All rights reservedTang, Yiming2024-09-032024-09-032016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1924Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southThe Pearl River Delta Region is one of most economically dynamic regions and the world famous manufacturing and export center in China. It has been affected seriously by the 2008 global financial crisis. In order to cope with the impact of the financial crisis and change the extensive pattern of economic development in the past, the Guangdong Provincial Government first proposed the policy of ‘industrial transformation and upgrading’ in 2008, and the Pearl River Delta Region has become the forefront of this programme since then. There are two meanings for industrial transformation and upgrading: accomplishing the transformation and upgrading from processing manufacturing industry to advanced manufacturing industry; accomplishing the transformation and upgrading from industrial-based economy to service-based economy. For the transformation and upgrading manufacturing industry, there are three main aspects: first, the appreciation of traditional labor-intensive manufacturing through brand creation, technological innovation and management system innovation, product added value and competitiveness increase ; second, the development of capital-intensive manufacturing, such as petrochemical industry, automobile industry, shipbuilding industry, iron and steel industry, communications equipment industry; third, the transformation to technology-intensive manufacturing, such as electronic information technology, computer software, biomedicine, new materials and other high-tech industries.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject1533-1534