Guangzhou holds first off-line robot & smart manufacturing fair after pandemic

 Update:2020-08-10    Source: Newsgd.com

The China (Guangzhou) International Robot & Intelligent Manufacturing Exhibition kicked off at China Import and Export Complex in Guangzhou on August 6th. It’s the industry’s first off-line exhibition nationwide after the COVID-19 pandemic and it will last until Saturday on August 8th.

The exhibition covers an area of 40 thousand square meters and has more than 400 enterprises display their latest products. These enterprises include key intelligent equipment suppliers such as SINOMACH, Xpeng Motors and PCI Tech.

SINOMACH displays the mask-making machine they developed during the pandemic. 

“The number of exhibitors increase despite of the pandemic. They bring a wide range of products including industrial robots, service robots, drones, smart wearable electronics, 3D printing technologies and IoT technologies. They show stronger interest in expanding domestic market this year,” said Liang Wanqian, operator director of SINOMACH Intelligence Technology and one of the organizers of the fair.

Colamark, a Guangzhou-based company, brings its vision tablet counter to the fair this year. Protected by various patents, the machine employs high speed imaging technology to provide tablet counting solution.

Zhou Ying, sales director of Colamark, said Europe and US are the major markets of the machine due to their strong demand for precise tablet counting technology. “Our clients include 17 of the Global Top 30 pharmaceutical manufacturers ranking in 2019. Now that the pharmaceutical industry is rapidly developing in China, expanding the domestic market will be our new focus.”

Smart equipment is a key component of the high-end equipment manufacturing industry in Guangzhou and is fundamental to the city’s economy. The Guangzhou government has been fostering the industry through advantageous policies in recent years. It has clustered a large number of related companies, and the output of its smart equipment industry reached 131 billion yuan in 2019.

Supported by the Guangzhou government, the fair is organized by Guangzhou Industry and Information Technology Bureau and SINOMACH.

Guangzhou strives to be world-class automobile base

 Update:2020-08-26    Source: eguangzhou.gov.cn

The automobile output of Guangzhou in 2019 reached 2.92 million, ranking first in China. 

Guangzhou is striving to build a world-class automobile industry cluster base, said Chen Jianhua, chief economist of the Guangzhou municipal industry and information technology bureau, during a press conference held in Guangzhou on Aug 24.

Guangzhou's automobile industry has maintained stable growth and the automobile output of Guangzhou in 2019 reached 2.92 million, ranking first in China. The production value of Guangzhou's automobile industry in 2019 reached 546.1 billion yuan ($79.02 billion), accounting for 28.4 percent of the city’s total industrial output value above designated size.

The city has released a document on boosting the development of its automobile industry on Aug 17, outlining several goals, such as achieving an annual automobile output of over 5 million by 2025, reaching a production value of 1 trillion yuan for its automobile industry above designated size, realizing the initial commercial operation of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, as well as forming a relatively complete world-class auto parts industry supply system.

Major automobile companies are encouraged to carry out integration, mergers and acquisitions, as well as strategic cooperation to build globally outstanding brands. A bonus of up to 100 million yuan for market promotion will be rewarded to companies with independent research and development ability for five consecutive years.

New models independently developed by local companies achieving a sales volume of over 10,000 in the first year of their debut can receive a one-time subsidy of up to 100 million yuan.

The city will build a comprehensive base for the smart network automotive electronics industry, with manufacturing companies that are newly introduced into the base eligible to receive a reward according to their fixed investments.

The document put forward that an experts think tank on the automobile industry in Guangzhou will be established to hold roundtable conferences regularly, carrying out discussions in pressing issues spanning graphene batteries, all solid state batteries, and ultralight materials.

New economy reshapes Guangzhou's future development pattern

 Update:2020-09-02    Source: chinadaily.com.cn

Guangzhou has been devoting efforts to developing its new economy to reshape its future development pattern in response to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the complex economic situation.

Guangzhou has continued to be committed to opening up. By early August, it has opened four new international China-Europe freight train routes. The China-Europe freight trains have sent off 2,870 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs), up 44.08 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2020, with the cargo transported weighing 14,442 metric tons, increasing by 63.43 percent.

The trade between Guangzhou and ASEAN countries has seen prosperous development since 2020 as the import and export volume between the two sides grew by 21.7 percent to 68.4 billion yuan ($10.03 billion) in the first half of 2020.

The city has also seen a full recovery of the exhibition industry following the disruption caused by the COVID-19 epidemic earlier in the year. Luo Zheng, an official from the Guangzhou municipal commerce bureau, said that the exhibition halls in Guangzhou's Pazhou area have undertaken more than 50 exhibitions from early July to Aug 25, attracting nearly 1 million exhibitors and visitors.

Guangzhou's total retail sales of consumer goods have seen sequential growth for three consecutive months since April.

Apart from developing its three traditional pillar industries, namely automobiles, petrochemicals, and electronic information manufacturing, Guangzhou has been focusing on the development of the new generation of information technology, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine.

Guangzhou to hold international colloquium on Greater Bay Area development

 Update:2020-09-04    Source: Newsgd.com

An international colloquium (an important academic meeting to ask questions and create answers) on the economic development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is about to kick off on September 5th, during which global scholars will shed light into the industrial development after the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the emerging challenges of global trade.

Organized by the Guangdong University of Finance & Economic (GDUFE), the colloquium will have 14 high-profile scholars from the Greater Bay Area, US, UK and Australia to present on topics closely related to the GBA development and post-pandemic economy.

Yu Haifeng, President of GDUFE, said this is the fourth year for the university to organize the colloquium but the first year to hold it online due to the ongoing global pandemic. “The colloquium has already attracted great attention in academia because countries are seeking effective strategies to revitalize the economy while the development of Greater Bay Area, a major engine of China’s economy, is gradually coming back on track.”

According to Yu, the participants are either representative scholars involving in global bay area research or entrepreneurs with working experience in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. “I believe our brainstorming will actively contribute to regional development and our global partnership,” said Yu.

Shen Minghao, Director of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Research Center of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies said he would discuss about the possibilities to build the Greater Bay Area an engine to drive the fourth industrial revolution at the colloquium. “I will focus on how to make good use of the resources in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and attract the world’s top-notch designers, researchers and producers of the intelligence industry.”

Shen Minghao considered this as a prospective topic as the fourth industrial revolution is about to come and the intelligence industry has been a global trend. “The Greater Bay Area is a major manufacturing center for intelligent hardware. If we look at the cellphone industry, the output in the Greater Bay Area takes up 60 percent of the total production in China and 40 percent around the globe. The area has also fostered a series of global brands such as Huawei, Tencent and DJI.”

Huang Qingan, Dean of International Business School of GDUFE, said universities provides an important platform for international exchanges. Teachers and students of the Greater Bay Area have the nature advantage to connect with global counterparts. He hopes people could seize opportunities to embrace the world and contribute to international communication and cooperation.

Plan issued for promoting urban integration between Guangzhou, Foshan

 Update:2020-09-04    Source: Newsgd.com

Guangzhou and Foshan recently issued an overall construction plan to establish a 629 square kilometers high-quality development integration pilot area for pushing urban integration in ecology, transportation, industry, culture and society.

Both Guangzhou and Foshan are located in the core area of the Pearl River Delta, which are geographically connected with the same historical heritage and culture. As for the economic aggregate, they are the second and third largest city in Guangdong, accounting for nearly 40% of the province's GDP volume.

According to the plan, the pilot area includes nine districts and one administrative committee of two cities, (Panyu District, Liwan District, Baiyun District, Huadu District, Nansha District in Guangzhou; Nanshai District, Shunde District, Sanshui District, Chancheng District and Sanlongwan high-end innovation administrative committee in Foshan). The total area is about 629 square kilometers, including 275 square kilometers in Guangzhou and 354 square kilometers in Foshan.The pilot area will promote a "1 + 4" integrated development pattern around the 197 km boundary between Guangzhou and Foshan. "1" refers to the Guangzhou South Railway Station-Foshan Sanlongwan-Liwan Hailong Area, "4" refers to the Huadu-Sanshui District, Baiyun-Nanhai District, Liwan - Nanhai District and Nansha-Shunde Districts.

Highlighting high-quality and integration, the plan proposes three goals in different phases. By 2022, initially, the pilot area will establish a framework for a cross-regional collaborative governance system, and become a policy innovation center for the Greater Bay Area.

Since the integrated development of Guangzhou and Foshan, the two cities have built 27 inter-city roads and 5 railways, one of which, the Guangfo Line helps to cut the travel time between the two cities from 90 minutes to 30 minutes.

Regarding traffic integration in the future, it plans to build 29 more inter-city roads for improving the integration of the public transportation system. The area will take advantage of an annual 200 million passenger flow brought by the Guangzhou South Railway, then build up a modern new town around the railway station.

In terms of industry, Guangzhou and Foshan have promoted exchanges in various fields such as automobile, medicine, and manufacturing. The number of industrial cooperation projects reached to 31 and 4,291 companies have achieved mutual investment.

Next, it will focus on the major areas of advanced equipment manufacturing, automobile, new-generation of information technology, bio-medicine and health, to establish a total of 30 industry platforms and several trillion RMB -level industrial clusters.

GAMECO, Boeing to jointly build second freighter conversion line

 Update:2020-09-11    Source: chinadaily.com.cn

GAMECO holds its first 737-800 BCF door-cutting ceremony at its Guangzhou base, South China's Guangdong province, June 16, 2020. 

A second freighter conversion line will be built in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province, Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Company Limited (GAMECO) and Boeing jointly announced on Wednesday.

The move comes after GAMECO started operations of the first production line of 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) project in June this year.

The new production line is expected to be put into use in 2021, which will allow GAMECO to significantly increase its production capacity to meet the surging demand for freighters.

Companies can extend service life of aircraft and better meet market demands by converting passenger airplanes to freighters. GAMECO and Boeing launched the first 737-800BCF production line work in Guangzhou last year amid the growing need in the air cargo market. The novel coronavirus epidemic this year has further increased the demand for freighters carrying vital medical supplies and equipment, and also has pushed airlines to shift more of their business to air cargo, Boeing said.

The world will see 2,820 freighters come to the civil aviation market in the next 20 years, including 1,220 standard-body passenger-to-freighter aircraft, according to Boeing. China is expected to account for 30 percent of global demand for standard-body freighters.

Guangzhou launches world's 1st internet arbitration standards

 Update:2020-09-21    Source: eguangzhou.gov.cn

The press conference for the launch of the "Guangzhou Standard."

The Guangzhou Arbitration Commission (GZAC) officially released its recommended standards for internet arbitration on Sept 10, which were the first of its kind around the world.

The standard will be shortened to "Guangzhou Standard" according to international conventions.

"GZAC has taken the lead in discovering and optimizing remote court hearings, giving full play to the advantages of internet technologies to bring convenience for both parties involved and the arbitrator," said an expert in civil law.

The expert added that remote court hearings allow people to solve disputes in a timely fashion due to the current COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures, greatly supporting the smooth operation of the local economy and society.

GZAC has handled a total of 276 foreign-related cases from August 2019 to August 2020, a year-on-year increase of 48.3 percent, of which nearly 80 percent of these cases were related to countries and regions alongside the Belt and Road.

GZAC established the first generation of its online arbitration platform for internet disputes in 2015 and launched a new platform in October 2019 that integrates online filing, remote court hearings, blockchain storage, and intellectual examinations, reducing the average closing time for a case to within around 20 days.

The "Guangzhou Standard" has now won support and recognition from many arbitration organizations in China and abroad. GZAC has signed memorandums of cooperation with arbitration organizations from 18 countries and regions, such as Singapore, South Korea, Hungary, Egypt, Thailand, and Iran, as well as several domestic ones to promote the "Guangzhou Standard."

"We will strive to keep in line with the highest standards around the world to turn GZAC into a global leading organization to make more contributions to the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Belt and Road," said a person in charge of GZAC.