The Luohu district government recently issued its 14th Five-Year Plan on Science and Technology Innovation (2021-25).

According to the plan, by 2025, the core elements of Luohu district's scientific and technological innovation will be effectively assembled. In addition, the fundamental capacity of scientific and technological innovation will make significant breakthroughs; the industrial agglomeration will form distinct features; and an innovation ecosystem will be created.

Furthermore, by 2025, the Dawutong Emerging Industrial Belt will become an important gathering place for emerging industries in the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Scientific and Technological Innovation Corridor.

Luohu will accelerate the construction of three zones over the next five years in light of the requirements of high-quality development.

Luohu will build some new cluster zones for innovative enterprises by 2025. As a result, the new generation of information technology will have developed fast by 2025; the life and health industries will have achieved development in agglomeration; and the development of new material industries will have demonstrated their characteristics.

By 2025, more than 20 leading enterprises in key industries should be introduced and cultivated, with an increased output value of more than 100 billion yuan ($15.81 billion) in total, driving the added value of strategic emerging industries to account for 10% of the district's gross domestic product, becoming an important engine to promote the transformation and development of the district.

Luohu will build new zones for future science and technology research and development. As a result, by 2025, the basic capacity for scientific and technological innovation will have been comprehensively improved, with the number of innovation carriers exceeding 150, high-level innovation centers and new research and development institutes exceeding 50, the number of national high-tech enterprises reaching 800, and more than 20 innovation projects or teams involving high-level talents from home and abroad. As a result, innovative achievements, core technologies, and important standards will have emerged on a large scale, and the innovation capacity of enterprises will have significantly increased.

Luohu will create new zones for scientific, ecological, and sustainable development. By 2025, the Dawutong Emerging Industrial Belt will become a demonstration model of industry-city integrated development. It will become an industrial base for artificial intelligence and life and health industries, with more than 10 professional industrial parks for emerging industries. Additionally, more than 250,000 square meters of innovative industrial housing will have been added, and the number of invention patents per 10,000 people will have reached 40.