Shenzhen has a subtropical maritime climate, which is characterized by a modern coastal city. Sunny all year round, full of flowers. In recent years, Shenzhen has been successively rated as "International Garden City", "Excellent Tourism City", "National Garden City" and "Top 500 Environmental Protection Cities in the World" by the China Municipal Government and relevant international organizations. Only 20 years after its establishment, Shenzhen has developed from a border town into a modern city with prosperous economy, sound legal system, beautiful environment, civilization and harmony.
economic construction
Shenzhen is one of the cities with the strongest economic strength and the fastest development speed in Chinese mainland. Since 1980, the gross domestic product has increased by 30% every year. In 2003, Shenzhen achieved a GDP of 286.05 billion yuan, an increase of 17.3% over the previous year, and its per capita GDP exceeded $6,500. The local fiscal revenue was 33.7 billion yuan. All economic indicators are among the best in China, and the total import and export volume and total export volume rank first in large and medium-sized cities in Chinese mainland for 1 1 year.
High-tech industry, financial industry and logistics industry are the three pillar industries in Shenzhen. Shenzhen's traditional advantageous industries are: jewelry, watches, furniture, toys, clothing, printing, leather, craft gifts and so on. The output of watches and clocks in Shenzhen accounts for14 of the world, the output of cordless telephones accounts for 2/5 of the whole country, and the export of furniture products accounts for 30% of the whole country.
opening up to the outside world
Shenzhen is the main channel for Chinese mainland to communicate with the world, an important import and export trade base and the city with the highest degree of economic openness. 98 of the world's top 500 multinational companies have invested in Shenzhen. World-renowned companies such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Ericsson have set up R&D centers in Shenzhen, and large multinational companies such as Wal-Mart, Sony, IBM and Alcatel have set up purchasing centers in Shenzhen.
Shenzhen enterprises actively develop abroad. By the end of last year, there were 2 19 overseas enterprises and institutions in Shenzhen, with a total investment of over 700 million US dollars. Well-known enterprises in Shenzhen such as Huawei and ZTE have set up trade representative offices in many countries and regions around the world.
Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation
Both Shenzhen and Hong Kong belong to Xin 'an County in history. The two places are connected by mountains and rivers, with similar language and customs, frequent exchanges and numerous land ports. By the end of last year, the actual investment of Hong Kong businessmen in Shenzhen had reached more than 20 billion US dollars, accounting for 70% of the total actual investment of foreign businessmen in Shenzhen. There are nearly 10,000 Hong Kong-funded enterprises in Shenzhen, accounting for about 80% of the foreign-funded enterprises in Shenzhen. This year, the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement between Hong Kong and the Mainland was formally implemented, Shenzhen-Hong Kong relations became closer, and the cooperation between the two places developed to a higher level.
business environment
Shenzhen has a good investment and business environment. Last year, the World Bank surveyed the investment environment of 23 cities in China, and Shenzhen scored the highest.
Shenzhen pays attention to standardizing the market economic order, and constantly strengthens market rectification and intellectual property protection. Shenzhen Municipal Government strengthens the investigation of administrative responsibility and supervision of administrative efficiency, further transforms government functions, improves work efficiency, reduces administrative costs, and establishes an efficient, high-quality, democratic, transparent and clean service-oriented government.
Cultural characteristics
Shenzhen is an immigrant city, where Chinese and western cultures blend and exchange, forming a unique cultural atmosphere.
Guan Shanyue Art Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen Grand Theatre and Shenzhen Book City, which are located in the city, have their own characteristics. Shenzhen Concert Hall, which will be put into use in the second half of 2004, has reached the international first-class level. There are many wonderful cultural activities in Shenzhen, such as "International Ink Painting Biennale" and "Grand Theatre Art Festival", which have great influence at home and abroad. Di Yun, a young artist from Shenzhen, won the first prize in the 14th Chopin International Piano Competition.
Dafen Village, located in Longgang District, Shenzhen, is a well-known "oil painting village". There are more than 100 oil painting companies, more than 700 galleries and more than 2,000 painters in the small village, and a large number of oil paintings are created and sold all over the world every year.
Shenzhen will give full play to its existing cultural advantages and build "two cities and one capital", that is, the city of libraries, the city of pianos and the city of design.
Development goals
At the beginning of this year, Shenzhen set an ambitious development goal: strive to build Shenzhen into an important regional international city in about 20 years. Around this goal, Shenzhen will strive to become a high-tech city, a modern logistics hub city, a regional financial center city, a beautiful seaside tourist city and a high-grade cultural and ecological city, thus making Shenzhen one of the world's first-class cities.
Facing the future, Shenzhen is full of self-confidence, and will strengthen urban construction and create a bright future with Scientific Outlook on Development.
Shenzhen investment environment
Shenzhen is located in the southern coastal area of Guangdong Province, China, adjacent to Hong Kong, with east longitude1114 37' and north latitude 22 27'-22 52'. Jianshi 1979, with a total area of 1948.69 square kilometers and a population of 4.05 million. The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone established by 1980 is located in the south of Shenzhen, with an area of 39 1.7 1 square kilometer. Shenzhen has a subtropical maritime climate, with an average annual temperature of 22.40℃, an average annual rainfall of 1933.3mm and sunshine of 2010.5h. The coastline of Shenzhen is 230 kilometers long and it is rich in marine resources. There are many good ports in the bay, and the sea conditions are superior.
Shenzhen is only separated from Hong Kong by a river, 35 kilometers away from Kowloon, Hong Kong, and faces many land and sea ports. It is the main gateway connecting China with the world market, and also the main channel for people flow, logistics and economic and trade exchanges in China, especially in South China. After the return of Hong Kong, the ties and cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong have become closer, making it easier for people and goods to enter and leave, exchange information, transport and finance.
At present, there are 17 ports open to the outside world, including Luohu port, the largest land passenger port in China, and Huanggang port, the largest land freight port in China. Shenzhen has Yantian Port, the second largest container port in China, and Shenzhen International Airport, the fourth largest airport in China. Shenzhen has highways, expressways, railways and high-speed railways extending in all directions. Beijing-Guangzhou and Beijing-Kowloon Railway meet in Shenzhen. There are 8 ports and 12 cargo terminals. The main line of Shenzhen Metro Phase I project19.468km, with a total investment of105.85 million yuan, broke ground at the end of 1999 and is expected to be completed and opened to traffic by the end of 2003. 200 1 Shenzhen has opened direct dial telephones with more than 200 foreign cities and more than 2,000 domestic towns. The total capacity of fixed telephone exchanges is 2.089 million, and the total capacity of mobile telephone exchanges is 6.5438+0.78 million. The daily water supply capacity of tap water in Shenzhen is 3.637 million tons, and the installed power generation capacity is 3.02 million kilowatts, which can fully meet the needs of domestic and production hydropower in this city.
Investment situation of Taiwanese businessmen
According to the survey, since the first Taiwan-funded enterprise settled in Shenzhen in110 in 1982, by the end of 2003, Shenzhen * * * had introduced 3,809 Taiwan-funded enterprises with an actual investment of 4.92 billion US dollars, accounting for nearly110 of Chinese mainland's actually utilized Taiwan capital, ranking second only to Hong Kong-funded enterprises in Shenzhen's foreign investment. There are more than 600,000 employees in Taiwan-funded enterprises in the city, and more than 50,000 Taiwanese businessmen, Taiwan Province technical managers and their families living in Shenzhen. In recent years, an average of about 200 Taiwanese businessmen have settled in Shenzhen every year, and the cumulative export volume of Taiwan-funded enterprises has reached/kloc-0.5 billion yuan, which has become a new force in Shenzhen's economic development.
The survey results also show that in recent years, Taiwanese investment in Shenzhen has shown two major characteristics: First, most Taiwan-funded enterprises are mainly manufacturing, and the industries are widely distributed, involving more than 20 industries. Computers and related products and equipment, household appliances, fine chemicals, precision molds, medical devices, watches, bicycles and plastic products have become the leading products of Shenzhen enterprises. Second, there are more and more leading enterprises with large investment and high reputation. Taiwan Province province 100 top enterprises have 1 1 settled in Shenzhen, and 86 enterprises in Shenzhen have invested more than 1000 million US dollars. Foxconn has invested in as many as 26 companies in Shenzhen, with the actual investment exceeding 10 billion USD.
Operating in good condition, it is common to increase capital and expand production, which is the operating status of Taiwan-funded enterprises settled in Shenzhen. The survey results show that more than 90% of enterprises in Shenzhen and Taiwan Province are profitable with rich returns. Most Taiwanese businessmen have expanded their investment fields, expanded their production scale or set up new enterprises one after another after they got rich returns from their investment in Shenzhen. They changed from short-term exploratory investment to long-term stable investment, and the scale of enterprises expanded geometrically. According to incomplete statistics, in recent years, the capital increase of Taiwanese businessmen in Shenzhen has exceeded1500 million US dollars. Due to the advantages of relatively perfect urban infrastructure functions and low comprehensive investment cost in Shenzhen, 66.2% of Taiwanese enterprises want to stay in Shenzhen.