Guangdong Province is one of the most populous and densely populated provinces in China. According to the population data released by the statistics department, at the end of 2007, the permanent population of Guangdong Province was 94.49 million (registered population was 8156.05 million), of which the urban population was 5,9661.00, the urbanization rate was 63 1.4%, and the population density reached 526/km2. Among the 56 ethnic groups in China, there are 53 in Guangdong, and the population of ethnic minorities accounts for about 1.4% of the total population in the province, mainly Zhuang, Yao, She, Hui and Manchu.
Guangdong Province is the forefront of China's reform and opening up. Reform and opening up have promoted Guangdong to form a new pattern of all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging opening up. Guangdong vigorously develops an open economy, adheres to the Scientific Outlook on Development, promotes industrialization through informationization, promotes economic prosperity, and has made remarkable achievements in various social undertakings.
(1) The comprehensive economic strength has been greatly improved.
Since the reform and opening up, Guangdong's national economy has developed rapidly and healthily, and the transformation of growth mode has achieved remarkable results, and the quality of economic development has steadily improved. The national economy initially showed a good development trend of low input, low consumption, low pollution, high growth and high efficiency, and the income of urban and rural residents continued to increase. In 2007, the province's gross national product reached 3,067.3 billion yuan, an average annual increase of 14.5% compared with 2002 and an increase of 14.5% over the previous year. The proportion in China has increased from 1/9 in 2002 to 1/8, and the total economic output has surpassed that of Singapore and China among the "four little dragons" in Asia. The per capita GDP exceeds $4,000. Fiscal revenue is in harmony with economic growth. Guangdong's total fiscal revenue increased from 280 billion yuan to 775 billion yuan, and local general budget revenue increased from 120 1 100 million yuan to 278.5 billion yuan, with an average annual increase of 2 1.4% and 19.5% respectively according to comparable caliber, with an increase of 34.7% in 2007 over the previous year. Industrial economic benefits have been greatly improved, and the total profits of industrial enterprises above designated size have increased by 3.4 times. The overall level of consumer prices has increased by 2.3% annually, maintaining a relatively reasonable level. Consumption and investment tend to be coordinated, and the total retail sales of social consumer goods reach105.98 billion yuan, with an average annual growth of14.5%; The investment in fixed assets of the whole society was 959.5 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 19.3%, keeping the investment growth rate lower than the national average.
(2) Significant progress has been made in industrial restructuring.
Guangdong's industrial layout and structure are becoming more and more reasonable, a modern industrial system has taken shape, and the trend of industrial upgrading and moderate emphasis is obvious. The output value of high-tech products increased from 470 billion yuan in 2002 to 1.87 trillion yuan in 2007, and the upgrading of electronic information and household appliances industries accelerated. The added value ratio of light and heavy industries was adjusted to 39∶6 1, and the leading role of the nine industries was enhanced. The Pearl River Delta automobile industry cluster led by GAC has basically taken shape. The construction of large petrochemical industries and coastal petrochemical bases has been steadily advanced. The production capacity of automobiles, oil refining and ethylene ranks in the forefront of the country, and new breakthroughs have been made in the manufacturing of key equipment such as ships, energy equipment and CNC machine tools. The development of Chinese medicine industry has accelerated. The pace of optimization and upgrading of specialized towns and industrial clusters has been accelerated. The scale of service industry expanded rapidly, and the added value of tertiary industry increased from 634.4 billion yuan to 1.3 trillion yuan. Modern service industries such as logistics, finance, information, exhibitions and so on have developed rapidly. Tourism is booming, with total tourism revenue exceeding 240 billion yuan, and foreign exchange income from tourism accounts for 1/5 of the whole country. Guangdong International Tourism and Culture Festival has achieved remarkable results. The added value of agriculture reached 654.38+074.6 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 3.8%.
(3) Independent innovation has achieved remarkable results.
Good progress has been made in the construction of innovative Guangdong, and the comprehensive index of regional innovation capability has ranked third in the country for many years. The contribution rate of scientific and technological progress to economic growth increased from 45.8% in 2002 to more than 50% in 2007. Cooperating with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology to promote cooperation in Industry-University-Research, more than 465,438+000 projects were implemented in 2007. Together with the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China was established, and the joint bidding between Guangdong and Hong Kong was carried out, which broke through a number of core key technologies in the fields of high-end home appliances and biomedicine. The number of patent applications and authorizations continues to be the first in China, and the number of invention patent applications has jumped to the first in China since 2005. The brand-driven strategy has achieved fruitful results. The number of China famous brand products, national inspection-free products and China famous trademarks increased from 35, 1 18 and 27 to 299, 665 and 108, respectively, and four China world famous brand products were obtained, ranking first in the country. The technical standards strategy has achieved remarkable results, and participated in the formulation and revision of international standards 107 and 2295 national standards and industry standards. A multi-level scientific and technological innovation platform system has basically taken shape.
(4) Major strides have been made in infrastructure construction.
In the past five years, Guangdong Province has arranged 292 key projects, of which 197 projects have been completed or partially put into operation, with a cumulative investment of 583.5 billion yuan, which greatly improved the level of transportation and communication infrastructure and the ability to ensure energy and electricity. The total mileage of expressways reached 3,520 kilometers, nearly 1 times higher than that in 2002. All prefecture-level expressways are connected with cities, and all provinces (regions) connected with land are opened, basically forming a four-hour economic life circle centered on Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Construction of 10 railway projects such as Guangdong section of Wuhan-Guangzhou Passenger Dedicated Line started, with a total mileage exceeding 1000 km. The construction of the thousand-ton backbone waterway network in the Pearl River Delta has been accelerated, and the layout of the province's port system has been gradually improved. Newly-added refined oil pipeline1250km. The installed power generation capacity reached 59.32 million kilowatts, a net increase of 23.44 million kilowatts compared with 2002, and the power grid investment was 90.7 billion yuan. The scale and users of communication networks are growing rapidly. Urban and rural water conservancy disaster prevention and mitigation projects are progressing smoothly.
(E) The construction of green Guangdong has achieved remarkable results.
Guangdong province has made solid progress in energy conservation and emission reduction. In 2006, the energy consumption per unit GDP and industrial added value were 63.9% and 4 1. 1% of the national average respectively, ranking the second lowest and the lowest level in China, and continued to decrease in 2007. In the past two years, the total emissions of sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand have been declining. The environmental protection plan of the whole province and the Pearl River Delta has been fully implemented, and the pollution control, cleaning and comprehensive improvement projects in the Pearl River have been effectively promoted. The centralized treatment rate of urban domestic sewage and the harmless treatment rate of garbage are expected to reach 50% and 60% respectively. The environmental quality of the whole province remained generally stable. 2 1 prefecture-level city's air quality has reached the national secondary standard, and the water quality of major rivers and important reservoirs is good. The effect of saving intensive land is obvious, and the new construction land per 100 million yuan of GDP in five years is expected to decrease by 60% compared with the previous five years. The construction of forestry ecological province has been accelerated, the forest coverage rate has reached 55.9%, and the urban and rural environment has been improved. Shaoguan Danxia Mountain and Zhanjiang Huguangyan were rated as World Geoparks.
(VI) The coordination between urban and rural development and regional development has been enhanced.
The construction of a new socialist countryside in Guangdong Province has been solidly promoted, and the overall development pattern of urban and rural areas has taken shape. Grain production has remained stable in the case of successive years of disasters, and modern agriculture, benefit agriculture and agricultural industrialization have accelerated. The total marine economy ranks first in the country. Rural infrastructure construction has been continuously strengthened, and the living environment has been improved. Abolish the agricultural tax in an all-round way, vigorously clean up the charges related to agriculture, and greatly reduce the burden on farmers. The vitality of rural development has been significantly enhanced, and the growth rate of investment and consumption is higher than that of cities and towns. The county economy has developed rapidly, and the pace of industrialization and urbanization in mountainous areas has accelerated. In recent years, the average annual growth rate of GDP and local general budget revenue in 67 counties (cities) and 5 mountainous cities is higher than the provincial average. The development of the east and west wings has accelerated. The development of ethnic areas has accelerated. * * * The industrial transfer industrial park has achieved remarkable results, and the industrial transfer belt around the Pearl River Delta has initially taken shape. The Pearl River Delta industry has been optimized and upgraded, and its overall strength has been enhanced. The radiation effect of central cities is outstanding.
(7) The state-owned economy and private economy developed rapidly.
The new state-owned assets supervision system and operation system have been basically established. The reform and reorganization of state-owned enterprises with the reform of property rights system as the core has made positive progress, the layout and structure of state-owned economy have been further optimized, and its control, influence and driving force have been significantly enhanced. The profits of state-owned and state-holding enterprises increased by 1.39 times in five years. The development of private economy has achieved leap-forward development, and it has become a new force to stimulate economic growth, increase taxes, make scientific and technological progress and promote the development of county economy. The total number of individual industrial and commercial households and private enterprises exceeded 3.4 million, an increase of 654.38+400,000 compared with 2002. The added value and tax revenue realized by private economy increased from 526.5 billion yuan and 53.6 billion yuan in 2002 to 1.28 trillion yuan and 1.74 billion yuan in 2007, accounting for 40% and nearly 30% of the whole province respectively. Successfully held four China (International) SME Expositions.
(8) The pace of building a strong foreign trade and economic cooperation province has been accelerated.
The growth mode of foreign trade has gradually changed, import and export tend to develop in a balanced way, and the market diversification pattern has been further formed. The total import and export volume increased from $22 1 1 billion in 2002 to $634 billion in 2007, a five-year increase of 1.9 times, and an increase of 20.2% in 2007 over the previous year. Mechanical and electrical products and high-tech products have become the leading export products, and the proportion of general trade exports has increased from 18.3% to 28.4%. The transformation and upgrading of processing trade accelerated, and the domestic added value rate reached 56.6%. The scale and quality of foreign investment have improved simultaneously, and the accumulated actual utilization of foreign investment has reached 70 billion US dollars. The investment of developed countries and multinational companies has gradually risen to the dominant position, and foreign capital is concentrated in high-tech industries, heavy chemical industries and modern service industries. The strategy of "going out" was accelerated, and non-financial enterprises 1804 were established in more than 90 countries and regions. Foreign investment and project contracting have developed rapidly. Exchanges and cooperation with ASEAN have further developed. The port work and the construction of "great customs clearance" have achieved remarkable results.
(9) The regional cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and the Pan-Pearl River Delta has achieved remarkable results.
We will fully implement CEPA, carry out all-round and multi-level cooperation between Hong Kong and Macao, and further improve the cooperation mechanism. Manufacturing and service industries cooperate with each other, and the scale of investment and trade continues to expand. Cross-border large-scale infrastructure construction is progressing smoothly, and cooperation in the field of social and people's livelihood continues to deepen. Pan-Pearl River Delta regional cooperation has been solidly promoted. Cooperation mechanisms such as the joint meeting of chief executives have been established, and regional cooperation and development plans have been formulated and implemented. Four Pan-Pearl River Delta forums and economic and trade fairs were successfully held, and cooperation in various fields was further promoted. Strengthen economic and trade cooperation with provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and actively carry out aid to Tibet and Xinjiang and counterpart support. Guangdong-Taiwan economic and trade cooperation has achieved remarkable results.
(10) Social undertakings such as education, health, sports, population and family planning have developed in an all-round way, and the construction of a harmonious Guangdong has achieved initial results.
Guangdong province pays attention to the investment in education, health, culture, employment, social security and rural housing projects, and has basically established a social security system with social insurance as the main body and comprehensive development of social relief and social welfare, and the social security system has accelerated its coverage to urban and rural residents. We will improve the employment assistance system for zero-employment families, carry out in-depth skills training for millions of rural youth, the project of starting a business to get rich, the project of intellectual poverty alleviation and the project of training high-skilled personnel, and start the project of vocational skills training for retired soldiers and the project of upgrading the skills of migrant workers. The number of people participating in pension, unemployment, medical care and industrial injury insurance continued to expand, ranking first in the country. Take the lead in fully implementing the funding guarantee mechanism for rural compulsory education in China. People's living standards have been continuously improved, and various social undertakings have made all-round progress. In 2007, the per capita disposable income of urban residents and the per capita net income of rural residents in the province reached 17699 yuan and 5624 yuan respectively; The scale of high school education has expanded rapidly, with the number of students increasing from 6.5438+0.8 million in 2002 to 3.06 million in 2007, and the gross enrollment rate has increased from 44.7% to 65.4%. Vocational and technical education has developed rapidly. Higher education has developed by leaps and bounds. The number of ordinary colleges and universities has increased to 109, the number of students has increased from 468,000 to1120,000, the gross enrollment rate has increased from 15.3% to 25.6%, private education has developed in a standardized way, quality education has been effectively promoted, and the quality of education and teaching has been improved. The strategy of strengthening the province with talents has been thoroughly implemented, and the mechanism for introducing and using talents has been continuously improved. The public health system has been further improved.
Guangdong's social and economic development is sustained and healthy, but there are still some restrictive factors, such as unreasonable economic structure, weak independent innovation ability, prominent contradiction between resources and environment constraints, large increase in food and housing prices, increasing farmers' income and increasing agricultural efficiency, and unbalanced development between urban and rural areas and regions.
At present, both at home and abroad have entered a new era of scientific development, economic globalization has deepened, international industrial transfer has accelerated, and scientific and technological progress has changed with each passing day. The world economy will still maintain rapid growth. The domestic society is stable, the macro-control effect is gradually emerging, regional cooperation such as the Pan-Pearl River Delta is accelerated, and the economic and social development momentum is good. Guangdong Province is in a critical period when its economic and social development has turned into a scientific development track in an all-round way, facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. At the new historical starting point, Guangdong must continue to emancipate its mind, unswervingly implement Scientific Outlook on Development, take Scientific Outlook on Development as the overall leader of economic and social development, solidly promote the construction of a harmonious socialist society, accelerate the transformation of growth mode, accelerate independent innovation, accelerate the development of social undertakings, deepen reform and opening up, seriously solve people's livelihood problems, and further promote the construction of a strong economic and cultural province. Rule of law society, harmonious Guangdong, so as to realize the prosperity and well-being of the people in the province.