Manufacturers are not alone in worrying about cost pressures in the Pearl River Delta. Guangdong is also promoting policies that it hopes will prevent it from losing economic competitiveness.
In what Wang Yang, the former Communist party secretary of Guangdong, referred to as “Teng Long Huan Niao” – “Keep the cage, but change the bird” – the province wants to replace inefficient low-cost and labour-intensive manufacturing with more high-tech and service companies and “greener” manufacturing.
As part of that push, it is developing several new economic zones to attract knowledge-based industries. They include Qianhai in Shenzhen, which it hopes to turn into a financial centre, and Nansha port in Guangzhou.
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