【Improved economic development】

Faced with complex economic situation in 2023, Huadu District set up a "1+1+1+22" special team of economic regulation. The GDP of the whole District was 180.151 billion yuan, an increase of 2.1% over the previous year. The general public budget revenue grew by 16.8% year-on-year. The electricity consumption of the whole society exceeded 10 billion kilowatt hours, up by 9.6% over the previous year, which was the highest growth rate in Guangzhou city. The support from investment continued to increase. Contracts were signed for 217 new projects with Gokin Solar, Seraphim, China MCC5 South China Headquarters, and Lanhai Robot etc., an increase of 44.7% over the previous year; and 18 of them are 10 billion yuan level projects. 19 projects, including that of the southern headquarters of China Railway No. 4 Engineering Group, went into contract implementation, 83 projects, including that of ZF Guangzhou Electronics Factory began construction, 55 projects, including that of Jinzhong Auto Parts, were completing construction, and 25 projects, including that of Yuhu Cold Chain, were put into operation. The industrial investment in the whole district reached 12.173 billion yuan, an increase of 34.4% over the previous year. The gross output value of the construction industry exceeded 53.5 billion yuan, an increase of 14.1% over the previous year, ranking first in Guangzhou city in terms of growth rate. The driving force of consumption has been effectively improved. The introduction of promotional measures for automobiles and commercial housing helped to drive 33.9% growth over the previous year in commercial housing floor area sold, and to achieve a total retail sale of consumer goods of 85.13 billion yuan, an increase of 8% over the previous year. A series of competitions were held, such as the CMCL finals, the National Rope Skipping League finals, the Bonski National Ski Open Championship, the National Table Tennis Competition of Provincial Capital Cities and Table Tennis Invitational Tournament of Sister Cities of Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Cities; and 4 national A-level scenic spots and 1 provincial-level demonstration characteristic pedestrian street (business district) were created. The power of technological innovation was released at accelerated pace. The District ranked 56th among the top 100 scientific and technological innovation Districts in China. The number of high-tech enterprises exceeded 1,000 for the first time; 6 national specialized, refined, differentiated, and innovative (SRDI) "little giant” enterprises, and 280 provincial SRDI enterprises were added; and 1,320 new technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises were newly recognized. The District recorded 953 invention patents, an increase of 38.7% over the previous year. Lanhai Robot were recognized as a future unicorn enterprise of Guangzhou, which was the District's first case in this category in the past five years; and 4 companies were recognized as Guangzhou seed unicorn enterprises. A total of more than 30,000 green cards were issued to talents at all levels.

【Elevated industrial energy level】

In 2023, Huadu District made break through and gathered momentum in the new energy industry. The automobile industry accelerated its transformation to new energy and intelligent networking. Dongfeng Nissan successfully put into operation its 200,000 new energy vehicle manufacturing project, released the new pure electric model Venucia VX6, and official launched its hydrogen energy model Venucia Big V Hydrogen; the company's production volume and output value of new energy vehicles increased by 47.8% and 83.8% respectively over the previous year. ZF Guangzhou Technology Center opened for operation, and a number of high-quality enterprises such as Didi Autonomous Driving, Lanyou Zhilian, and Benewake Technology, developed with improved quality. The district became the second pilot area in Guangzhou for mixed traffic with autonomous driving of intelligent networked vehicles. Plan was made for a more than 10 square-kilometer "Green Energy Valley" in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; and the Gokin project created an industry miracle in which it "started construction immediately after land acquisition and began to operation in 75 days". The airport related low-altitude industry chains gathered into a cluster. GAMECO and ST Aerospace maintained a growth rate of more than 30%; projects of Meihua Aviation, SF Express, JD.com, COSCO Shipping, etc. were completed and put into operation one after another; and J&T, Cainiao, and Equinox among others accelerated their construction pace. Contracts were successfully signed for Feidun Technology, Haiyi General Aviation and other projects; and the comprehensive aviation support base and the low-altitude economic industrial park were promoted in an orderly manner. Traditional industries were full of vitality. The leather industry was recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as one of the first characteristic industrial clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises; the main work of the "Beauty Capital of China" cosmetics headquarters cluster area project was completed; the Shiling Fashion Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park broke ground successfully, and the 2nd Guangzhou Huadu Fashion Festival and the 3rd Beauty Capital of China Cosmetics High-quality Development Conference were successfully held. Three companies, including China National Electric Apparatus Research Institute, were selected into Guangzhou's "digitization, networking, intelligence, and green" empowerment platform library; and 106 enterprises completed digital transformation.

【Innovation-driven development】

In 2023, Guangzhou's northern growth pole strategy took a leap. With the release by Guangzhou city a number of policies, including the "Opinions on Implementation of Support to Huadu District in Building a Growth Pole in the North of Guangzhou", "Industrial Development Plan for the Northern Growth Pole of Guangzhou (Including the Airport Economic Zone) (2023-2035)" and "Plan for Coordinated Development of the Airport and Surrounding Areas (the Northern Growth Pole)", the northern growth pole of Guangzhou will be built into an "international open hub in the Greater Bay Area and a free economic zone in the Asia-Pacific region" in the future. The main work and supporting projects of the third phase of the expansion of Baiyun International Airport were completed; and the acquisition and preparation of all resettlement areas, affecting 12 villages in Huashan Town, Huadong Town, and Xinya Street were completed, with more than 1,333.33 hectares of land handed over; more than 11,000 houses were allocated by drawing of balls, which allowed the villagers to move into new homes one year ahead of schedule, setting a good example of "synchronized acquisition, construction, and delivery" in national key projects. The construction of the northern extension of Metro Line 8 began, and the preliminary work of the Guangzhou-Qingyuan-Yongzhou high-speed railway and the Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao high-speed railway was progressing in an orderly manner. Green finance reform and innovation were taking the lead. China Emissions Exchange Guangzhou was successfully listed in the Innovative Carbon Finance Center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; with a cumulative transaction quota of 220 million tons and a turnover of 6.21 billion yuan, the Exchange ranked first among the national regional carbon markets. The District was selected into the first batch of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality pilots in Guangdong province; it created the first carbon account system in the province, which was promoted in Guangzhou city; and it also witnessed the successful implemention of the country's first carbon credit report-based financing loan. The District took the lead in Guangzhou city to carry out a comprehensive pilot project of "village financial officials". The balance of bank deposits and loans, 272.2 billion yuan and 191.8 billion yuan respectively, increased by 11.3 percent and 11 percent respectively over the previous year; in particular, the balance of agriculture-related loans increased by more than 25 percent. The reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises moved forward at a quick and steady pace. Zhidu Group and Huadu Urban Construction Investment Group, two state-owned enterprises of Huadu District, were rated AA+ in corporate credit rating; and Zhidu Group became the only Guangdong enterprise among the first batch of enterprises in the country that successfully issued bonds in the corporate (enterprise) bond market of the Beijing Stock Exchange. The reform of the business environment achieved remarkable results. The District was the first in the country to introduce the green credit code for farmers, which was included as a typical application case of "Xinyi +" in the country. A normalized service mechanism of "5-certificate joint processing" was established , which shorten the processing time from 40 working days to 6 working days; the District also took the lead in realizing the "integration of inspection and registration" of construction projects, opening up the "last kilometer" from joint acceptance of completion to real estate registration. The 26 Pro-Business and Enterprise Supporting Rules were introduced, which helped coordinate and solve the problems left over from the history of a number of enterprises such as Guoguang, Marelli, and Huashi, lending a hand to existing enterprises' "renewed journey of entrepreneurship". More than 49,000 new market entities of all kinds were added, an increase of 53.6% over the previous year.

【Social and people's livelihood development】

In 2023, Huadu District, adhering strongly to the concept of political achievements for the benefit of the people, fully implemented ten practical things for people's livelihood, and continuously improved the people's sense of gain, happiness and safety. Significant progress was made in the construction of Huadu Campus of Guangzhou No. 6 Middle School, Huadu Central Axis School and Huangguang Niujian High School; one school, Huadu School affiliated to Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, was newly introduced, and 6 kindergartens and 1 primary school were built. As a result, the District had additional 2,700 public preschool education places and 1,080 public primary school places. The District ranked first in Guangdong province in terms of excellent rate of students' physical health. It was named as one of the first "Youth Research Bases" in the country. And Huadong School was awarded the title of "National Defense Education Demonstration School". The District was selected as the first batch of primary health comprehensive pilot areas in the province, which was the only one of Guangzhou city. Guangzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine took the fifth place in the "national examination"; and the health centers of Huashan Town and Huadong Town were included in the list of top 100 township health centers in the country for two consecutive years. The construction of the Renji Hospital affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University was completed, and that of the Huadu Campus of Guangzhou Women & Children’s Hospital was accelerated. The District Library was recognized as a county-level "first-class public library” in the country, and the "Tale of Colorful Rope" won a national Golden Thrush children's drama prize. Huadu athletes took 14 gold medals at the 2023 World Jump Rope Championships. The studio was inaugurated for Lai Xuanzhi, a national moral model, whose family was recognized as one of the Most Beautiful Families in the country; and Liang Runjia of Huangguang Education Group was awarded the honor of National March 8 Red-banner Holder. Adhering to the idea of setting priority to employment, the District built 3 spare-time job markets and 25 employment stations, and created more than 13,600 new urban jobs. Adhering to the policy of enhancing the construction and supply of affordable housing, the District collected and recognized 6,504 units of affordable rental housing. In order to care for the elderly and the young, the District built 251 Yikang service stations that covered all villages (communities), and successfully established two national age-friendly model communities; and the protection of children and orphans in need was strengthened continuously. Efforts were made to actively carry out Double Support and Joint Construction, and continue to consolidate the excellent ties between the military and the government and between the army and the people. As a typical case of China's whole-process people's democracy, "Studio 10" was invited to and introduced to the world at the 2023 "Understanding China" International Conference (Guangzhou). The number of police cases and the number of cases filed in the whole District both decreased, and the number of cases solved and the rate of solving cases both increased, achieving the goal of "double decreases and double increases"; the District realized "zero accidents" in non-coal mines, "zero fires" in forest firefighting, and "zero casualties" in the three-prevention work, and was selected as the first batch of provincial safe development demonstration pilot cities; and Huacheng Fire and Rescue Station was commended by the National Fire and Rescue Administration as an advanced unit in duty and training. The Public Security Criminal Science and Technology Office was recognized as a "National Demonstration Criminal Science and Technology Office", and the DNA Laboratory was named as one of the National Key Forensic Laboratories of Public Security Organs. The District work on food safety has been awarded excellent rating in Guangzhou city's comprehensive evaluation for 7 consecutive years; and the number of cases filed and the number of cases solved in the fields of food, drug, and environment protection were both improved, securing awards and congratulations from the Ministry of Public Security. The timely acceptance rate, on-time response rate, and repeated petition backlog settlement rate in handling public complaints filed through letters and visits were all 100%, ranking first in the city; and the District also ranked first in the city in the decrease rate of initial petitions for resolution. Vigorous efforts were made to revitalize stock assets, firmly uphold the bottom line of the "three guarantees” (that basic living needs are met, salaries are paid, and governments function smoothly), and the overall government debt risks were under control.