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Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 11:18
Experts call for deeper cross-border data ties
By Shadow Li
Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 11:18 By Shadow Li

Witman Hung Wai-man attends the second Hong Kong-Shenzhen Big Data Forum in Shenzhen on March 28, 2018. Hung is the principal liaison officer for Hong Kong, Shenzhen Qianhai Authority Qianhai International Liaison Service Ltd. (SHADOW LI / CHINA DAILY)

HONG KONG - Cross-border big data cooperation is expected to increase as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area develops, Shenzhen and Hong Kong experts told the second Hong Kong-Shenzhen Big Data Forum.

More than 400 experts in information and technology as well as big data collectors attended the forum on Wednesday held near Shenzhen’s Luohu checkpoint.

Witman Hung Wai-man, principal liaison officer for Hong Kong, Shenzhen Qianhai Authority’s Qianhai International Liaison Service, said Hong Kong had unique advantages in becoming an international safe harbor for big data. Its advantages stem from the “one country, two systems” principle, large pool of professional talents, established infrastructure and legal framework.

Hung, a strong believer in broadening cross-boundary cooperation in big data, suggested Qianhai in Shenzhen could be a pilot zone for cross-boundary data exchange.

Yang Chengwei, deputy director-general of Department of Youth Affair at the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said the Bay Area will be a barrier-free city cluster. If they work together, Shenzhen and Hong Kong could become a regional big data center.

The one-day forum had three different sub-forums on Wednesday afternoon. These were on medical big data, big data for smart travel and financial big data. The first such forum was held in July 2016. The forums serve as an important platform for cross-boundary exchange on the application of big data.

Lin Denan, director of Shenzhen Medical Information Center, suggested building a health big data center in the Bay Area. This could keep people’s information and attract big data trailblazers like Huawei and other IT and health-related enterprises.

Lin said there’s a great potential for Hong Kong and Shenzhen to do this. This was because of Hong Kong’s advantages in hardware while Shenzhen had many leading industry players.

He also said that Hong Kong, with a population of 7 million, is too small on its own to compile health big data. The city’s 7 million people needed to be combined with the millions living in the 11-city-cluster Bay Area.

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