Positioned where the Greater Bay Area's central axis geographically converges with the digital era's computing power hub, Shenzhen's Longhua district is undertaking a comprehensive, ecosystem-level reshaping of its business environment. This strategic move aims to accelerate its evolution from being the "northern center of Shenzhen" into a dynamic "central growth pole." Following the conclusion of the Third Party Congress and the "Two Sessions" in August 2026, the district has firmly established its strategic direction around the "Digital & Intelligent Longhua, Central Axis Hub" concept.

Over the next five years, this district, sitting on the geographic heart of the Greater Bay Area, will anchor its efforts on becoming the "central growth pole of Shenzhen." The primary targets are ambitious: achieving a regional GDP exceeding 600 billion yuan and accumulating a total fixed-asset investment of 600 billion yuan over the five-year period, a dual-goal strategy dubbed the "Two 6000s."

The past five years have laid a solid foundation for this ambitious leap. Longhua's regional GDP has climbed eight 10-billion-yuan steps to reach 331.1 billion yuan. The total output value of its large-scale industries has surpassed 720 billion yuan, a 39% increase, securing its place among the top ten industrial districts nationwide. The core industry output of the digital economy has exceeded 610 billion yuan, with its value-added share of GDP reaching over 35%, nearly 25 percentage points higher than the national average. The number of national-level "Little Giant" firms specializing in niche technologies has grown from just 4 to 179, and the count of nationally recognized high-tech enterprises has reached 4,140, ranking third citywide. In governance, Longhua has led the city's digital government performance assessments for four consecutive years and its rule-of-law government assessments for three. Cumulative spending on nine major categories of people's livelihoods has surpassed 100 billion yuan, accounting for almost 80% of the public budget.

Grand ambitions require robust underlying support. As the "15th Five-Year Plan" period begins, Longhua is upgrading its business climate from "universal convenience" to a model of "precision empowerment" and "security assurance." By providing certainty through the strongest legal protections, the most controllable factor costs, and the most transparent market opportunities, the district aims to inject core momentum into turning the "Digital & Intelligent Longhua, Central Axis Hub" blueprint into a tangible reality.

To instill confidence in business investment, a stable, fair, and predictable legal environment is the primary prerequisite. In the past five years, Longhua has been a national pioneer in establishing a district-level comprehensive mediation institute and Shenzhen's first foreign-related family trial center. Its standardized practices for handling enterprise-related law enforcement have been promoted nationwide, contributing to its top ranking in rule-of-law government assessments for three consecutive years. Institutional innovation is complemented by a human touch in enforcement. In April of this year, when the Longhua Management Bureau of the Shenzhen Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau found that Guanlan Anneng Logistics had slightly exceeded noise limits—a first-time violation with no adverse effects—it did not resort to a simple fine. Instead, it guided the company to rectify its noise reduction facilities, ultimately opting not to penalize them upon successful correction. An enterprise representative noted that this "no penalty for first violation" approach helped them close management gaps and ease operational burdens.

Looking ahead, Longhua will prioritize government trustworthiness as the baseline for its business environment. This includes fully implementing the private economy promotion law, refining long-term mechanisms to prevent and resolve arrears owed to enterprises, and launching routine special campaigns to address wage arrears and streamline the debt clearance chain. Simultaneously, it will strengthen government integrity and promise-keeping commitments to establish "strongest legal protection" and "most transparent market opportunities" as defining features of its business climate. The district will also improve a full-chain risk management mechanism covering early warning, collaborative assessment, linked response, dynamic resolution, and source governance, using legal certainty to safeguard the construction of the "Central Axis Hub."

While the rule of law provides comfort, digital intelligence is set to make services more attentive and industries more robust. Over the past five years, Longhua's digital governance experiences, such as "no-application, immediate enjoyment" (Mian Shen Ji Xiang), have been replicated across the nation. The district's digital government performance has ranked first in Shenzhen for four consecutive years, and the digital economy's core industry value-added share of GDP is nearly 25 percentage points higher than the national average. Building on this, Longhua launched an innovative "Policy AI Calculator" that leverages big data and artificial intelligence to consolidate all district policy subsidies, creating functional modules for automatic benefits and guided enterprise data. Since the platform went live, it has distributed nearly 2.16 billion yuan in subsidies, with 1.16 billion yuan disbursed via the "no-application, immediate enjoyment" model, benefiting over 1,500 companies. In August of this year, the Longhua District Investment Promotion and Service Center hosted a matchmaking event for industrial application scenarios in digital-intelligent technology, bringing together nearly 80 representatives from manufacturing, digital transformation service providers, universities, and financial institutions to enable industries to pose challenges and technology to provide solutions, putting the "Digital & Intelligent Longhua" strategy into practice.

For the next five years, Longhua intends to cultivate "scenario-based investment attraction" and "computing power empowerment" as its most core differentiators. In response to the rigid demand for computing power from AI and intelligent manufacturing enterprises, the district will promote support tools like "training vouchers" and "token vouchers." This signals a clear message: coming to Longhua not only offers space but also access to highly cost-effective computing power and a testing ground for full-domain, all-weather application scenarios. Specifically, Longhua will build large-scale P-level intelligent computing centers, deepen cooperation with computing hub nodes like Shaoguan to establish a regional computing scheduling hub, and intensify the "AI+" initiative. It will open up application scenarios across all times, domains, and industries and build AI OPC communities. Furthermore, it will iteratively upgrade the "Policy AI Calculator," enhance the "Shenzhen Xiao-i" intelligent government service system, and establish a two-way enabling mechanism where technology finds scenarios and scenarios find technology, transforming "Digital & Intelligent Longhua" from a strategic vision into tangible development benefits for enterprises.

If digital intelligence attracts businesses, then full-lifecycle services provide the fertile ground for them to take root and flourish. Over the past five years, the number of high-tech enterprises in Longhua grew by 51.4% to 4,140, while national-level "Little Giant" enterprises increased from 4 to 179. The district has fostered one national-level and eight provincial-level characteristic industry clusters, ranking first in the city, with the total number of commercial entities growing by 29%. In May of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the 2026 list of key national-level "Little Giants," and Longhua had 19 companies selected, ranking among the top three districts for new additions. Notably, while Longhua's share of Shenzhen's commercial entities is less than 13%, it accounted for 16% of the new "Little Giants." This over-achievement serves as concrete proof of the effectiveness of its full-chain, tiered cultivation system. Longhua is now home to 43 key "Little Giant" enterprises and 182 national-level ones, ranking in the city's top three.

In the coming five years, Longhua will comprehensively upgrade its "1+2+3+8" enterprise service system, perfecting a closed-loop mechanism for handling enterprise appeals that includes collection, handling, feedback, and follow-up visits. It will also improve its quality enterprise gradient cultivation plan with a full-chain service mechanism to support transitions from individual businesses to larger scales, aiming firmly to surpass 300 national-level "Little Giant" enterprises and 3,000 specialized and innovative SMEs. This will foster an ecosystem with large enterprises as pillars, innovative firms breaking new ground, and SMEs providing broad-based support. On the land supply front, Longhua will strictly protect its 40.99 square kilometers of industrial block lines, advance "industrial upstairs" projects, integrate and reserve over 90 hectares of industrial land, and add more than 300,000 square meters of policy-based industrial property. In the past five years, it was a city pioneer in issuing "one document, six permits" jointly for industrial projects, a practice also promoted nationwide. For capital empowerment, the district will continue to expand its 10-billion-yuan strategic emerging industry fund cluster, leverage its district guidance fund's top-30 national standing to steer venture capital towards early-stage, small, long-term, and hard-tech investments, and optimize financing mechanisms like "park loans" and "Longhua digital loans." It will also develop products such as tech insurance and innovation bonds to cultivate patient and long-term capital, ensuring a steady flow of financial support throughout an enterprise's lifecycle.

For enterprises to grow stronger, they need robust links to both domestic and international markets. The "Central Axis Hub" is not just a geographical concept but also a global benchmark for resource allocation. Over the past five years, Longhua established the city's largest district-level international cooperation center and hosted the first UNDP Sustainable Development Innovation Lab in the Greater Bay Area, expanding its economic and trade cooperation network to cover over 150 countries and regions. The Shenzhen (Longhua) International Cooperation Center integrates 553 foreign-related government services, featuring specialized windows for APEC Business Travel Cards, immigrant integration, and international taxation. Since its operation, it has processed 16,000 foreign-related matters for thousands of international visitors from over 70 countries. The city's first Enterprise Product International Marketing Center has also been established here, with six exhibition areas showcasing over 200 tech products from more than 100 key enterprises. In June of this year, the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong Joint Force, Global Launch" Longhua Enterprise Overseas Service Matchmaking Session was held here, linking with Invest Hong Kong to deepen collaboration in internationalization services.

In the next five years, Longhua will work to establish an international AI cooperation platform, offering services for the overseas expansion of AI technologies, products, and solutions. It will enhance professional services for going global, including market research, foreign-related law, commercial arbitration, and intellectual property. Seizing the major opportunity of the APEC meeting in Shenzhen, the district will deepen exchanges and cooperation with APEC member economies. It will also refine its "cross-border e-commerce + industrial belt" development model, optimize its "buy global, sell global" service system, and foster innovative growth in service trade, digital trade, and green trade. By opening up more broadly, Longhua aims to expand its high-quality development space, becoming the "Central Axis Brain" for the Greater Bay Area's industry and supply chains where data, technology, and commercial flows converge, solidifying its role as a strategic node linking global resources.

The accumulation of the past five years is the deep root of Longhua's business environment transitioning from a "soft indicator" to a "hard asset." At this key juncture at the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan," Longhua's targets are clear and concrete: to exceed 600 billion yuan in regional GDP, achieve cumulative fixed-asset investment of 600 billion yuan, surpass 1 trillion yuan in core digital economy industry output and total large-scale industrial output, increase the digital economy's value-added share of GDP to over 40%, raise the strategic emerging industries' share of GDP to over 46.5%, and boost R&D spending to over 6% of GDP.

From the "QR code entry" enforcement innovation to the digital empowerment of the "Policy AI Calculator," from the leniency of "no penalty for first violation" to the full-cycle services of the "1+2+3+8" system, and from the P-level intelligent computing center's computing foundation to the spatial restructuring of "industrial upstairs," Longhua's business environment optimization is progressing from "point-specific breakthroughs" to a systematic "ecosystem reconstruction." The certainty of the rule of law, the agility of digital intelligence, the loop of services, and the connectivity of openness are converging to form the four pillars of Longhua's "hardcore ecosystem." Investing in Longhua is not just about efficiency; it is an investment in an ecosystem. It's not just about providing policies; it's about providing a future. This is the strong foundation for Longhua's strategy of using excellent business conditions to achieve progress as the "Central Axis Hub," and it marks an exciting new prologue in the continued "two-way commitment" between the district and its enterprises at the start of the new five-year plan.