The Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Rule of Law Forum (2025) will be held in Guangzhou on the 28th. The forum, with the theme of "Reform, Rule of Law, Bay Area: New Exploration of Institutional Opening up", invites legal experts from Hong Kong and Macao to actively contribute their legal strength to exploring new paths of institutional opening up and serving the high-level opening-up of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. Attendees stated that in recent years, the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area has achieved significant results in promoting deep cooperation in the field of the rule of law, laying a solid foundation for further promoting high-level opening up under the rule of law. Jing Hanchao, Vice President and Secretary General of the China Law Society, said that he hopes that legal professionals in the three regions can strengthen their research on the connection of rules and mechanisms, and contribute their wisdom and strength to promoting the construction of the rule of law in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. Regarding the legal issues encountered in promoting the integration of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area market and achieving rules and mechanisms, Wang Yanshi, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress, said: "To deepen the construction of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area and promote the 'hard connectivity', 'soft connectivity', and 'heart connectivity' of the three regions, it is necessary to adjust the implementation of some laws and regulations. We look forward to the experts attending the meeting to provide advice and strategies to solve legal problems." Zhang Guojun, Deputy Secretary for Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said in a video speech that Hong Kong has leveraged the advantages of the common law system, actively explored legal cooperation with other bay area cities, and served institutional openness in legal technology exploration, financial rule of law innovation, arbitration. The construction of the rule of law in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area requires innovative thinking and pragmatic cooperation. Hong Kong is willing to contribute to the construction of a world-class bay area. Qiu Xianzhe, Deputy Director of the Legal Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government, said that Macao has a unique role in promoting institutional openness and the synergy of the rule of law. Under the institutional advantage of "one country, two systems", Macao will strive to promote the deep integration of the legal system and the rule of law environment in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, and actively explore the practical path of institutional openness. At the forum, relevant institutions from Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao signed a series of cooperation agreements and memorandums. The forum also released the Tianhe Consensus of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Rule of Law Forum (2025), focusing on exploring long-term mechanisms for rule of law coordination, driving digital rule of law engines, enhancing the level of foreign-related rule of law services, and building a global legal talent highland. It calls on legal academic groups and research organizations in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area to move forward and continue to cooperate in the field of rule of law. (New Society)