On December 25, 2024, Zhong Guang Digital Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd., a joint venture by Guangdong Airport Authority and Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd, was officially unveiled in Huadu, signifying a joint effort of the two parties to explore new paths for the digital transformation of civil aviation, to seize the commanding heights in technology research and development at an accelerated pace, and to achieve innovative breakthroughs in construction, operation, service and management.

In the wave of global digital transformation, better construction of digital infrastructure has become a strong support for building a digital China. The traditional construction industry is actively seeking innovation and change, while in the field of civil aviation airports, "digital intelligence airport" has indicated an important trend in the digital transformation of domestic civil aviation.

Taking innovation as the first driving force, Zhong Guang Digital Intelligence provides full-range services from digital twin, intelligent operation, and BIM consulting, to simulation, and airport renovation and maintenance for the airports, offers full-life cycle digital solutions for R&D and model construction, and relies on comprehensive digital management platforms to achieve multiregional, multidisciplinary, all-factor, and full-process collaboration.

Guangdong Airport Group is committed to the strategic goal of building a world-class enterprise and a world-class airport, and is making every effort to promote the high-quality development of civil aviation, and is pushing forward, on the basis of reform, opening up and innovation, the "six major strategies" of international aviation hub, digital leadership, cost leadership, port-industry-city integration development, internationalization and talent highland. In terms of the digital leadership strategy, Guangdong Airport Authority is the only provincial state-owned enterprise of Guangdong province that is listed as a pilot for digital transformation by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council; and with its relevant achievements in smart construction of the Phase 3 expansion project of Baiyun Airport internationally recognized, it has been invited to lead in the development of BIM standards for airport.

Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd has been deeply engaged in the field of architecture for more than 70 years, having completed more than 30,000 projects, and won more than 1,300 international, national, and provincial and ministerial awards. The Institute is a strong supporter of scientific and technological innovation and digital empowerment, and advocator of design-leadership and digital dominance. It is the creator of Ezhou Huahu Airport, which is one of the first typical cases of innovative services, new technologies and new products of intelligent construction recognized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and which is China's first project in the field of airports that has realized the simultaneous delivery of digital construction and model information throughout the life cycle; and its Wuhan new-generation weather radar project has achieved for the first time in China "one model throughout the construction without drawings". The relevant digital technology achievements, key technologies and practical applications of intelligent construction developed by it were included in the first batch to be admitted to the New Urban Construction Exhibition Center of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

Huadu Economic and Technological Development Zone was approved Last October as a national economic and technological development zone. With this major support from the state, the Development Zone will make full use of the advantages of Baiyun International Airport in building internal and external dual circulation, creating new quality productive forces in accordance with the national scientific and technological innovation-driven policy, form a new pattern of opening up to the outside world characterized by "a seaport in the south and an airport in the north", continue to deepen the digital and intelligent economy, get prosper and stronger by tapping into the advantages of the sea and the sky, and be a pioneer in promoting high-level opening up to the outside world and a demonstration area for the digital transformation of civil aviation.