Improved Urban FunctionalityLonggang District has significantly accelerated the development of its transportation infrastructure. Phase IV of Metro Line 3 is operational, while Phase II of Line 16 has been fully electrified. Four Phase V metro lines, including the highly anticipated Phase I of Line 17, have been under construction. The surface-level section of the Huizhou–Shenzhen Expressway expansion has been largely completed, greatly enhancing regional connectivity. In addition, 91.7 kilometers of non-motor lanes have been established, and 48 feeder transit routes have been added or upgraded to improve access to the metro network.Public utilities and urban infrastructure see steady improvement. The expansion and advanced treatment upgrade of the Longgang Central Water Plant has been successfully completed. The Siming Substation has been completed and put into operation, and an additional 12 square kilometers of urban area has been up to national sponge-city standards.Longgang District has made remarkable progress in building a smart city. A new model has been launched to integrate district-level data infrastructure with unified data asset. The district's City Information Modeling (CIM) platform has been constructed initially. The "Longzhengtu" mobile app, part of the information management system, has been officially rolled out to improve urban governance efficiency. Longgang District also introduces the “LongXiao-i” AI application matrix and pioneers the establishment of an AI algorithm training base, which is recognized as a model scenario for AI application in Guangdong Province.Longgang continues to lay a solid foundation for public safety and social stability. The district ranks second across Shenzhen in the city’s safety performance. More efforts have been made to have safety inspections in the high-risk sectors, involving the traffic and transportation, construction, and fire prevention. The newly established District Dispute Mediation and Service Center enhances grassroots conflict resolution capabilities. Notably, Longgang District’s innovative case that applies an integrated “Four-Governance” model to address difficulties in resolving marital and family disputes has been recognized as a national model case under the “Fengqiao Experience” of the new era.
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To achieve the overall target of accelerating to build the market-oriented, law-oriented and internationalized business environment which is put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and to promote Shenzhen towards a pilot city with creative business environment, Longgang District always attaches great importance to optimize and innovate its business environment. In 2019, Longgang District formed its Leading Group for the Optimization and Innovation of the Business Environment. The secretary of Longgang District Committee of CPC served as the leader of the Group, and the district chief served as the Group’s executive deputy leader. The Leading Group was comprised of 49 functional departments in Longggang District, to help solve the major problems in optimizing and innovating the business environment and to supervise the implementation of the key projects. In 2021, Longgang District released The Measures to Continually Optimize the Business Environment for Market Entities in Longgang District of Shenzhen. The 29 measures, covering the 5 aspects as space supply, governmental system, enterprise service, element guarantee and legitimate climate, have been introduced to reform the mechanism that would harm market vitality, so as to speed up the building of China’s top internationalized business environment and provide an ideal climate for market entities’ development. Space supply: Longgang District could customize and provide high-standard industrial space as needed and could complete the transfer of industrial space within 90 days, with Shenzhen’s top efficiency. And, Longgang District takes the lead to explore the second industry’s and the third industry’s integrated development while trying best to supply excellent industrial space. It has accommodated 12 excellent projects covering 6,190,000 square meters of industrial space, which tops Shenzhen. Governmental system: Longgang District is the first one in Shenzhen to provide 83 foreign-language service windows and to provide whole-process guidance and services. It reforms the work flow, improving the efficiency by 30%. It innovate its mechanism for evaluating and approving projects. And, the procedures for urban renewable project could be completed within 20 months, and for profitable project within 5 months. Enterprise service: Longgang District also provides specialized services for enterprise’s digital transformation, which has helped over 90 enterprises with the business income surpassing 100 million yuan to complete digital transformation and has promoted over 800 small and media enterprises towards further development. It also provides environment monitoring service, which has served key enterprises and projects for over 100 times. The district also stipulates The Measures to Support the Industrial Development in Longgang District, and popularizes the document across the whole district. Element guarantee: Longgang District has formed its more flexible mechanism for the dispatch of the work force, which has served enterprises for over 1,400 times and provides over 6,200 job positions. In Longgang District, great efforts have also been made to improve the medical service. There have been 7 Class-A hospitals, with over 14,000 hospital beds. And, over 10 financial service platforms have been built, getting cooperated with 245 enterprises.Legitimate climate: Longgang District also reforms the mechanism for the law enforcement. It takes detailed measures to enforce the law politely, to settle the disputes and to protect intellectual property. The district upgrades its public legal service, with two service centers and multiple services platforms (including 12 public legal service centers at the sub-districts and industrial parks and 6 intellectual property protection workstations) operated under 1 mechanism. It serves over 30,000 market entities and supports PCT patent application for over 4,000 times, which tops Shenzhen. The district not only protects market entity’s intellectual property strictly, but also keeps a keen eye on the misconduct. ( The data mentioned above are only as of the end of 2022.)
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Geographical Location Longgang District is located in the northeast of Shenzhen City, neighboring Pingshan District in the east, Luohu and Yantian Districts in the south, Bao’an and Longhua Districts in the west and Huizhou and Dongguan cities in the north. From Longgang one can reach Shenzhen International Airport, ports and checkpoints within 40 minutes. 91 percent of the areas in the district have been covered by bus stops and every two stops are only less than 500 meters apart. The convenient transportation system significantly reduces logistics cost. Occupying 38,821 square kilometers, Longgang has a population of 4.7 million. There are 11 sub-districts in Longgang including Pinghu, Buji, Jihua, Bantian, Nanwan, Henggang, Yuanshan, Longgang, Longcheng, Baolong and Pingdi , with 111 communities. Economic development In 2020, Longgang District achieved positive growth in major economic indicators despite the severe and complicated international situation and the impact of the epidemic. The regional GDP was 474.449 billion yuan, up 1.1 percent from the previous year. The added value of industrial enterprises above designated size (an annual operating revenue of at least 20 million yuan) increased by 2 percent to reach 278.459 billion yuan. The total fixed assets investment was 132.184 billion yuan. The total consumer goods retail sales reached 127.014 billion yuan, with a decrease of 3.6 percent. The general public budget revenue was 27.043 billion yuan, up 11.6 percent. Longgang District fully optimized its business environment. It strictly implemented policies and measures of tax and fee reduction, rent reduction and interest rate reduction. In total, it reduced 10 billion yuan in tax, social security and medical insurance for enterprises, and 460 million yuan in rent. The total assets of the collective economy increased by 9.2 percent. 5G, AI and other industries saw new growth points. The first phase of Dayun AI Town started construction, and the provincial 5G industrial park (Longgang branch) was unveiled. All the projects signed at the Shenzhen Global Investment Conference in 2019 are now settled down. In 2020, a total of 28 projects were inked. Longgang District attracted investment focusing on key industrial chains. It carried out Internet investment events, organized 100 listed enterprises to visit Longgang, and went to Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and other places to attract investment. The total investment amount of investment projects signed during the whole year reached 62.8 billion yuan. Industries An industrial system dominated by the primary industry and featuring rapid development of the tertiary industry has taken shape in Longgang. More than 60% of enterprises in Longgang have been matched with local services, of which 90% of enterprises in electronic information industry have been supported by local services. A group of enterprises with core competitiveness have continued to grow and the industrial agglomeration effect is obvious. Huawei in Longgang Innovation Longgang leads the industrial development with innovation, and has formed a regional innovation system which is market-oriented, enterprise-oriented, talent-centered, innovation platform-based and is characterized by the combination of industry-university-research and expansion at home and abroad. The independent innovation capability has continued to improve. The output value of high-tech industries above designated size accounted for an increase in the proportion of total output value above designated size. The number of patent applications and authorizations has been among the top in the city for many years. The district has been awarded the National Science and Technology Progress Advanced District, the National Science and Technology Progress Demonstration Zone and the National Science Popularization Demonstration Zone, and will become the future independent innovation leading zone in Shenzhen. Cost of Labor Minimum wage for full-time employment workers: 2,200 yuan / month. Minimum hourly wage for part-time employment workers: 20.3 yuan / hour. (Source: Shenzhen Human Resources and Social Security Bureau) Rents of factories and apartments The land price of industrial projects in Longgang District is subject to the bidding and auction system, and the price is generally between 800 yuan and 1600 yuan per square meter. The land prices of standard factories built in all subdistricts and communities in the district vary depending on their locations, specific plans and other factors. The rent is generally 9-15 yuan per square meter. The Longgang District Incubation Center of Shenzhen Overseas Students Pioneering Park provides preferential factory rent for the settled enterprises. In the first year, the rent for 100 square meters of factory space is free, and for the rest is 6 yuan per square meter. Starting from the year, the price is 6 yuan per square meter. Rent of residential apartments is generally 8 to 18 yuan per square meter per month. Warehouse rent is generally 4 to 10 yuan per square meter. Tax
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