In Guangdong, a local robotics company can finish revising its design blueprints in Shenzhen and complete prototyping and assembly testing the very next day.

Within a week, the optimized plan can enter a 10,000-unit production line in Foshan for mass manufacturing.

Behind this lies the strong support of a complete industrial chain and the implementation of Guangdong's business environment reform goals.

At the beginning of this year, Guangdong released three major work plans for optimizing a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized first-class business environment, setting the reform direction of "fewest approvals and filings, fastest government services, and best industrial ecosystem."

Through measures such as strengthening and extending the supply chain, improving pilot testing platforms, opening up application scenarios, and promoting digital and green upgrading, Guangdong aims to further connect resources scattered across different links of the industrial chain and build an all-encompassing industrial ecosystem.

Pilot Testing Validates, Smart Manufacturing Upgrades

"Shenzhen handles research talent and scenario openings, the Longhua pilot testing base handles process validation from 1 to 100, and Foshan handles scaled mass production from 100 to 10,000," said Leng Xiaokun, founder of Leju Robotics, describing the company's efficient operating model for developing robots.

In April this year, Shenzhen's first humanoid robot pilot production line was launched in Longhua.

Leju explained that without this link, jumping directly from R&D to mass production would easily lead to situations where products cannot be made, costs are too high, quality varies, and stability is insufficient.

This production line has a cycle time of no more than 120 minutes, with a planned annual capacity of 500 to 1,000 units.

Meanwhile, Leju partnered with Guangdong Dongfang Precision to build China's first 10,000-unit-level automated humanoid robot production line in Foshan, with annual capacity exceeding 10,000 units and one unit rolling off the line every 30 minutes on average.

All 24 precision assembly processes on the line are fully digitalized, improving overall efficiency by more than 50% compared with traditional models.

Each robot must also pass 77 inspections and 41 automated tests, with all process data recorded by the MES system and then analyzed by AI to review bottleneck processes, continuously feeding back into process iteration and optimization.

Full-Chain Collaboration Cuts Costs and Boosts Efficiency

Twenty years ago, hardware engineers who wanted to make a few sample boards often faced setup fees starting at hundreds of yuan and sample delivery times of weeks.

Factories only accepted large orders, and small teams were largely ignored.

JLC used its self-developed intelligent panelization algorithm to combine small orders from different customers into the same large board for production, reducing the cost of a single prototype from several thousand yuan to just a few dozen yuan, with sample delivery in as fast as 12 hours.

Today, this system processes more than 40,000 orders per day on average.

With AI pre-review, intelligent scheduling, and supply chain forecasting, panelization efficiency has increased by more than 100 times compared with traditional methods.

Xiu Bin, general manager of operations at JLC, summarized this operating logic as an "ecosystem" — first cultivating a huge community of engineers through free prototyping, then channeling these engineers' design needs into the manufacturing side, with design software, component supply, SMT assembly, 3D printing, and CNC machining connecting in sequence to form a closed loop from innovation demand to design, manufacturing, and supply chain.

Statistics show that by 2025, more than 9.5 million engineers worldwide had conducted innovative research and development on the platform.

A leading robotics company iterated more than 2,500 times here in one year, while a consumer electronics giant exceeded 7,000 times.

Only by minimizing the cost of trial and error can innovation become more abundant.

Policy Empowerment, Ecosystem Protection

In strengthening and extending the supply chain, Guangdong implements one-enterprise-one-policy cultivation for qualified chain-leading enterprises, giving preferential support in R&D subsidies, land guarantees, energy consumption quotas, and listing guidance.

In pilot testing and intelligentization, the Guangdong Province Action Plan for Promoting the Coordinated Integration of Manufacturing and Services 2026 proposes building more than 200 smart factories and agent factories by the end of this year, and accelerating the construction of pilot testing and validation platforms.

In green upgrading, Guangdong became the first province in southern China to achieve hourly precise green power matching in 2025, allowing enterprises to purchase green power with traceability and certification.

In government services, the processing time for 891 provincial-level enterprise-related approval and filing items has all achieved the best in the country.

For downstream markets, the Guangdong Province Work Plan for Accelerating Application Scenario Innovation issued in March this year organizes regular supply-demand matching around 22 key areas.

Huangpu in Guangzhou has opened more than 480 kilometers of intelligent connected vehicle test roads.

The business environment plan also proposes using first-purchase and priority procurement to help new technologies and products land in the market.

What these measures converge into is a continuously improving ecosystem.

In February this year, Guangdong released three major work plans for optimizing a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized first-class business environment, with a total of 50 measures.

In 2025, the province's business entities exceeded 20 million, including nearly 9.3 million enterprises, both ranking first in the country.

In the first half of this year, the province's GDP grew by 4.5% year on year, while the added value of high-tech manufacturing rose by 11.1%.

Fu Changshan, Chairman of Luan Technology: Guangdong Is a Preferred Place for Young People to Start Businesses and Investors to Deploy

Relying on Guangdong's fertile industrial soil, Luan Technology started in Guangzhou in 1994 and grew step by step into a security company with business across China and overseas.

As the AI-driven reshaping of the industry landscape unfolds, how can the company rely on a better business environment to forge a differentiated path?

Recently, Fu Changshan, chairman of Luan Technology, gave an exclusive interview.

Q: From a small team of a few people to a global company, what development journey has Luan Technology experienced?

Fu Changshan: I am from Nanchang, Jiangxi.

In 1994, I followed my elder brother to Guangdong to start a business.

At that time, Guangdong was at the forefront of reform and opening up, full of opportunities and development vitality.

China's domestic security industry originated here, and the industrial atmosphere was exceptional.

We started in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, mainly providing design, procurement, installation, and operation and maintenance services for video surveillance, alarms, intercoms, parking management, and other systems for financial clients.

Through continuous development, we became a leader in the security niche for Guangzhou financial institutions, then expanded our business across the province, and officially moved into the national market in 2010.

Today, the company has about 300 employees and has established dozens of branches across the country.

In 2025, we formed an overseas business division, and we have already implemented security projects in Dubai, Laos, and other places.

After more than 40 years of accumulation, Guangdong's security industry has formed a complete industrial chain.

From basic electronic components to complete equipment manufacturing, local supporting production can be achieved.

Industrial clustering can reduce enterprises' R&D innovation and production operation costs.

At the same time, Guangdong has strong local demand for digital and intelligent upgrading.

The market is right beside us, and the industrial chain is right beside us, giving enterprises great room for development.

Q: The security industry is shifting from incremental expansion to stock competition, and AI and digitalization are reshaping the rules of competition.

What are the main challenges enterprises face, and how should they respond?

Fu Changshan: The security industry is undergoing a relatively profound transformation.

The industry has moved from an incremental era of "competing on scale and speed" into a stock era of "competing on capability and value."

Our approach can be summarized as "not competing on price, but on value; not competing on scale, but on depth."

Specifically, first, we aim to be a solution expert in vertical industries.

Second, we are shifting from one-time projects to long-term operations, upgrading the delivery model from "selling projects" to "selling services," providing customers with full-lifecycle security assurance through remote operations and maintenance, intelligent inspections, and data-driven operations.

Third, we use AI to inject new value into products, further productizing AI recognition capabilities so that devices can achieve intelligent analysis and early warning.

Q: Having been rooted in Guangdong for more than 30 years, how do you feel about Guangdong's business environment?

Fu Changshan: From the three dimensions of market orientation, rule of law, and internationalization, Guangdong's business environment is very good.

In terms of the rule of law, Guangdong's market rules are transparent and clear, industrial policies are stable and continuous, and implementation is predictable, allowing enterprises to focus on real business and pursue long-term goals.

In terms of internationalization, relying on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, its opening-up advantages are prominent and transportation is convenient, making it easier for enterprises to obtain cutting-edge international information and expand overseas markets.

More importantly, after years of development, Guangdong's enterprise management, industry technology, and government services are relatively mature.

When we went national in 2010, clients would trust us a bit more as soon as they heard we were "from Guangdong."

Local customers in Guangdong have high requirements, and competition among peers is fierce.

Everyone competes on service, quality, and craftsmanship, promoting one another, and together with enterprises' own pursuit of quality, this forms a virtuous cycle that drives continuous improvement in products and services.

Therefore, I have always believed that Guangdong is a preferred place for young people to start businesses and for investors to deploy.

Q: What suggestions do you have for the government to further support the development of private enterprises?

Fu Changshan: For enterprises, the industrial chain, market, talent, and government services can form synergy.

This ecosystem is an important source of confidence for private enterprises to take root over the long term and achieve sustainable development.

The development of enterprises ultimately depends on themselves, but R&D investment has a long cycle and high risks.

I hope the government will continue to increase precise support for private enterprises' R&D and innovation.

At the same time, industry-university-research matching platforms can be further improved to open up the transformation channel between university research achievements and enterprise market applications.