NDRC to push for reduction in call charges for HK, Macao residents

Workers finish paving the roadway on the second Humen Bridge across the mouth of the Pearl River in late January, 2019. The bridge is scheduled to open to traffic on May 1. [Photo by Yue Lujian/China News Service]

China will push for reducing and even removing the long-distance and roaming charges for Hong Kong and Macao residents, the country's top economic planner said on Thursday.

Luo Wen, vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said at a State Council Information Offices news conference that, to develop a quality circle for living, working and traveling in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the government will introduce a series of supportive policies for Hong Kong and Macao residents.

More efforts are needed to develop a one-hour transport circle, offering quick and convenient ways for traveling as well as reduce and even scrap the long-distance and roaming charges for citizens in Hong Kong and Macao, Luo added.