On February 24th, the eighth day of the Chinese New Year, Guangdong will once again convene its "First Conference of Spring"—the Guangdong Provincial High-quality Development Conference. This year's conference will focus on the coordinated development of manufacturing and service sectors, sending a strong signal that deeper integration between the two sectors will be leveraged to drive industrial transformation. Outside the conference venue, production across Guangdong is already operating at full capacity: factories are humming with machinery, R&D centers are working around the clock, and freight vehicles shuttle back and forth.

Guangdong boasts a solid manufacturing foundation. The ultra-high-definition (UHD) video display industry cluster has surpassed one trillion yuan in revenue, becoming China's first trillion-yuan cluster of its kind. Multiple core indicators, such as panel production capacity and TV output, rank first nationwide. In 2025, the value added from high-tech manufacturing and equipment manufacturing accounted for 34.7% and 59.6% of total industrial value added above designated size, respectively, significantly higher than the national average. From January to October 2025, the core AI industry exceeded 230 billion yuan in value, with over 3,700 related enterprises, including more than 350 national-level specialized and sophisticated"Little Giant" firms, underscoring the sector's strength.

Guangdong's service sector also leads the nation. In 2025, its value added reached 8.5 trillion yuan, accounting for 58.3% of GDP and ranking first nationwide for 41 consecutive years. Development in specific sub-sectors has yielded notable results. In industrial internet services, Guangdong has nurtured nine national-level platforms such as iROOTECH's RootCloud. Its industrial AI foundation model has been applied to ship maintenance, significantly shortening the quotation cycle for vessel repairs. Concrete measures have also been rolled out in areas such as supply chain finance and science and technology services, effectively supporting industrial upgrading. Guangdong has issued targeted measures, planning to establish 100 producer services clusters by 2027. Currently, its digital economy firmly ranks first in China in terms of scale, providing robust support for the synergistic development of the manufacturing and service sectors.

As the conference convenes, Guangdong will further integrate the "hard" manufacturing with the "soft" services, upholding the philosophy that integration breeds strength and collaboration delivers success, and writing a new chapter in the province's industrial transformation.