Shenzhen is a most well-developed city in China. There are four pillar industries in Shenzhen, High-tech, Modern Logistics, Financial Industry and Cultural Industry. Please find the below information for the High-tech Industry.
Strong R&D capability and a complete industrial chain have made high-tech industries Shenzhen's most important pillar.
OUTPUT VALUE
The total output value of high-tech products made in Shenzhen reached 1.4 trillion yuan in 2013, up 9.3% from the previous year. That accounted for 50.36% of the total output value of industrial enterprises.
INPUT IN R&D
In 2013, Shenzhen spent 58 billion yuan, or 4% of its GDP, on R&D, leading the Chinese mainland.
R&D POWER
In 2013, over 80,000 patent applications were filed, up 10.3% from the previous year. The PCT applications amounted to over 10,000, up 25.2% from 2012. Shenzhen had 62,000 invention patents, ranking the second in China. Every 10,000 residents in Shenzhen owned 58.1 patents. There are 3,800 recognized State-level high-tech enterprises in Shenzhen. The 4G technology, genetic sequencing analysis, metamaterial technology, new energy automobile and 3D display technology are among the leading technologies in the world.
HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIAL PARK
Construction of the Shenzhen High-Tech Industrial Park, known as SHIP, started in September 1996, with a planned area of 11.5 square kilometers. It is one of the six national pilots to build world-class high-tech parks. Today, SHIP is home to numerous firms, forming mature industrial chains in telecommunications, computer services, software and medicine.
In 2013, the total industrial output value realized by firms located in SHIP was 465.08 billion yuan, up 9.83% from the previous year. The park's output value per square kilometer is 43.05 billion yuan, among the highest of all high-tech parks in China.
VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY PARK
Shenzhen Virtual University Park was built in 1999. The park's major functions are to train and introduce first-class professionals, integrate industrial and research resources, establish key research labs and doctoral workshops, and promote cooperation between Hong Kong and Shenzhen research centers. So far, the park has pooled the strength of 57 prestigious universities from home and abroad. It has educated more than 183,600 professionals, and fostered 791 start-up companies and 184 research centers. A total of 1,460 research results were materialized with 555 patents gaining authorization from the State.
HI-TECH FAIR
Cosponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Agriculture, State Intellectual Property Office, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering and Shenzhen Municipal Government, the China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF) began in 1999 and has been held each year since. The 16th CHTF will be held in November 2014.
BGI-SHENZHEN
BGI-Shenzhen, established in 2007, is engaged in scientific research of public interest. BGI-Shenzhen has achieved breakthroughs in the large-scale discovery of gene resources, in the sequencing of complicated genomes of higher forms of life, and in the research of inherited diseases. BGI-Shenzhen ranked 87th among global scientific institutions, 5th among Chinese scientific institutions and 17th among Asia-Pacific scientific institutions according to NPI 2013 Asia-Pacific published in March 2014.
SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY OF CAS
The Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of CAS was established in 2006 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Shenzhen Municipal Government, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. With a talent pool of 1,950 scientists, the institute focuses on fields including robotics, healthcare and medicine, new energies and new materials, cloud computing and the Internet of Things.
KUANG-CHI INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
The Kuang-Chi Institute of Advanced Technology is a research institute sponsored in 2010 by industries, government and venture capitalists. Kuang-Chi Institute attracts distinguished scientists from different countries and territories and features collaborative cross-disciplinary research on metamaterials. By the end of 2013, the institute had applied for 2,443 patents in metamaterial research, accounting for 86% of the total in this field.
NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER
The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen (Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center) is the city's largest scientific infrastructure facility. The Dawn 6000 supercomputer system can perform 1.27 quadrillion calculations per second, certified in 2010 as the second-fastest system in the world. The center was put into use in November 2011, processing massive data for scientific research, technological and engineering projects as well as serving as a cloud computing center for the whole society.
SHENZHEN-HK INNOVATION CIRCLE
The establishment of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Innovation Circle fosters technological collaboration between Shenzhen and Hong Kong to create a global innovation center across the region. Since Shenzhen and Hong Kong SAR governments signed an agreement promoting the Innovation Circle in 2007, a five-year plan had sponsored 57 joint research projects.
HIGH-TECH TALENT POOL
By the end of 2013, Shenzhen was home to 1.22 million professional technicians. Of those technicians, 50,000 had studied abroad. The Peacock Plan, aiming to attract top talent from overseas, helped 270 professionals settle in the city in 2013 and helped 454 talents in total.
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