In 2023, the strategic emerging industries in Shenzhen achieved an added value of 1.45 trillion yuan, accounting for 41.9% of the city's GDP, with a year-on-year growth of 8.8%. Particularly, the new generation electronic information industry contributed 571.712 billion yuan, up by 3.1%; the digital and fashion industry 409.901 billion yuan, up by 18.3%; the high-end equipment manufacturing industry 57.12 billion yuan, up by 6.2%; the green and low-carbon industry 221.358 billion yuan, up by 16.9%; the new materials industry 35.257 billion yuan, up by 15.2%; the biomedicine and health industry 75.299 billion yuan; the marine economy industry 78.32 billion yuan.
| New Generation Electronic Information | Network & Communications |
| Semiconductor & Integrated Circuit | |
| UHD Display | |
| Intelligent Terminals | |
| Smart Sensor | |
Digital & Fashion | Software & Information Services |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | |
| Digital Creativity | |
| Modern Fashion | |
Marine Economy | Marine Economy |
| High-end Equipment | High-end Equipment & Instruments |
| Low-altitude Economy & Aerospace | |
| Robotics | |
| New Materials | High-performance Materials |
| Biomedicine & Healthcare | Biomedicine |
| High-end Medical Devices | |
| Comprehensive Health | |
| Green and Low-carbon Industry | New Energy |
| Safety & Energy Conservation, Environmental Protection | |
| Intelligent & Connected Vehicles (ICV) |
Development Objectives
By 2025, Shenzhen will see its strategic emerging industry clusters steadily scaling up, future industries taking shape, businesses' comprehensive competitiveness greatly strengthened, innovation capability significantly boosted, and modernized industrial system of Shenzhen characteristics and advantages continually improved, with strategic emerging industry clusters and future industries becoming the main battlefield for developing new quality productive forces. Strategic emerging industries will register an added value of over 1.6 trillion yuan, to cement its role as the main driver for high-quality social and economic development. Four industry clusters each valued at over 1 trillion yuan and four at over 500 billion yuan will be established, along with a batch valued at 100 billion yuan. There will be 15,000 industrial companies above designated scale and 25,000 state-level high-tech companies.
Strategic Emerging Industry Clusters
| Strategic Key Category | Semiconductor & Integrated Circuit |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | |
| Low-altitude Economy & Aerospace | |
| New Energy | |
| Intelligent & Connected Vehicles (ICV) | |
| Biomedicine | |
| High-end Medical Devices | |
| Base Support Category | Smart Sensor |
| High-end Equipment & Instruments | |
| Robotics | |
| High-performance Materials | |
| Advantage Extension Category | Network & Communications |
| UHD Display | |
| Intelligent Terminals | |
| Software & Information Services | |
| Comprehensive Upgrade Category | Digital Creativity |
| Modern Fashion | |
| Safety & Energy Conservation | |
| Environmental Protection | |
| Comprehensive Health | |
Marine Economy |
Future Industries
| To achieve exponential growth in size within 5 to 10 years | Synthetic Biology |
| Optical Information | |
| Smart Robotics | |
| Cells and Genes | |
| To become a pillar in strategic emerging industries within 10 to 15 years | Brain Science and Brain-computer Engineering |
Deep Underground and Deep Sea | |
| Quantum Information | |
| Advanced New Materials |