{"id":334112,"date":"2026-03-07T17:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334112\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:26:28","slug":"chinas-eastern-and-southern-economic-powerhouses-vie-for-innovation-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334112\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s eastern and southern economic powerhouses vie for innovation leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s most powerful economic regions \u2013 the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area \u2013 are racing to meet President Xi Jinping\u2019s call for breakthroughs in core technologies including artificial intelligence, as Beijing maps out priorities for the coming 15th five-year plan during the \u201ctwo sessions<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

As part of the annual meeting on Friday, provincial and municipal leaders of Zhejiang province outlined an ambitious strategy to become a key area of AI development and cement the province\u2019s innovation role within the Yangtze River Delta, while Shanghai\u2019s mayor also vowed to help make the delta region into a \u201cglobal technology powerhouse\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the same day, officials from the southern province of Guangdong \u2013 home to the nine mainland cities that, together with Hong Kong and Macau, make up the Greater Bay Area<\/a> \u2013 vowed to accelerate technological and industrial innovation to reinforce that region\u2019s position as one of China\u2019s most advanced manufacturing bases.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Xi told deputies from Jiangsu province that China\u2019s major provincial economies should take the lead in technological innovation and strengthen their resilience to external shocks over the next five years.<\/p>\n

Zhejiang province, part of the megalopolis comprising Shanghai and part of surrounding provinces Jiangsu and Anhui, promised closer integration with other parts of the delta as it sought to \u201cseize the major strategic opportunity\u201d to co-build an international innovation base.<\/p>\n

The delta area makes up only 4 per cent of the country\u2019s land area but accounts for about a quarter of its gross domestic product<\/a> (GDP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s most powerful economic regions \u2013 the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area \u2013 are racing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[220,5682,4477,218,2102,72,114,20867,63573,4067,113,153721,135217,15841,6075,6159,153722,61,60],"class_list":["post-334112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-anhui","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-communist-party","tag-deep-robotics","tag-deepseek","tag-economy","tag-game-science","tag-gong-zheng","tag-greater-bay-area","tag-guangdong","tag-hangzhou","tag-huang-kunming","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}