How Greater Bay blueprint could help startups

It may cause some consternation among those worried it is a Trojan Horse for subverting the delicate political formulae that conjoin Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the Greater Bay Area initiative also carries Beijing's hopes for a more high-tech economic future.

First mooted in 2016, this week finally saw the publication of a blueprint, which runs to 10 chapters and covers an array of different ways that the Chinese government wants to better integrate the two former colonies with its hinterland between now and 2035.

The broad aim is to create a Chinese Silicon...