Guangdong: Sticking to platform-led, content-empowered, and ecosystem-coordinated approach to create an internet industry hub with global influence.

The People's Government of Guangdong Province issued a notification on the implementation plan for promoting the expansion and improvement of the service industry in Guangdong Province, which mentions the commitment to platform leadership, content empowerment, ecological collaboration, and the establishment of a global influential hub for the Internet industry. It supports Guangzhou in building a model city for Digital China and the global capital of online live broadcasting, supports Shenzhen in constructing a global innovation hub for the digital creative industry, encourages local areas to leverage their advantages, jointly develop cloud services, data services, digital twins, as well as basic technologies such as industrial Internet, digital marketing, game services, and other distinctive applications. Implement a gradient cultivation plan for Internet companies, establish a full-cycle cultivation system, nurture a group of backbone companies worth billions, and strive to create world-class Internet companies worth trillions. Construct a new hub for the digital content industry, create influential national digital cultural IPs, accelerate the construction of smart audiovisual cloud industrial parks, support the innovation and development of platforms such as Internet music, live streaming, long and short videos, online games, and cultivate new formats such as immersive experiences and virtual digital humans. Promote the digital upgrade of life services, facilitate AI to empower all aspects of life services, create a national AI vertical life service platform. Support the development of high-quality cloud enterprises, attract leading cloud service providers to establish regional headquarters and core business sectors in Guangdong. Accelerate the development of industrial Internet platforms, build professional, sector-specific, and collaborative national industrial Internet platforms. Support the innovative development of platform enterprises, create a merged ecosystem of "platform + industrial belt."