China News Service, Guangzhou, November 4 (Wang Hua, Zhang Songle) The plenary session of the 12th Guangzhou International Investment Annual Conference was held on the 4th. At this conference, Guangzhou showed the world its "dazzling" investment "answer sheet": in the first three quarters of this year, the city introduced more than 2,200 newly registered projects, with a total planned investment of 349.3 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 149%.
With the theme of "City of Opportunities, Steamy", this conference brought together about 1,000 global investors, entrepreneurs, institutional representatives and guests from all walks of life. The 2026 Guangzhou “City Partner” awarding ceremony was held at the conference site.
2026 is Guangzhou’s “Investment Attraction Year”. It is understood that in the first three quarters of this year, the city's investment activity in emerging industries such as semiconductors and integrated circuits, intelligent equipment and robots, biomedicine and health, artificial intelligence, new energy and new energy storage has increased significantly, and the cumulative fixed asset investment in investment projects has increased by 20.6% year-on-year. During the same period, the city's science and technology service industry revenue reached 113.936 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.6%. The number of high-tech enterprises in the city exceeded 13,000, and 24 companies were selected into the global unicorn list.
Information from the Guangzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission shows that this year Guangzhou will set up an industrial development fund with a total scale of 20 billion yuan and a science and technology innovation fund with a total scale of 20 billion yuan to support growth-stage enterprises and the transformation of hard scientific and technological achievements. Guangzhou municipal state-owned enterprises have attracted more than 150 industrial projects. Among them, Guangzhou Industrial Investment Group has invested in 62 equity sub-funds, with a total scale of more than 80 billion yuan and more than 1,000 investment projects, about 50% of which are invested in early-stage technology innovation companies.
Wu Sa, director of the Guangzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission, said in a special presentation that since this year, Guangzhou has selected a number of high-quality land parcels and planned to form 35 key industrial cluster projects with clear positioning, complete functions, professionalism and efficiency, covering 14 industrial fields and 34 subdivisions such as intelligent robots, new energy and new energy storage, integrated circuits, shipbuilding and marine engineering, and modern commerce, which are expected to drive investment of more than 800 billion yuan.
Wu Sa said that the next step in Guangzhou will be to invite companies to discuss and build carrier space and supporting facilities, introduce and cultivate the industrial chain, and create a new industrial ecology.
It is reported that Guangzhou has formed six 100-billion-level advanced manufacturing clusters and 10 100-billion-level service industry clusters. The total scale of the six major tracks of "land, sea and air" (intelligent networked new energy vehicles, ships and high-end marine equipment, low-altitude economy and aerospace) and "core display medicine" (semiconductor integrated circuits, new displays, biomedicine and high-end medical care) has exceeded one trillion yuan. There are 7,431 regulated industrial enterprises. The city's industrial structure is undergoing profound changes.
