As a national economic engine and gateway to openness,implementing a more open and integrated negative list stress test in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is not only needed for breaking policy and institutional barriers through expanded system-based openness but also needed for supporting China’s participation in higher-standard international free trade agreements and exploring further opening-up in advance. The basic conditions for implementing a more open and integrated negative list stress test in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are relatively sufficient,and it is completely safe and feasible as long as organizational,plan,and security preparations are in place. It is suggested to benchmark RCEP,CPTPP,and other high-standard international free trade agreements,and prioritize breakthroughs in market access,unified rule alignment,and investment trade liberalization and facilitation.
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