Guangzhou-HK cooperation district begins logo design collection

In order to comprehensively build the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District and better promote the industrial transformation and upgrading of the district, the District Management Committee has now began collecting logo designs on a national scale. The event aims to further strengthen the relations between the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District and the public to enhance its public image in the new era.

Design background

I. Unique geographical location

Covering an area of 11.7 square kilometers, the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District boasts a unique geographical location. It is located in the core area of Guangzhou Science City, which is an international intelligent manufacturing center situated in the Guangzhou Development District, and at the intersection of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Technology Innovation Corridor and the Guangzhou Technology Innovation Axis.

There are plans for three subway lines in the district and two high-speed railway stations, which will lead directly into downtown Guangzhou and other cities. The district is only a 20-minute drive from the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Wharf, a 40-minute drive from Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong International Airports, and and a 30-minute drive from Hong Kong and Macao via the Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macao Airway. Multiple convenient means of transportation will effectively promote the realization of a "one-hour living circle" in the Greater Bay Area so that the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District can further expand its opening up to the outside world under higher-quality standards and development of its industrial sectors.

Several traffic routes run through the district including Guangzhou-Macao Expressway, Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway and Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway.

II. New opportunities bring about transformation and rebirth

On Feb 18, 2019, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which proposes bolstering the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as a world-class urban cluster. This is a new measure taken by China to form a new pattern of comprehensive opening-up policies in the new era. It will promote the development of China's "one country, two systems" policy, and further strengthen the exchange and cooperation between the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao. This will help China to further deepen reform and expand its opening-up policies.                                

2021 is the first year of Guangzhou's 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) marking the realization of the new vitality of the old city, "achieving excellence in four aspects," and consolidating and enhancing the city's development potential. In order to give full play to the core driving role of Guangzhou as one of the four major cities in the Greater Bay Area, the Guangdong Provincial Leading Group for Promoting the Construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area issued the Implementation Plan for the Construction of Guangzhou-Hong Kong Intelligent Manufacturing Cooperation Zone on Feb 2. The plan requires that the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District should be built with the Guangzhou Yunpu Industrial Zone representing the district's main body, and will focus on artificial intelligence, biomedicine and other fields. It will also introduce high-level scientific research institutions to cooperate in the construction of functional service platforms such as major technological innovation, achievement incubation and transformation, technological finance and human resources, and create a number of strategic emerging industrial clusters with complete industrial chains. The Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District was officially given the important task of establishing itself as the backbone of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Science and Technology Innovation Corridor.

III. Based on advantages to draw a new blueprint for industrial layout

The Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District currently brings together three strategic emerging industries, which include new energy, new materials, and information technology. These three industries will form an intelligent equipment industry cluster, a new generation of information industry cluster, an advanced manufacturing cluster, and an "internet +" industry. In the future, the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District will seize every opportunity and give full play to its advantages to achieve development on the basis of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation and scientific and technological innovation.

In terms of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation and technological innovation, the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District, which focuses on Hong Kong's requirements for existing industrial innovation and technological upgrading and transformation, strengthens Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao linkage, industrial connection and convergence of rules, and puts the advantages of the three regions together to promote the innovative eco-chains of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, innovative factor interconnection and share innovation resources with Hong Kong and Macao. An upstream and downstream industry cooperation alliance, a high-level R&D platform, a platform for the commercialization of technological achievements, and a public service platform will be jointly built to accelerate the gathering of high-end international innovation resources, promote the "double circulation" of high-end international and domestic technological innovation elements, and create a new pacesetter in technological innovation for industrial upgrading.

The Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District will make full use of major integrated carrier platforms such as the Beijing-Guangzhou Collaborative Center, South China Beauty Valley and Hydrogen Valley, adhere to targeted investment, focus on artificial intelligence, biomedicine and other fields, carry out industrial chain and innovation chain investment, and build an industrial ecosystem with leading enterprises to better promote the industrial transformation and upgrading of the district.

The Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District will focus on Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation and technological innovation to promote the high-end industrial system, the internationalization of innovative ecology, the globalization of innovation elements, and the quality of life in the Greater Bay Area. Forging ahead with the goal of a "double-cycle" hub for high-end scientific and technological innovation at home and abroad, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will achieve win-win cooperation.

Now an internationally influential new brand of the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District needs to be established to build a globally recognizable public image which will strengthen Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation in technological innovation, and further promote the transformation and upgrading of the industrials sectors in the district so that it should be able to serve as an important functional zone capable of driving the development of surrounding areas and attracting resources. In order to better strengthen the linkage between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to achieve technological innovation, further promote the industrial transformation and upgrading in the district, and play the role of radiation and aggregation of important functional areas, it is now necessary to build a Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District brand with an international influence and global recognition. Now we are officially starting to collect logo designs for the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District from all over the country. People from all walks of life are invited to come up with creative ideas, and the excellent works will be rewarded 10,000 yuan ($1,543).

Requirements

 I. Logo design requirements

1. The logo should be designed in line with the public image of the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District.

2. The logo should highlight the concepts of "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation" and "technological innovation" as well as "domestic and international double circulation".

3. There are no limitations to the design style or form of expression, but the design must be original, novel and distinctively themed.

II. Target participants

Designers, design organizations, design instructors, design school students, and design teams from across China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan).

III. Awards

1. Grand Award: 100,000 yuan (one winner)

2. Finalist Award: 10,000 yuan (five winners)

 (The above award amount refers to pre-tax amount. The winners should pay taxes in accordance with the law. Overseas winners should provide their personal Chinese mainland  bank account number to the staff. There is no guarantee fee for the designs that fail to win an award.)

 IV. Time

1. Start Time: Aug 16, 2021

2. Deadline: 24:00 on Sep 16, 2021

 (All entries shall be received before the deadline. Any entries received after the deadline will not be accepted.)

2. Offline preliminary evaluation time: Sept 20-24, 2021

3. Date of Winner List Announcement: Oct 15, 2021 (The date listed above is tentative, and official time and date will be announced later.)

 (V) Requirements 

1. Directly submit your final design to our official email address (sgkjhzygwh@163.com).

There is no need to provide a registration form or fee. If your design wins an award, you will be notified by email.

2. Logo design: Submit a file in JPG format with resolution of 300dpi and size of 210mm by 210mm.

3. Further details: Submit a vertical A3 PDF file with the logo design on the upper half, and three to four extended drawings of the design concept with a textual description of the design on the lower half.

4. Title the email in the following format: "Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District" logo design submission + submitter's name. Write down the design title and your contact information in the body of the email.

 VI. Statement on intellectual property rights

According to the relevant national laws and regulations, the organizer believes that any "submitter" or "author" has made the following irrevocable statement on the copyright ownership of the entry submitted:

1. Statement of Originality: The final submitted works are all original works created by the submitter. The submitted works or any materials used to create the selected works have not infringed on any intellectual property rights such as patents, copyrights, trademark rights or any other legal rights of others. The final submitted works are not published in newspapers, magazines, websites or other media. Furthermore, entries are not to be disclosed, published, used or developed in any form until the end of this event. Otherwise, the organizer maintains the right to disqualify entries from the follow-up evaluation of any award, or withdraw the award and reserves the right to pursue legal action.

2. Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights concerning Award-Winning Entries: For every award-winning entry, the corresponding submitter shall promise and agree that the entry is commissioned by the organizer, and that its ownership as well as all the intellectual property rights including the copyright, belong to the organizer of the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District logo design competition, which is the permanent exclusive owner of the copyright-related personal rights internationally.

2. The submitter agrees that the organizer has the right to decide how to use, develop, authorize, license or protect the finally chosen entries without any interference or restriction from the submitters or any third party. The above event can be carried out on any platform (including the platforms that are unknown in the current cognitive domain), and can also be carried out in any way, including but not limited to written or electronic platforms. All submitters have no right to therefore claim any special rights or share any rights or interests obtained by the organizer from the above action.

4. Before submitting your design, please read the above terms carefully, and fully understand the content and agree to it. Once you submit your design, you are entitled to agree to the entirety of this agreement.

5. The organizer reserves all rights of this event.

 VII. Organizer

Guangzhou-Hong Kong Science and Technology Cooperation District Management Committee

Ⅷ. Contact information

Hotline for Chinese mainland: +86-20-82512193  

Hotline for Hong Kong and Macao: +86-20-82512193  

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