Change and Trend among Pearl-River Delta area

Paul Romer’s idea of “Charter Cities” may be able to be applied in the recent development of Hengqin Island, where located the left hand side of Tapia, several years ago, Before the Lotus Bridge has been built, all of the logistics companies in Macau transfer the cargo to China, it was need to go through China Gate and form a lot of pressure to China Gate and there was no efficiency, the waiting time was very long,  in order to improve logistics, Macau government have built a bridge as known as “Lotus Bridge”, where connected among Tapia and Hengqin and hope to transfer the logistics to Hengqin from China gate.

Besides of that, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge is one of extra important infrastructure, which can improve economy of the city among the Pearl-River Delta area, my living city Macau has its advantage of having the people who can speak Portuguese and speak Chinese, those people can assist Macau become an intersection of the trade between Europe and China. The European and Chinese company can find more business opportunely through joining the business matching event like IMF.

Hong Kong has its advantage of having a deep water harbor and huge airport, and the cargo-handling capacity of both facilities are very big, which is useful for improve the efficiency of logistics.

A few years ago, Central government decide that develop Hengqin Island and agreed that Macau government can join together to develop Hengpin island, this island where will be governed by Macau government and apply the Law of Macau. In order words, this area applied new rules which may be completely different and before, it is likely some industry which is illegal in Chinese law, but in Macau law that is legal, for example, gambling and sex industry.

For local Macau residents, they can more in to the apartment and work in such inland, they have more choice for choosing their ideal life.