Advanced manufacturing industries

Advanced manufacturing industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is mainly concentrated in the nine cities of Guangdong province. It focuses on six main industries, including high-end electronic information manufacturing, advanced equipment manufacturing, petrochemicals, advanced textile manufacturing, new materials manufacturing, biological medicine, and the high-performance medical device industry.

High-end electronic information manufacturing industry (integrated circuits and key components, information and communication equipment, new displays)

Focus on the construction of the three industry clusters of integrated circuits based in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhuhai, as well as focus on the development of the new electronic components industry in the Pearl River Delta region.

Take Guangzhou and Shenzhen as the center to set up more information and communication equipment industry clusters in Zhuhai, Huizhou, Dongguan, and Zhongshan.

Focus on the construction of new display industry bases in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Huizhou.

Advanced equipment manufacturing industry (smart manufacturing equipment, automobile manufacturing, ship and marine engineering equipment, rail transit equipment, energy-saving environmental protection equipment, aviation equipment, new energy equipment, satellite equipment)

The focal areas are：

Ten or more smart manufacturing demonstration bases in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing.

The construction of automobile industry bases in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, and Jiangmen.

The construction of the 10 million-ton repair ship and marine engineering equipment base in Guangzhou, the high-end equipment base in Shenzhen Weizhou Island, the Zhuhai Gaolan Port seepage water marine engineering equipment base, the ocean engineering equipment base in Zhongshan, and the small ship base in Jiangmen.

The construction of the rail transit industrial base in Jiangmen.

The development of energy-saving and environmental protection equipment in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Jiangmen, and Zhaoqing.

The construction of the general aviation equipment industry base in Zhuhai.

The construction of photovoltaic equipment industry bases in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, and Dongguan, as well as the new energy equipment industrial base in Zhongshan and the clean energy equipment industrial park and smart power grid industrial base in Jiangmen.

Satellite equipment industry cluster based on the China (Guangzhou) Beidou Navigation Satellite Industry Base, Zhongshan Beidou Internet of Things Industrial Base, Shenzhen Beidou Satellite Industry Base, and Guangdong Province (Huizhou) Beidou Equipment Manufacturing and Application Industry Base.

Advanced manufacturing industry plays an important role in social development. [Photo/VCG]

Petrochemical industry (organic raw materials, fine chemicals)

Focus on the construction of the Guangzhou Petrochemical Base, Huizhou Daya Bay Petrochemical Base, Zhuhai Gaolan Port Petrochemical Base, and Maoming Petrochemical Base.

Advanced textile manufacturing industry (smart energy-saving home appliances, environmentally friendly multifunctional furniture, high value-added textile garment, organic food and beverage)

Focus on the construction of smart home appliance production bases in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, and Zhongshan, promoting traditional processing and manufacturing bases, as well as global home appliance R&D and design centers.

Focus on furniture manufacturing bases such as those in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, and Jiangmen, cultivating a number of leading enterprises in furniture manufacturing machinery, as well as developing a number of high-tech furniture business incubators, modern furniture professional parks, and production bases.

Focus on the construction of high value-added textile and garment R&D and design industrial clusters, as well as high-performance textile machinery production bases in Zhongshan, Dongguan, and Jiangmen, while expanding and strengthening a number of textile and garment towns.

Based on the food and beverage industry clusters in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, and Jiangmen, cultivate a number of large-scale food leading enterprises, promote the rapid development of food production machinery and equipment enterprises, and build a batch of food industry raw material bases and cold chain logistics facilities.

New material manufacturing industry (high-end quality steel, high-performance composite materials and special functional materials, strategic cutting-edge materials)

Build a high-performance composite material industry base relying on leading enterprises in Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhongshan, and Zhaoqing.

Build production bases for special functional materials in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, and Dongguan.

Develop high-end rare earth magnetic materials in Guangzhou, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Zhaoqing, and Shenzhen.

Accelerate the construction of new material industry bases in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Foshan, and lay a strategic frontier for the material industry.

Biomedical and high performance medical device industry (biomedicine, high-performance medical equipment)

Accelerate the construction of national bio-industry bases in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Zhongshan National Health Science and Technology Industrial Base, Zhuhai Sanzao Biomedical Industrial Park, Foshan Biomedical Science and Technology Park, and Jiangmen Health Industry Base.

Develop the characteristic traditional Chinese medicine industry in Huizhou and Zhaoqing.

Workers detect advanced manufacturing equipments in the factory.[Photo/VCG]

Major enterprises in the sector includes: 

HUAWEI, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices; Amer International Group, a high-technology industry group mainly focusing on the whole industry chain of new electronic information and new materials; Guangzhou Automobile Group Co (GAC Group), a large-scale enterprise with its core business focusing on full-line vehicles (automobile and motorcycle); Midea Group, a world’s leading technologies group in consumer appliances, HVAC systems, robotics and industrial automation systems, and smart supply chain (logistics); and TCL Corporation, a business conglomerate focused on global scale smart product manufacturing and Internet application services.

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