Longgang District is located in northeast Shenzhen. With the actual jurisdiction area of 388.21 square kilometers, it consists of 11 subdistricts and 111 communities. According to the nation’s seventh population census, the district accommodates 3979,000 permanent residents, of which 1335,000 ones have been registered with related authorities, thus pulling the actual population under the jurisdiction to 4802,500. Longgang District, in Shenzhen, is outstanding for its large population and industrial development.
Ecological Environment
Longgang District boasts a green coverage rate of 50.52%. There are 303 parks in the district, averaged out at 13.3 square meters of green park land per capita. Here do 122.87 kilometers of ecological belts and 1240 kilometers of greenways snake, 54 mainstreams and tributaries criss-cross, and 42 reservoirs be scattered. Its fabulous ecology brings the residents green living surroundings, where residents might appreciate the green just out of windows as if fallen into a big green park. Besides, a series of Shenzhen International Low-carbon Forums have ever been held in Longgang District. It has been among the province’s first batch of pilot and demonstration districts for carbon neutrality. It has ever been rated as the nation’s demonstration area for the development of ecological civilization, and the nation’s innovation and pilot base for practicing the ideas of seeking economic development and environmental protection simultaneously.
Living Facilities
All over Longgang District, there are about 571,900 students educated by the teaching faculty of approximately 37,100. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen Conservatory of Music, and certain other universities and colleges grow fast in Longgang District. The district ranks number one among the districts of Shenzhen in terms of the quantity of class-A tertiary hospitals (the hospitals ranked in the first tier of the nation’s medical system), with 7 class-A tertiary hospitals totally, including 4 district-level ones. 110.2-kilometer-long rails of 5 metro lines, tied with 70 metro stations, cross through the district. As a host venue of the 26th Summer Universiade, Longgang District has established certain world-level sports facilities, including 1 Universiade Gymnasium, 1 Universiade Stadium, 1 Universiade Natatorium. It boasts 11 museums, 199 fixed cultural relics, 57 intangible cultural heritage items, and 2 national class-3A tourism attractions.
Industrial Base
Longgang District get itself rooted in industrial development, giving priority to the manufacturing industry. Located in the district are 2460 industrial enterprises above the designated size (each with main business revenues of no less than 20 million yuan per year) , and 47 listed enterprises. For consecutive 7 years in a row, the district has been the top on the list of the nation’s top 100 industrial districts. A sea of industry clusters have been pooled here, which cover various sectors, such as electronic information, new energy, biomedicine, manufacturing. And, numerous famed enterprises, like HUAWEI, BYD, also choose to get located in Longgang District. And for many years, Longgang District, among the first batch of national-level demonstration countries/country-level districts for the conservation of natural resources, leads Shenzhen in the land management, preparing huge space for the industrial development.
Innovation and Enterpreneurship
Longgang District has obtained the permit to join in establishing national ultra-high-definition video innovation center. The nation’s third-generation semiconductor innovation center is under accelerated construction in Longgang District. Continuously being the one among the districts all over Shenzhen which shares the largest proportion of the R&D input to the GDP and boasts the largest application volume of PCT patents, Longgang District has ever been rated as a demonstration country/country-level district for the development of national strong intellectual property countries/country-level districts. It has ever been ranked among the top 4 on the list of the nation’s top 100 innovative districts of 2024, with 3612 national high-tech enterprises, 2 national key laboratories, 2 Nobel-laureate laboratories with 12 full-time academicians, and 334 innovation platforms of different levels.
Economic Growth
Longgang District in 2024 recorded a 6.7%-increased GDP of 590.127 billion yuan in comparison with the previous year, with a year-on-year increase of 9.4% in the added value of the above-designated-size industrial enterprises, a year-on-year increase of 3.1% in the fixed-asset investment and a year-on-year decrease of 0.4% in the total retail sales of consumer goods.
