During China's Two Sessions, Hong Kong Legislative Council member Junius Ho said the Northern Metropolis is being advanced "in full swing," transforming what was once Hong Kong's former Frontier Closed Area along the Shenzhen boundary into a new development platform. Ho argued that combining Hong Kong's roughly 7.5 million people with Shenzhen's around 20 million would create a leading economic and demographic powerhouse within the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area's "9+2" cities—potentially the region's most dynamic and vibrant growth engine.
He added that Hong Kong's strengths as a financial and asset-management hub, together with Shenzhen's capital markets, could provide financing to support technology development, linking front-end R&D in Hong Kong with a "front shop, back factory" model, accelerators and production—positioning Hong Kong to be among the first to benefit.
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