China’s State Council recently issued an overall plan for Nansha District of Guangzhou, one of the major cooperation platforms in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). A press conference which gathered officials of different government departments was held on June 28 to shed light on the plan as well as the future development of Nansha.

In 2021, the ratio of days with good air quality in Guangdong was 94.3%. And the average PM2.5 concentration has dropped to 22 micrograms per cubic meter, meeting the WHO phase 2 standard," Lu Xiulu, Director General of the Department of Ecology and Environment of Guangdong Province, announced at a press conference on June 23.

June 25 marks China's 32nd National Land Day. Just before the special day, Guangdong announced that the province aims to build a system for high-quality protection and efficient usage of natural resources by 2025.

The province has been actively disseminating Lingnan culture to the world, according to Cui Chaoyang, Deputy Director General of the Publicity Department of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee, at a press conference on June 17.

Since 2018, Guangdong has made remarkable achievements in the "One Core Region, One Belt and One Area Initiative". As the core region of the Pearl River Delta continues to enhance its development momentum, the Coastal Economic Belt has been better underpinned by its industries and the Northern Ecological Development Area has the increasingly salient advantages of green development.

Guangdong’s new regulation on improving business environment will take effect on July 1, and supporting policies are under consideration and will be issued in the second half of the year.

With sci-tech innovation as its high-quality development, Guangdong has ranked 1st in China for 5 years in a row in terms of regional innovation capacity, according to a press conference on the province's scientific and technological innovation achievements held on June 2.

The 13th Guangdong Provincial Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be held from May 22 to 25 in Guangzhou, according to a press conference on May 20.

The total value of imports and exports in Guangdong increased to 8.27 trillion RMB in 2021 from 6.3 trillion RMB in 2016, with an annual net growth of 1.2 trillion RMB and an increase of 16.7%, and the foreign investment in actual use registered 184 billion RMB, an increase of 13.6%, according to Zhang Jinsong, director general of Guangdong Department of Commerce, at a press conference on the socio-economic achievements of Guangdong held on the morning of May 12.

Guangdong has lifted 1.615 million impoverished people and 2,277 impoverished villages out of poverty, said Gu Xingwei, director-general of Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural areas at a press conference regarding the province's rural revitalization held Thursday.