Southeast Asia Information Port (www.dnyxxg.com) – Reporters recently learned at the Sixth Session of the Eighth People's Congress of Nanshan District, Shenzhen, that Nanshan District, located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, will become China's first prefecture-level city district with a GDP exceeding one trillion yuan by 2025.
In his government work report, Nanshan District Mayor Li Xiaoning stated that compared to 652.7 billion yuan at the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Nanshan District's economic scale has crossed four 100-billion-yuan thresholds in five years, with an average annual growth rate of over 5.8%.
Nanshan District accounts for approximately one-tenth of Shenzhen's total land area and is the birthplace of the epoch-making "Shekou Model" and the slogan "Time is money, efficiency is life." Today, this area is home to hundreds of upstream and downstream enterprises, boasts a vibrant "Robot Valley" atmosphere, attracts innovation resources from Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and is seeing strong growth from leading companies like DJI. It also strengthens its overseas infrastructure and its global service center facilitates collaborative business development.
Guo Wanda, Executive Vice President of the China (Shenzhen) Development Institute, stated that Nanshan District's economic development practices demonstrate that technological innovation can continuously break through resource bottlenecks and limitations, highlighting the strong momentum of new productive forces and reflecting the broad prospects and enormous potential of the Chinese economy.
Nanshan District is adjacent to Yuen Long District of Hong Kong across Shenzhen Bay, and faces Macau and Zhuhai to the southwest across the Pearl River Estuary. Its convenient location has helped it grow into an important technological innovation and industrial manufacturing center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. According to information previously obtained from the Fifth Session of the 14th Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area is progressing in depth, with its economic output expected to exceed 15 trillion yuan by 2025.
Statistical data shows that the added value of strategic emerging industries in Nanshan District accounts for 60% of its GDP, and a large number of Hong Kong and Macau technology startup teams have taken root and developed here. Meanwhile, Nanshan District has strengthened its connection with scientific research resources in Hong Kong and Macao, actively developing future industries such as low-altitude economy and artificial intelligence. A number of its technology companies occupy a significant share of the global market.
Currently, Nanshan District has over 200 listed companies, a number comparable to some provinces. Zhang Jingping, Director of the Nanshan District Science and Technology Innovation Bureau, said that Nanshan continues to optimize its innovation environment, serving more than 600,000 business entities in the area, and promoting the construction of a "rainforest" ecosystem where "large enterprises stand tall, SMEs abound, and innovative enterprises pioneer new frontiers."
This "trillion-yuan city" has also become a "new window" and "new platform" for China's opening up to the outside world. Leveraging its industrial advantages, Nanshan District is focusing on building a comprehensive platform to serve Chinese enterprises going global, further integrating into the global market, and helping foreign enterprises better enter the Chinese market. In April 2025, the Global Service Center located in Nanshan District was officially launched, providing enterprises with comprehensive and precise service guarantees through an innovative collaborative service model.
