The first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area “Sound of Elegance” Italian Poetry Recitation Competition concluded in Hong Kong on Saturday, bringing together 71 participants aged four to 16 to celebrate Italian language, poetry and cross-cultural exchange.

The sixth Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Arts Festival will open on Oct. 31 with the symphonic suite “The Pearl River”at Bay Opera of Shenzhen, as city landmarks throughout the Greater Bay Area light up to mark the event. It will close on Dec. 3 at Guangzhou's Xinghai Concert Hall with a concert version of Giuseppe Verdi's “La Traviata,” starring renowned baritone Leo Nucci in collaboration with a local orchestra. The festival will span 11 cities of the GBA.

Guangdong yachts could be allowed to sail directly to Hong Kong as early as October under a new cross-boundary arrangement aimed at facilitating yacht travel within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi) held the launch ceremony for its Center for Music Therapy Research (CMTR) at the Sky Concert Hall in Shenzhen on Sept. 16, with the aim to address the demand for innovative healthcare talent while fostering Guangdong-Hong Kong integration.

The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster ranked first among the world’s top 100 innovation clusters in the Global Innovation Index 2026 report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) yesterday.

Today, scientists and young entrepreneurs in Hong Kong are once again heading to Dongguan, now an emerging innovative hub in Guangdong Province, in search of research equipment and experienced talent.

The Beijing-Kowloon Railway, a crucial north-south rail artery linking Beijing with Shenzhen and extending to Hong Kong, celebrated 30 years of full operation Tuesday.

Lawyers from Hong Kong and Macao who have passed the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) legal exam and obtained mainland qualifications will be allowed to practice in Shenzhen and eight other cities in Guangdong Province, under the amended lawyers law, which will take effect Sept. 1.