In the first quarter of Guangdong Province, the GDP was 3.495 trillion yuan, an increase of 4.6% year on year.

On April 21, the "Guangdong Statistics" WeChat official account released the economic data for the first quarter of 2026 in Guangdong. According to the unified accounting of regional GDP, in the first quarter, Guangdong achieved a regional GDP of 3,495.034 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 4.6% in constant prices. Among them, the value added of the primary industry was 941.66 billion yuan, with a growth of 3.9%; the value added of the secondary industry was 12,410.95 billion yuan, with a growth of 4.7%; the value added of the tertiary industry was 21,597.72 billion yuan, with a growth of 4.5%. In the first quarter, the value added of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 5.4% year-on-year, an increase of 2.4 percentage points compared to the previous year. By industry, the value added of the mining industry achieved double-digit growth, with an increase of 15.8 percentage points compared to the previous year; the manufacturing industry, electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply industries increased by 5.0%, 5.2% respectively, with a growth of 1.8 and 4.9 percentage points. By industry, the computer, communication and other electronic equipment manufacturing industry, the electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry, the electricity, heat production and supply industry, and the special equipment manufacturing industry increased by 13.4%, 4.9%, 9.4%, and 9.1% respectively, with growth rates of 6.3, 0.9, 9.3, and 1.5 percentage points higher than the previous year; the chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry grew by 5.9%, and the petroleum, coal and other fuel processing industry grew by 7.6%. The development of new quality productive forces accelerated, with the value added of advanced manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing industries increasing by 7.0% and 11.9% respectively, 1.6 and 6.5 percentage points higher than the scale of above-industry industry, accounting for 56.7% and 34.8% of the total above-industry industry respectively, an increase of 0.5 and 0.1 percentage points compared to the previous year. By product, the industrial output of industrial robots, 3D printing equipment, integrated circuits, and storage chips increased by 45.2%, 63.6%, 43.1%, and 32.0% respectively. In the first quarter, the total retail sales of consumer goods in the province increased by 2.5% year-on-year, 0.1 percentage point higher than the national average. In the first quarter, fixed asset investment increased by 0.2% year-on-year, staying positive for two consecutive months; excluding real estate development investment, fixed asset investment in the province increased by 5.8%. In the first quarter, the per capita disposable income of residents in the province was 16,096 yuan, with a nominal year-on-year growth of 4.4%, and a real growth of 3.9% after deducting price factors. By place of residence, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 19,196 yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 3.9%, and a real growth of 3.3% after deducting price factors; the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 8,473 yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 5.6%, and a real growth of 5.9% after deducting price factors.