Liang Jianwu couldn't help but nodded, although Xingang's education is developed, the population base determines the number of talents at all levels. The foundation of the new economy or knowledge economy is talent, just as Xingang develops higher education and introduces excellent professors from all over the world, Xingang needs to continuously attract and emerge talents in this area if it wants to develop a knowledge economy and achieve economic transformation.

The reason why the United States can become the leader of the global new economy is inseparable from the strong strength of higher education in the United States, and the reason why Silicon Valley can become Silicon Valley is also because of the existence of Stanford, UC, and other universities, but even so, these universities and Silicon Valley in the United States have also attracted a large number of international talents, and without these international talents, Silicon Valley would not have the current prosperous scene.

Just like Xingang's international higher education, attracting international students can not only attract the most cutting-edge talents, but also help local students grow.

In addition to continuing to expand and strengthen the financial services industry, logistics and shipping, Xingang also hopes to achieve great development in the field of new economy, and put forward the development plan of Cyberport. However, Xingang Cyberport has not yet reflected the momentum of Silicon Valley, and there is not even an Internet enterprise of the size of the mainland's heart wave and thin fox, after all, Xingang is too small and has a limited population, and Xingang's new economy still has to rely on the mainland after all, or directly break out of the international market, and Xingang's human resource advantages are not very obvious in this regard.

On the one hand, if Xingang can really become the Boston of the East, then it will have the talent base to become the Silicon Valley of the East, and the plan of the education hub port will be of great benefit to promote the new economic strategy of the new port of Xingang. On the other hand, the education hub port itself can attract a lot of foreign students, especially mainland students, for the mainland, through the Xingang education hub port plan to cultivate more international talents, for Xingang, through some policies can strive to let these international students stay in Xingang, just like the Americans do, with the world's best talents to develop the United States, Xingang can also absorb outstanding talents to develop Xingang. Moreover, just as the mainland hopes to stimulate consumption through the industrialization of higher education, the development of the study abroad industry itself is also a kind of driving force for the economy, which is not only the consumption of international students themselves, but also the tourism and shopping consumption that may be driven by it, which is in line with the future development of Xingang.

"Education hub port, Feiyang's proposal is very good!"

Liang Jianwu said with a smile: "Xingang has advantages in developing higher education, and if Xingang can build a hub port for higher education, it will not only be beneficial to the development of Xingang, but also to the mainland, which is a win-win development strategy." ”

Bao Feiyang nodded, Xincheng has not clearly put forward the strategy of the education hub port at this time, they have only proposed to build Oriental Boston, and it is not very noticeable. But in the past two or three years, Seazen has upgraded the concept of Oriental Boston to an education hub port, and launched the Global Academy Program, which attracts outstanding talents from all over the world to study in Xincheng by cooperating with world-class universities to attract famous schools to set up branch campuses in Xincheng, and strive to let them stay and participate in the construction of Xincheng. Xincheng was later able to overtake Xingang in all aspects, and the plan for an education hub was indispensable.

Xingang and Xincheng are imaginary in many places, and Xingang has also proposed its own hub port plan for the education hub port plan of Xincheng. Compared with Xincheng, in attracting mainland students, Xingang has a greater advantage, in attracting Southeast Asian students, the two are comparable, and with the mainland as the backing, Xingang in attracting international students from other countries in the world, in fact, it is also greater than Xincheng's advantages, after all, Xingang itself is comparable to Xincheng in terms of policy, liberalization, and internationalization, and Xincheng's independence time is longer than Xingang's return. It has always been closely connected with Europe and the United States, and compared to Xingang, Xincheng does not have many advantages, and is backed by the mainland, which has the fastest economic growth rate in the world and is also the oldest country, Xingang is actually more attractive to international students.

However, unlike the education hub port plan of Xincheng, which has led to the development of high-tech industries in Xincheng, although Xingang has also implemented the education hub port plan and attracted many international students, the new economy of Xingang has not improved. There are many reasons for this, but one of the most important ones is that although both countries are free ports, but at the government level, the new port is laissez-faire, and the new city is interventional, and the new city education hub port plan has a clear goal, that is, to attract talents, retain talents, and use talents to develop the economy of the new city, so in addition to the education hub port plan, the new city has a series of supporting policies to serve the retention of talents.

In contrast, although Xingang has also attracted international students, their goals are not clear, and they have not introduced supporting industrial policies and talent policies like Xincheng.

This is due to the difference between the roles of the government in Xingang and Xincheng, Xincheng has a strong government, more intervention and guidance in the economy, Xincheng is an authoritarian country, Xincheng's state-owned economy is very strong, talk about Ma Xi is the representative of Xincheng's characteristic state-owned economy. During the colonial period, Xingang pursued a laissez-faire economic policy and lacked planning and guidance for regional development. In the past, this policy has created a free and relaxed free port and a fast-growing Xingang economy, but with the relocation of Xingang's manufacturing industry, and the lack of strong guidance and planning by the government, it has also caused the hollowing out of Xingang's industry, and in the process of economic transformation, Xingang's performance is much inferior to that of Xincheng.

At present, Xingang is more huge than Xincheng in terms of economic aggregate, Xingang's GDP has reached more than 170 billion US dollars, Xincheng is only more than 90 billion US dollars, Xingang's GDP is about twice that of Xincheng, per capita GDP is roughly the same, Xingang's population is nearly twice that of Xincheng, and Xingang has ranked first in the world for many years in terms of container throughput, surpassing Xincheng.

After the Asian financial crisis, the impact of the financial crisis of Xincheng and Xingang are in transformation, Xincheng with the government's strong industrial policy and guidance, gradually out of the crisis, into a new development channel, including the development of education hub and high-tech industry is indispensable, and Xingang in terms of GDP gap continues to narrow, to 2012, Xincheng finally surpassed Xingang, since then the GDP of the two places alternately lead, but per capita GDP, Xincheng began to have a larger lead.

It is worth mentioning that before that, in 2009, Pujiang's GDP surpassed Xincheng and Xingang, and in 2013, the year after Xincheng surpassed Xingang, Pingjing's GDP also surpassed Xincheng and Xingang.

Putting aside the rapid development of mainland cities, Xincheng can quickly catch up with Xingang in terms of GDP, which is related to its port throughput exceeding Xingang, and also related to Xincheng's ability to attract international talents through the education hub port plan and implement a relaxed talent introduction policy, Xincheng's population has gradually increased from a little more than half of Xingang's population to 80% of Xingang's, and the narrowing of the population gap is one of the important reasons why Xincheng can catch up with Xingang in terms of economic aggregate.

The talent introduction policy of Xincheng is closely related to the education hub port plan, and the quality of talents attracted through the education hub port is generally relatively high, which gives Xincheng strong talent support for the development of high-end service industries and high-tech industries, and also pushes up the per capita GDP of Xincheng, which plays an important role in the smooth realization of the economic structural transformation of Xincheng.

Compared with Xincheng, Xingang has unique conditions in promoting the construction of an education hub port, and compared with the universities in Xincheng, several universities in Xingang are not inferior in strength and prestige, or even stronger. Like Xincheng, Xingang has a very high degree of internationalization, perfect social welfare, and low taxes, but Xingang is backed by the mainland and is more attractive to Chinese scholars than Xincheng. Although Xincheng is also a Chinese country, but after all, Xincheng is a country established by Nanyang Chinese, in terms of inheriting Han cultural traditions, Xincheng is not as good as Xingang and Taihu, for many world-class Chinese scholars, the Han cultural atmosphere of the two sides of the strait is obviously more attractive, and for European and American scholars, the same international environment, Xingang's Han cultural atmosphere can also meet their more pursuits.

In terms of attracting students, a large proportion of the international students of both Xingang and Xincheng come from the mainland, and Xingang is superior to Xincheng in terms of geographical location, culture, environment and politics. As for students from other countries, Xincheng has no obvious advantages, and even for Southeast Asian countries, Xingang, which is backed by the mainland, is also more attractive, after all, with the take-off of the mainland economy, Southeast Asian countries have many opportunities to deal with the mainland, and Xincheng's competitors are not only Xingang, but the overall attraction of Xingang and the mainland.

Bao Feiyang said: "The construction of the education hub port can not only attract international students, but more importantly, these international students can become the driving force for the development of the new economy in Xingang. Resources and other aspects to vigorously promote the education hub port plan and attract talents to stay in the local area, Xingang to build an education hub port, not only to have first-class universities and attract international students plan, but also to have a relaxed and active talent settlement policy, as well as the corresponding industrial policy and industrial plan, only the government intervention, vigorously promote, overall planning, in order to give full play to the role of the education hub port......"