China's top legislature announced on Tuesday that Hong Kong legal practitioners and Macao's practicing lawyers can work as attorneys in nine cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) in southern China on a trial basis after acquiring the mainland's legal practice qualifications. Kennedy Wong Ying-hoon, a Hong Kong solicitor, described the decision "a reallly important opportunity of the mainland market opening up to Hong Kong SAR legal practioners as well as law firms," for their business in the GBA.