On February 24, the first working day of the lunar丙午 (Bingwu) Horse Year, the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government of Guangdong held the Provincial High-Quality Development Conference, focusing on the theme of coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries. The conference aimed to deepen discussions on advancing high-quality development at a higher level and better laying a solid foundation for Guangdong's "15th Five-Year Plan" to start on a strong note.

At the conference, Party Secretary Huang Kunming delivered a speech, emphasizing the need to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on building a modern industrial system and his series of important speeches and instructions on Guangdong. He stressed the importance of focusing efforts on promoting coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries, driving continuous iteration and upgrading of the industrial system, accelerating the improvement of total factor productivity, and providing a strong material and technological foundation for Guangdong to gain new advantages and achieve new breakthroughs on its new journey.

Huang Kunming, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, extended warm New Year greetings to the attending leaders, guests, and all the people of Guangdong. He also expressed his high respect and heartfelt gratitude to those who worked tirelessly during the Spring Festival holiday and those who returned to work after the holiday.

He pointed out that the coordinated integration and transformation between the manufacturing and service industries represent a significant trend in industrial development, and that a modern industrial system serves as the material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening-up, China has achieved a dual leap in both the scale and quality of industrial development by vigorously promoting both industry and services, thereby providing strong support for the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability.

In the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping, with a profound understanding of the characteristics of a major economy and a modern industrial system, has put forward a series of new ideas, thoughts, and expositions, guiding China's industrial system towards intelligence, green development, and integration, and building a strong advantage in terms of completeness, advancement, and security. General Secretary Xi has provided meticulous guidance on Guangdong's industrial development, explicitly calling for the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure and the acceleration of the construction of an industrial system that integrates the real economy, scientific and technological innovation, modern finance, and human resources. He has also emphasized the need to adhere to building a province based on manufacturing, strengthen the leadership of the digital economy, and build an internationally competitive modern industrial system.

Guangdong has牢记 (jìde, kept in mind) General Secretary Xi's earnest instructions. Each year, its high-quality development conference has focused on industrial themes, evolving from promoting mutual reinforcement between industry and technology to building a modern industrial system and then to coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries. With increasingly profound understanding, clearer goals, and more refined work, Guangdong is more confident and capable of answering this key question.

Huang Kunming stated that promoting coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries is the inevitable path to conforming to industrial evolution laws and achieving industrial advancement. As a major manufacturing and service province, Guangdong must seize the opportunity and strive for breakthroughs, achieving a transformation from large-scale to high-quality industrial development through the coordinated development of the two industries, thereby creating a modern industrial system that is interconnected and mutually reinforcing.

He emphasized that promoting coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries is a crucial move to embrace the wave of technological advancement and seize the initiative in the future. Guangdong, with its leading digital and intelligent technologies, vast data resources, and rich application scenarios, must seize opportunities and leverage its advantages to achieve parallel or leading development in industrial development through the coordinated development of the two industries, thereby creating a modern industrial system that leads the times and stays ahead.

Furthermore, he pointed out that promoting coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries is a strategic necessity to facilitate economic circulation and enrich people's lives. Guangdong, with its comprehensive industrial system, strong supply capacity, a permanent population of 129 million, and the important responsibility of advancing the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, must shoulder its responsibilities and take proactive actions to achieve high-quality and efficient industrial development through the coordinated development of the two industries, thereby creating a modern industrial system that balances supply and demand and benefits the people.

Huang Kunming stressed that the coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries is crucial for Guangdong's high-quality development and modernization drive. It is essential to use the strength of the manufacturing industry to drive the excellence of the service industry and, in turn, use the excellence of the service industry to enhance the strength of the manufacturing industry. By achieving mutual reinforcement between a "manufacturing powerhouse" and a "service hub," Guangdong can open up new horizons for industrial development and allow the tree of a modern industrial system to take deep root and thrive in the fertile soil of Guangdong's development.

He called for strengthening the main branches and leaves of the industrial system, unwaveringly adhering to the real economy as the foundation and manufacturing as the cornerstone, focusing on upgrading existing industries, cultivating new ones, striving for excellence, and becoming stronger, promoting the high-quality and efficient development of the service industry, and enhancing the level of coordinated development between the two industries based on the artificial intelligence technology foundation to better shape Guangdong's overall advantage of "advanced manufacturing + modern services."

He also emphasized the need to activate the micro-cells of business entities, focusing on cultivating ecologically dominant "leading goose" enterprises and driving them to become all-round champions providing integrated "manufacturing + service" solutions; vigorously cultivating "elite" enterprises deeply rooted in their main businesses and driving them to grow into specialized and sophisticated "little giants," manufacturing "single champions," and service industry "benchmark enterprises"; and meticulously cultivating hub-type "platform" enterprises to catalyze broader and deeper coordinated development between the two industries.

In terms of technological innovation, he called for accumulating nutritional energy, focusing on providing essential nutrients by deploying and promoting common technology research and development and organizational model innovation based on fundamental and general needs, allowing technological innovation to permeate every industry and enterprise; focusing on filling in trace elements by systematically sorting out and addressing technological shortcomings in cross-industry and cross-field collaboration to clear bottlenecks restricting industrial coordinated integration; focusing on mastering exclusive recipes by proactively arranging strategic and leading-edge technological research and development in multidisciplinary intersection areas that can define future industrial forms; and advancing the construction of a high-level talent hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, implementing the "One Million Talents Gathering in South China" action plan, and building a composite talent team with sufficient numbers and high quality.

Regarding the business environment, he called for filling it with sunlight and rain, focusing on precise policy irrigation based on enterprise concerns, strengthening institutional supply for new tracks and new fields through deepening reforms, and maximizing the "unleashing" of technological innovation and market exploration while ensuring effective "regulation"; and leading in the coordinated development of the two industries through expanding opening-up, accelerating the aggregation of global manufacturing and service resources, and enhancing the brands of "Made in Guangdong" and "Services in Guangdong" through high-level "bringing in" and high-quality "going global."

Huang Kunming pointed out that General Secretary Xi has earnestly instructed us that all great achievements are the result of continuous struggle, and all great endeavors must be advanced through carrying forward the past and opening up the future. Standing at a new historical starting point, we have drawn a development blueprint for the next five years and looked forward to the long-term goals for 2035. After making comprehensive efforts during the "15th Five-Year Plan" and achieving decisive victories during the "16th Five-Year Plan," a modern and prosperous new Guangdong with strong economic strength, a well-off life, and vibrant vitality will be presented to the world.

Over the years, Guangdong has created remarkable development miracles that have attracted worldwide attention and held high the bright banner of "Reform and Opening Up in Guangdong." As we take over the historical baton, we should have the ambition to always strive for the best and not be left behind, and work hard to lead in advancing Chinese-style modernization and write a new chapter of "Chinese-style Modernization in Guangdong."

At the conference, a special video showcasing the achievements of coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries in Guangdong was played. During the speech segment, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Ke Jixin introduced relevant work deployments and provided suggestions and opinions on Guangdong's work in this regard. Some city, county (district) leaders, and enterprise operators and institution representatives made statements, focusing on their actual situations and reporting their work plans on promoting coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries and accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system. They also clearly stated their goals and tasks and promoted preferential policies on the spot.

The attendees also engaged in in-depth discussions around themes such as industrial integration and policy innovation, technology and financial innovation empowering industrial integration, intelligent manufacturing and the Industrial Internet, the digital economy and new trade formats, and the "Hundred-Thousand-Million Project" for county-level industrial integration and high-quality development. They summarized experiences, exchanged insights, further clarified ideas and measures, and aimed to do a more precise and effective job in the next steps. During the conference, relevant provincial units will release a white paper on coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries, interpret relevant support policies, and answer questions from reporters.

Before the conference, Huang Kunming, Meng Fanli, Huang Chuping, Lin Keqing, and others visited an exhibition showcasing cases of coordinated development between the manufacturing and service industries, learning in detail about the new progress and achievements made by Guangdong in promoting deep integration and mutual empowerment between the two industries in recent years.

The conference was held in Guangzhou as the main venue, with sub-venues in all prefecture-level cities, counties (cities, districts), and was broadcast live across the province. Leading comrades from the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, Provincial Government, and Provincial Political Consultative Conference, leading comrades from the Provincial High People's Court and Provincial People's Procuratorate, responsible comrades from relevant bureaus of national ministries and commissions, relevant representatives from the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, leading comrades from relevant departments of the Provincial Party Committee, provincial direct units, provincial people's organizations, and relevant units stationed in Guangdong by central authorities, leading comrades from provincial democratic parties, the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, and representatives of personages without party affiliation, relevant responsible comrades from all prefecture-level cities, as well as the Party Committee of Hengqin and the Hengqin Office of the Provincial Government, relevant responsible comrades from all counties (cities, districts), representatives of manufacturing and service industry operators, expert scholars, and leaders from relevant universities and research institutions in the manufacturing and service industries attended the conference.

Original Title: Provincial High-Quality Development Conference Held in Guangdong

Promoting the Excellence of the Service Industry with the Strength of the Manufacturing Industry and Enhancing the Strength of the Manufacturing Industry with the Excellence of the Service Industry

Achieving New Advantages and Breakthroughs in the Coordinated Development of the Two Industries

Huang Kunming Delivers Speech; Meng Fanli, Huang Chuping, and Lin Keqing Attend

Source: Nanfang Daily, Nanfang+ Client