The Third Business Conference on Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development will be held on Sept 15-16 at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Convention Center, the Guangdong provincial government’s Information Office disclosed at a press briefing on Tuesday.

The annual conference, hosted in Macao and Hong Kong for the previous two years, is expected to attract its largest attendance yet, with an estimated 1,200 invited participants, the office said at a press briefing on Tuesday.

The upcoming conference will feature four parallel thematic panels for business leaders to engage in in-depth discussions on topics including cross-boundary financial cooperation, the promotion of commercial legal collaboration, artificial intelligence-driven industrial development, and the biomedicine and healthcare industries.

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Two major reports will be released, along with the unveiling of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Exhibition Industry Alliance: The China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), in collaboration with the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Guangdong Committee, will release the Interim Arbitration Guidelines for the China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone. Also, the CCPIT Guangdong Committee, together with the CCPIT Research Institute, will release the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Supply Chain Promotion Report.

Following the conference, participants can take part in on-site inspections and business matchmaking activities in Shenzhen and Foshan.

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As a national strategic initiative, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is deepening integration to create a world-class city cluster and innovation hub. Guangdong has so far attracted investment from 260,000 Hong Kong and Macao companies. The region manufactures 70 percent of the world’s consumer drones, 40 percent of the world’s smartphones, 25 percent of China’s new energy vehicles, and 20 percent of China’s integrated circuits, the Guangdong provincial government said in a press release published on its WeChat public account.