On February 18th, the first working day after the Spring Festival, Guangdong Province held a provincial conference on high-quality development. More than half of the attendees were from the business and technology sectors. The conference will be held in the form of video live streaming to cities and counties (cities, districts) throughout the province.

In 2023, Guangdong has a good momentum of high-quality development. Exploring into the sky, the Kunlong AG600 has been successfully developed, and DJI drones are popular worldwide. Quantum communication, commercial aerospace, and low altitude economy are in full swing; Advancing towards the deep sea, the construction of cold spring ecosystems, ocean drilling vessels, and deep-sea scientific research centers is accelerating, and the capacity for deep-sea development has significantly improved; Advancing towards the micro level, fission neutron sources provide new tools for the development of life sciences and materials science, and microbial research has found new sources of heat and protein; Expanding into the virtual space, the Internet, big data, cloud computing, blockchain, and artificial intelligence are competing to develop, and the digital economy is in the ascendant

At present, the added value of 20 strategic industrial clusters in Guangdong accounts for 40% of the regional GDP, forming 8 trillion yuan level industrial clusters and over 75000 high-tech enterprises; Pengcheng Laboratory, Guangzhou Laboratory, and Large Science Facility have been successively laid out, with high-level universities, research institutes, and leading technology enterprises accumulating momentum; The province has 1.3 million R&D personnel, ranking among the top in the country.

On the 18th, the conference issued a new mobilization order for high-quality development throughout the province: to promote the mutual promotion of industry and technology.

Develop new quality productivity and drive productivity to leap towards a new quality through technological innovation. Guangdong proposes to innovate the system and mechanism for the integration of technology and industry development, effectively break through the bottlenecks that restrict industrial technological innovation, focus on building a full process innovation chain of "basic research+technological breakthroughs+achievement transformation+technology finance+talent support", promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industry chain, funding chain, and talent chain, and better achieve the transformation from strong technology to strong enterprises, strong industries, and strong economies.

Enterprises are the protagonists of innovation, and Guangdong will continue to actively promote the gathering of innovative resources towards high-quality enterprises, achieve the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, promote the competitive development of emerging industries, and nurture and incubate future industries. This year, Guangdong will launch a batch of new major scientific research projects, promoting technological transformation of 9000 industrial enterprises and digital transformation of 9200 industrial enterprises above designated size.

Using market driven growth, Guangdong will fully leverage its advantages such as a complete industrial system and a large market size, launch a batch of new application scenarios, and enable more new technologies and products to be applied and promoted in the Guangdong market, accelerating iteration and upgrading. At the same time, actively developing markets for innovative elements such as technology finance, technology, and data, and creating a better innovation ecosystem.

Zhuhai strives to achieve double-digit growth in industrial investment and exceed 3000 high-tech enterprises; Zhongshan has formulated and implemented 15 measures to strengthen the city through science and technology innovation, with an investment of 5 billion yuan to promote the technological transformation of traditional manufacturing industries; Huizhou will make every effort to stabilize enterprises, expand investment, and strengthen innovation; Shanwei will introduce more than 8 new energy vehicle industry projects, build 2 or more "innovation islands" in the bay area, accelerate the construction of 4 county-level co built parks, and undertake 45 industrial transfer projects

The theme of speeches by several attending delegates was "Striving for You and Me, Achieving Advancing Guangdong".

"This year, we have arranged 1508 key construction projects in the province with an annual planned investment of 1 trillion yuan, of which more than half are industrial projects. There are more than 370 new generation information technology, biology, high-end equipment manufacturing, and new materials industries, with an annual investment of about 150 billion yuan." Ai Xuefeng, Director of the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission and Director of the Greater Bay Area Office, said that a major project supervision and service team will be established, We will focus on promoting the mutual promotion of industry and technology, and vigorously implement them.

"This year, we will strive to add about 10 national and provincial-level innovation platforms, and transform more than 2000 innovative achievements." Zhu Kongjun, Director of the Education Department of Guangdong Province, stated that we will carry out the "100 Schools and 100 Counties to Support the High quality Development Project", organize 12 normal universities to vertically assist 15 underdeveloped areas, pair universities with 52 agricultural areas, and transform teaching and research achievements into new driving forces for rural industrial development, Let teachers and students write their papers on the earth.

At the meeting, Liu Zhigang, Secretary of the Heshan Municipal Party Committee, said that as a typical county of Guangdong Province's "Ten Million Project", Heshan will concentrate resources to build a key main platform for industrial transfer in the province, accelerate the growth of the county economy, and promote significant changes in the appearance of towns and villages.

"BYD's sales of new energy vehicles exceeded 3 million units last year, a year-on-year increase of over 60%." Wang Chuanfu, Chairman and President of BYD Co., Ltd., said, "The achievement of these achievements cannot be separated from Guangdong's' Heart to Heart 'industry and innovative element efficient coordination strategy, which has injected a continuous and powerful power into the enterprise."