Guangdong Aims to Build World-Class Digital Economy by 2027

The Guangdong Provincial Government has officially released the Implementation Plan for Building a National Digital Economy Innovation and Development Pilot Zone (2025-2027), setting clear targets for 2027:

🔹 Core industries of the digital economy to contribute over 16% of GDP

🔹 Cultivate 3 trillion-level digital industry clusters with global competitiveness

🔹 Scale of AI core industries to exceed 440 billion yuan

🔹 Digital transformation of over 60,000 industrial enterprises above designated size

🔹 Computing power to surpass 60 EFLOPS (global leading level)

Six Key Tasks

1️⃣ Market-oriented allocation of data factors—ensuring data availability, flow, and usability

2️⃣ Constructing three data infrastructure networks: trusted data circulation, green computing, and integrated space-air-ground-sea communication

3️⃣ “Digital adaptation” reforms—breaking institutional barriers to boost vitality

4． Core technology breakthroughs—building innovation chains covering data, computing, algorithms, and terminals

5． AI-driven transformation—empowering enterprises, industries, and urban-rural development

6． Open cooperation—advancing the “Digital Bay Area” initiative and global collaboration

Unprecedented Reform Measures

👉 158 specific pilot tasks underway

👉 Guangdong collaborates with 6 other pilot regions (e.g., Shanghai, Zhejiang) to explore data marketization and cluster development

👉 National Data Administration supports policy experimentation for nationwide replication

Highlights

✔️ Emphasis on AI empowering traditional industries

✔️ Cross-border data flow and Bay Area synergy

✔️ Pioneering “digital adaptation” institutional innovations

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