Guangdong Industrial Belt Map

168 town-level clusters · 149 district units · 20 strategic clusters · 18 ports & airports

Guangdong's advantage is not cheap labour, it is density — and density is easier to see than to describe. This map plots the province the way a buyer needs it: 168 town-level industry clusters, 149 district and county industry units, 20 strategic clusters, 8 provincial industry chains and every major port and airport, on one screen.

Click a city to drill into its districts. Click a dot for that cluster's category, scale, business type and the source behind it. The dashboard tab ranks cities by 2025 GDP and shows national export growth by customs category — the same volume-and-value basis we use when we tell a buyer which belt their product belongs in.

How to use it

• Pick your product, not your city. The cluster list is searchable by category — lighting, ceramics, furniture, hardware, apparel, toys. Search the category first and let the map tell you which town it belongs to; the belt you assumed is often not the one with the right supply chain.
• Drill down one level. Province level shows the 21 cities. Click one and the map re-renders with its districts and county units, so you can see whether a category is concentrated in a single district or spread across a city.
• Read the business type, not just the name. Each cluster is tagged as manufacturing, wholesale trade, R&D, logistics or a combination. Two clusters in the same category can be a production base and a trading floor, and they behave completely differently on price, MOQ and lead time.
• Check the chain view. Turn on the industry-chain layer to see how clusters feed each other — fabric markets into garment towns, component towns into assembly towns. That is the layer that explains why a quote can be cheap in one place and late in another.
• Export it. The CSV export gives you the full town-level list with categories, business types, markets and coordinates, which is a workable starting shortlist for a sourcing trip or a supplier search.

What the map covers

The twenty strategic industry clusters tracked across the province:

• Next-generation electronic information
• Green petrochemicals
• Smart home appliances
• Automotive
• Advanced materials
• Modern light industry & textiles
• Software & information services
• Ultra-HD video displays
• Biomedicine & health
• Modern agriculture & food
• Semiconductors & integrated circuits
• High-end equipment manufacturing
• Intelligent robotics
• Blockchain & quantum information
• Frontier new materials
• New energy
• Laser & additive manufacturing
• Digital creative
• Safety, emergency response & environmental protection
• Precision instruments & equipment

And the cities behind them: Shenzhen · Guangzhou · Foshan · Dongguan · Huizhou · Zhuhai · Jiangmen · Zhongshan · Maoming · Zhanjiang · Shantou · Zhaoqing · Jieyang · Qingyuan · Shaoguan · Yangjiang · Meizhou · Shanwei · Chaozhou · Heyuan · Yunfu.

Where a product sits in that map decides three commercial things at once: the price band you can expect, the quality tier the belt is set up for, and how long production realistically takes. A lighting buyer who knows the difference between a Zhongshan lighting town and a trading floor in the same city will ask different questions, and get different answers.

Related: Belt atlas (open data) · Guangdong belts city by city · Sourcing & procurement · Supplier verification · Inspection & QC