For 18 days in August, over 20 photographers from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area visited 14 cities alongside the Pearl River taking pictures for a program that pays tribute to rivers that nourish the people of the area.

Under the name The Rivers Connect the Greater Bay Area, the program took the photographers on a journey to capture the picturesque scenery around tributaries of the Pearl River system and experience the economic development, urban construction, cultural inheritance, as well as the improvement in people's livelihood and environment of the area.

Looking at the city skyline of Zhuhai from the Jialin Mountain, Kun Wang Tou, a Generation Z photographer from Macao, said that the Guangdong-Macao intensive cooperation zone in Hengqin, which nowadays has seen rapid development, has a growing appeal towards young people from Hong Kong and Macao.

While in Guangzhou, Roger Wu, from Hong Kong, said he was impressed by the traditional cultural elements, as they were well-preserved and shined amid the modernized skyscrapers.

The photographers also visited the Taiyuan pump station of the Dongjiang-Shenzhen Water Supply Project at Qiaotou town of the city of Dongguan, the origin of fresh water supply to Hong Kong.

Ng Man-kuen, in his 70s, recalled a terrible drought in 1963, during which Hong Kong residents could only get a fresh water supply for four hours every four days. It was because of the drought that the central government decided to launch the project.

Apart from 13 cities of Guangdong province including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan and Jiangmen, the photographers also went to Xunwu county of Ganzhou city in East China's Jiangxi province to look into the headstream of the Dongjiang River.

Works of the program will be exhibited in several cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and an album will be published, the information office of the provincial government of Guangdong, one of the program's organizers, said during the closing ceremony held on Aug 17 in Shenzhen.