In the first half of 2022, Dongguan's GDP expanded at an annual rate of 1.6%, reaching 517.82 billion yuan. The added value of the primary industry was 1.793 billion yuan, with a 5.7% year-on-year increase; the added value of the secondary industry was 302.419 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%; while the added value of the tertiary industry was 213.608 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 0.5%.

In the first half of the year, the city's agricultural output value totalled 2.789 billion yuan, which rose 6.1% year on year based on comparable prices. The pressure of industrial production has lightened, with the industrial added value above the designated size being 247.888 billion yuan, up 1.9% from a year earlier. The added value of the five pillar industries grew 1.9% to 161.606 billion yuan. The new growth drivers grew rapidly. The added value increased 45.0% for "small-scale to designated size" enterprises and 6.9% for "multiplier plan" industrial enterprises, both faster than the industry average growth rate. In terms of product output, there has been a surge in high-tech-related industries. The production of industrial instruments, new energy vehicles, smart watches and charging piles soared 170.6%, 154.6%, 66.7% and 47.9%, respectively.

From January to May, the service industry's operating income above the city's designated size was 74.637 billion yuan, which went up by 8.5%. Among them, the Internet and related services surged 91.3%.

The city's fixed asset investment climbed 6.5% in the first six months, falling 0.5 percentage points from the first quarter. Dongguan's total import and export volume amounted to 695.07 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.9%. The growth rate was 2.5 percentage points higher than that in the first quarter. Among them, the export volume came to 452.75 billion yuan, seeing an 11.2% annual increase, which grew 7.9 percentage points faster than that in the first quarter.