Guangzhou's Tianhe district ranked 4th on the list of the leading urban areas that use the industrial internet to promote digital innovation, which was recently released by the Industrial Internet Platform Innovation Cooperation Center that was established by the China Academy of Industrial Internet.

The report used city districts, national economic development zones and high-tech zones as the evaluation objects, systematically assessing how the industrial internet has promoted digital innovation in urban areas and industrial parks. Four first-level indicators, namely infrastructure, integrated application, industrial ecology, the business environment, and 13 second-level indicators were used for the evaluation.

A sci-tech achievements themed exhibition takes place at the International Guangzhou Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Tianhe Base from April to June. [Photo/WeChat account: gztzth]

Tianhe district ranked second among the top 100 Chinese districts in 2022, only second to Shenzhen's Nanshan district, according to a CCID Consulting report. As the only "internet industry cluster regional brand building pilot" region awarded by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, it gathers 1,035 software enterprises above designated size.

In 2021, the district added 34,000 new science and technology enterprises, accounting for 38.2 percent of Guangzhou's total. The number of high-tech enterprises in the district totaled 2,995 by the end of 2021, which was 26 percent of the city's total. Five companies were included in the top 100 internet companies in China in 2021, accounting for 55 percent of the city's total, while four entered China's top 100 new technology companies in 2021, making up 80 percent of the city's total.

The Guangdong branch of the China Academy of Industrial Internet was also established in Tianhe district in 2021.