By Kelsey Cheng For Mailonline
Published: 12:49 GMT, 19 February 2019 | Updated: 12:50 GMT, 19 February 2019
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China has revealed ambitious plans to build its own Greater Bay Area to rival Silicon Valley in the US.
The blueprint of the Greater Bay Area, published by Xinhua News Agency late Monday, aims to link 11 cities in the Pearl River Delta area and integrate them into a technology and economic powerhouse in southern China by 2035.
The region, with a population of more than 67 million people, covers 56,100 square kilometres (21,660 square miles) and is three times the area of California's famous technology centre.
The blueprint of the Greater Bay Area, published by Xinhua News Agency late Monday, aims to link 11 cities including Hong Kong (above), Macau, Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta area and integrate them into a technology and economic powerhouse in southern China by 2035
The Apple Campus 2 is under construction in Cupertino in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017. China has revealed plans to build its own Greater Bay Area to rival Silicon Valley
Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen and Guangzhou will be the four key cities of the Bay Area driving the region's economic development, according to the blueprint.
The development plans will 'further enhance and support a leading role of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area in national economic development and opening up', the State Council said in the guidelines.
Authorities will expand and upgrade airports in the four key cities and accelerate construction of large-scale oil reserves bases in the Pearl River Delta area, Xinhua
