GIETC will be divided into ten functional areas that are: food port, garment port, culture port, daily chemical port, chemical port, automobile port, electronic port, logistics port, living port and convention and exhibition port.

Principle investment sectors cover: food (including primary food processing, secondary food processing and standardized food market); imported industrial raw material and auxiliary material market; Guangdong's key industrial product display and sale market (including lightings, ceramics, toys, garments, shoes and hotel articles); automobile market and machinery market (mainly an integral consuming chain market group, including automobiles as the main body, integrated experiencing 4S shops, the base of China for importing used vehicles, auto parts market and internal auto accessories market); and associated service market (including modern logistics center, conferences and exhibitions, hotels, catering, recreation, multiple function community and passenger transport center.