On July 4, Guangzhou Nansha sealed a RMB 4-billion investment deal with IT innovation firm Bai Xin. The partnership covers R&D and production of high-performance domestic servers, AI hardware and vertical models, to build a regional IT innovation hub covering the entire Greater Bay Area.
As Nansha’s fourth major industrial project this year, it marks a milestone for the Greater Bay Area’s independent digital economy. With the 2026 IT Innovation Catalogue launched and the 2027 full IT localization deadline for central SOEs under State Document No.79 approaching, the industry has shifted from hardware-led substitution to a new quality era focused on stable, secure and high-efficiency software systems.
Hong Kong serves as the Greater Bay Area’s international gateway and tech innovation hub in upgrading IT products from usable to user-friendly. Supported by Hong Kong Cyberport, AI testing firm Smart Testin taps Hong Kong’s geographic and ecosystem strengths to resolve software quality management challenges for enterprises across the GBA and worldwide.
Hong Kong’s international window value: A strategic hub for a “two-way springboard” of Greater Bay Area information innovation
The RMB 4 billion investment in Nansha completes the GBA’s IT innovation hardware and computing infrastructure. The next priority is enabling these domestic facilities to support enterprise software with high concurrency and stringent security requirements.
Zhang Pengfei, Smart Testin’s Hong Kong Partner, stated that the IT innovation industry’s first stage focused on hardware replacement, yet its later success hinges on robust software ecosystems. As SOEs advance full core system localization, software faces severe high-concurrency and cross-compatibility challenges.Hong Kong acts as the GBA’s vital super connector: a testbed for cross-border financial and governmental software-hardware integration, plus a two-way platform for local IT software to meet global standards. Cyberport-backed Smart Testin aims to build a software quality verification hub in Hong Kong via AI cloud testing.
Hong Kong and overseas enterprises face shared hurdles: complicated multi-device compatibility and costly senior testing talent. Software quality management balances technical compliance, cost and efficiency.
“People + tools + services” trinity: Professional international delivery
To resolve cross-platform adaptation and high testing costs for GBA and Hong Kong enterprises, Smart Testin set up a Bay Area-Hong Kong intelligent delivery center. Following the GB/T 25000.10-2016 standard, it delivers full-stack testing covering eight core software dimensions.
Its physical device lab holds massive global handsets compatible with Android, iOS, HarmonyOS and domestic OS like Kylin Linux. Cross-border dedicated line simulation eliminates network gaps across Hong Kong, mainland China and overseas for lag-free software performance.
Yu Deshui, Deputy General Manager of Smart Testin Hong Kong, noted Hong Kong firms’ strict demands for compliance, multilingual capabilities and stable cross-border networks.The regional center provides Cantonese-speaking support and multi-language test reports (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English). It adopts cloud storage, SSL encryption and post-test data deletion to meet top Hong Kong, Macau and global compliance standards, cutting clients’ labor costs by up to 40% and saving hardware investment.
Al+ Big Model dual-wheel drive: Leading IT testing across the productivity gap
In today’s era of frequent iterations of information technology innovation systems and an extremely diverse front-end technology stack, the traditional manual testing model is no longer sustainable. Smart Testin, relying on “Al+ big model” technology, has brought disruptive efficiency improvements to the quality governance of information innovation software:
● No-code/natural language scripting: Say goodbye to complex test code, testers can write no-code test scripts through Al natural language, significantly lowering the technical threshold and script maintenance costs.
● One set of AI scripts for cross-system Reuse: Relying on a unified Al execution engine, one set of scripts can not only be reused across Android, iOS, HarmonyOS, but also run smoothly on domestic systems such as MacOS, Windows, and Kylin Linux, with test efficiency increased by up to60%.
● High-precision Al recognition: Intelligent recognition can complete OCR recognition in 0.05 seconds, text and image recognition are completely based on the text of the front-end UIl, not restricted by the front-end development framework language, accurately locate UI problems and crash causes, and shorten the iteration cycle by 50%.
The 4 billion investment in the information technology innovation industry in the Greater Bay Area has accelerated further, kicking off the “quality battle” for the domestication of digital economy infrastructure. In this battle, Nansha provided strong manufacturing and technological support, while Hong Kong, with its unique international position and the AI industry cluster strength of Cyberport, became a key fulcrum for promoting information technology innovation from “substitution” to “quality”.