As China's largest provincial economy, Guangdong held its first-ever Artificial Intelligence Application Matchmaking Conference in Shenzhen on April 27.
The event showcased 23 practical artificial intelligence (AI) application cases spanning over ten sectors, including manufacturing, government services, healthcare, education, finance, and overseas business expansion. It demonstrated how AI technologies are being deployed to solve real-world problems across Guangdong's economy and beyond.
In the manufacturing and industrial sectors, AI is driving smart inspection, flexible production, and intelligent robotics adoption. For example, SmartMore's intelligent inspection robot, powered by IndustryGPT, enables high-precision quality control on micron-level components.
JLC's "AI+ flexible manufacturing" system handles over 40,000 PCB orders daily and has served more than 8.2 million users worldwide. Its business covers sectors such as new energy, aerospace, and robotics, along with over 1,000 universities and research institutions.
Photo: Shi Lei, Nanfang Daily
In healthcare, AI is improving diagnosis, emergency care, and administrative efficiency. Mindray has launched the world's first clinically deployed large language model (LLM) for critical care. It enables 24/7 dynamic patient monitoring, issues early warnings for septic shock up to six hours in advance, and automatically generates medical records within one minute, improving medical documentation efficiency by 30-fold.
Other applications cover offshore smart aquaculture, open-source AI agents, elderly care, water resource management, legal services, procurement, and global market expansion.
The conference also introduced Guangdong's latest AI policy measures. In the afternoon session, local authorities detailed the provincial action plan for accelerating AI-empowered scientific research, which is set to be issued in the near future.
Focusing on data, computing power, and algorithms to address research bottlenecks, the plan aims to shift scientific discovery from hypothesis-driven to data- and model-driven approaches.
In addition, an innovation product exhibition area and a scenario-based matchmaking negotiation zone were set up outside the main venue. A compilation of over 400 case studies was released, systematically showcasing cutting-edge AI technologies, products, and application scenario needs, helping both supply and demand sides reach cooperation.
As a manufacturing and tech hub, Guangdong has strong advantages in both mechatronics and digital intelligence. By the end of 2025, the province had over 2,000 core AI enterprises, and the output value of its core AI industry exceeded 300 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of over 40%.
Guangdong manufactures more than 40% of China's smartphones and hosts six of the world's top ten Chinese-based smartphone makers. It also leads the country in industrial robot production, accounting for over 43% of the national total, and dominates China's service robot production with a national share above 82%, ranking first nationwide in both categories.
Reporter | Chen Jinxia
