The Economic and Information Commission of Guangdong Province recently released the “2018-2020 Action Plan for the Advanced Equipment Manufacturing Industry Belt in West Bank of Pearl River”. According to the Plan, by the end of 2020, Zhongshan will developed more than 10 “10 billion yuan level” industrial clusters and 2 “80 billion yuan level” ones (machine tools cluster and optronics equipment cluster).

Reportedly, in 2016, the output value of Zhongshan’s optronics equipment industry totaled 62.74 billion yuan, with a 15.8% growth. So far in Torch Zone, a leading industrial system consisting of six major industries (optical microelectronics, new generation visual display, new generation photoelectric audio-visual device, high-end optical communication, high-end laser gear, imaging optical components) has been developed.

“Machine tools industry” is another engine of the development of Zhongshan’s equipment manufacturing. Last year, the added value of Zhongshan’s “machine tools industry” reached 9.164 billion yuan, up by 22.9%. After years of development, a group of leading machine tools companies including Sotech, Handsome Industrial, Claw Robot and etc, had grown up into enterprises above designated scale.