Guangdong, a manufacturing heartland and leading foreign trade player in the country, has its GDP exceed 12 trillion yuan in 2021, which was the first province in China.
Guangdong's GDP reached 12.4 trillion yuan last year, a year-on-year increase of 8%, putting the two-year average growth at 5.1 percent. According to Wang Weizhong, the acting governor of Guangdong, when delivered the government work report on the Fifth Session of the 13th Guangdong Provincial People's Congress today (January 20).