Three areas in Bao’an District have been included in the planning of Shenzhen National High-tech Zone, according to an expansion blueprint of the high-tech zone recently published by the Shenzhen city government, the Bao’an Daily reported.
The total planned area of the high-tech zone is 159.48 square kilometers after the expansion, according to the blueprint. A total of 11 high-tech parks and areas in Nanshan, Pingshan, Longgang, Bao’an and Longhua districts are included in the expansion plan.
The three areas in Bao’an District are the Jiangang Hill-Shiyan South area, the Tiezai Hill area in Xixiang Subdistrict and the Xinqiao East area.
The expansion aims to give full play to the strategic role of the Shenzhen National High-tech Zone in driving innovation and to accelerate the construction of world-class high-tech parks.
According to the high-tech zone’s short-term goal, it strives to have its management mechanism run smoothly, expand its development space on a large scale, continuously improve its technological and industrial innovation capabilities as well as global competitiveness, and form three to five industrial clusters with annual output value of 100 billion yuan (US$14.83 billion) by the year 2020.
By 2025, the spatial layout of the zone will be further optimized, the quality and efficiency of regional development will be steadily improved and various economic indicators will maintain rapid and healthy development trends.
Meanwhile, emerging industries like Internet, biomedicine and life health, and artificial intelligence will be developed to form five to eight industrial clusters with annual output value of 100 billion yuan. The PCT applications in the high-tech zone will account for more than 70 percent of the city’s total, and it’s State-level high-tech enterprises and social R&D investment will account for more than 60 percent of the city’s total.
The long-term goal is to build the zone into a first-rate high-tech zone with global influence, an important base of high-end industrial development and the main node in the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao innovation corridor by 2035.