Guangming, Shenzhen
Guangming District is one of nine districts in the city of Shenzhen. The district, bordering the city of Dongguan in the Northwest of Shenzhen, was created in 2007 as a "functional area" of Bao'an District. In May 2018, it became a formal administrative division.
Guangming
光明区 | |
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Honghuashan Park, Guangming District | |
Guangming (top left, highlighted in teal ) within Shenzhen | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| Sub-provincial city | Shenzhen |
| Area | |
| • Total | 156.1 km2 (60.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | 1,095,289 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Area code | 0755 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 光明区 | ||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 光明區 | ||||||||||||||
| Guangdong Romanization | guong1 ming4 kêu1 | ||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Guāngmíng Qū | ||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 光明 | ||||||||||||||
| Guangdong Romanization | guong1 ming4 | ||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Guāngmíng | ||||||||||||||
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Guangming District has a total area of 156.1 square kilometers and a resident population of 1,095,300 residents. In 2020, Guangming District achieved a regional GDP of 110.77 billion yuan, an increase of 5.7%, the second-fastest growth rate in Shenzhen City. The initial formation of a new generation of emerging industries clustered development pattern regarding information technology, new materials, and biomedicine is also achieved.
Since Guangming District is located in the central axis of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong, an important node of the GZ-SZ Science & Technology Innovation Corridor, it was given the mission to build a world-class Science City and the northern center of Shenzhen by the municipal government. The real progress of the Guangming Science City project is about 78% complete in August 2021.