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Furthermore, the city built two new national key clinical specialties and was approved to build two State-level regional medical centers, according to the municipal health commission.

In 2021, the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital piloted the use of the first batch of international new medicines and medical equipment imported under the “Hong Kong and Macao Medicine and Equipment Connect” policy.

As of this February, four Shenzhen hospitals had been authorized to use the imported international new medicines and medical equipment under the policy, which had cumulatively approved 24 urgently needed imported drugs and 17 medical devices as of Aug. 7, according to the provincial drug administration.

Meeting housing demands

As a metropolis with a large annual inflow of migrants, Shenzhen has accelerated the development of government-subsidized rental housing as part of the city’s efforts to better meet people’s housing needs.

Shenzhen has supplied and allocated 34,000 government-subsidized apartments so far this year, and it plans to complete the task of supplying and allocating 65,000 units by the end of the year, according to the city’s housing and construction bureau.

The city is moving faster to put a housing system in place that ensures multisource supply, provides multichannel housing support and encourages both housing purchase and renting, in a bid to meet the housing needs of new dwellers and young people.

Recently, Shenzhen has adjusted its 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for housing development, with the original goal of building and acquiring 540,000 government-subsidized apartments tweaked to no less than 740,000 units, and the significant increase of 200,000 units are all government-subsidized rental housing.

The city has also rolled out new housing security and provident fund withdrawal policies in recent years.

Shenzhen has issued four measures on public rental housing, government-subsidized rental housing, shared ownership housing, and government-subsidized housing planning and construction, respectively. These four measures, which came into force Aug.1, aim to ensure that residents with different housing difficulties have access to housing.