Beijing fosters links between nine cities in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau to forge the world’s biggest urban area offering 70 million people a smart, low-carbon lifestyle By Marianne Bray HONG KONG – Entrepreneur Tony Verb is on a mission to promote technology that can help make cities greener and smarter in China’s Greater Bay Area, now being shaped as a low-carbon megalopolis. Hong Kong-based Verb, co-founder of investment firm GreaterBay Ventures & Advisors, plans to back urban tech businesses working on autonomous e-vehicles, flying taxis, artificial intelligence, robotics and clean energy. Verb is betting on China’s master plan to develop the Pearl River Delta into a sustainable innovation hub, which he believes will serve as "a great case study" for the world’s cities. In February, Beijing announced it would foster links between nine cities in Guangdong and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau to forge the world’s biggest urban area with 70 million people. Under the Greater Bay Area (GBA) plan, each city has a different role, but the blueprint is centred on developing the delta in a high-tech way that also conserves its ecology. The strategy comes as China exits an era of breakneck […]
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