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Singapore companies eye for opportunities with China’s Greater Bay Area
SINGAPORE, Aug. 25, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – Singaporean companies on Friday
expressed continued interest in cooperating with China’s Guangdong Province
at a bilateral meeting here, especially with a strong Singapore-Guangdong
partnership on innovation and development of the Greater Bay Area.
Ong Ye Kung, Singapore’s Minister for Education and Ma Xingrui, Guangdong
Governor, Co-Chairmen of the Singapore-Guangdong Collaboration Council
(SGCC), officiated at the ninth SGCC meeting in Singapore.
Singapore companies signed 14 agreements with Chinese partners, in areas
ranging from smart city services and transport, education and training to
professional services.
Guangdong has been Singapore’s top provincial trading partner for the last
29 years, and “we expect our relationship and co-operation to continue to
grow,” Ong said in his speech.
With the development of the Greater Bay Area, “we will go beyond
traditional sectors to collaborate on innovation, modern services and high
technology sectors like biomedical sciences,” he added.
Ma echoed that a more open and vibrant Guangdong will bring about more
opportunities for deepening the cooperative ties between Singapore and
Guangdong.
The Greater Bay Area covers China’s Hong Kong and Macao Special
Administrative Regions, and nine cities in Guangdong Province, including
China’s first-tier cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
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