Guangdong is a leading industrial province. In recent years, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government have issued documents on industrial industrial restructuring, improving industrial industrial competitiveness, and the development plan of nine industries, etc., to speed up the support of pillar industries, so that the industrial structure of the province's industrial industry has been gradually rationalized.
Today, Guangdong's electronic information, electrical machinery, petrochemicals, textiles and garments, food and beverages, building materials, paper, pharmaceuticals, automobiles and other nine pillar industries of the province's industrial growth of the dominant role of the growing electronic information, electrical machinery and special-purpose equipment, petrochemicals, the three emerging pillar industries to maintain a strong momentum of development, textiles and garments, food and beverages, building materials, the three traditional pillar industries The three traditional pillar industries of textile and garment, food and beverage, and construction materials are developing steadily, and the three potential industries of papermaking, medicine, and automobile are developing rapidly, and the structure tends to be optimized. 2004, the nine industries completed the industrial added value of 504,315,000,000 Yuan, up 24.7% year-on-year, and the contribution rate of the province's industrial growth was 75.8%. Guangdong Province is now accelerating the strategic adjustment of economic structure, a variety of industries breeding more investment opportunities, will bring investors good development opportunities and lucrative returns.
1. Electronic information industry
Guangdong's electronic information industry scale ranks first in the country, has become China's and the world's most important IT product production base in 2004, Guangdong Province, the electronic information industry to continue to maintain the status of the first pillar industry is to pull the province's economic growth of an important force. The province has more than 20 enterprises to enter the ranks of the top 100 national electronic enterprises.
Guangdong's electronic information industry has formed a number of key products: in the communications equipment manufacturing industry, program-controlled switches, optical communications products have a high cost-effective advantage; in the electronics manufacturing industry, color tube, discrete devices and other products leading the country's competitiveness; in the electronic components manufacturing industry, PCB, SMT and other products have an important position in the country. In the software industry, embedded software accounts for more than half of the proportion in the country.
Guangdong's information industry is mainly concentrated in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, with Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Dongguan, Huizhou, Foshan and Zhongshan as the main body, forming the famous electronic information industry corridor.
2. Electrical machinery industry
Guangdong has formed to Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Foshan and other cities with a better foundation of equipment manufacturing industry as the center, radiation in the Pearl River Delta, driving the east and west wings **** with the development of electrical machinery industry cluster. Has a number of advantageous products in the domestic market share.
Guangdong machinery industry industry production growth and efficiency; further expansion of overseas markets; accelerate the pace of new product development; a number of key enterprises to significantly improve economic efficiency; product exports ranked first in the country, the total volume of industry has been ranked among the forefront of the country.
Guangdong's home appliance industry in the national home appliance industry occupies a pivotal position, is China's and the world's important home appliance export base. Guangdong's home appliances have a complete range of categories and varieties, developed production support, excellent product quality, active development of new products, production, exports, competitiveness continues to occupy a leading position in the country. In the home audio-visual equipment manufacturing industry, color TV, laser disc player and combined audio product competitiveness are ranked first in the country.
Guangdong Province, home appliance industry, industrial clusters mature, cultivated a number of core enterprises and renowned brands. For example, Gree and Midea in the air-conditioning industry, Kelong in the refrigerator industry, Grandstar in the microwave oven industry, and TCL and Konka in the color TV industry. The Pearl River Delta has formed an industrial cluster of home appliances and an export processing zone with its own characteristics.
3. Petrochemical Industry
Guangdong's petrochemical industry is among the largest in China. The output of major products such as crude oil processing, gas, coal and diesel oil, ethylene, synthetic resins, paints, rubber shoes, etc. are among the top three in the country. 2004, Guangdong's petrochemical industry continued to maintain a steady growth.
Guangdong petrochemical industry is mainly concentrated in Maoming, Guangzhou, Huizhou and Zhanjiang. Maoming Petrochemical, Guangzhou Petrochemical and Zhanjiang Dongxing are the three major backbone refining enterprises in Guangdong Province, and the first two are also the two famous ethylene producers in Guangdong Province. 2005, Huizhou 12 million tons/year of refining and 800,000 tons/year of ethylene project was completed and put into operation, becoming the third largest refining and chemical center in Guangdong after Maoming and Guangzhou.
The three major oil companies, Sinopec, PetroChina and CNOOC, have made Guangdong the focus of their strategic layout for business development. This will be an excellent opportunity for Guangdong to develop its upstream refining industry and drive the development of its downstream petrochemical industry.
4. Textile and Garment Industry
Guangdong is the country's largest textile production and export province. It is also the world's third largest garment export base. Guangdong Province, the textile industry, major categories of products, varieties, quality, brand and industrial output value, sales and other indicators are leading the country. 2004, Guangdong clothing, textile exports amounted to 17.827 billion U.S. dollars.
The development of textile industry clustering has become a major feature of the development of Guangdong's textile industry and an important source of industrial competitiveness. Guangdong's textile and apparel clustering development advantage is mainly manifested in the specialized production has formed a "block" industry. Specialized production of small, small and specialized, coordinated with each other. Such as Zhongshan's casual wear, Dongguan's clothing, wool knitting, Foshan's fabrics, knitting, children's clothing, underwear, Jieyang (Puning) shirts and other products at home and abroad enjoy a good reputation.
Guangdong Province, the textile industry key clusters are mainly concentrated in the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Jiangmen and other cities belonging to more than 40 towns (districts).
5. Food and beverage industry
Guangdong is China's food and beverage industry production and export province. Guangdong food industry attaches importance to technological transformation and the introduction, digestion and absorption of foreign advanced technology, providing a reliable foundation for the food industry to level up and maintain quality. Certain industries and products such as beverages, baked foods, health care products and condiments have been maintaining a leading position in the country, with obvious advantages, and a large number of famous brand products have been formed.
In 2004, Guangdong's food industry realized a cumulative total industrial output value of 165 billion yuan, accounting for 1/9 of the province's total industrial output value, an increase of 25%; the catering industry realized 100 billion yuan of operating income, an increase of 15%, the food and beverage industry has become one of Guangdong Province's veritable pillar industries.
6. Building materials industry
Guangdong is China's major province of building materials production, the industry's largest national scale, the total economic volume ranked first in the country. Guangdong Province, the building materials industry has developed into a more complete categories, product supporting capacity and has a considerable scale and level of important industries.
Guangdong building materials have formed a number of distinctive, at home and abroad have a certain impact on the product agglomeration, such as Foshan ceramics, Foshan (Shunde) architectural coatings, Foshan (Dali) aluminum profiles, Chaozhou sanitary ware, Yunfu stone, Jiangmen (Kaiping) plumbing and sanitary ware, etc.. Guangdong building materials are rich in variety, new product development speed, especially in the decorative materials, is in a leading position in the country, very conducive to the improvement of industrial competitiveness.
Guangdong building materials enterprises of the privatization, market-oriented higher degree of further development of export-oriented economy, active export trade, building materials exports accounted for more than 30% of the total national exports, ranking first in the country. Advantageous products building ceramics exports in recent years the average annual growth rate of more than 70%. 12 Chinese ceramic brand-name enterprises in Guangdong accounted for 8, the brand-name ceramic enterprises in the market development capacity, market share and so on have a greater advantage.
7. Paper industry
Guangdong Province has been the country's paper and paper products production of pivotal province. Currently the only national paper industry, the State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering and set production, learning, research, science, industry and trade in one of the National Research Center in Guangdong.
Guangdong paper industry because of the location of the advantages are very obvious, most of the region belongs to the subtropical warm humid monsoon climate, abundant rainfall, very suitable for the creation of artificial fast-growing productive forests for the development of the paper industry to provide practical fiber raw material resources and water resources to ensure that in recent years, foreign investors have to enter the Guangdong Province to invest in timber production and wood pulp mills.
Guangdong has initially formed the Pearl River Delta as the core of the paper industry clusters. Industrial clusters are mainly located in Guangzhou, Dongguan, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhuhai, Shenzhen and Zhanjiang and other areas, gathered nearly 80% of the province's enterprises. Guangdong paper industry has entered the orbit of large-scale development, has a number of nationally renowned paper enterprises.
Guangdong paper industry in the scale, equipment, efficiency, technology, quality, management and other aspects of the strong province is moving forward. The goal is to reach 11 million tons of paper and paperboard production by 2010, and commercial pulp production reached 850,000 tons.
8. Pharmaceutical industry
Guangdong is a large province of medicine, the overall strength of the country's forefront. Traditional Chinese medicine, chemical pharmaceutical preparations, biopharmaceutical products in the field of the country's leading position. Medical equipment in some of the higher technical content of the product field has formed a certain advantage. 2004 Guangdong pharmaceutical industry sales revenue and profits in the country's total volume of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, the value-added increase of 3.7%. Guangdong Province, the concentration of the pharmaceutical industry is higher than the national average level, with market scale advantage, concentration within the industry continues to improve, the industrial structure is in the process of optimization. Has initially formed the chemical pharmaceutical, traditional Chinese medicine, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, pharmaceutical business and other relatively complete pharmaceutical industry system. There are a number of comprehensive large-scale pharmaceutical enterprises. They play a pivotal role in China's pharmaceutical economy.
Guangdong Province has also made great progress in the field of chemical pharmaceutical preparations. In the development and marketing of new chemical drug preparations, it has become highly competitive, and its overall strength is at the leading level of the country. Biopharmaceutical enterprises such as Shenzhen Kexing, Kangtai, Guangzhou Tianpu Biochemical and other biopharmaceutical enterprises and medical device enterprises such as Anke and Myriad have strong market competitiveness in their respective fields
9. Automobile industry
Guangdong automobile vehicle industrial value added, industrial profits, sales revenue and other related comprehensive economic indicators of the automobile industry ranked in the forefront of the national industry. In recent years, Guangdong Province is committed to creating a favorable investment environment, expanding the attraction of foreign investment to adjust the structure of the automobile industry, automobile production scale continues to expand, the production capacity has been effectively enhanced. Honda, Isuzu, Nissan, Toyota and other famous foreign automobile manufacturers have settled in Guangdong.
Guangdong has become the largest automobile production base in South China. By 2004, Guangdong Province had 432 automobile enterprises, with an annual output and sales volume of more than 290,000 automobiles and 3.7 million motorcycles. The industry realized a total industrial output value of 71.2 billion yuan. Guangzhou has been formed as the manufacturing center, cars as the focus, parts and components as the basis, buses and modified special vehicles as a complementary automotive industry production pattern, as well as a strong product development capabilities and export competitiveness of the motorcycle industry cluster. Guangdong's high-grade cars have a strong market competitiveness.
With the development of the automobile industry, a large number of parts and components suppliers have gathered in Guangdong. The Pearl River Delta region has become a cluster of automobile industry, and has formed a number of large auto parts supporting bases such as Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone, and Huadu.
Source: Guangdong Provincial People's Government website
Guangdong special food culture
Cantonese cuisine, as one of the eight major cuisines in China, is especially famous for its wide range of ingredients. In Cantonese cuisine, birds and beasts, mountain treasures and sea food, wild vegetables and flowers, nothing can not be included in the dishes, snakes, rats, sparrows, insects, dogs, cats, etc., in other cuisines jaw-dropping selection of materials, but was served as a treasures of the table. Such as snake is the people of other provinces do not dare to enter the mouth, such as the ancient times, there is a "cup bow snake shadow" idiom, even mistakenly thought the shadow of the snake reflected in the wine glass to be scared sick, not to mention eating. In Cantonese cuisine, snake is the best choice of material, Cantonese people eat snake, can be said to have a long history, but in Cantonese cuisine is the best choice of material, "South Vietnam," there is a snake eating song: "boa boa snake, both Hong and long, Bing Heng Jia Banquet, is the bean is the goblet." Nowadays, there are nearly 50 kinds of snake dishes in Guangdong, and there are many restaurants that use snake as the basic dish. Many foreigners and outsiders who come to Guangdong will taste snake dishes as a quick treat.
In fact, the Cantonese character of not eating anything is the reflection of their open-mindedness in food. As the saying goes, "one side of the water and soil nurtures one side of the people, and different geographical environments create different regional personalities. Guangdong is the place where Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges must pass through, forming an open-minded structure of the Guangdong people, and at the same time, due to the location of the frontier, successive dynasties on its control than the mainland weak, less influenced by the orthodox feudalism, the traditional culture of the Central Plains of the influence on it is constantly fading, so as to have a greater degree of freedom and accommodating power.
Broadly speaking practical
Cantonese cuisine was formed in the Qin and Han Dynasties, it is based on the local food culture, absorbing the essence of the domestic Beijing, Lu, Su, Sichuan and other cuisines and Western cooking techniques, such as Cantonese cuisine in the bubble, steak, Sichuan is the north of the explosion, steak, blanch in the transplantation of the pan-frying, deep-frying and other methods are borrowed from the Western food, and gradually formed the unique flavor of the southern country.
Any similar culture, can be explored from the history of contact with the relationship between the same things in the two places in comparison, the greater the qualitative similarity, the more significant the mutual dissemination. The openness of Guangdong culture is bound to have compatibility, thus making the food culture inclusive and promoting the development of food customs without realizing it.
Guangdong dietary practices in the broader collection of the best at the same time, can gradually abandon some of the bad habits of foreign food, the formation of not luxury, practical style. Guangdong people's diet, pay attention to the less refined, even if the feast guests, but also never wasteful, to eat, eat well as the principle, which is a sharp contrast with some places in the north of the feast. The northern people's extravagance is precisely due to the etiquette of the formalities, which certainly has its bold and lovely side, but it should be more to see that the dietary red tape can not be accepted for the behavior of the modern society. Of course, this does not mean that the Guangdong people do not attach importance to etiquette, on the contrary, the Guangdong people invite guests to pay great attention to politeness, so that the guests come to enjoy themselves, and the kind of detachment from the actual pomp and circumstance, is pragmatic Guangdong people do not want to do.
Cantonese people now eating style on the pragmatic spirit, is the inevitable result of the development of modern society. Guangdong people do not want fame, pay attention to the actual, Confucian culture focuses on the form of reticence and other spirit of Guangdong's influence is not deep, on the contrary, they are subject to the West's realistic attitude of inculcation. This influence has shaped the Guangdong people's ability to learn from the best of the best, yet maintain a pragmatic attitude towards food and drink.
The pursuit of enjoyment
The production of a delicious dish depends on the methodical collaboration between various links, and Cantonese cuisine has very strict requirements for ingredients, knifework, fire, cooking time, starting pots and pans, wrapping tails, utensils, and the way of serving food, among other things. Such as fish to pay attention to the killing that is cooking, so as to maintain the freshness of the fish; and then the production of its platter, must pay attention to the choice of ingredients, in order to achieve the effect of beautiful shape, rich flavor, a good platter, not only a plate of delicacies, but also a piece of art, so that the people pleasing to the eye, the appetite.
In Cantonese cuisine, the most seen in the master's production efforts than chicken dishes, where hundreds of kinds of more, allowing guests to taste dozens of kinds of chicken dishes and never repeat the feeling that almost every famous restaurant has its own creation of the signature chicken, such as Guangzhou Restaurant Wenchang chicken, Beiyuan Restaurant's flower carving chicken, Foshan's Chu Hau Chicken, Qingyuan's white chicken, etc., the list goes on and on, each with its own unique characteristics. Such as white cut chicken, must use small hen or castrated chicken, to Qingyuan three yellow chicken for the best, the production of the most important is the fire, to just cooked, cut the two leg bones are still slightly with the blood of the appropriate, if the fire, the meat becomes old, it will lose the characteristics of the white cut chicken smooth and tasty.
The delicacy of food production is inseparable from the culture of Cantonese people, which emphasizes personal values and the pursuit of enjoyment. Enjoyment is not a one-sided pursuit of food, drink and pleasure; it belongs to the category of morality and corresponds to asceticism. Asceticism rejects earthly wealth and enjoyment and suppresses desires in order to achieve certain social goals or moral self-improvement. In terms of moral types, Cantonese culture does not belong to asceticism, but shows a tendency towards enjoymentism, full of worldly hedonistic human nature and moods, manifested in the pursuit of comfort, pleasure, and the good life, with the aim of working hard and enjoying oneself to the fullest. The word "enjoyment" has always been given a derogatory meaning in Chinese culture, always associating it with getting something for nothing, thinking that enjoyment is the lifestyle of the bourgeoisie, and it seems that only the bourgeoisie are qualified to enjoy. In fact, enjoyment is a very advanced way of human existence, an inevitable cultural choice when human civilization develops to a certain level.
Since the reform and opening up, Guangdong's dietary practices have developed to a higher level, which has had a strong impact on traditional values, and the traditional Confucian concept of "the gentleman is poor" and is content to live in "little food and drink" has been seriously challenged. Confucianism takes integrity as the only criterion for measuring personality and the keeping of poverty as a symbol of adherence to integrity, and the essence of this idea is to limit human beings to the lowest standard of living. The Cantonese in the tide of reform realized that it was desirable not to live in luxury, but poverty should never be used as a criterion for determining integrity, which enabled them to liberalize their thinking and go on a courageous quest for ever-higher standards of living.
Dietary practices are an important cultural phenomenon. Food is not just an organic substance that can be utilized by human beings to sustain life, but for every kind of food and the way it is consumed, it also needs to be culturally labeled as agreeable in terms of its reliability. Similarly, the choice of food made by Cantonese people is the result of the long-term influence of their culture. Culinary reform and innovation, can be a lot of changes, but all changes do not change, must be based on culture, in order to be able to be accepted and liked by the people.