Photos: Innovative Guangdong
Shenzhen's ambition for a global innovation hub
'The world's factory' to transform with innovation, Internet
Foshan manufacturing sector vies to adopt robots
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Guangdong province’s regional innovation capability has ranked at the second place nationwide for seven consecutive years by the end of 2014, according to a report by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Among the five indexes for the assessment, Guangdong’s innovation performance tops the country. On the National Science and Technology Awards Conference held in January 2015, a historic high of 46 innovation achievements from Guangdong won national prizes for the year 2014. In the meantime, the industrial output of its high-tech industry reached 5.18 trillion yuan ($834 billion), 15 percent more than the year before.
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Photos: Innovative Guangdong
The following are the editor’s pick of photographs, which were taken during the "Innovation-Driven Development in Guangdong" New Media Interview Series, hosted by Guangdong authorities in late July.
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Shenzhen's ambition for a global innovation hub
Shenzhen, a pilot city for China's reform and opening up, is poised to become a world-leading innovation hub.
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'The world's factory' to transform with innovation, Internet
Dongguan, a city known as "the world's factory" in China, seeks to upgrade its manufacturing base via technological innovation and the Internet, according to Mayor Yuan Baocheng.
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Foshan manufacturing sector vies to adopt robots
The traditional southern manufacturing city of Foshan in Guangdong province is eyeing up something quite the opposite of traditional.
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Guangzhou: More favorable policies to woo makers
Guangzhou will launch more relaxed policies compared with Beijing and Shanghai to attract the settlement of makers.
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Innovation vouchers to help Guangzhou SMEs to buy research services
Small and medium-sized enterprises in Guangzhou, will be allowed to apply for innovation vouchers, or small lines of credit provided by the local government to purchase scientific research services.
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EHang drone takes off with makers' dream
EHang, a drone start-up established only last year in Guangzhou, is well confident to put its smartphone-controlled drones into use on various fields and transform people's life.
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South China needs to change focus to win new business
South China, particularly Guangdong province, needs to move away from its traditional labor-intensive manufacturing growth model and focus on growth driven by high-tech industries if it wants to maintain its standing as the manufacturing center of the world, a new survey released on July 2 says.
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