Areas of collaboration 1. Business 2. Industry 3. Environment 4. Transportation and logistics 5. Education 6. Control and prevention of diseases 7. Services and labour 8. Education 9. Tourism

Hinterland 1. Mainland China 2. Greater Pearl River Delta ( 9 +2) 3. Pearl River Delta (PRD)

How? 1. Better road and train connections 2. take down trade barriers 3. complementary collaboration 4. recognize common competitors 1. Yangtze river delta 2. Beijing and Tianjian region

Innovative products Quality service and products

Relative merits of CUHK Engineers and mainland engineers 1. integrity 2. international horizon 3. free to travel worldwide 4. information advantages 5. better English and Cantonese? 6. better communication skill ? 7. good initiative ? 8. solving problems for your employer? 9. Can politely show your own opinion ?

Advantages of H. K. 1. good law system 2. ICAC 3. efficient government service 4. international connections 5. international finance center 6. well linked to the rest of the world by air and sea 7. Strong service industry 8 Free speech and publication

CUHK Engineers 1. Engineers often have to do marketing 2. Should treat PRD and even China as internal markets. 3. Be prepared to do business with companies from PRD, China and other parts of the world. 4. plan to become a project manager or a commercial engineer in a few years time. 5. Most good engineers will become an engineering manager in 10 to 20 years time.

Research on PRD Transport development Group 1, 2, 3, 4 air, road/rail, river/sea H. K. Industry Group 5, 6, 7, 8 electronics, garment, others

PRD companies Business laws and regulations Group 9, 10, 22 Companies from mainland 11, 12, 13

PRD companies from other regions Taiwan companies in PRD Group 14, 15, 23 Korean companies in PRD 16, 17 Japanese companies in PRD Group 18, 19 US and European companies 20, 21