A Hong Kong-Shenzhen megaopolis?
By SwizStick • Aug 13th, 2007 • Category: ChinaVia China Logistics News:
Zhu Wenhui, a consultant at the Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre’s Hong Kong-Shenzhen Metropolis Study Group, said should the proposed metropolis keep an 8% gross domestic product growth per annum, its GDP would reach $1.11 trillion by 2020. From a logistics point of view the two ports working as one would be seriously efficient.
Which would make the pecking order in GDP Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong/Shenzen with London, Paris and Los Angeles bringing up the rear.
The foundation proposed ten recommendations to achieve that status, one of which involves the building of a high-speed railway connecting the airports of the two cities forming a super air hub.
A spokeswoman from the Hong Kong Transport and Housing Bureau said, ‘We already plan to suggest building the Tuen Mun western bypass and another link of Tuen Mun and Chek Lap Kok . . . to shorten the journey between the two airports.’
Another proposal involves the issuing of electronic multiple-entry visas in the first stage and which would enable two million permanent Shenzhen residents more convenient access to Hong Kong.
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