Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, January 15 (Reporters Wu Tao and Zhou Ying) The reporter learned from the third session of the 14th Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, which opened on the 15th that Guangdong's GDP is expected to reach a new level of 14 trillion yuan in 2024, ranking first in the country for 36 consecutive years. This is the first province in my country to have a total economic output exceeding 14 trillion yuan.
In 2024, Guangdong's industrial added value above designated size increased by 4.2%, and there were about 74,000 industrial enterprises above designated size. Industrial investment exceeded 1.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.7%, and technical transformation investment increased by 11.5%, maintaining double-digit growth for 24 consecutive months. The manufacturing industry's leading company has become more solid, and many new fields and new tracks have established first-mover advantages.
In 2024, the added value of Guangdong's advanced manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing industry accounted for 56.7% and 31.6% of industries above the scale respectively, the output of new energy vehicles increased by 43%, the output of industrial robots increased by 31.2%, the output of smartphones increased by 12.5%, and the output of integrated circuits increased by 21%.
Guangdong focuses on promoting mutual promotion of industrial science and technology. It is estimated that the province's R&D funding expenditure will be about 510 billion yuan in 2024, the R&D investment intensity will be about 3.6%, and about 77,000 high-tech enterprises will be included.
As a major foreign trade province, in 2024, Guangdong's total import and export volume exceeded 9 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.8%, ranking first in the country for 39 consecutive years. At the same time, the net increase of operating entities was 980,000, exceeding 19 million, of which more than 8.3 million enterprises were listed, ranking first in the country in total.
