A TOTAL of 17 high-tech enterprises from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark have announced they will settle in Nanwan Subdistrict, Longgang District, to jointly establish the Nordic Innovation Center, which will play an active role in the Belt and Road Initiative.

    The 17 Nordic high-tech enterprises that have settled at the Kong Wah High-tech Mansion in Longgang cover a wide range of fields, including intelligent manufacturing, clean technology, new energy, new materials, ICT (Information and Communications Technologies), high-end consumer goods, biotechnology and medicine.

    The center is expected to not only inject vitality into the development of Shenzhen’s high-tech industries, but also serve as a platform for technological exchanges between China and northern Europe.

    “In the process of expanding reform and opening up, Shenzhen should actively promote competitive industries in going global as well as bring them in,” said Long Yuxiang, executive chairman of the China International Culture Communication Center.

    The output value of high-tech industries in Longgang exceeded 600 billion yuan (US$94.88 billion) in 2017, accounting for 28 percent of the city’s total.

    (Zhang Yu)