Guangdong, hometown of overseas Chinese: Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area demonstrates resilience in economic development

accelerates the pace of digital transformation

Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area demonstrates resilience in economic development

Mega cities Guangzhou and Shenzhen have maintained considerable economic growth in the first half of the year under the impact of the epidemic; Dongguan has also broken The 500 billion yuan transcript paved the way for the annual goal of breaking the trillion yuan... New trends in the Greater Bay Area are emerging: quietly advancing kinetic energy conversion. It shows the resilience of the economic development of the Greater Bay Area.

forward-looking layout

Seeing the economic data of Shenzhen, many people sighed: "Has Shenzhen slowed down?"

To answer this question, you might as well look at it from multiple angles. In terms of scale, in the first half of Guangdong’s GDP of 5.7 trillion yuan, Shenzhen accounted for 1.4 trillion yuan, and the total amount still ranked first in the province. From an environmental point of view, Shenzhen’s performance was highly changed and under pressure. Obtained under the external economic environment. In fact, while the nation's economy is accelerating its recovery, Shenzhen has used its time window to deploy a large number of major industrial projects such as 5G scene applications and artificial intelligence to accumulate energy for Shenzhen's development in advance. According to data, from January to June, 27,812 newly registered strategic emerging industry enterprises in Shenzhen were registered, a year-on-year increase of 62.5%. From the supply side, the output of high-tech products is also further increasing. In the first half of this year, the output of industrial robots in Shenzhen increased by 79.5%, the output of new energy vehicles and charging piles increased by 3.28 times and 1.21 times respectively, and the output of 3D printing equipment increased by 32.4%.

Looking at Guangzhou again, the development trend of strategic emerging industries makes people feel the surging momentum of development. In the first half of the year, the added value of Guangzhou's strategic emerging industries was 408.284 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.9%. In the first half of Guangzhou's GDP over one trillion yuan, more than one-third came from new kinetic energy. In the adjustment of industrial structure, Guangdong's investment in promoting industrial technological transformation increased by 40.1% year-on-year, accounting for 38.7% of industrial investment. at the same time,We will continue to expand the advanced manufacturing industry, and promote the advanced manufacturing industry to account for 60% of the industrial added value. In the first half of the year, the investment in strategic emerging industries of Guangzhou's new materials, artificial intelligence, biomedicine and health increased by 1.2 times, 37.9% and 25.0%, respectively, which provided momentum for the long-term development of Guangzhou's economy.

kinetic energy conversion

Industry accounts for more than half of GDP and is the "moat" of the economy of Foshan and Dongguan. The kinetic energy conversion is also from industry.

Foshan's GDP in the first half of the year reached 547.412 billion yuan, the fastest growth rate in Guangdong. However, among the 23 trillion GDP cities in the country, although Foshan has the highest proportion of manufacturing, the manufacturing industry is large but not strong.

Not long ago, after 4 months of research and more than 30 revisions, Foshan issued "Several Measures for Promoting the Development of Digital and Intelligent Manufacturing Transformation in Foshan City", which was called "the official announcement of digital transformation in a large manufacturing market by the media."

According to economic data released in the first half of the year, Dongguan’s GDP reached 500 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12%, and the trillion yuan target is in sight. In terms of digital transformation, Dongguan has emerged as the pillar of "a new generation of electronic information, software and information services, biomedicine and health" Industrial clusters. This year, Dongguan proposed to invest 20 billion yuan to build a strategic emerging industry fund and lay out seven industrial bases. Since the beginning of the year, the Songshan Lake Biotechnology Industrial Base and the Eastern Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Base have been listed one after another.

However, for the manufacturing industry For cities, the shortcoming is still the service industry. Industry can hold on to the basic market. The greater kinetic energy conversion variable comes from the tertiary industry.

Seven-population data show that Dongguan has become the third population in Guangdong Province after Guangzhou and Shenzhen. A city with more than 10 million yuan has also become a trump card in the adjustment of Dongguan’s industrial structure. In terms of the consumer market, the total retail sales of consumer goods in Dongguan increased by 23.2% in the first half of the year, which was 0.2 and 3.6 percentage points higher than the national and provincial growth rates. Ranked second in the province.

Technological Reform Promotion

The performance of Zhongshan in the first half of the year has become a microcosm of the economic development resilience of the Greater Bay Area: in the first half of 2021, the GDP of Zhongshan will be 165.12 billion yuan.A year-on-year increase of 16.4%, an average growth of 4.3% in two years.

The highlight of this figure is that the GDP growth rate has increased from 1.2% in 2019 to 16.4% today. Recently, Zhongshan announced that the city's 2410 designated monitoring companies employed 622,300 laborers, an increase of 2.63% year-on-year, which was the first rise in the past two years.

The amount of labor is a very important data for observing the operation of the real economy. Why can Zhongshan's employment increase? The change comes from the increase in market orders and the changes in the employment structure brought about by the advancement of technological transformation.

On the one hand, it is the transformation of industrial technology and the replacement of machines with . On the other hand, there is an increase in demand for technicians, and behind it is the accelerated conversion of old and new kinetic energy in Zhongshan City. In the past two years, the total number of skilled workers in the labor force of designated monitoring enterprises in Zhongshan City has increased by 3.16%, which is higher than the 2.63% increase of general workers. In April this year, in order to meet the needs of enterprises for skilled workers, Zhongshan announced the implementation of a five-year plan for doubling skilled talents. The goal is to add 95,000 skilled talents every year from 2021; by 2025, the total number of skilled talents will reach 950,000. It accounts for more than 40% of the total number of employees.

Southern City Think Tank believes that the increase in the contribution of Guangshen’s strategic emerging industries to the digital transformation initiated by Foguan and Dongguan, and the changes in the employment structure of Zhongshan... are all vivid footnotes to the accelerated conversion of the kinetic energy of the Greater Bay Area in the first half of the year. (Zhu Ziqiang)


Shenzhen adds a new business card for overseas Chinese culture The Guanlan Overseas Chinese Museum has been in trial operation for nearly a month

Guanlan Overseas Chinese Museum. Photo courtesy of the interviewee

"When you see these old objects, you will remember my hard-working life when I left home 30 years ago. The scenes are just like yesterday." Endless.

The plastic knives and plastic cups used by overseas Chinese to cut rubber, sewing machines bought from the other side of the ocean, old bookcases full of historical vicissitudes, and cabinets full of books... They come from history,Now it will lead people into the depths of history and relive the history of overseas Chinese struggle in Guanlan for more than 160 years.

The Guanlan Overseas Chinese Museum began its trial operation on August 7. "In the future, there will continue to be items donated by overseas Chinese and their descendants, and the content of the museum will become increasingly rich." said Weng Yanfang, a member of the Longhua District Political Consultative Conference and one of the directors of the Guanlan Overseas Chinese Museum.

This will be the first museum related to overseas Chinese culture in Longhua District and even Shenzhen. As a place to find the roots of overseas Chinese from overseas and a cultural platform to fill the gaps in the history and culture of overseas Chinese in Shenzhen, it will become a new business card of Shenzhen culture linking overseas Chinese around the world.

The museum was built for overseas Chinese and used for overseas Chinese

Looking from a distance, the Overseas Chinese Museum built in residential houses has unique characteristics. It has both the local characteristics of Guanlan-gun towers and Western construction characteristics. The gate adopts hollow carvings and Chinese red color, which demonstrates the self-confidence of Chinese culture that defends the home and the country, and that China is red and popular throughout the world.

When it comes to the building to which the Guanlan Overseas Chinese Museum belongs, one has to talk about the overseas Chinese culture of Guanlan.

Guanlan overseas Chinese are present in more than 50 countries and regions around the world. According to statistics from the "Baoan County Annals" in the 1950s, Guanlan had 39,000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan at that time.

Beginning in the early 1980s, overseas Chinese who went out of Guanlan began to return to China one after another to support the construction of their hometown, including Chen Shun'an, Huang Weixiong, Chen Fo'an and other overseas Chinese and Hong Kong compatriots. In 1982, these enthusiastic people who cared about hometown construction donated 190,000 yuan to build a three-story Qiaolian Guest House building, the Qiaolian Building, and then mobilized overseas Chinese to continue to invest in the construction of the Qiaolian Industrial Park.

"It comes from overseas, and it is used by overseas Chinese." Weng Yanfang mentioned this sentence no less than 5 times in the interview. The Overseas Chinese Museum was transformed from one of the 1,600 square meters building in the Overseas Chinese Federation Industrial Park. The historical materials and objects in the museum are also from overseas Chinese.

Entering the museum, the three chapters of diligence, bravery, self-improvement, and family and country are separated on the first and second floors. The elements displayed are diverse, and they strive to vividly and vividly display the landscape and cultural characteristics of Guanlan.

such as Guanlan Bridge, , Guanlan River , prints , Guangpei School and other landscapes to create root culture,Recalling the past of the Chinese and overseas Chinese and their historical contributions to the construction of Guanlan in their hometown; letters and objects sent from all over the world are full of emotion and positive energy, showing that the Chinese and overseas Chinese who have gone out of Guanlan are hardworking, brave and self-improving all over the world. The history of struggle; there are also various medals, yellow certificates, etc., which are a symbol of the innocent heart of the overseas Chinese in Guanlan who participated in the revolution and participated in the anti-Japanese war.

The origin of the museum The hometown of overseas Chinese for a hundred years Recording the history of overseas Chinese

When talking about the history of overseas Chinese, Weng Yanfang can't stop. She has been inextricably linked with overseas Chinese since she was a child. "I was born in Guanlan Osmanthus. My grandfather’s younger brother was one of those who went to work in Nanyang. Unfortunately, he did not come back for decades after going out. My grandfather’s younger sister also married Malaysia and did not return to his homeland for the first time until 60 years later. She is a 78-year-old grandmother when she returned to her natal home this time."

When she was a child, listening to her parents talk about this history, Weng Yanfang was curious about these elders in Nanyang. What kind of life are they living outside? What story did you experience?

Later, when she was engaged in overseas Chinese affairs, the stories of overseas Chinese in her memory gradually gained a clear context.

As early as the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the people of Guanlan boarded sailboats, left their homes and traveled across oceans in an attempt to change their destiny. After the difficult establishment of the first and second generations, overseas Chinese in Guanlan have gradually made achievements in trade, culture, education and other industries. "In the past, every family in our village was very poor. Almost all of them were funded by overseas Chinese who went out to make money, so they could barely get enough food and clothing." Weng Yanfang said.

"We built this museum, and we were also moved by the spirit of overseas Chinese. More than 100 years ago, they went out to fight with this kind of patriotism and love for their hometown. They didn't have enough food, clothing, shelter and transportation, so they had to send money back to their hometown to build bridges. Road, develop education, teach the next generation to love the country, love the country, and expand their cultural horizons.” According to the relevant person in charge of Guanlan Street, Guangpei Primary School, Zhenneng Primary School, Guanlan Middle School, Guanlan Second Middle School, Kukeng Primary School, etc. are all Donated by overseas Chinese and compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao.

Museum mission Activate memory and continue inheritance

"I have been in charge of Overseas Chinese Federation for more than 10 years.The contact with overseas Chinese has never been broken. When I heard that we were preparing for the Overseas Chinese Museum, some of them said they helped translate the preface and narration text, and some sent me items that they had collected for many years. "Weng Yanfang said.

Chen Yubo is one of them. He has lived in Jamaica for more than 30 years and learned that the Guanlan Overseas Chinese Museum is in need. He has collected and collected historical materials and objects related to the struggle and life of overseas Chinese from the Chinese Association of Jamaica for many times." If the situation permits, I would like to select some meaningful collections from the Zhonghua Guild Hall and put them in the Guanlan Museum. "Chen Yubo said.

Chinese compatriot Chen Meiying was one of the overseas Chinese in Guanlan who had been involved in the revolution. Now that he heard that Guanlan was going to build an overseas Chinese museum, this 90-year-old man donated some of the commemorative medals he had obtained.

This is a window to understand the past, present, and future of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese in the world, and it is also a bridge connecting overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese. The above-mentioned person in charge mentioned that more "two generations of overseas Chinese" and "three generations of overseas Chinese" will be invited to come back to experience Guanlan. For development, we also hope that through the search for roots, the “second generation of overseas Chinese” and “third generation of overseas Chinese” will experience and inherit the Guanlan culture.

For locals, this is also a continuation and inheritance of overseas Chinese culture and spirit. "Take children to visit elsewhere. It is better to bring the museum here to learn about the history and culture of your hometown. "Said Chen Yu, a resident of Guanlan Street. (Huang Sihua)


Illustrated the hometown of overseas Chinese

The new landmark of Guangdong culture-Lingnan Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine opened

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Add a second-level national museum and 5A tourist attraction! Recently, Guangzhou’s key project for building a strong city of traditional Chinese medicine-Lingnan Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine has officially started. The museum is located in the northern part of the central city of Guangzhou and will rely on 广药集团 The construction of the Shennong Caotang of the Chinese Medicine Museum in its 4A-level scenic area aims to create a theme tourist attraction that comprehensively displays the traditional Chinese medicine culture and integrates museums, plantations, theme amusement parks, hotel accommodation, health and wellness, and leisure shopping.The project will be designed by Chinese Academy of Engineering academician He Jingtang and his team. He Jingtang said that they will participate in the design with their love for Guangzhou and respect for the culture of Chinese medicine, integrate the spirit of Chinese medicine and the concept of Chinese medicine into the architectural design, and strive to design a place with regional characteristics, Lingnan cultural characteristics and the style of the times. Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The picture shows the design plan of Lingnan Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine. (Photographic report by Ou Zhikui and Wang Yishu)


Guangzhou Archaeological Achievements National Museum First Exhibition

Over three hundred cultural relics will take you through the Lingnan of Qin and Han

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_p300p2p More than Qin and Han cultural relics were unveiled at the National Museum of China, and many cultural relics have countless "circle fans" due to their unique appearance. Photo by Wang Shikun

On August 10, the "Sea and Universe-Guangzhou Qin and Han Archaeological Achievements Exhibition" organized by the National Museum of China and Guangzhou Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism Administration opened at the National Museum of China. This is the first Guangzhou Archaeological Achievement Exhibition held at the National Expo. A total of 332 pieces (sets) of Qin and Han Dynasty fine cultural relics unearthed in Guangzhou are displayed, including 38 first-class cultural relics, 43 second-class cultural relics, and 53 third-class cultural relics. In addition, there are also ungraded exquisite cultural relics such as Han Dynasty golden cake, pottery Huren figurines lamps, bead strings, and Han Dynasty pottery owl-shaped five-piece jars unearthed in Guangzhou in recent years. This batch of cultural relics are mainly combined from the construction and shaping of Chinese civilization, genetic inheritance, and exchanges and integration. Among them are silk jade clothing, "Wen Emperor Xingxi" gold seal, wooden slips, 金饼, etc. Precious cultural relics of great significance. The exhibition uses a global perspective that combines macro, meso, and micro narratives to fully present the appearance and characteristics of ancient history and culture in the Lingnan region.(Photographic report by Liu Changxin, Huang Kunyuan, Zhang Jiao, Huang Qiaohao)

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