What is Guangzhou trying to learn from Hangzhou and Jiaxing as the secretary of the Municipal Party Committee leads a research tour?

According to reports from Hangzhou Daily and Jiaxing Daily, on June 29, Feng Zhonghua, a member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, led a research team from Guangzhou to Hangzhou and Jiaxing for study and inspection.

During their stay in Hangzhou, the Guangzhou research team visited Yunqi Town and carefully inquired about the town's efforts in building a digital ecosystem and promoting innovative development. At the Hangzhou Urban Brain Operation and Command Center, the team visited the Urban Brain 2050 Exhibition Hall to learn about the practice of the Urban Brain empowering urban governance. The team also visited Zhijiang Laboratory and Tianmuli Park.

In Jiaxing, the research team went to Building A of Haining China Leather City. They conducted on - site visits to merchants selling leather clothing, furs, leather goods, and luggage, and carefully learned about their business models, management mechanisms, product innovation, and market development. Subsequently, the team entered the Haining Chaolai Cross - border Trade Center to conduct an in - depth investigation into the operation of the market procurement trade.

This research trip by Guangzhou is a targeted one aiming at "learning from the best and making up for deficiencies".

On the one hand, it focuses on the development of emerging industries.

Take Yunqi Town as an example. This digital hub, which originated from big data and cloud computing, is now transforming into the core platform for Hangzhou's commercial space industry, exploring a characteristic development path centered on the aerospace information industry with a digital foundation. Currently, more than 300 aerospace information ecological enterprises have gathered in Yunqi Town, focusing on various fields such as the research and development of core single - machine components in commercial space, space artificial intelligence, and space cloud computing.

This model of achieving industrial iteration relying on unique digital endowments undoubtedly has important reference significance for Guangzhou.

In the field of commercial space, the "Plan for Accelerating the Construction of an Advanced Manufacturing City in Guangzhou (2024 - 2035)" previously clearly stated that "by 2035, build a globally influential 'Space City' and a new pole of China's commercial space industry. A number of leading enterprises in intelligent aircraft and commercial space will emerge, and the industrial scale will be further expanded."

Currently, leading enterprises such as Zhongke Aerospace and Xinghe Power have gathered in Guangzhou, forming a full - chain layout from satellite manufacturing, rocket research and development, launch services to ground equipment and satellite applications. On this basis, how to strengthen the industrial chain from just being connected is exactly the proposition that Guangzhou needs to solve.

On the other hand, it is to promote the transformation of traditional industries.

Haining China Leather City is the largest and most influential professional leather market in China. Its experience in promoting the reconstruction of the industrial ecosystem through digital and intelligent means and accelerating the leap towards a four - in - one ecosystem of "integration of industry and city, internal and external linkage, digital and intelligent empowerment, and brand leadership" provides a sample for the transformation of professional markets.

This provides a "solution idea" for Guangzhou to solve the difficulties in the transformation of professional markets.

As the "Millennium Commercial Capital", Guangzhou has 508 professional markets, bringing together about 160,000 merchants, with an annual total transaction volume of over 1.5 trillion yuan, directly and indirectly driving 1.81 million people to be employed. However, transformation difficulties such as a single operation mode, lagging business functions, and insufficient digitalization level are also prominent.

In April this year, the "Action Plan for Accelerating the Transformation and Upgrading and High - quality Development of Professional Markets in Guangzhou (2026 - 2028)" was issued, proposing to promote the transformation of market operators from "landlords" to "service providers" in the directions of standardization, internationalization, and platformization, providing full - chain services such as supply chain, finance, and design, creating a composite consumption scenario integrating commerce, culture, tourism, and exhibitions, and helping Guangzhou's commercial brands expand from the domestic market to the global market.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Urban Evolution Theory", author: Liu Yanmei, published by 36Kr with authorization.