In recent years, Guangzhou has always regarded the rule of law as an important symbol of its core competitiveness. Through a series of pioneering collaborative legislative practices, it has provided powerful answers and poured a solid legal foundation for creating a high-quality development model for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. The South China Sea is surging with thousands of sails racing, and the the Pearl River is surging with everything new. As a national central city and the core engine of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, Guangzhou understands the deep logic of regional integration development: the "soft connectivity" of rules is far more crucial and far-reaching than the "hard connectivity" of facilities. How to use the power of the rule of law to break down administrative barriers, coordinate regional governance, and safeguard emerging business models? In recent years, Guangzhou City in Guangdong Province has always regarded the rule of law as an important symbol of its core competitiveness. Through a series of pioneering collaborative legislative practices, it has provided powerful answers and poured a solid foundation of the rule of law for creating a high-quality development model for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. From "territorial management" to "river basin co governance", a set of rules organizes a dense network of the Pearl River Estuary, the busy waters on the global shipping map, thousands of ships shuttle back and forth every day, and traditional water folk customs, coastal tourism and modern shipping industry are intertwined here. This water area spans multiple cities, and each region is strengthening water traffic safety management based on its own jurisdiction. However, in the face of cross city water area linkage affairs, a closer collaborative mechanism is urgently needed to coordinate and promote it. The turning point stems from a brave exploration of legislative innovation. On March 1, 2025, the "Guangzhou Water Traffic Safety Management Regulations" (hereinafter referred to as the "Management Regulations") officially came into effect. This regulation not only fills the legislative gap in the comprehensive management of water transportation in Guangzhou, but also creates a precedent for cross city water transportation safety collaborative legislation in Guangdong Province. As early as July 2024, the Guangzhou Judicial Bureau and Guangzhou Maritime Safety Administration joined hands with relevant departments in Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, and Qingyuan to sign the "Collaborative Legislation Agreement on Water Traffic Safety Management", which clarifies the unified legislative principles, collaborative research and demonstration, and synchronous implementation of the full process collaboration path through institutional consensus. In response to the long-standing difficulties in the management of township ships, the "Management Regulations" stipulate that the local town (street) government shall conduct unified investigation and verification, number and register, and carry out safety training, so that township ships that have been "homeless" for a long time have an "identity", allowing ship owners to take a "reassurance pill", and also building a "safety net" for local people; In the face of regulatory gaps in new formats such as clean energy ships and unmanned ships, regulations have taken the lead in setting up special chapters to delineate operational boundaries, requiring unmanned ships to develop safety and emergency plans for testing, and building a solid safety defense line for innovative development; Focusing on the bottleneck of "complicated procedures and slow customs clearance" for the entry of cruise ships and Hong Kong and Macao yachts, it is proposed to establish a green channel for maritime services and implement convenient measures for cruise ships to "enter and dock directly, leave and exit directly", injecting legal impetus into the innovation of Hong Kong and Macao yacht management and the takeoff of Guangzhou Nansha International Cruise Home Port. Collaborative legislation takes into account local folk activities, tourism, shipping, and other special needs, enabling management standards to be measured with one yardstick, achieving organic unity between safety supervision and industry development, and truly realizing cross regional collaborative governance. ”Xiao Xiang, former director of the Science and Technology Service Department of Guangdong Navigation Society, introduced. Today, maritime, transportation, culture and tourism, agriculture and rural areas and other departments have cooperated with towns (streets) to organize a traffic safety supervision network in the the Pearl River waters. The Management Regulations have also been selected as the "2025 National Innovation Case for the Construction of a Rule of Law Government" due to its outstanding achievements. The ultimate destination for the coordinated development of the two cities through the network from "traveling between two places" to "living in the same city" is the sense of achievement for thousands of households. Guangfo Tongcheng is a pioneering example of integrated development in the Greater Bay Area, with hundreds of thousands of "Guangfo migratory birds" taking the subway to and from the two cities every day. However, before the promulgation of the "Guangzhou Urban Rail Transit Management Regulations", the two cities' rail transit management regulations were "singing their own tune", and the gaps in operational safety coordination, unified law enforcement standards, and emergency response linkage became bottlenecks restricting the improvement and upgrading of "dual city living". In recent years, Guangzhou has continuously strengthened the coordination between cities, provinces and cities, and central and local governments, actively exploring regional coordination legislation. On January 1, 2024, the official implementation of the first coordinated legislation for urban rail transit in China was a vivid collaborative practice. The People's Congress and Government of Guangzhou and Foshan have established a joint working group, which has gone through dozens of joint meetings and research, widely absorbing public opinion and wisdom. Finally, key consensus such as "operation coordination", "emergency linkage", and "law enforcement cooperation" were written into the "Guangzhou Urban Rail Transit Management Regulations", clarifying that the subway networks of the two cities should achieve service integration, establish a unified passenger code of conduct and emergency response mechanism. In the past, when transferring to the Guangfo Line, I always felt that the rules on both sides were different. Now it's completely like traveling in the same city, with seamless integration of signage and services. ”Mr. Chen, who lives in Qiandeng Lake, Foshan and works in Tianhe, Guangzhou, has expressed the voices of countless citizens of Guangzhou and Foshan. This regulation not only makes the "Greater Bay Area on the track" run more steadily and faster, but also solidifies and sublimates the practical achievements of the integration of Guangzhou and Foshan through legal means, providing a "Guangzhou Foshan sample" for regional legal coordination in urban areas across the country. Not only in the city of Guangzhou and Foshan, but also in the forefront of comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao in Nansha, Guangzhou's collaborative legislative practice is also vigorous. Deeply involved in the formulation of the "Regulations on Deepening Comprehensive Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao towards the World in Nansha", promoting the introduction of supporting regulations for professional institutions and practitioners in Hong Kong and Macao, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship among Hong Kong and Macao youth, a series of legislative measures have been taken to create a strategic platform for Nansha based in the bay area, coordinated with Hong Kong and Macao, and facing the world, and to build a market-oriented, rule of law, and international business environment. How to empower future industries such as intelligent connected vehicles and low altitude economy with a set of rules from "mechanism to be built" to "innovation highland", and provide stable expectations and fault-tolerant space for innovative development through legislation that is neither "ahead of schedule" nor "lagging behind"? In recent years, Guangzhou has continued to strengthen legislation in emerging fields, insisting on legislation that is moderately ahead of schedule, resonating with industry exploration, and achieving the goal of "leading the way in the system and advancing innovation". In the Pazhou Intelligent Connected Vehicle Hybrid Test Zone, the technology of autonomous vehicles is becoming increasingly mature, which cannot be separated from the protection of the Guangzhou Intelligent Connected Vehicle Innovation and Development Regulations. The regulations innovatively set up special chapters of "product access" and "accident handling", which clarified the responsibility boundaries of various parties, such as the in car safety officer, auto drive system research and development enterprises, and cleared the legal barriers for the commercialization of technology. When "air taxis" move from concept to reality, the "Guangzhou Low altitude Economic Development Regulations" have been implemented, systematically regulating key links such as flight activity approval, airspace coordination management, and infrastructure construction, and delineating a clear path for the orderly development of the low altitude economic industry. In 2025, Guangzhou will promote 33 local regulations and government rules projects, including the country's first urban village renovation regulations, the first legislation on land spatial planning for mega cities, and regulations on the protection of traditional style buildings. A series of "pioneering" legislation will fill the gap in local legislation, respond to the practical needs of urban governance, and activate the surging momentum of new quality productivity, laying a solid legal foundation for the construction of a modern industrial system. From ensuring the co governance of the Yangtze River basin, to tightening the rules and links of the integration of the two cities, to empowering future industries with legislative foresight, Guangzhou's collaborative legislative practice is interrelated and in-depth. Deng Zhongwen, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Justice, stated that Guangzhou is responding to the "uncertainty" of development with the "certainty" of the rule of law, promoting the "free flow" of elements with the "interconnectivity" of rules, and striving to write an era answer sheet with high-level rule of law to ensure high-quality development in the wave of the new era. This answer belongs not only to Guangzhou, but also to the advancing Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. (New Society)