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Guangdong authorities issued a policy package integrating fiscal and financial measures, covering strategic emerging industry funds, loan interest subsidies, policy insurance, financing guarantees, and risk compensation. It aims to lower financing costs, support key industries, boost consumption, and drive high-quality economic growth.

The "Hengqin-Macao Legal Connect" one-stop platform launches with a dual-section structure integrating cross-border litigation, arbitration, and notarization. It offers unified mobile access, bridging institutional and information gaps to deliver streamlined online legal support for residents and businesses.

The State Council unveiled a plan to boost service consumption, targeting transport, housekeeping, online audio-video, auto aftermarket, and inbound spending. It fosters new drivers like performances, sports events, and emotional/experiential services, enhancing supply through financial support and credit systems to improve quality and benefit people.

The 2026 Guangdong Action Plan for a First-Class International Business Environment aims to boost openness via enhanced urban services, trade facilitation, transport hubs, foreign investment access, and Guangdong-HK-Macao cooperation. These measures seek to build an efficient and inclusive ecosystem to support the province’s high-quality development.

Guangdong issued an inclusive finance plan with 17 tasks across six areas, offering comprehensive services. It debuts measures supporting agriculture, cross-border data verification, insurance for gig workers, and senior care investment.

The Guangdong‑Hong Kong‑Macao Greater Bay Area is accelerating its path toward becoming a global "preferred destination" for pharmaceutical innovation. Supported by policies such as the "Hong Kong‑Macao Drug and Medical Device Access Pathway" and an enhanced "basic + commercial" insurance system, it attracts leading global pharmaceutical companies, fostering an open, internationally‑connected, and synergistic innovation ecosystem.

The Hengqin‑Guangdong‑Macao Deep Cooperation Zone has optimized its MICE industry support policy, emphasizing the "one exhibition, two locations" model. The measures expand subsidies, strengthen key sector support, and promote green and smart transformation, fostering industrial synergy and talent attraction to support Macao's diversified economic development within the Greater Bay Area.

In 2025, Nanshan District is projected to exceed RMB1 trillion in GDP with growth over 6%, outpacing national, provincial, and municipal averages—making it China’s first trillion‑yuan district. Its industrial output, investment, consumption, and exports all rank first in the city within the Greater Bay Area, reinforcing its leading economic role.

On January 27, the Hong Kong Digital Policy Office, alongside Guangdong and Macao authorities, announced the establishment of a cross‑border government service self‑service zone in the Treasury Building. The zone provides Greater Bay Area residents with one‑stop access to Guangdong and Macao e‑government services via the "iAM Smart" platform and self‑service terminals.

Guangdong's processing trade imports and exports reached RMB1.95 trillion in 2025, marking their first positive growth in nearly four years with a 1.1% year-on-year increase. Private enterprises in the Greater Bay Area were particularly active, recording a 7.6% rise in trade volume.

Guangdong has introduced AI-driven measures to advance high-quality transportation development in the Greater Bay Area. The initiatives focus on enhancing data supply, computing networks, smart highways and ports, low-altitude applications, connected vehicles, and intelligent transport systems to deepen AI integration and improve efficiency and safety.

The Greater Bay Area achieved remarkable success during the 14th Five-Year Plan, with its economy expected to exceed 15 trillion yuan in 2025. In finance, "soft connectivity" stands out: 198 government services are cross-border accessible, and the Wealth Management Connect has attracted 175,000 investors with 129.2 billion yuan in fund flows, significantly boosting financial market integration across the region.

Over five years of mutual reinforcement between industry and technology, Guangdong has not only led regional innovation for nine consecutive years but also strived to build a globally influential industrial sci-tech innovation center. As a core engine, it strengthens corporate innovation, builds international platforms, and tackles key technologies, driving the Greater Bay Area to accelerate the development of new productive forces and world-class innovation hubs.

The Guangdong government released "Several Policies to Promote High-quality Transport Development via AI," aiming to transform the Greater Bay Area's transport system with AI. The policy enhances data and computing power supply, accelerates AI applications in roads, rail, ports, and low-altitude economy, boosting integrated smart connectivity and efficiency across the region.

By 2025, Guangdong's digital industry revenue exceeded 8 trillion yuan, maintaining its national lead. During the 14th Five-Year Plan, software revenue jumped from 1.36 to over 2.5 trillion yuan, HarmonyOS native devices surpassed 36 million, and over 132 provincial-level smart factories were certified. The province built the world's largest 5G network with 443,000 base stations.