Science, health, legal and other local professional talent needed for the Greater Bay Area's development will be allowed unlimited travel to Hong Kong and Macau under a new multi-entry visa scheme, China's National Immigration Administration announced yesterday.
Source: The Standard
The Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) has improved the scientific research financial support program, dividing it into "Scientific Research and Innovation Financing Plan" and "Enterprise Innovative Research and Development Financing Plan" according to the scope of applicants, in order to enhance the scientific research and innovation capabilities of Macao's scientific research institutions and personnel, as well as to support enterprises to carry out innovative research and development and to transform scientific research results...
Source: PT, CN
With sci-tech innovation as its high-quality development, Guangdong has ranked 1st in China for 5 years in a row in terms of regional innovation capacity, according to a press conference on the province's scientific and technological innovation achievements held on June 2.
Source: TDM/newsgd
The southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen plans to build 20 advanced manufacturing industrial parks for strategic emerging sectors and industries of the future. The strategic emerging sectors cover telecommunications, semiconductors, intelligent terminals and sensors, intelligent robots, precision instruments and equipment, new energy, intelligent connected vehicles, new materials, and biomedicine. The industries of the future include synthetic biology, blockchain, cells and genes, space technology, brain science and brain-like intelligence, and quantum information.
Source: Xinhua
Central government agrees to build a high-quality, high-level GBA University to serve as a leading research institution in the country. The GBA University is positioned as a new and high-level research-oriented university with a focus on science and engineering, according to document release by the Dongguan Municipal Government.
Source: China Briefing (original 28/05/2021)
The Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) actively adjusted, in 2021, the areas of financial support in line with MSAR Government's governmental action lines, including priority support for applied research, strengthening the promotion of knowledge transfer, encouraging industry-university-research cooperation and supporting enterprise R&D.
Sources: PT, CN
In congratulatory letter to the Greater Bay Science Forum, president Xi Jinping calls for focus on the strategic purpose of building a global highland for scientific and technological innovation.
Source: Xinhua
Macao will devote further effort to cooperation on scientific and technological innovation within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area), boosting scientific and technological innovation.
Source: gov.mo
The "Chinese-Portuguese Simultaneous Interpretation Machine Translation System 2.0" developed by the Engineering Research Centre of Applied Technology on Machine Translation and Artificial Intelligence, Ministry of Education of Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) " was officially launched in the afternoon of 9th November at the MPI. "The new product is an industry-leading Chinese-Portuguese speech recognition and simultaneous interpretation system built in conjunction with the International Science and Technology Innovation Center of the Greater Bay Area.
Source: MPI
The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) has launched web and mobile versions of “Invest Here” to provide information about investing in Macao, the nine mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and major cities of Portuguese-speaking countries.
Source: IPIM
Macao Polytechnic Institute officially launched the “China-Portuguese News Learning App” version 2.0 this month. The new version integrates information categories on the basis of the original version, with column classification, adding seven major sections: Greater Bay Area, Employment, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Life, and Culture.
Source: MPI
Brazil and China are discussing further bilateral cooperation in areas including artificial intelligence and smart cities, with calls for added financing for new projects.
The areas of mutual interest for potential cooperation were discussed during a virtual meeting between the Brazilian science, technology and innovation minister, Marcos Pontes, and China’s science and technology minister Wang Zhigang.
Source: MCTI Brasil via CLBrief
The Shenzhen-Hong Kong Cooperation Zone for Technology and Innovation (‘Cooperation Zone’) at the Lok Ma Chau Loop (“LMC Loop”) is a unique platform in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area that focuses on technological innovation.
Source: Guangdong province, Greater Bay Area Portal
The second issue of the Portuguese International Academic Journal “Orientes do Português”, co-founded by the Macao Polytechnic Institute and the University of Porto in Portugal, is now officially available online. The special issue commemorates the late master of Portuguese linguistics, Professor João Malaca Casteleiro (1936-2020), and contains a wide range of entries, including articles from well-known Lusophone and Chinese universities such as the University of Porto in Portugal, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Sun Yat-sen University, Macao Polytechnic Institute, as well as from the world’s top universities such as the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The volume is available online.
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The Centre for Portuguese Studies of the Macao Polytechnic Institute held the “The Greater Bay Area Portuguese Language and Sino-Portuguese Academic Cooperation” online Forum on 20 April, bringing together representatives of higher education institutions of the region committed to the promotion of the Portuguese language in the Greater Bay Area, with leaders of networks and institutions in the Portuguese-speaking countries engaged in international academic cooperation and promotion of the Portuguese language in the world.
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Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng has called for steadily developing major cooperation platforms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, in a meeting attended by Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam and Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region Ho Iat Seng. He urged efforts to build a better working and living environment to attract more international professionals to the Greater Bay Area.
Source: Xinhua
Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macao jointly launched the Greater Bay Area (GBA) International Information Technology Association, which aims to boost the development and application of information technology (IT), enhance regional connectivity, nurture young IT engineers, and push for cross-boundary data and digital Renminbi in the GBA by establishing big data and financial technology expert groups, among other objectives.
Source: Xinhua
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