Guangdong successfully defended its title as the national GDP champion in the past five years, increasing its contribution to national GDP from 1/9 to 1/8. Meanwhile, the province made effort to switch to greener development track and has its energy consumption and pollution drop.
The provincial government put people's livelihood top of their work chart. And the whole province overcame the hard times of SARS, bird flu and several hurricanes as the public health system and crisis management were improved. Both rural and urban residents saw their income increased. And education of all levels saw growth of their enrollment rates.
Meanwhile, great progress have achieved in public service, culture and other social systems.

Through the following photos, we try to record the impressive moments of Guangdong's development in the past five years.

Guangdong is striving to achieve balanced development within the whole province. The northern region and both the west and east wings of Guangdong are expected to continue a strong momentum and become the new keys driving the province's development.

[North Guangdong] [Shaoguan, Heyuan, Meizhou, Qingyuan, Zhaoqing, Yunhfu]
[East Guangdong] [Shantou, Shanwei, Jieyang, Chaozhou]
[West Guangdong] [Yangjiang, Zhanjiang, Maoming]

The provincial government put people's livelihood top of their work chart. And the whole province overcame the hard times of SARS, bird flu and several hurricanes as the public health system and crisis management were improved. Both rural and urban residents saw their income increased.