Perfect & Complete Environment with Industrial Chains
Shenzhen, and even the entire Pearl River Delta, is the region with the densest cluster of industrial and commercial enterprises in China. This region features rich labor resources, high level of technological strength, convenient transportation and excellent logistics services, which offers Shenzhen the atmosphere of a manufacture industrial cluster. In the area centered by Shenzhen, you can purchase almost all electronic components, hardware products, raw chemical materials, textile products, and agricultural by-products within 3 hours. Delivered from factories, products can reach every part of the world via the ports and air freights of Shenzhen and Hong Kong within 2 hours.
Based on the basis of the manufacture industry, Shenzhen has fostered a unique industrial structure diversified with garments, gold and jewelry, clocks and watches, underwear, furniture, moulds, leather, artistic gifts, printing, toys, consumer electronic products, household electric appliances, computer components, IC, semi-conduct illumination, cartoons and animation, biological medicine, fine chemical industry, and others.
The electronic information industry of Shenzhen is the largest in China. The output of color TV sets, computers and SPC exchanges and exports of its software products rank the first in the country. The electronic information industry has been the backbone industry of Shenzhen with the growth rate, the competitive strength, and the industrial relevancy, the success of which has well propelled the increase and improvement of traditional industries such as machinery, garments, clocks and watches, toys, and moulds industries.
Shenzhen boasts a perfect supporting system for the electronic information industry, covering basically computers, communications, household electric appliances and other related industries. Currently, the city has built national level corporate R & D centers, including 5 of the electronic information industry, and there are 10 enterprises with annual sales over RMB 5 billion, and 18 over RMB 1 billion in the industry. Shenzhen¡¯s patent application related to information technologies has been in the first position several years successively. In 2005, Shenzhen¡¯s trade amount of electronic information products reached RMB 100 billion.
The significance of industrial clusters has been fully recognized by both leaders from the Shenzhen Municipality and experts from the economic and academic world. Great efforts have been taken to construct industrial bases for the industrial clusters, and to attract leading enterprises to station in and actively develop leader industries.