CCTV News: There is a "economic report card" before, and a "first New Year meeting" afterwards, plus a high-quality development seminar. At the beginning of the year, the "GDP trillion Cities" combined with their own resource endowments to continue to innovate and promote growth, and focus on building advantageous industries as the focus of development. In 2024, Guangdong's GDP reached a new level of 14 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country for 36 consecutive years. Regional innovation capabilities have been ranked first in the country for eight consecutive years, with 8 trillion-level industrial clusters, and have formed a modern industrial system with a strong foundation, complete categories and complete systems. Guangdong, the largest economy province in China, continues to create new growth points, the development of new industries and new models is accelerating, and continues to build a leading industrial innovation, and economic development is revitalized to "new" strength.
Guangdong accelerates the construction of a modern industrial system supported by advanced manufacturing, and moves toward "new". As a major manufacturing province in the country known as the "world factory", the added value of Guangdong's advanced manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing industry in 2024 increased to 56.7% and 31.6% of industries above the scale respectively. The output of high-tech products such as new energy vehicles, industrial robots, and integrated circuits increased by 43.0%, 31.2% and 21.0% respectively, ranking among the top in the country.
Huang Boming, director of the Operation Monitoring and Comprehensive Analysis Department of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, said: "Coordinate the incremental, existing, quality and total volume, continue to promote enterprise R&D innovation, technological transformation, and digital transformation, focus on both new and old industries, cultivate new momentum, update old momentum, and promote new industrialization."
The new industries and new models develop rapidly, and the high-end and intelligent manufacturing industry continues to deepen. Currently, Guangdong's new economy has a added value of more than a quarter, with an added value of 3724.214 billion yuan, accounting for 26.3% of the province's GDP, and innovative achievements continue to emerge.
Chen Jinlong, director and professor of the Institute of Party History and Party Building of South China Normal University, said: "There are some new measures and arrangements to accelerate the construction of the Greater Bay Area and promote high-quality development with these new institutional constructions."
Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou, led the province in Guangdong, with Shenzhen ranked first in the province with a growth rate of 5.8%, which is mainly due to its strong performance in industries and foreign trade, with industrial added value above designated size increasing by 9.7%, and imports and exports increasing by 16.4%. At present, Shenzhen has more than 2,200 artificial intelligence enterprises, with active innovation capabilities in enterprises, forming a "geese formation" echelon led by leading enterprises, supported by high growth enterprises, and competitive development of start-up enterprises.
Yang Delong, chief economist of Qianhai Kaiyuan Fund, said: "As one of the central cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen plays an important role in engine and has played a leading role in promoting economic innovation. From a structural perspective, Shenzhen's economic structure is becoming more optimized."
Zhang Xinhong, former chief information officer of the National Information Center, executive member and secretary-general of the China Information Hundred People's Association, said: "Shenzhen's advanced awareness, advanced technology, and advanced organizational models of the artificial intelligence industry all play a leading role in the country. In the climax of this round of artificial intelligence development, Shenzhen, especially in the process of integrating technology and industry, took the lead in taking the lead."
As of now, Guangdong has gathered more than 1,200 core artificial intelligence enterprises and 147 national specialized and new "little giant" enterprises, and has initially formed a new regional development pattern of coordinated linkage between cities in the east and west of Guangdong. Various places in Guangdong Province have successively issued various policies to support the high-quality development of artificial intelligence. By 2025, Guangdong will strive to achieve the highest national scale of intelligent computing power and the world's leading position, with the scale of core industries exceeding 300 billion yuan, and build a national general artificial intelligence industry innovation leader.
