PINGSHAN High-tech Zone, or Pingshan Park of Shenzhen National High-tech Zone, was officially unveiled Tuesday.

With a planned area of 51.6 square kilometers, Pingshan High-tech Zone is the largest among the five industrial parks in the city that comprise Shenzhen National High-tech Zone.

The Pingshan zone will be a pioneer and experimental field in park design, industrial spatial development, innovative ecological systems and institutional mechanisms, as well as a base for upgrading Shenzhen’s advanced manufacturing industry and a driving force for the city’s high-tech development.

It is divided into southern and northern areas. The northern area features a new-energy industry headquarters while the southern area, where Shenzhen Technology University is located, is focused on education, intelligent manufacturing and innovative services. In 2019, the Pingshan zone will provide an additional 5 square kilometers of space for industrial development through urban rejuvenation and upgrading old industrial parks.

The city worked out a plan for the layout of the Shenzhen high-tech zone, which consists of several high-tech parks, including two core parks, in April 2018.

The Pingshan park is one of the two core parks of the Shenzhen high-tech zone.

At the unveiling ceremony, Pingshan also signed a cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Bay Laboratory for research, development and transformation of biomedicine and an agreement with Shenzhen Middle School to set up a campus in the district.

The 159-square-kilometer Shenzhen high-tech zone is one of the six national pilot zones for building world-class high-tech parks and comprises five industrial parks in Nanshan, Pingshan, Longgang, Bao’an and Longhua districts. It is China’s second-largest national high-tech zone in terms of area and ranks No. 2 in GDP among the 157 national high-tech parks, following Zhongguancun in Beijing, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

(Han Zikai)