At an Oct. 9 advanced manufacturing conference in Guangzhou, Guangdong party secretary Huang Kunming said the province will prioritize demand‑led, application‑driven development, with a focus on cultivating application scenarios, opening them to market use, and building new infrastructure such as computing‑power networks to make Guangdong the preferred platform for scaling new technologies from point breakthroughs to broad application. He urged integration of basic research, targeted technology

At an Oct. 9 advanced manufacturing conference in Guangzhou, Guangdong party secretary Huang Kunming said the province will prioritize demand‑led, application‑driven development, with a focus on cultivating application scenarios, opening them to market use, and building new infrastructure such as computing‑power networks to make Guangdong the preferred platform for scaling new technologies from point breakthroughs to broad application. He urged integration of basic research, targeted technology R&D and commercialization, a push toward high‑end, self‑reliant and practical innovation, strengthened R&D deployment in strategically contested and frontier fields, intensified efforts on key core technologies, and wider promotion of foundational, advanced‑process and common technologies to support the advanced‑manufacturing supply chain.