From "Yunxi Bay" to the Beautiful and Healthy Park: Decoding Zhongluotan Town's Path of Industrial Transformation

In midsummer, Zhongluotan Town (Baiyun District, Guangzhou), a core area of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, blends golden wampee groves, the machines of the modern industrial park roar, and the beautiful countryside is filled with tourists. Once a traditional agriculture-based town, it now thrives with integrated beauty and health, biomedicine, and modern agriculture. Honored as a National Civilized Town, National Hygienic Town, and ranked 156th in China’s Top 500 Town-level Economy (2025), it achieved 18 billion yuan in above-scale industrial output and leads Baiyun District in agricultural output.

Party Building Leadership: Activate the "Rippling Spring Waters" of Rural RevitalizationZhongluotan’s success hinges on the "Party Building +" model. In 2024, it held 262 events (such as a series of lectures on the Spirit of the 3rd Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee) to train 19,352 person-times of Party members.

Longgang Party Building Park

Its "grid-based Party building" (392 grids with Party branches) used 1,862 WeChat groups to handle 34,400 public matters, improving the satisfaction of the masses.As "Guangzhou’s Second University Town" (13 universities, 128,000 faculty/students), it launched a university-local cooperation mechanism, addressing 35 university demands and hosting 62 government-village-enterprise-university talent events to support industrial development.

Zhongluotan Higher Vocational Education Park

Industrial Foundation Strengthening: The Rise of the Beautiful and Healthy Industry ClusterThe town’s Beautiful and Healthy Industry Park (part of Baiyun’s "One Park, Two Cities, Three Capitals, Four Districts" plan) has 45 projects (over 2,200 mu, over 18 billion yuan investment), with 18 completed.

Beautiful and Healthy Industry Park

Enterprises like Mofa Shijia (over 500 million yuan annual output) and Guangdong Shifei praise its chain support and government services—opening convenient service hotlines, building employment bridges, carrying out emergency training, and providing compliance guidelines.By end-2024, it had 408 "Sishang" enterprises (245 industrial), 189 high-tech firms, and 96 “Specialized, Refined, Differential and Innovative” (SRDI) enterprises (all top in Baiyun). Over 5 years, annual new market entities exceeded 2,000, while the number of "Sishang" enterprises, industrial enterprises above designated size, enterprises with annual output value exceeding 100 million yuan, high-tech enterprises, and SRDI enterprises increased by 132%, 85%, 82%, 57.5%, and 540% respectively.

The Government of Zhongluotan Town Takes Multiple Measures to Serve Enterprises

Integration of the Three Industries: Modern Agriculture Radiates New VitalityZhongluotan retains agriculture via primary-secondary-tertiary integration. Longgang Village’s "One Village, One Product" wampee industry launched a 100 million yuan modern vegetable park project (2024). Its Wampee Cultural Season sold 300,000 catties of wampee, built rural tourism routes (20+ nodes), and attracted 19,000 tourists.

Signing Ceremony for the Modern Comprehensive Facility-based Vegetable Park

Zhusan Village innovates the "Village-Cooperative-Research-Enterprise" model that enables villagers to grow ganoderma. By 2025, 53 growers were engaged, and the planting area expanded by three times. Hutang Village hosts Guangzhou’s first giant rice base (60 mu sown), aiming for rice-fish/shrimp co-cultivation in the future.

Zhusan Village Ganoderma Makes Its Debut at the South China Imported Food Exhibition

Livelihood First: 420 Small Practical Matters for Great HappinessIn 2024, 420 livelihood projects (42 villages/communities) solved pressing issues. Liangtian No.1 Primary School’s canteen (renovated with 469,000 yuan donations) now serves 414 students (13 yuan per meal, including fruit or milk three times a week). By 2025, 67.62% (284/420) of that year’s projects were completed.

Liangtian No.1 Primary SchoolIn addition, Hutang Village upgraded an ancient study built in 1836, Hongqi Village renovated a park, and Wulonggang Village’s lion dance camp trained 30 young performers.

Lin Clan Study Hall in Hutang Village

Future Outlook: Building a "Baiyun Model" with Greater Demonstration EffectIn the future, Zhongluotan Town will expand its Beautiful and Healthy Industrial Park, build Guangzhou International Bio-Manufacturing Park (Phase II), and develop a "front-store back-factory" furniture cluster.

The Capital of Seed Industry

For agriculture, it will accelerate "vegetable basket" and seed industry bases. Secretary Liu Yaojun stated that the town will use the "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Project" to build a "Baiyun Model" for national rural revitalization, advancing governance, culture, industry, and ecology.

Zhongluotan Town has achieved economic transformation and blazed a path for rural revitalization. Driven by the "Red Power," the town is writing a magnificent chapter of urban-rural integrated development in the new era.