Economic Observation Network According to CCTV, on May 26th, the Information Office of the People's Government of Guangdong Province held a special press conference on the "Starting of the 15th Five Year Plan" for Guangdong Province, interpreting the "Outline of the 15th Five Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of Guangdong Province", introducing the overall development goals and key tasks of Guangdong's economy and society in the next five years, and answering questions from reporters. The press conference was hosted by Cui Chaoyang, Executive Vice Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee.

Eight major goals paint the future picture, and the economic province demonstrates its development confidence

Since the 14th Five Year Plan, Guangdong has delivered an impressive performance report. Meng Fanli, Deputy Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Guangdong Province, used a series of "number one" data at the press conference to explain Guangdong's strong strength: the province's gross domestic product has increased from 11.37 trillion yuan to 14.58 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country for 37 consecutive years; The revenue of industrial enterprises above designated size reached 19.34 trillion yuan, the total import and export volume reached 9.49 trillion yuan, the local general public budget revenue was 1.39 trillion yuan, and the year-end stock of operating entities exceeded 22 million households. These indicators are all ranked first in the country, "Meng Fanli introduced. At the same time, Guangdong's regional innovation capability has been ranked first in the country for 9 consecutive years, and the "Shenzhen Hong Kong Guangzhou" innovation cluster has jumped to the top in the world. The per capita disposable income of residents has increased by 30.8% over the past five years.

Standing at a new starting point, how does Guangdong plan for the future? Meng Fanli introduced that the "15th Five Year Plan" period is a crucial period for Guangdong to create new advantages and achieve new breakthroughs. The Outline of Guangdong Province's 15th Five Year Plan proposes eight development goals: firstly, achieving significant results in high-quality development, with an average annual growth rate of about 5% in the province's gross domestic product; Secondly, the level of technological innovation has significantly improved, with an average annual growth rate of 5% in R&D funding for the entire society; Thirdly, the development of urban and rural areas is more coordinated, with the per capita disposable income ratio of urban and rural residents reduced to 2.05, and the total value of marine production reaching 2.8 trillion yuan; Fourth, further comprehensively deepen reforms and achieve new breakthroughs; Fifth, the level of social civilization has significantly improved. Taking the movie "A Love Letter to Grandma" as an example, he pointed out that "this movie fully demonstrates the vitality of building a strong cultural province and cultural innovation and creation"; Sixth, the quality of life for the people continues to improve, with an average life expectancy of 81.5 years per person; Seventh, the achievements of green and beautiful ecological construction in Guangdong have been demonstrated, and the goal of peaking carbon emissions before 2030 has been achieved as scheduled; Eighth, the security foundation for development is more solid.

At the same time, the Outline of the Plan comprehensively deploys key tasks for the 15th Five Year Plan period from 19 aspects. These goals and tasks cover all aspects, including the economy, people's livelihood, development, and security. They are both proactive and down-to-earth, and can be fully achieved through hard work. Meng Fanli said that this confidence comes from the strong material and spiritual wealth accumulated over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, and from the spirit of the people of the province to always strive for the first place. We believe that under the leadership of the Provincial Party Committee, the province will anchor the central work of economic construction and the primary task of high-quality development, activate the three major driving forces of reform, opening up, and innovation, take action as the top priority, work hard, and immerse ourselves in the work. We will definitely implement the Outline of the 15th Five Year Plan and turn it into a beautiful reality, making greater contributions to the overall development of the country

Advanced manufacturing industry forging hard power, Guangdong Hong Kong Macao jointly building a new highland of scientific and technological innovation collaboration

When answering questions about building a modern industrial system, Meng Fanli systematically elaborated on the issues of "how to see" and "how to do it". He stated that the modern industrial system is the fundamental support for high-quality development, and is a complete organism with advanced manufacturing as the backbone and coordinated development of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. We should highlight and focus on the "5+" and "5 manufacturing": high-end manufacturing with "advanced manufacturing+material science", intelligent manufacturing with "advanced manufacturing+information science", green manufacturing with "advanced manufacturing+environmental science", biomanufacturing with "advanced manufacturing+life science", and service-oriented manufacturing with "advanced manufacturing+service industry", and promote the manufacturing industry to continuously move towards high-end, intelligent, and green direction.

Zeng Jinze, Director of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Guangdong Province, further introduced specific innovative measures. He stated that Guangdong is using AI as the core engine to gather high-quality resources from both domestic and foreign sources around the various stages of the smile curve, including research and development innovation, manufacturing and production, brand building, and market sales, to strengthen empowering services for enterprises. We have established the 'Five Ones' promotion path of' one demand sheet, one resource library, one online platform, a series of docking activities, and one set of support policies', "said Zeng Jinze. Currently, we are promoting the formation of a systematic and comprehensive empowerment mechanism by industry and region, focusing on cultivating a group of benchmark brands of 'Made in Guangdong' that carry Lingnan cultural genes and have international competitiveness.

The construction of the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area is a significant opportunity for the development of Guangdong during the 15th Five Year Plan period. Gong Zhenyi, Director of the Development and Reform Commission of Guangdong Province, introduced that during the "15th Five Year Plan" period, Guangdong will closely follow the new positioning of "one point, two places" and actively connect with the "1st Five Year Plan" of Hong Kong and the "3rd Five Year Plan" of Macao. In terms of industrial technology cooperation, we will strengthen institutional, technological, and market supply in new tracks and fields, with a focus on cross-border low altitude logistics, clinical trial collaboration, and jointly cultivate and strengthen new forms of economy. In terms of connectivity, we will promote the construction of three-dimensional cross-border transportation networks such as highways, rail transit, water transportation, and low altitude, while deepening cooperation in areas such as medical resource sharing and youth employment and entrepreneurship.

The comprehensive innovation capability of Guangdong region has been ranked first in the country for 9 consecutive years, and its biggest advantage is the strong innovation ability of enterprises. Wang Yueqin, Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, introduced that the number of high-tech enterprises in Guangdong Province has reached 74000, including 56000 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. During the "15th Five Year Plan" period, we will firmly strengthen the position of enterprises as the main body of innovation. She stated that she will support technology leading enterprises to play a leading role in the chain, promote the proportion of project funds led by enterprises in the provincial key field research and development plan to reach 80%, and establish a chief scientist responsibility system, directly including the chief scientist of enterprises in the provincial science and technology expert database. In terms of cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, Wang Yueqin revealed that she will rely on the "two corridors" of science and technology innovation in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou Zhuhai Macao, as well as the "two points" of the Shenzhen Hong Kong Hetao and Guangdong Macao Hengqin, to accelerate the aggregation of high-end innovation elements and continuously enhance the core competitiveness of the two innovation clusters of "Shenzhen Hong Kong Guangzhou" and "Macao Zhuhai".

Education is the foundation of technology and talent. Lin Rupeng, Director of the Education Department of Guangdong Province, introduced the "1333" ideas and measures to promote the high-quality development of education: taking the comprehensive implementation of the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talents as the main line, accelerating the "double innovation" of preschool education and compulsory education, promoting the million high school degree campaign, and improving the quality and efficiency of education assistance. To complete the task of building 1 million ordinary high school degrees on time and with high quality, deepen paired custody and assistance in nearly 300 counties, and utilize platforms such as the University Regional Technology Transfer and Transformation Center (Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area) to promote the linkage of education, science and technology, industry, and talent.

Building a first-class business environment, the "Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Project" collaborates with Green and Beautiful Guangdong to advance simultaneously

There are over 22 million business entities of various types in Guangdong, which means there is one enterprise or individual industrial and commercial household for just over three people. It can be said that the business environment is almost related to everyone. Meng Fanli said that the overall goal of creating a first-class business environment is to continuously improve the quality and convenience of personal work and life, and to enhance the level of enterprise investment and trade liberalization and convenience. A good business environment must be attractive and cohesive, competitive and productive

The government's administrative services should emphasize compliance with laws and regulations, openness and transparency, and greater convenience and efficiency. Meng Fanli introduced that Guangdong has comprehensively sorted and optimized 891 provincial-level enterprise approval and filing matters, and has issued three work plans for the market-oriented, rule of law, and internationalization of the business environment construction in 2026. In general, we need to achieve three points: minimize the number of approval and filing matters, and cancel everything that can be cancelled; strive to achieve the fastest speed in government services, and handle everything that can be done immediately; and ensure that policy standards and the process and results of handling matters are open and transparent.”Create the best industrial ecology, from upstream raw materials to downstream after-sales service, and build a sound industrial ecology with complete chain support. Ensure the guarantee of production and operation factors, and strive to achieve unilateral prominence and stronger comprehensive advantages.

The coordinated development of urban and rural areas is a crucial hurdle that Guangdong must overcome to achieve high-quality development. Gong Zhenqi stated that the key measures are to deepen the implementation of the "Millions of Projects" and promote the ecological construction of green and beautiful Guangdong. During the 15th Five Year Plan period, efforts will be made in four aspects: strengthening the advantageous industries in counties, by compiling industry maps and building park platforms, focusing on cultivating a number of strong agricultural counties, industrial counties, and famous tourist counties; Optimize the functional layout of counties, towns, and villages, expand and strengthen central towns, and develop specialized and refined towns; Stimulate the vitality of reform, deepen the reform of the county and town management system by expanding power, strengthening county and town management; Polish the green and beautiful ecological background, create a batch of zero carbon parks and zero carbon factories. We will tighten and solidify the work of the 'Millions Project', and strive towards the goals of 'significant changes in five years' and' fundamental changes in ten years' based on the 'initial results in three years'