Hong Kong and Macao residents can enjoy various support policies when starting a business in Shenzhen.

Shenzhen Special Zone News (Reporter Wang Liying) Eligible Hong Kong and Macao residents can enjoy various entrepreneurship support policies such as social security subsidies, site rent subsidies, entrepreneurship subsidies, and entrepreneurship-driven employment subsidies when starting businesses in our city. The reporter learned from the new government gazette yesterday that Shenzhen will provide more opportunities and better conditions for young people from Hong Kong and Macao to innovate and start businesses in Shenzhen. The newly issued "Shenzhen Work Plan for Strengthening the Construction of Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bases in Hong Kong and Macao" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") focuses on supporting the deep integration of Hong Kong and Macao into the overall situation of national development and the construction of youth innovation and entrepreneurship bases in Hong Kong and Macao, and puts forward four major tasks and measures 12 to effectively expand the space for deep employment and entrepreneurship of young people in Hong Kong and Macao.

The "Proposal" clarifies the objectives and tasks in two stages: by 2020, the Qianhai Hong Kong and Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base will be built into a demonstration area to lead the innovation, entrepreneurship and integrated development of Hong Kong and Macao youth, and policies such as employment, talent service and financing support for Hong Kong and Macao youth will be fully covered; By 2025, the layout of the incubation platform will be formed, led by the Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base and supported by the Nanshan Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base. The infrastructure, system guarantee and public service supply for young people from Hong Kong and Macao to start businesses in Shenzhen will be put in place, and the innovation vitality will compete with generate.

Promote Hong Kong cultural and creative enterprises to directly settle in Shenzhen.

Strengthen policy integration and release the vitality of innovation and entrepreneurship. Shenzhen will promote the coordination of innovation and entrepreneurship policies, and promote more Hong Kong and Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship bases in our city to be included in Hong Kong's "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base Experience Funding and Entrepreneurship Funding Plan"; Promote Hong Kong enterprises in the cultural and creative fields to directly settle in Shenzhen, and jointly build a Shenzhen-Hong Kong cultural and creative industry cluster; Eligible Hong Kong and Macao residents who start businesses in our city can enjoy entrepreneurship support policies such as social security subsidies, field rent subsidies, entrepreneurship subsidies, and entrepreneurship-driven employment subsidies.

At the same time, optimize the service of young talents in Hong Kong and Macao, expand the pilot results of direct service for professional service talents in Hong Kong and Macao in Qianhai, expand the employment and practice space for professional service talents in various fields such as accountants, doctors, lawyers and architects in Hong Kong, and introduce high-level talents from Hong Kong and Macao to participate in the construction and management of the base through appointment system.

Construction of a number of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship incubation bases.

Our city will speed up the construction of innovation and entrepreneurship bases. The "Proposal" proposes to cultivate a number of Hong Kong and Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship bases with Qianhai, Hong Kong and Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration bases as the core and relying on existing incubation carriers such as dual-innovation demonstration bases, creative space and business incubation bases; Encourage enterprises, universities, research institutes and other social forces to build a number of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao youth innovation and entrepreneurship incubation bases; For the first time, Hong Kong and Macao institutions that set up incubators such as creative spaces, incubators and accelerators in Qianhai will be given one-time start-up funds and office space rental subsidies.

In promoting the integration of Industry-University-Research, support Shenzhen University to build "Greater Bay Area International Innovation Institute" into a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship of Hong Kong and Macao youth with high-level dual-innovation talent training, high-level dual-innovation theory and practice research, high-standard international dual-innovation resource docking and high-value Greater Bay Area project incubation; Promote the deep connection between Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Industrial Park, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center and Hong Kong and Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base, and attract young people from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to participate in the "basic research+technological research+industrialization of achievements+technology and finance" innovation throughout the process.

Young people from Hong Kong and Macao who are employed in Shenzhen can apply for renting and purchasing talent housing.

Perfect supporting construction is the basis for creating a suitable living and working environment. The "Proposal" proposes to strengthen the housing security for young people in Hong Kong and Macao, and eligible young people from Hong Kong and Macao who are employed in Shenzhen can apply for renting and purchasing talent housing; With reference to the newly introduced talents' rental living allowance standard in our city, we will study and formulate preferential policies to give rental living allowance to eligible young people from Hong Kong and Macao who come to Shenzhen to start businesses. Young people from Hong Kong and Macao who come to Shenzhen for entrepreneurship and employment enjoy the same treatment as citizens in the aspects of housing provident fund deposit and withdrawal.

At the same time, our city will improve the life supporting services. To study and formulate preferential policies to subsidize the cross-border transportation expenses of Hong Kong and Macao youth employed in Shenzhen; Explore cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao communication operators to issue exclusive cards to realize the "same city" of communication charges in the three places; Harrow School for Foreign Children in Shenzhen, Qianhai Reed School in Shenzhen and Hong Kong Children's School will be built together. In addition, further improve the compulsory education policy for students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Hong Kong and Macao graduates studying in junior high schools in Shenzhen can take the senior high school entrance examination according to the regulations, and are admitted under the same conditions as junior high school graduates who are not registered in Shenzhen.