Guangdong Province
Located in southern China, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macau. The provincial capital Guangzhou is the central city of southern China. Guangzhou is also known as the gourmet capital. Cantonese cuisine, one of the eight major Chinese cuisines, originated in Guangzhou.
The population of Guangdong is 115.21 million, accounting for 8.23% of the total population of the country. From 2009 to 2019, the population of Guangdong increased by 13.9 million. The main cities in Guangdong Province are Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhuhai, Dongguan, Jiangmen.
The Economy
The GDP of Guangdong Province has ranked first in the country for 30 consecutive years. In 2019, the GDP of Guangdong Province was 107,671.07 billion yuan. The comprehensive competitiveness of the provincial economy ranks first in the country.
The output value of Guangdong’s electronic information, petrochemical and home appliance manufacturing industries in 2019 is 4.31 trillion, 1.51 trillion and 1.49 trillion respectively.
There are 5 international airports in Guangdong Province. It is the largest commodity exporting province in China and the largest importing province. It is also one of the richest provinces in China. In 2019, the export value of Guangdong Province was 4.34 trillion yuan.
There are 69,900 private enterprises with import and export performance in Guangdong.
Ten strategic pillar industry clusters:
- A New Generation of Electronic Information industry clusters,
- Green Petrochemical industry clusters,
- Smart Home Appliances industry clusters,
- Automobile industry clusters,
- Advanced Materials industry clusters,
- Modern Light industry and Textiles Industrial cluster,
- Software and Information Service industry cluster,
- Ultra HD Video Display industry cluster,
- Biomedicine and Health industry cluster,
- Modern Agriculture and Food industry cluster.
Famous enterprises in Guangdong Province include :
From the geographical distribution of the top 100 foreign trade enterprises in Guangdong Province, the top three are 44 in Shenzhen, 16 in Dongguan, and 13 in Guangzhou. The development of foreign trade in these three cities also has its own characteristics.
Shenzhen, as the city with the highest innovation index in the country, has performed well in the field of electronic products and other products. Its export scale ranks first in mainland large and medium-sized cities for 26 consecutive years.
Cross-border E-Commerce
Dongguan has won several national-level pilot tasks, including the National Cross-border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone, and the pilot cities for cross-strait cold chain logistics industry cooperation. Last year, the city’s total cross-border e-commerce import and export volume ranked first in the country.
Guangzhou has a trade accumulation of thousands of years of business capital. In recent years, cross-border e-commerce business has been ranked at the forefront of the country. Although Dongguan was ranked first in the country last year, cross-border e-commerce exports increased by 3.1 times in the first quarter of 2019. Competition between the two cities will also be more intense.
