On July 21, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology held a press conference for the second quarter of 2022 to introduce the operation of industry and information technology in Guangdong in the first half of the year.

Data show that in the first half of the year, Guangdong’s industrial added value increased by 3.5% year-on-year, 1.5 percentage points higher than the GDP growth rate (2%), compared with the country, Guangdong’s industrial added value growth rate is 0.1 percentage points higher than the country (3.4%), and the cumulative growth rate is higher than the country for three consecutive months.

T8151B At the same time, the “ballast” role of the industrial economy has been strengthened, and the proportion of industrial added value in GDP was 32.1%, 2.1 percentage points higher than that of the same period last year (30%). Its contribution to GDP growth reached 55.4%, 14.7 percentage points higher than that of the same period last year (40.7%).

“In the first half of this year, Guangdong’s industrial economy was generally stable, industrial investment continued to grow rapidly, industrial structure was continuously optimized, and the industrial economy ran in a reasonable range.” Wu Dongwen, a member of the Party group and deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that next, Guangdong will study and improve the policies and measures related to stable industrial growth in view of the current urgent expectations of industrial enterprises, and introduce the 2.0 version of “32 articles on stable industry” to consolidate the momentum of stable recovery of industrial production.

22,500 companies on the digital transformation

T8151B Despite the “triple pressure” of demand contraction, supply shock and expected weakening, the pace of industrial structure optimization and adjustment in Guangdong has not stopped.

Data show that in the first half of the year, the added value of advanced manufacturing increased by 4.1% year-on-year, 0.6 percentage points higher than the province’s planned industries; It accounts for 53.8% of the province’s planned industries. The added value of high-tech manufacturing industry increased by 6.4% year-on-year, 2.9 percentage points higher than that of the province’s regulated industries; It accounts for 29% of the province’s planned industries.

By industry, the added value of the electronic information industry increased by 4.3%, the petrochemical industry increased by 0.4%, the electrical machinery industry increased by 3.4%, and the automobile manufacturing industry increased by 18.8%.

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In particular, the emerging industries represented by new energy vehicles have shown a rapid growth momentum and have become an important new driving force for industrial economic growth. In the first half of the year, Guangdong’s new energy vehicle production increased by 166.8%. The output of medical equipment and instruments increased by 49% year-on-year; Drone production increased 28.8 percent year on year.

“The new economy and new industries are an important engine to promote the high-quality development of Guangdong’s manufacturing industry. Judging from the data, Guangdong should grasp the window period of reshaping the industrial chain and adhere to the optimization and adjustment of industrial structure to a higher level.” Lin Jiang, professor of economics department of Lingnan College of Sun Yat-sen University, said in an interview with the Southern T8151B Financial media reporter that the long-term development of strategic emerging industries needs to create new products and new orders to meet market demand on the basis of boosting market confidence, and circulate blood for the development of emerging industries.

Digital transformation has become an important way for Guangdong to cultivate and grow new growth drivers. According to reports, as of the end of June, the province has promoted the digital transformation of 22,500 industrial enterprises using the industrial Internet, and driven 650,000 small and medium-sized enterprises to “cloud with cloud”.

The Southern Financial Media reporter noted that in order to further promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, in July this year, Guangdong Province issued the “Guangdong Digital Economy Development Guidelines 1.0” (hereinafter referred to as the “Guidelines”), which became the first guiding document to promote the development of the digital economy at the provincial level.

The “Guidelines” system puts forward the overall framework of Guangdong’s T8151B digital economy development “2221”, namely: digital industrialization and industrial digitalization “two core”, data resources and digital technology “two elements”, core digital basic products and new digital infrastructure “two foundations”, and digital government reform and construction and service support system “one guarantee system”.

“The digital economy has become a new driving force, new engine and main position to lead the high-quality development of Guangdong’s economy, and I hope to guide all localities and departments and all sectors of society to participate in the construction of digital economy through the Guidelines.” Wan Shuping, director of the Digital Industry Division of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, said that next, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology will continue to expand the influence of the Guidelines, so that all walks of life in Guangdong should be fully aware of it. Secondly, it will be included in the digital ability training and upgrading plan of leading cadres, so that leading cadres at all levels should be fully informed, in addition, it will strengthen the training of key enterprises and key talents in the digital economy, especially the chief data officers of enterprises, and update the Guidelines through practice.