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industries such as electronic information, smart application pilot bases and carry out industrial
home appliances, automobiles and robots, and model applications, pilot verification and system
supporting industrial enterprises. adaptation.

? Strengthening the development and ? Accelerating the quality and upgrading
utilization of industrial data, particularly for sectors of innovation platforms and promoting the
such as electronic information, equipment, raw implementation technological achievements.
materials and consumer goods.
? Strengthening fiscal and taxation support,
? Supporting enterprises in using various cultivating a team of compound talent and building
intelligent computing resources, such as a provincial-level industrial information security
Shaoguan data center clusters and computing service platform driven by AI.
infrastructure in various cities, to train and
develop industrial models.
Special economic zones

? Encouraging industrial and AI enterprises
to create a group of industrial agents with data China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone
processing and intelligent decision-making
capabilities and to innovate native application 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the
paradigms. establishment of the China (Guangdong) Pilot Free
Trade Zone (GDFTZ). Over the past decade, it has
? Promoting iterative upgrades of key evolved from a focus on institutional innovation
industrial software, intelligent equipment and to a new phase centered on industrial innovation.
industrial internet platforms powered by AI. Spanning Guangzhou¡¯s Nansha area, Shenzhen¡¯s
Qianhai Shekou area and Zhuhai¡¯s Hengqin area,
? Implementing the ¡°AI + manufacturing¡± the GDFTZ launched 772 institutional innovations
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benchmarking action, focusing on industries such and promoted the clustered growth of advanced
as consumer electronics, high-end equipment, manufacturing and modern service industries
automobiles, petrochemicals, metal manufacturing through market liberalization and targeted
and advanced materials. industrial policy support.

? Supporting industrial enterprises in Amid a complex and volatile global trade
building digital and intelligent supply chains and landscape, the GDFTZ leveraged institutional
applying collaborative procurement, collaborative innovation to accelerate the agglomeration of
manufacturing and collaborative distribution production factors and maintained an average
based on large industrial models to drive intelligent annual foreign trade growth rate of over 24%.
transformation of supply chain-related enterprises. Meanwhile, cumulative fixed asset investment
(FAI) has exceeded RMB1.3 trillion, averaging
? Accelerating pilot projects and digital more than RMB130 billion annually .
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transformation initiatives for 6 national and 14
provincial SMEs in cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, In September 2021, the government of
Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan and Jiangmen. Guangdong announced the first Five-Year Plan
for the GDFTZ, specific planning for the next five
? Building intelligent industrial parks and years includes:
high-standard digital parks to advance computing
centers, next-generation communication networks Development targets: 24
and industrial internet.
22 Government site of Guangdong, http://www.
gd.gov.cn/gdywdt/tzdt/content/post_4700246.html
? Developing and expanding empowering 23 Government site of Guangdong, http://www.
application carriers by supporting Shenzhen, gd.gov.cn/gdywdt/tzdt/content/post_4700246.html
Dongguan and other cities to build national AI 24 Government site of Guangdong, http://www.gd.gov.
cn/zwgk/wjk/qbwj/yfb/content/post_3533834.html

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