Longgang District, a major economic, industrial, and population hub in Shenzhen, accounts for nearly one-seventh of the city's total economic output, close to a quarter of its industrial output, and boasts over 30 product categories with an annual production share exceeding 50% of the city's total. With a resident population constituting nearly one-fifth of Shenzhen's total, it holds a significant share across multiple dimensions. On the morning of January 13, the Fifth Session of the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Longgang District Committee was convened, revealing the district's economic report card for 2025. The annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is projected to surpass 600 billion yuan, maintaining its nearly one-seventh share of the city's total and securing the top spot among China's Top 100 Industrial Districts for the eighth consecutive year.
It was understood that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Longgang has reinforced its comprehensive and deepened reform through a "12345" top-level design. Positioning itself as a "Pilot Demonstration Zone for Small and Medium-sized Initiatives," it is deeply implementing the "All in AI" and "HarmonyOS District" development strategies. The goal of building a modern urban exemplar characterized by being "interesting, full of business opportunities, livable, and high-quality" now has clearer objectives, pathways, and measures.
The path to elevating a model modern urban district was formally proposed at last year's Party Congress: the development goal of creating a modern urban exemplar that is "interesting, full of business opportunities, livable, and high-quality." After a year of progress, this "Four Haves" vision has generated new connotations and yielded a batch of new achievements.
The "Four Haves" vision constructs a three-dimensional and balanced target system for a modern urban district. Integrating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan" overall layout, and Longgang's resource endowment, the "Four Haves" concept demonstrates a systematic and theoretical practical logic.
"Interesting" aligns with cultural development within the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan," representing the core of Longgang's soft power. It focuses on cultural aspects, vitality, experiences, and other intangible strengths and spiritual dimensions, serving as the district's "charm index." From the perspective of Maslow's hierarchy, it corresponds to aesthetic needs, spiritual needs, and self-actualization needs. In 2025, "Fun Longgang" and "Youth Appeal" became phenomenal IPs. In the future, Longgang aims to become an observation zone for "interesting" lifestyles and a grand stage for personal fulfillment and dream realization, deeply responding to the highest level in Maslow's hierarchy – the need for self-actualization.
By the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, through the integrated development of "technology + cultural creativity," cultural innovation and creativity will be continuously stimulated, social civility will be significantly enhanced, the spiritual and cultural life of the masses will be enriched, and Socialist Core Values will be deeply ingrained, injecting a cultural soul into the district's development.
"Full of Business Opportunities" concentrates on economic vitality, innovation ecology, and employment prospects, constituting the district's "development index." It corresponds to human material needs and aligns with economic construction in the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan." By advancing new industrialization and making new quality productive forces the main engine of economic growth, Longgang aims to create a rainforest-like industrial ecosystem where large, medium, and small enterprises collaborate and integrate, becoming a national exemplar of high-quality economic development.
By the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the "4+6+N" modern industrial system will be significantly optimized, providing residents with abundant material security and economic opportunities, thereby satisfying the basic material needs in Maslow's hierarchy.
"Livable" emphasizes housing security, cost of living, and the foundations for a desirable living environment, representing the district's "happiness index." It corresponds to survival, development, and safety needs, meeting the requirements for social construction within the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan." Longgang starts from satisfying people's needs for survival, development, and security, building a high-quality public service system encompassing "quality care for the young, excellent education for students, substantial rewards for laborers, good medical care for the sick, comfortable aging for the elderly, livable housing, and broad support for the vulnerable."
"High-Quality" positions Longgang as a model modern people-centric city. It starts from and focuses on meeting people's needs for the integration of production, life, and ecology, corresponding to ecological civilization construction within the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan." This not only fulfills aspirations for a better life but also strengthens residents' sense of belonging and identity with Longgang, reflecting the pursuit of belonging and esteem needs in Maslow's hierarchy.
In 2025, Longgang completed the Longgang River Greenway, with 83.24% of its ecological shoreline becoming the district's "green name card," achieving new results in ecological and environmental protection. It launched the digital living space "4T for Home," constructing a comprehensive digital security system. As of January 2026, the "Baby Bus" service had opened 25 micro-bus routes connecting to the subway, with total passenger traffic exceeding 100,000, effectively improving traffic order in the jurisdiction.
Notably, "Leave It To Me, No Problem" serves as the guarantee system for building the modern urban exemplar characterized by the "Four Haves," corresponding to political construction within the "Five-Sphere Integrated Plan." It embodies Longgang District's adherence to the standards for good officials in the new era, guided by the "Leave It To Me, No Problem" principle, striving to comprehensively enhance the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, providing political assurance for achieving the "Four Haves" goals.
Starting from national strategies, undergoing localized interpretation and creative transformation, the plans ultimately materialize in tangible "livelihood projects that the masses can perceive and benefit from." This ensures that planning does not remain on paper but possesses clear practical pathways and evaluation criteria – all developmental outcomes are ultimately judged by the citizens' sense of gain, happiness, and security.
The articulation of the new connotations of the "Four Haves" marks Longgang's comprehensive leap from a major industrial district to a model modern urban district. This signifies not only a shift in Longgang's development philosophy but also its profound practice of the concept "cities are built by the people and for the people" in the new era. It translates "major national priorities" into "key urban tasks" and "people's aspirations." Using empathetic and imaginative language (the "Four Haves"), it paints a future urban picture that both undertakes historical missions and resonates with the heartbeat of the common people. This is not merely a development plan but a developmental contract and commitment letter addressed to all Longgang citizens, reflecting the governing body's deep answer to the fundamental question of "development for whom, relying on whom, and who shares the fruits," heralding a warmer, more vibrant, and higher-quality new Longgang transitioning from blueprint to reality.
Deepening the "12345" top-level design and dual-engine development requires insight into technological trends, grasping industrial development patterns, deeply understanding underlying market logic, and planning for forward-looking government布局. At the Fifth Session of the Seventh CPC Longgang District Committee Congress, Longgang District explicitly proposed to be guided by the "12345" top-level design for comprehensive and deepened reform, systematically advancing high-quality regional development.
This top-level design focuses on enhancing the systematic, holistic, and coordinated nature of reforms. Anchored in the strategic positioning of creating a "Pilot Demonstration Zone for Small and Medium-sized Initiatives" for new technologies, products, solutions, and even lifestyles, it takes "All in AI" and the "HarmonyOS District" construction as two core strategic pillars. These are deeply integrated into the overall construction of the "Four Haves" modern urban exemplar, providing solid support for Longgang's transition from the top industrial district to a model modern urban district.
Longgang District's proposed "12345" top-level design is a systematic framework for driving reforms into deeper waters: 1 Strategic Positioning: Create a "Pilot Demonstration Zone for Small and Medium-sized Initiatives" for various innovation outcomes, becoming a testing ground and source for new technologies, products, solutions, and lifestyles; 2 Strategic Pillars: "All in AI" and "HarmonyOS District" construction, forming the dual engines for Longgang's transformation and development in the digital era; 3 Mechanism Innovations: Deepen reforms in the "Science and Technology Chapter" of government investment projects, build a "3+5" industrial service system, and promote deep integration of the digital and real economies, addressing blockages between institutional supply and industrial demand; 4 Development Soil: Fully leverage the innovation ecology and application scenarios inherent in building the "Four Haves" district ("interesting, full of business opportunities, livable, high-quality"); 5 Element Combination: Coordinate the five key elements of "talent + technology + scenarios + orders + capital," forming a full-chain, full-cycle, full-dimensional innovation support system.
Within this framework, "All in AI" and the "HarmonyOS District" are not merely technological strategies but comprehensive carriers for institutional innovation, ecosystem cultivation, and modernization of urban governance. Guided by the "12345" top-level design requirements, Longgang District drives forward with a two-pronged approach of "AI industrialization" and "industrial AI-ization," vigorously advancing the construction of a demonstration zone for comprehensive and round-the-clock AI application.
In terms of mechanism innovation, Longgang took the lead in establishing the nation's first government-directly-administered Artificial Intelligence (Robotics) Agency, released the "AI Longgang" Three-Year Action Plan, and, relying on the "Science and Technology Chapter" reform, embedded AI capabilities into the entire process of infrastructure and public service projects. In 2025, the ratio of R&D expenditure to GDP reached 17.3%, and PCT international patent applications exceeded 5,800, both indicators ranking first in the city, providing strong momentum for AI innovation.
Regarding the industrial ecosystem, Longgang has gathered over 350 AI enterprises, including Huawei and CloudMinds, forming a complete industrial chain closed-loop from chips and large models to embodied intelligence, smart terminals, and AI+ applications. In 2025, the world's first AI 6S store and robot 6S store were successively established, marking the maturity of a integrated hardware-software service model.
In terms of scenario enablement, Longgang has cumulatively released AI application lists covering 21 key areas and 464 items, with plans to expand open "City+AI" application scenarios in 2026, promoting the entry of "Long Teacher," "Long Master," and other "Long Series" intelligent agents into schools, hospitals, communities, and households.
As an innovation source and industrial ecosystem center for OpenHarmony, Longgang District follows the path of "HarmonyOS industrialization" and "industrial HarmonyOS-ization" to create a "Comprehensive and Round-the-Clock HarmonyOS District," deeply aligning with the "12345" reform logic.
In terms of institutional support, Longgang established a special task force and a chief architect team for the HarmonyOS District construction. Through 162 scenario opportunity lists and 124 enterprise capability lists, it achieves precise matching of technological supply and market demand. Simultaneously, it integrated over 1.8 million square meters of industrial space and plans to invest over 10 billion yuan in procurement orders within three years, strengthening the "orders + capital" element guarantee.
Regarding the industrial system, leveraging a semiconductor and integrated circuit industry cluster with an output value exceeding 100 billion yuan, Longgang is building a complete ecosystem from basic software/hardware and industry solutions to comprehensive scenario enablement. In 2025, the first 50 enterprises settled in the Shenzhen Industrial Software Park, and the "OpenHarmony/RISC-V" Industrial Alliance was formally established, marking the effective implementation of the "3+5" industrial service system in the HarmonyOS domain.
In terms of integrated applications, HarmonyOS technology has been deeply embedded in urban governance and livelihood services: the Pingdi Subdistrict "HarmonyOS + Low-Carbon" Party-Mass Service Center achieved full-link intelligent management and control of facilities; Kaihong Zhilian and Tianjian Chengfu co-built an intelligent urban operation and maintenance platform; Chinasoft International empowered smart office solutions. Future plans include systematically creating benchmark scenarios like HarmonyOS schools, HarmonyOS hospitals, HarmonyOS buildings, and HarmonyOS government services, promoting the digital realization of "high-quality" and "livable" aspects.
"All in AI" and the "HarmonyOS District" are not promoted in isolation but form a strategic coupling under the "12345" top-level design. AI large models and HarmonyOS's distributed operating system deeply integrate, supporting integrated "end-edge-cloud" intelligence. Resources such as talent, technology, and capital flow efficiently between the two strategies, achieving element sharing and forming a "rainforest-like" innovation ecosystem. Together, they serve the construction of the "Four Haves" modern urban district, ensuring that development outcomes are reflected in the citizens' sense of gain, happiness, and security.
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