1. It will reduce the distance from Hong Kong to Macau and Zhuhai from , and shorten the journey time to within half an hour .
2. It will shorten the distance from Hong Kong to Macau and Zhuhai and reduce the journey time to half an hour .

Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?

-no;
-yes;...I think the answer is
yes