Hong Kong / Pearl River Delta - A World Metropole

Partnership forms and achieves its best with two places complementing each other. As globalization advances in an accelerated pace, nations or cities compete not against but on its strategic alliance to bring out the best in economies of scale. The upsurge and the growing importance of China in the global market has brought Hong Kong into a close strategic alliance with the hinterlands of Pearl River Delta under one country and two systems. This paper will see into the unique strengths of Hong Kong / Pearl River Delta (HK/PRD) in global arena, the multiple facets of co-operation and collaboration on technology development that is happening between HK and other cities in PRD, and by drawing on references on the role of Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) in the acceleration of value chain.