From June 20 to 22, global developers will converge on Songshan Lake, Dongguan, for Huawei Developer Conference 2025, diving deep into the HarmonyOS ecosystem.
Born in China, HarmonyOS has blossomed into a significant indigenous technological breakthrough. More importantly, it has evolved into a thriving global ecosystem cultivated by developers worldwide.
Dongguan’s Songshan Lake is the birthplace of Huawei’s “breakout hit” smartphones. This achievement is powered by the city’s formidable manufacturing ecosystem and its “one-hour supply chain commute zone,” which provides rock-solid support with access to 90% of smartphone component suppliers. It stands as a vivid testament to the thriving electronics and information industry centered on smart devices – one out of every five smartphones worldwide is made in Dongguan.
In 2025, the shared journey between Dongguan and Huawei charts a new course. Dongguan’s “No. 1 Policy Document” vigorously promotes “AI + Manufacturing” and “AI + Smart Devices.” The Greater Bay Area (Dongguan) Artificial Intelligence Alliance, spearheaded by industry leaders like Huawei, has been established. It endeavors to achieve 10,000 PetaFLOPS (PFLOPS) of computing power and create 100 AI demonstration scenarios by 2027. Nurtured by Dongguan’s deep reservoir of manufacturing applications and empowered by companies like Huawei, these initiatives are poised to blossom into transformative AI innovations.
Artificial intelligence holds boundless potential to drive the next industrial revolution. Dongguan and Huawei’s shared pursuit in the field of AI represents yet another chapter in the city’s and the company’s collaborative voyage into the technological frontier, hand in hand towards the future. It serves as a powerful symbol of Dongguan’s relentless urban advancement.
Behind the “breakout hit”: 90% of smartphone components sourced within a one-hour supply radius
On June 5, Huawei Terminal’s official Weibo announced that reservations for the Huawei Pura 80 Pro and Pura 80 Pro+ opened at 10:08 a.m. Within just 2.5 hours, pre-orders exceeded 40,000 units.
This surge exemplifies the sustained market frenzy surrounding Huawei’s new smartphones.
Since last year’s Huawei Developer Conference (HDC), the company has launched a series of pioneering products: the industry’s first horizontally foldable Huawei Pura X, the nova 14 series, and the groundbreaking HarmonyOS-powered HUAWEI MateBook Pro.
The HUAWEI MateBook Pro, in particular, marks the official debut of “HarmonyOS PCs,” representing a critical breakthrough for China’s homegrown operating system in the personal computer market.
According to reports, the development of HarmonyOS PCs involved a five-year strategic effort, mobilizing over 10,000 engineers and 20+ research institutes. This collaboration has yielded more than 2,700 core patents and enabled a complete operating system rebuild – starting from the kernel level. Currently, over 300 cross-platform applications have been adapted for HarmonyOS. This number is projected to exceed 2,000 by year-end.
From the Mate 60 and Pura 80 smartphones to the HUAWEI MateBook Pro, every breakout hit by Huawei bears the unmistakable stamp of “Dongguan-made” innovation.
In Dongguan, 90% of smartphone components can be sourced within a one-hour supply chain radius. The “industrial density”, powered by 220,000 manufacturing enterprises, including 14,000 designated scale enterprises, has established Dongguan as a global smartphone manufacturing powerhouse.
The new-generation electronics and information industry, Dongguan’s largest pillar sector, boasts a robust foundation with extensive product categories and complete supply chains, forming a trillion-yuan-scale ecosystem. Smart mobile terminals – represented by top manufacturers like Huawei – dominate this landscape.
In 2023, Dongguan’s electronics manufacturing sector exceeded 1.1 trillion yuan in designated-scale industrial output, accounting for approximately one-quarter of Guangdong Province’s total, demonstrating formidable industrial strength and influence.
Taking Songshan Lake as an example: Huawei-led next-generation information technology and intelligent connected vehicle industries are now core components of its “1+4+1+X” industrial framework.
Here in Songshan Lake, sub-sectors like smart terminals have reached the forefront domestically and attained world‑class standards. A full industrial chain has formed around the core of information and communication technology—from equipment production and hardware manufacturing to systems integration, software development, and application services. The region has attracted numerous leading and well-known companies, including Huawei Device Headquarters, Huawei Machine, Huabei Electronics, Amperex Technology Limited (ATL), Shengyi Technology (SYTECH), Goertek, and Everwin Precision Technology.
From Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. signing the project investment agreement with Dongguan Songshan Lake and establishing Huawei Southern Factory in 2005, to setting up Huawei Device Headquarters in 2012, and further to the Huawei Developer Conference being held here consecutively since 2019... The deep collaboration between Huawei and Dongguan Songshan Lake has progressively intensified and elevated to new dimensions.
Currently, with Huawei’s continuous technological breakthroughs and advancements, Songshan Lake Science City, as the pilot zone for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area’s Comprehensive National Science Center, is under ongoing development. Against the backdrop of technological innovation becoming the era’s core driving force, both parties will jointly write a new chapter of the city-enterprise “mutual pursuit”.
AI: Dongguan and Huawei’s new direction
Since the beginning of this year, with the emergence of DeepSeek, artificial intelligence has become a global focus and holds boundless potential for the next industrial revolution.
A closer examination of Huawei’s recently launched smartphones reveals that among their numerous exceptional features, artificial intelligence stands out as one of the most significant new highlights.
The “mutual pursuit” between Huawei and Dongguan has long transcended smartphone manufacturing. Artificial intelligence is now becoming the new direction of their shared journey.
Dongguan, this internationally renowned manufacturing city, is advancing with full force into artificial intelligence. On February 6, Dongguan released its 2025 Municipal Government “No. 1 Policy Document” – “Several Measures to Accelerate the Empowerment of Manufacturing High-Quality Development through Artificial Intelligence.”
A review of the full policy text reveals that Dongguan will focus its efforts on two critical areas—“AI + intelligent manufacturing” and “AI + smart terminals”—to enhance the core competitiveness of “Made in Dongguan.” The strategy aims to deeply integrate artificial intelligence with manufacturing, accelerate the innovative allocation of production factors, promote intelligent upgrades in key industries, drive the development of smart products, and collectively foster a new quality of productive forces.
As a leading enterprise possessing cutting-edge technologies including Huawei Cloud, HarmonyOS, and the Pangu Model, Huawei plays a pivotal guiding role in Dongguan’s AI development journey, injecting core driving force for intelligent transformation into this renowned manufacturing city.
On April 23, the Greater Bay Area (Dongguan) Artificial Intelligence Alliance was officially established in Dongguan. Led by three tech giants—Huawei, OPPO, and vivo—the alliance brought together 18 heavyweight institutions for its inaugural signing. Its first batch of members spans telecom operators, top universities, research institutes, and leading industrial chain enterprises. Dongguan aims to achieve over 10,000 PetaFLOPS (PFLOPS) of schedulable computing power by 2027, create over 100 AI+ advanced manufacturing demonstration scenarios, and attract and cultivate more than 300 key AI enterprises.
At this conference, Zhang Xiuzheng, President of Huawei Cloud China Region, spoke as the representative of the alliance’s rotating chair unit. He stated that as one of the inaugural rotating chair units, Huawei pledges to fully leverage its technological and resource advantages to support the alliance’s development. Simultaneously, he issued an industry-wide call for enterprises to open their AI application scenarios. Through a model of “Co-creation, Co-building, Co-sharing”, this initiative will inject innovative momentum and talent vitality into Dongguan’s AI industry.
Amid the wave of AI reshaping the global industrial landscape, Dongguan’s profound manufacturing legacy, Huawei’s technological prowess as an industry leader, and their deep synergy are writing a new chapter in the “world’s factory’s” leap toward an “intelligent manufacturing hub.” This collaboration also narrates the urban story of a city and an enterprise in “mutual pursuit,” jointly anchoring limitless possibilities in the AI era.
