【明報專訊】The new school term is about to begin, and a new phenomenon has emerged in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. This year, the number of Hong Kong students pursuing higher education in mainland China has reached a record of 14,000. One of the reasons is that the Guangdong government has been determined to develop higher education in recent years. Just take Shenzhen. While it had only one university ten years ago, now there are 15. There have been sharp increases in the numbers of Hong Kong students pursuing studies on the mainland and vice versa, and there has been a trend towards Hong Kong universities running campuses on the mainland. This shows that there has been two-way action by students making higher education choices and universities pursuing their own development. The governments of Guangdong and Hong Kong should expand measures to encourage these trends in order to further promote industry-university-institute interaction and compatibility in the Greater Bay Area.