Guangdong, China's largest province in China, sounded the clarion call to march.
The field of entry is artificial intelligence and robotics. On the afternoon of February 18, Huang Kunming, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, presided over a symposium on the development of artificial intelligence and robot industry, proposing that "Guangdong will gather the best resources and gather the greatest strength to accelerate the construction of artificial intelligence and robot industry highland." The two "most" words show Guangdong's determination.
Not long ago, Guangdong proposed at the first meeting of the New Year that "we should make great determination and concentrate on the two major fields of artificial intelligence and robotics". In a short period of time, the action is frequent, and the sense of urgency that Guangdong can't wait for me is coming.
"Hello Governor! I am a general-purpose humanoid robot independently developed by Ligong, can I shake your hand? "
From February 17th to 18th, Wang Weizhong, the governor of Guangdong Province, shook hands with the humanoid robot during his research in Guangzhou, and received the display board with the word "Guangdong" independently assembled by the robot.
"The development of artificial intelligence and robotics industry is a new growth point for Guangdong to have the foundation and conditions and be able to become bigger and stronger." Guangdong's ambition to engage in artificial intelligence and robotics is bound to win.
This confidence comes from its unique advantages.
The economy is strong enough. Guangdong's GDP will reach 14.16 trillion yuan in 2024, making it the first province in the country to exceed 14 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country for 36 consecutive years, and contributing 10.5% of the country's GDP by itself. The economic strength that is second to none is Guangdong's greatest confidence.
The industrial base is thick enough. Guangdong has all 31 manufacturing categories, and 15 industries such as electronic information manufacturing rank first in the country. Strong manufacturing capacity is a solid support for the development of emerging industries and future industries.
As a major province of industrial robots, Guangdong's industrial robot output will increase by 31.2% in 2024, accounting for 44% of the country. Industry insiders pointed out that at present, about 38% of the world's humanoid robot supply chain enterprises are in China, and about 57% of China's supply chain enterprises are in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The technical potential is big enough. Nvidia founder Jensen Huang previously said that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is the only region in the world that has both electromechanical technology and artificial intelligence technology.
The regional innovation ability has ranked first in the country for 8 consecutive years, the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou" science and technology cluster innovation index has ranked second in the world for 5 consecutive years, and Guangdong has won the new track, and there must be two brushes, and the scale of its core industry in the field of artificial intelligence has reached 180 billion yuan, and the scale of computing power and enterprise scale have ranked first in the country.
The market space is wide enough. As the most populous province in China, Guangdong has a permanent population of 127 million and a real-time population of 150 million, providing the most attractive market and rich application scenarios.
Jin Li, vice president of Southern University of Science and Technology and dean of the Southern Institute of Science and Technology Finance, pointed out in an interview with Sanlihe that the superior business environment and geographical location have also added to its development. However, although there are many universities and research institutions in Guangdong, there is still a shortage of high-end talents with international competitiveness, which affects the speed of technological innovation and industrial development.
To develop the artificial intelligence and robotics industry, the government, the market, and the society should work together, among which the role of scientists and entrepreneurs is crucial.
How to attract the "Golden Phoenix"?
With the breaking of the circle of Hangzhou's "Six Little Dragons", a question raised by netizens is thought-provoking: China's "AI Three Heroes" were all born in Guangdong, but why did they not develop in Guangdong? The so-called "AI Three Masters" are Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, Yang Zhilin, the founder of the large model Kimi, and He Kaiming, an outstanding scientist in the field of artificial intelligence.
Jin Li believes that Guangdong needs to increase talent training, introduce and cultivate high-end talents, strengthen the construction of talent teams, and provide talent support for industrial development.
In order to attract more high-end talents, Guangdong proposed to absorb the talents needed by the artificial intelligence and robotics industry as the top priority of the "Million Talents Hui Nanyue Action Plan", take more convenient and preferential measures, introduce high-end talents and high-level teams in a targeted manner, further strengthen the independent training of talents, and accelerate the creation of an army of artificial intelligence and robotics talents in Guangdong.
To promote the development of future industries, financial support and a first-class business environment are also indispensable.
At the symposium, Guangdong said that it would guide financial capital to invest early, small, long-term, and hard technology, optimize enterprise-related services with the attitude of "nothing to disturb, something must come", and strive to create more science and technology leaders in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, chain master enterprises, manufacturing single champion enterprises and specialized and special new enterprises.
Make good use of its advantages and make up for its shortcomings, and Guangdong, which is ambitious, is ready to go.
The recently released "2025 Action Plan for Building a Modern Industrial System in Guangdong Province" proposes to build an embodied intelligent robot innovation center with high standards, and introduce and cultivate 3-5 unicorn enterprises and technology-based leading enterprises. The "Several Measures of Guangdong Province on Artificial Intelligence Empowering Thousands of Industries" clearly states that by 2027, the scale of the core industry of artificial intelligence will exceed 440 billion yuan.
The artificial intelligence and robotics industry is a very leading, strategic and disruptive industry, and whoever can occupy the high ground in these two fields will be able to win the first opportunity in the future competition.
The rallying cry has been sounded, and Guangdong is speeding up with all its might.