HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY

In 2015, Shenzhen’s high-tech industry achieved 584.791 billion RMB in value added industrial output, representing growth of 13.0%. The number of Shenzhen’s national-level high tech enterprises reached 5,524, constituting approximately half of the number of these enterprises in all of Guangdong Province. Shenzhen’s high-tech industry is already quite large, and features a cluster of enterprises spread throughout a variety of high-tech sectors, of which electronic information is the most prominent. This has allowed Shenzhen to become an important center within China for converting successes in high-tech research into successful industrial products. Major industrial parks/zones for the high-tech industry include the Shenzhen High-Tech Industrial Park, the Shenzhen Software Industry Base, and Shenzhen Cloud Park. Well-known representatives of the local high-tech industry include Huawei and ZTE.