The bay area economy is one of the most important regional development patterns which is a practice of regional collaborative development concept. Currently, the bay area economy has become an important growth pole to drive the global economic development and a leader in technological change. In recent years, China put forward the development strategy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, where Hong Kong is one of the growth poles. The strategy brings Hong Kong great opportunities of the transformation of Hong Kong’s foreign relations, reshaping the economic vitality. This paper introduces the strategic background of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and sums up the present situation of the relations between Hong Kong and ASEAN from economy and trade, finance, shipping, science and technology. It is found that there is strong economic complementarity between Hong Kong and Indonesia, Laos, Kampuchea and Burma. However, the economy and trade ties between Hong Kong and ASEAN are weak and in lack of technological innovation cooperation. At the same time, under the challenge of other regions, the decline of Hong Kong’s financial and shipping status has weakened her link with ASEAN. Then this paper analyzes the influence of the Bay Area strategy on the regional advantage, cooperation complementarity, and the development potential of the cooperation between Hong Kong and ASEAN. The paper argues that Hong Kong should seize the opportunity of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, strengthen the link between Hong Kong and ASEAN, give play to Hong Kong’s traditional advantages of acting as a “super liaison” between China and foreign countries, and enhance the Chinese global influence and the quality of life of residents in Hong Kong. Furthermore, this paper propounds that we should give full play to the advantages of “one country, two systems” policy, promote multi-channel economic and trade cooperation between Hong Kong and ASEAN, enhance connectivity in transportation infrastructure, strengthen the Hong Kong-ASEAN innovation cooperation, and reconstruct the Hong Kong ASEAN Relations.
Southeast Asia is the key to China’s peripheral diplomacy. In “the Belt and Road” construction period, it is meaningful to study on the trade links and influencing factors between ASEAN member states and major world powers. On the one hand, it will help to grasp the changes of international trade forces in Southeast Asia since 2000. And on the other hand, targeting the important influencing factors, China will strengthen the bilateral cooperation with ASEAN to promote more in-depth cooperation in the future. Based on social network analysis and gravity model, this paper analyzes the degree of centralism in the trade network, role similarity of ASEAN and its main trade objects, then discusses the factors that affect the trade between the two sides, such as distance, population, GDP, political system differences, trade agreements, and puts forward some proposals about future trade development between China and ASEAN. The main conclusions are as follows: 1) The trade density between ASEAN countries and major powers has been increasing since 2000. Singapore, Malaysia are the bellwethers of ASEAN's foreign trade; 2) Among the major powers, the roles of the United States and China in the trade network are similar, and the probability of their competition in ASEAN trade is also large; 3) ASEAN’s trade dependence on China has been rising since 2000, while the economic dependence on the USA and Japan has been relatively reduced; 4) The regional multilateral trade organization can promote the trade between countries, and counteract the hindrance of distance; 5) China should establish more preferential trade policies with ASEAN to enhance bilateral economic dependence, enhance political mutual trust and promote non-governmental exchanges.
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