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Youthful Vitality

From a small apartment to a full house. Hong Kong entrepreneur Kenny Tam highlighted the change in his life with this one sentence when speaking about the benefits reaped from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative.

“Given the skyrocketing prices in Hong Kong, I could afford to rent an apartment of merely 200 square feet (18 square meters) years ago. Today, I live in a house in Guangzhou for almost the same amount of rent,” Tam said.

While more comfortable housing is a factor that beckons young people from Hong Kong and Macao to GBA cities on the mainland, a more important consideration is professional pursuit. Greater regional integration

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