The Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation Zone (HTCZ), the Shenzhen section of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation Zone, is located at southern Futian, bordering Hong Kong. It is an international platform featuring science and technology innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Following the development in past years, HTCZ is home to 16 industrial parks featuring spaces spanning 600,000 square meters for science research. Over 150 high-end research projects have settled in the cooperation zone.

In a recent media research over high-quality development, reporters visited the startup firms, incubation platforms and universities settled in the park, and learned about the cooperation zone’s recent developments. Below are some remarks from talents working with some Hong Kong institutions in the coorperation zone.

HTCZ is the best place for scientific research, gathering talents, technology, capital and the market. Hong Kong has advantage in basic research, innovation and intellectual property protection while Shenzhen is competitive in applied research, R&D investment and industrial clusters, and the cooperation of Shenzhen and Hong Kong’s zones will achieve greater success.

— Fu-Rong Chen, president of City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Futian Research Institute

The goal of Futian Biomedical Innovation R&D Center of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ) is to build a globally competitive biomedical scientific research platform in HTCZ, serving companies and R&D institutes in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. As part of the first five high-end scientific research projects in HTCZ, the center would like to be a bastion of transforming basic research into applied achievements. HTCZ is the ideal place for integrating sources in the two regions.

— Richard Ye, director of CUHK-SZ Futian Biomedical Innovation R&D Center

The core project of CUHK Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Research Institute (Futian) is its medical robot, which integrates advanced technologies in big data, robots and AI. We rely on the scientific research advantages of CUHK and the industrialization advantages of the Greater Bay Area to build the innovative platform for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong intelligent medical robot.

As a one-stop R&D and testing base for medical robots, the team has developed many medical robots, which have already obtained patents. But, R&D and testing are so complex that the institute needs talents, big data, and hardware and software integration. HTCZ provides a high-quality platform and a good location for our team.

—— Billy Zhong, assistant dean of CUHK Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Research Institute (Futian)

The Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute (SHCIRI) of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) plays an important role as a transition for its two campuses in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, promoting the integration of industry-university-research (IUR) to create influential research, incubation and education platforms. Five companies incubated by Blue Bay have raised funds of over 200 million yuan (US$28.8 million), and five more companies have been recognized as national high-tech enterprises.

— Zoe Gao, executive director of HKUST SHCIRI