An international communication center was launched in Shaoguan, Guangdong province, with the aim of promoting the city's overall development on the global stage.

Inside the electric power robotics laboratory of Guangdong Power Grid, a subsidiary of China Southern Power Grid (CSG), the de-icing robot Qingling moves steadily along transmission lines, removing ice with its high-frequency vibrating de-icing head.

Guangdong will further deepen reform and opening-up, expand both domestic and international openness, seize the abundant opportunities offered by the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and accelerate the building of a dynamic, internationally competitive first-class bay area and world-class urban cluster, said deputies to the National People's Congress.

China's manufacturing heartland Guangdong Province has set a GDP growth target of 4.5 percent to 5 percent for 2026, the opening year of the country's 15th Five-Year Plan, Guangdong Governor Meng Fanli said, pledging efforts to achieve better results in actual work.