Annual Report on Innovation City Development of Guangzhou (2020), one volume of the Guangzhou Blue Book Series complied by Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, is focused on Guangzhou innovation city development. This book is composed of five parts.

Part 1 is the General Report. It constructs and calculates the innovative city index of Guangzhou from 2014 to 2019, summarizes the four main highlights of Guangzhou innovation city development and points out four problems in 2019, explores the Guangzhou innovation city development environment and influencing factors, prospects the trend of Guangzhou innovation city development in 2020. In the end, this report proposes four countermeasures on accelerating Guangzhou innovation city development.

Part 2 is Comprehensive Reports. This part studies the Guangzhou innovation directions and thoughts from the perspectives of the innovation synergy in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Four New Economy, enterprise technology innovation, the strategy of innovation-driven development.

Part 3 is Science and Technology Reports. This part studies the main paths and strategies to improve Guangzhou's science and technology innovation from exploring the difficult issues such as the contribution of science and technology innovation to economic growth, intellectual property and standard innovation of high-tech enterprises, characteristics and planning of spatial agglomeration of scientific research institutions, development of the science and technology-oriented SMEs, patent technology innovation and high quality development.

Part 4 is Industrial Reports. This part summarizes the development trend, analyses the existing problems and puts forward the related countermeasures and suggestions from the high quality development of industry, building digital economic new highland, 5G industry, intelligent networked automobile.

Part 5 is Case Reports. This part analyses the characteristics of innovation development, explores the internal and external factors affecting innovation, and puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions.