Recently, CCID Center for Urban Economy Research released CCID Top 100 Innovation Districts (2024), which includes Huadu District of Guangzhou City, ranking 57th.

In recent years, Huadu District, as the core of the growth pole in the north of Guangzhou, has shouldered the "new task" of becoming the growth pole in the north of Guangzhou with the attitude of "second start-up", jockeyed for the "new track" of modern industry, reshaped the "new image" of aviation hub, painted a "new picture" of urban-rural integration development, created a "new platform" for international opening-up, and ushered in a new stage of high-quality development.

In the field of traditional advantageous industries, Huadu has pulled all stop to build two national foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases for audio and electronic products and luggage and leather goods, and as of cosmetics industrial parks, Huadu ranks among the top three in the country in terms of numbers of surviving enterprises, patents and trademarks. In the field of emerging future industries, Huadu has launched the plan for a Green Energy Valley in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, aiming at creating a 100-billion-level new energy industry cluster. Fixating on three new trillion-dollar industrial tracks of photovoltaic, energy storage and hydrogen energy, Huadu District plans a Green Energy Valley of more than 10 square kilometers for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, tries to form a large platform of "10,000 mu (about 1647 acres) of land and hundreds of billions of yuan “and build a "Green Valley and Energy Capital in the Greater Bay Area" that is based in Guangzhou, influences the Greater Bay Area, and opens up to the world.

Transform the "short plank" to "potential winner" through urban-rural integration A "Flowery Time" rural revitalization demonstration belt has been built, 1 town and 12 villages were selected into the first batch of typical counties, towns and villages of the province's "project of high-quality development of a hundred counties, a thousand towns and ten thousands villages", and Ruiling Village of Chini Town was listed as a national "Beyond 100-million-yuan Village" for two consecutive years...... Villages in Huadu today are changing for the better with each passing day, showing vitality everywhere. Huadu strives to make up for the short planks of high-quality development, makes the vast beautiful countryside and the ever-changing modern city complement each other, and transforms the city into a modern one that has both gold and silver mountains and green waters and green mountains, making the countryside better connect with the city, and the city better integrate into nature.