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Guangdong-HongKong-Macau Bay Area Development Plan (the Big Bay Area Development Plan or BBADP) was initiated by Premier Li Keqiang last year. As Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR were first put in a Mainland development plan, it has caused many people’s attention including Dr. James J Wang, a specialist on planning of city and regional transport systems in the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong. In this seminar, Dr. Wang is going to focus his presentation from a sustainable development perspective on how connectivity improvement may work as a win-win solution for the Big Bay Area, and what are the major obstacles in terms of planning methodology and institutional differences among involved cities.

2017年中國總理李克強在工作報告中提出的粵港澳大灣區發展規劃，成為近半年來的一個熱門話題。作為長期研究中國特別是珠江三角洲區域發展與城市對外交通運輸的王緝憲博士對此一直非常關注，並多次發表文章，分析這一新的區域發展規劃的可能影響。王博士在本講座中，將從區域可持續發展的理念出發，集中討論在這個擁有兩個特別行政區、兩個經濟特區和一個自由貿易區的大灣區，如何通過「有質量的連接」，克服體制上、意識形態上、規劃方法和目標上的分歧與差異，實現一個多贏的局面。