The four-day Shenzhen Lianghui ("Two Annual Sessions"), including The Fourth Session of the Sixth Guangdong Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference (also known as "Shenzhen CCPPC") and The Fourth Session of the Sixth Committee of Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress, was started from 15th January 2018. A symposium for the Shenzhen CCPPC members of Hong Kong and Macau affairs was held in the afternoon. 51 Shenzhen CPPCC members representing from Hong Kong & Macau participated in the symposium and made advises focused on the topics such as  "Greater Bay Area (Guangdong, Hong Kong & Macau)" development, Shenzhen-Hong Kong transportation, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, and Shenzhen-Hong Kong medical cooperation, to the Shenzhen Government. 

Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee Secretary Wang Weizhong, Mayor Chen Rugui, CPPCC Chairman Dai Beifang attended and listened to the suggestions presented by the Hong Kong & Macau members.

At the symposium, Dr. Bryan Lin,  Member of Shenzhen CPPCC, and also Chairman of Realord Group Holding Limited  (“Realord” or the “Company,” together with its subsidiaries collectively known as the “Group,” stock code: 1196.HK) advised to “optimize the land boundary control points to facilitate the Shenzhen-Hong Kong economic development and to help construct the Greater Bay Area”.

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Dr. Bryan Lin Xiaohui, Shenzhen CPPCC Member & Realord Group Holding Limited Chairman (Right)

With the further enhancement of Shenzhen-Hong Kong's economic and trade development, the mutually beneficial economic and trade integration between two places have been forming. Also, because of urbanization, the environment of Shenzhen-Hong Kong boundary crossings should be smoother and more convenient.

Statistics given by the Shenzhen Government that the total passenger thoughput was 241 million people in 2017. with an increase of 0.81% over last year. However, there is still an improvement for the existing control points. Huanggang port, the only one 24-hour Shenzhen-Hong Kong land boundary control point, nowadays has reached about 80,000 daily passenger thoughput  which exceeds the original design of the port with just daily load of 50,000 passengers. In addition, the traffic conditions at the Shenzhen Bay Port were yet improved and passengers still found inconvenient to access the port. Various goverment departments in Shenzhen have tried to make improvement, but only with the limited success.

Dr. Lin suggested that Shenzhen should optimize the facilities, Internal and external traffic of the control ports. It is proposed to stop the clearance policy for the vehicle passengers who take small vehicles with both Shenzhen and Hong Kong licenses carrying their baggages from cars to the ground for clearance checking. Moveover, constructing multi-storey parking lots or underground parking lots to ease traffic congestion, and expanding the restricted areas for parking and driving on the roads will improve the micro-circulation within the ports. 

On December 12, 2017, Guangdong Province Public Security Department launched 18 measures including the implementation of the transit visa-free policy for foreigners in 53 countries, and the extension of length of stay from currently 72 hours to 144 hours. The second measure is to further expand the scope of visa-free. The port of entry will be expanded from the Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to the airport port of Shenzhen Baoan Airport. The new policy will be implemented in the first quarter of this year. Lin suggested Shenzhen should pay more attention to the implementation of this policy. "If implemented, it will certainly and greatly facilitate the efficiency of overseas personnel entering to the mainland China from Hong Kong. It will also help to attract more people, logistics, capital into Greater Bay Area seeking opportunities for development that will bring a new round of an investment boom," Dr Lin said .