The conference to boost the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry in Maoming was held in the city on Sept 7.
A "comprehensive straw utilization project" was put into operation at Jindun Industrial Park in Gaozhou, a county-level city in Maoming, on June 29.
Gaozhou is the main production area for the Maoming Lychee National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park.
In the first half of this year, the regional gross domestic product (GDP) of Maoming saw a year-on-year decline of 6 percent to 143.89 billion yuan ($20.56 billion), with the rate of decline narrowing 3.7 percent from that of the first quarter of the year.