(1.School of Physical Education,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510006,China; 2.International Sports Management Research Center,University of Georgia,Athens 30602,USA; 3.School of Leisure Sports and Management,Guangzhou Sport University,Guangzhou 510500,China; 4.School of Physical Education,Shanghai University of Sport,Shanghai 200438,China) Abstract: Based on the comparison to the development of sports events in the four major bay areas in the world and the analysis of the historical context of sports events in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau (GHM) Bay Area, authors pointed out major problems in the current development of integration of sports events in the GHM Bay Area, put for-ward the following strategic conceptions for the development of integration of sports events in the GHM Bay Area: to build a four-sports-event-level system, which bases its guidance on “image events”, its identity on “unique city signa-ture brand events”, its two wings on “cultural exchange events” and “professional sports league events”, and its founda-tion on “grassroots experience events”; to establish such three major sports event demonstration platforms as Qianhai Sports Event Financial Service Demonstration Zone, Hengqin Sports Event Innovative and Creative Service Demon-stration Zone and Nansha Sports Event Service Trade Demonstration Zone; to establish an intelligent integrated event supervision platform and to perfect the integrated sports event space layout. The differences between the “three-region and two-system” sports management systems become the barriers for the development of integration of sports events in the GHM Bay Area; learning from the mature sports management experience of Hong Kong and Macau, innovating on the mechanism of supply of sports events in the GHM Bay Area, establish a coordinated powerful mechanism of or-ganization of sports events in the GHM Bay Area, smoothing the mechanism of flowing of sports event service trade elements, intensifying the mechanism of assurance of sports events in the GHM Bay Area, and expediting the estab-lishment of a mechanism of implementation of sports events in the GHM Bay Area, will certainly promote the GHM Bay Area to become “the experimental field” for China to deepen sports system reform. Key words: sports management;sports event;development of integration;Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area |