Xinhuanet, Shenzhen, September 1st (Reporter Peng Yong) Standing on a high-rise building in the central area of Shenzhen and looking around, you can see this scene: a winding Shenzhen River, Hong Kong on the south bank has beautiful mountains and clear waters, and a rural scenery; while in Shenzhen on the north bank, almost all the land is “planted” with houses, densely packed with no gaps.
This scene closely reflects the reality of Shenzhen: on the one hand, in the 30 years of reform and opening up, Shenzhen has created an economic miracle that is rare in the world; on the other hand, the extensive development method has consumed almost all land resources.
This is in sharp contrast to Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s land area is only half that of Shenzhen. Shenzhen’s GDP in 2009 was 820 billion yuan, while Hong Kong’s GDP was 1.4 trillion yuan.
According to statistics, Shenzhen’s average annual GDP growth rate has reached 25.8% in the past 30 years. However, land resources are in short supply, the population exceeds 14 million, and the environment is deteriorating… It can be said that as various problems become more prominent, Shenzhen, as a special economic zone in China, is the first to encounter the “ceiling dilemma” of development.
To create more economic results with fewer resources, Shenzhen can only adjust its economic structure, reduce the proportion of processing and manufacturing, and develop more high-tech industries. Recently, Foxconn, a world-renowned foundry company, announced that it will expand its production scale in central and western China and transform its factory in Shenzhen into a research and development center. This move coincides with this transformation trend in Shenzhen.
In the past 30 years, one of Shenzhen’s major achievements has been the cultivation of a large number of high-tech companies such as Huawei, ZTE, BYD, and Tencent. Their rapid development has greatly promoted the growth of the special zone. According to statistics, Huawei’s sales revenue last year reached 149.1 billion yuan, making it the world’s second largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer after Ericsson and becoming a dazzling business card of Shenzhen.
Now, facing the “ceiling dilemma”, Shenzhen needs to seek and cultivate more high-tech, high-growth enterprises. In February this year, Shenzhen announced a huge development plan, focusing on building three strategic emerging industries: biology, new energy, and the Internet, and striving to increase the scale of these three industries to 650 billion yuan by 2015, exceeding 40% of the estimated regional GDP of 1.5 trillion yuan.
Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is included in this plan. This is a company engaged in stem cell research. Because he saw the broad prospects of stem cell therapy, Dr. Hu Xiang, MD, founded Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. in 2005. After just five years of development, Beike is now China’s largest stem cell therapy center.
In 2007, a 6-year-old American girl who was born blind came to China. After receiving stem cell treatment from Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd., she responded to light and could see the faces of her relatives. This is the magic of stem cell technology, which is expected to open the door for humans to treat many “incurable diseases.”
As of 2009, Beike’s stem cell technology has treated more than 6,000 patients, including more than 500 patients in more than 40 countries including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Hungary, and achieved remarkable therapeutic effects.
“Stem cell therapy is an opportunity for China to lead the world, and Beike Bio’s goal is to become Merck and Pfizer in the field of stem cells.” Hu Xiang, chairman of Beike Bio, said that once stem cell technology matures, it will form a huge industrial scale.
“Shenzhen needs more competitive and advanced industries to support sustainable development, and it is particularly urgent to enhance development potential.” Shenzhen Mayor Xu Qin said that the Shenzhen Municipal Government has set up special funds for the development of three strategic emerging industries to support the rapid development of the three major industries.
“The problems encountered by the special zone today may be the problems encountered by other regions tomorrow.” Guo Wanda, deputy director of the Comprehensive Development Research Institute, said that as a special economic zone in China, Shenzhen’s development and reform experience has provided a learning sample for other regions across the country, and Shenzhen will also play a pioneering role in the future.
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