Guangdong's priorities for 15th Five-Year Plan

Editor's note: From 2026 to 2030, Guangdong will advance 19 key areas across the GBA, modern industry, innovation, opening-up, green transition and livelihoods to drive high-quality development. The chart below outlines these focus areas.

1. Build a World-Class Bay Area & City Cluster

Build the GBA International Sci-Tech Innovation Center

Tap areas such as Hengqin, Qianhai, Nansha, and Hetao as key cooperation platforms

Drive high-quality urban development

Boost province-wide coordinated development

2. Develop a Modern Industrial System

Upgrade traditional industries: electronics; chemical; machinery; light; home appliances; food; building materials; textiles; metallurgy; mining; shipbuilding

Improve emerging industries: new energy; new materials; intelligent connected vehicles; intelligent robots; pharmaceuticals and medical devices; aerospace; integrated circuits; low-altitude economy; bio-manufacturing

Strengthen future industries: 6G communications; embodied intelligence; cell and gene therapy; deep-sea exploration; brain science and brain-computer interfaces; hydrogen energy; quantum technology; nuclear energy

Promote high-quality and efficient development of the service sector

Promote industrial foundations and modernize industrial chains

3. Foster New Quality Productive Forces

Build a world-class cluster of major scientific and technological infrastructure

Strengthen industry-demand-oriented efforts and make breakthroughs in core technologies

Frontier Tech: brain science and brain-computer interfaces; quantum science and technology

Key areas: AI; bio-manufacturing; intelligent robotics; pharmaceuticals and medical devices; integrated circuits; low-altitude and commercial aerospace; industrial machine tools; communications and networking; high-end instruments; marine; basic software; biological breeding; advanced materials

Deepen the integration of scientific, technological, and industrial innovation

Foster talent in education, science and technology

4. Step up Digital Guangdong

Key areas: manufacturing; healthcare; energy; education; transportation; agriculture; urban development; water conservancy; emergency response; settlements

5. Improve Infrastructure System

Strengthen infrastructure development

Build modern transportation, new energy, and water security systems

6. Unlock Market Potential

Vigorously boost consumption

Expand effective investment

Build a unified national market

7. Establish a High-Standard Socialist Market Economy

Stimulate the vitality of all types of market entities

Improve market-based resource allocation

Foster a first-class business environment

Deepen fiscal and taxation reform

8. Remain Committed to Opening-Up

Expand institutional opening-up

Drive innovative development of foreign trade

Promote high-quality development of two-way investment

Build a growth engine for the Belt and Road Initiative

9. Build Guangdong into a Leading Province in Finance

Develop a modern financial system

Optimize financial services

Expand high-level opening-up of the financial sector

Safeguard financial security

10. Promote Coordinated Urban-Rural Development

Advance agricultural modernization

Develop county-level economies

Build beautiful villages

Improve mechanisms for coordinated urban-rural and regional development

11. Build Guangdong into a Strong Maritime Province

Optimize the spatial layout for marine economic development

Build a modern maritime industrial system

Improve supporting systems for marine economic development

12. Develop a Green & Beautiful Guangdong

Steadily pursue and achieve carbon peaking

Keep total carbon emissions and emission intensity under control

Carbon peaking target: before 2030

Enhance ecological and environmental governance capacity

Advance the development of a Green and Beautiful Guangdong

Advance the green transition of development patterns

13. Build Guangdong into a Culturally Strong Province

Practice and promote the core socialist values

Develop cultural programs and tourism

Enhance cultural influence

Enhance the global reach and influence of culture

14. Build Guangdong into a Province with High-Quality Education

Implement the project of fostering virtue through education

Build a high-quality education system

15. Build a Healthy Guangdong

Improve the public-health system

Build a balanced medical and healthcare service system

Develop the biomedicine industry

Build a province strong in sports

16. Promote High-Quality Population Development

Promote appropriate fertility levels

Boost the development of childcare services and elderly care

17. Make Greater Efforts to Ensure & Improve People's Wellbeing

Improve the multi-tiered social security system

Promote high-quality development of the real-estate sector

Advance equal access to public services

18. Build the Rule of Law in Guangdong

Strengthen legislation

Exercise law-based administration and impartial administration of justice

Build a society based on the rule of law

19. Advance Peaceful Guangdong Initiative

Develop the national-security system

Safeguard security in key economic sectors

Elevate public-security governance capacity

Strengthen and innovate social governance