Guangming, Shenzhen
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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.[2][3] In May 2018, it became a formal administrative division.[4]
Guangming
光明区 | |
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Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Guangdong |
Sub-provincial city | Shenzhen |
Area | |
• Total | 156.1 km2 (60.3 sq mi) |
Population (2020[1]) | 1,095,289 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Area code | 0755 |
Website | www |
Guangming District | |||||||||||||||
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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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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7][8] The real progress of the Guangming Science City project is about 78% complete in August 2021.[7]