{"id":523388,"date":"2026-03-06T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523388\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:33:10","slug":"chinas-largest-provincial-economy-vows-to-reshape-industry-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523388\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s largest provincial economy vows to reshape industry with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) – Officials and executives in Guangdong, China’s southern manufacturing and tech hub, on Friday vowed to expand artificial intelligence<\/a> across its $2 trillion \u200ceconomy, a day after Beijing launched an “AI plus” strategy to embed the \u200ctechnology throughout the economy.<\/p>\n

They made the comments at an event discussing a new government work report and five-year \u200bpolicy blueprint that, for the first time, puts AI-driven industrial upgrading at the centre of economic growth.<\/p>\n

As a critical link in global supply chains, producing smartphones<\/a>, appliances and electric vehicles, Guangdong’s ability to deploy AI will also shape how far the European Union and United \u200cStates can de\u2011risk their supply \u2060chains from China amid rising geopolitical tension.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Guangdong is China’s largest provincial economy, ranking first nationwide for more than three decades<\/p>\n

\u2022 The \u2060province recorded GDP of about 14.6 trillion yuan ($2.1 trillion) in 2025, making it a larger economy than countries like Australia<\/p>\n

\u2022 Guangdong governor Meng Fanli said the province would deepen “AI plus” applications \u200bacross sectors \u200band push the large-scale commercialisation of AI<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u200bGuangdong’s Communist Party secretary Huang Kunming \u200csaid the province would speed up construction of new infrastructure, including large-scale computing clusters<\/p>\n

\u2022 Qin Weizhong, mayor of China’s premier tech hub Shenzhen, said value added in sectors like AI, robotics, and semiconductors posted double-digit growth last year<\/p>\n

\u2022 Strategic emerging industries accounted for 43% of Shenzhen’s GDP, Qin said. Shenzhen is home to tech giants such as Huawei, \u200cTencent, and DJI<\/p>\n

\u2022 The mayor said Shenzhen was \u200baccelerating domestic substitution in chipmaking equipment, computing clusters and \u200bEDA software – areas where China \u200blags the United States and faces restrictive U.S. controls<\/p>\n

\u2022 He also urged \u200cstronger central support to build a \u200bself-sufficient AI hardware and \u200bsoftware ecosystem and to expand China-led standards in areas such as AI and smart vehicles<\/p>\n

\u2022 A provincial state-asset official said Guangdong would guide state capital toward \u200badvanced manufacturing, including sectors such \u200cas AI and drones<\/p>\n

\u2022 Feng Xingya, chairman of automaker GAC Group, said the \u200bcompany would deepen the use of AI models in autonomous driving systems<\/p>\n

(Reporting \u200bby Eduardo Baptista, Editing by Louise Heavens)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) – Officials and executives in Guangdong, China’s southern manufacturing and tech hub, on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,512,164,155096,39380,260713],"class_list":{"0":"post-523388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-global-supply-chains","14":"tag-guangdong","15":"tag-provincial-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}