Guangdong province, an financial powerhouse in South China, plans to create a globally influential industrial and technological innovation middle by constructing extra innovation platform carriers in 2026, a senior authorities official mentioned on Monday.
“We will establish a world-class source of scientific and technological innovation by accelerating construction of an international science and technology innovation center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and a comprehensive national science center,” mentioned Guangdong Governor Meng Fanli.
Delivering a authorities work report to the native annual legislative assembly in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, Meng mentioned efforts can be made to introduce extra nationwide key laboratories to Guangdong.
The province will accelerate the event of innovation platforms that present public and semi-public providers based mostly on universities, analysis establishments, enterprises, and associations, in addition to innovation carriers that independently conduct varied innovation actions inside enterprises, universities, and analysis establishments.
The function of enterprises as the primary entities of technological innovation can be strengthened, in accordance to Meng.
“We will focus on enterprise needs by aligning more innovation resources such as platforms, projects, talent, and funding with businesses, making them the main entities in innovation decision-making, research investment, and the transformation of results,” mentioned Meng.
Efforts can be made to deal with key core applied sciences throughout all the industrial chain in fields similar to quantum expertise, mind science and brain-computer interfaces, synthetic intelligence, clever robotics, built-in circuits, superior supplies, and biomanufacturing, Meng mentioned.
Based on its sturdy scientific and technological breakthroughs, Guangdong’s regional GDP grew by 3.9 p.c in 2025, sustaining its high place within the nation for the thirty seventh consecutive yr, in accordance to the federal government work report.
Plenty of high science and expertise, and modern analysis institutes had been established in Guangdong final yr, together with a brand new supplies science and expertise institute in Dongguan, a neutrino experiment station in Jiangmen, and a high-intensity heavy ion accelerator in Huizhou.
Additionally, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou innovation cluster has risen to the highest globally. Eleven Guangdong-based firms have been included among the many international high 100 publicly listed humanoid robotic firms, and the low-altitude financial system within the province has reached a scale of 20.61 million flights.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan interval (2021-25), Guangdong established six nationwide manufacturing innovation facilities and three nationwide industrial innovation facilities. Of the 104 industrial merchandise with a printed nationwide output, Guangdong accounts for greater than 10 p.c of the nationwide whole in 44 classes.
The institution of technological platforms has helped significantly allocate modern sources to rising and conventional industries, in accordance to Dong Zhengya, a researcher from the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Guangdong Laboratory.
“We have established a robust mechanism for technology transfer, building innovative platforms such as pilot test bases for new businesses,” mentioned Dong, who can also be a deputy to the Guangdong People’s Congress.
The laboratory, based mostly in Shantou, a coastal metropolis in japanese Guangdong, has efficiently developed 9 younger scientists into startup entrepreneurs and incubated ten high-tech enterprises over the previous years.
Thanks to an improved innovation ecosystem in Shantou and empowerment offered by the provincial laboratory’s platform, Dong began his personal enterprise in 2022.
His firm has independently developed a microfluidics and ultrasonic microfluidic expertise platform, offering complete options starting from precision gear to modern supplies for industries similar to cosmetics, prescription drugs, semiconductors, fantastic chemical substances, and meals and well being merchandise.
The firm has developed quickly since its institution, with a median annual progress charge exceeding 120 p.c over the previous three years. It additionally plans to obtain a public itemizing inside 5 years, in accordance to Dong.
The laboratory has additionally collaborated with the native textile and attire affiliation in Shantou to set up a textile supplies innovation middle, serving to promote transformation and improve by breakthroughs in core applied sciences of key conventional industries.
Shantou’s manufacturing of underwear and loungewear and plastic toys accounts for practically half and 70 p.c of the nationwide output, respectively, in accordance to Dong.
The laboratory has efficiently tackled technological challenges in nano-antibacterial supplies for nylon soften spinning, serving to considerably improve the core competitiveness of Shantou’s textile and attire merchandise. It has additionally established connections with the native toy affiliation to present technical help for materials analysis and improvement, product modification, and clever manufacturing.