Shenzhen has released version 3.0 of its 20+8 strategic emerging-industry and future-industry plan, laying out where the city’s manufacturing economy is headed through 2030.
The plan sets a headline target: by 2030, strategic emerging industries should reach 2.3 trillion yuan in added value and account for 45 per cent of GDP.
The 20 covers ten strategic-emerging clusters: next-generation IT, biotech, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, intelligent connected vehicles, green environmental protection, low-altitude economy and aerospace, traditional and creative industries, and marine. It adds five future-industry areas: future manufacturing, future information, future energy, future space and future health.
Districts will be steered to specialise rather than duplicate. Each cluster is concentrated in five to six districts, with every district encouraged to focus on a lead industry and build national-level demonstration bases.
The plan also maps key supply chains, identifying critical links, setting direction, and drawing dynamic industry maps to connect upstream and downstream.
Eight activation directions stand out: science and technology, supply-chain security, intelligent transformation, scenario application, enterprise cultivation, branding, financial support, and integration of manufacturing and services.
On AI-driven upgrading, the plan calls for broader development and use of large models and agents, leveraging national AI application-testing bases, and pushing AI deeper into manufacturing with pilot retrofitting demonstrations.
It also promises large-scale scenario pilots, city- and district-level scenario-opening centres, and continued activities to help enterprises find scenarios, plus support for industry exhibitions and first purchases of innovative products by large firms.
The package rounds out with a guarantee system: coordinated city-district mechanisms, a one-desk, one-office, one-floor startup-space policy, a one-bed, one-room, one-apartment housing guarantee, and a government-plus-enterprise-plus-society funding mix.
The signal is clear. Shenzhen is holding the line on manufacturing as its core, pushing new-quality productive forces, and betting that AI and robotics sit at the centre of its next growth cycle.
*Translated and adapted from Shenzhen Special Zone Daily (https://sztqb.sznews.com/PC/content/202607/30/content_3467337.html).*