The latest data shows that in 2018, Shenzhen has added more than 3,200 national High-tech Enterprises, with a total of 14,400, the ranked second in the country. According to statistics, from January to November 2018, the output value of High-tech industries in Shenzhen was 2,162.552 billion yuan, up 12% year-on-year; the added value of high-tech industries was 734.401 billion yuan, up 13.07% year-on-year. The effective invention patent of Shenzhen has maintained a rate of 84.99% for more than 5 years, higher than that of large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The number of PCT International Patent applications was 14,058, which continued to rank first among the major cities in the country. 

In 2018, Shenzhen fully supported the development of key areas of Science and Technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Integrated Circuits and Biomedicine, and realized a expenditure of 55.5 billion yuan in Science and Technology, an increase of 57.7%. In 2019, Shenzhen's current budget will continue to promote the construction of a high-level Scientific and Technological Innovation System.

Shenzhen and Hong Kong have inherent advantages. At present, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots still have less creative ideas in Shenzhen. It is suggested that Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, especially young people, should take advantage of creativity and international cooperation to actively develop some double-creation bases to make the truly creative Science and technology projects can be settled in Shenzhen.

In response to the situation in Shenzhen's High-tech Industries and Strategic Emerging Industries, Shenzhen CPPCC members suggested that Shenzhen should attract Top-notch Laboratories, Research Institutes, Universities and Multinational Companies at home and abroad to set up the world-leading science laboratory and the R&D center that strives to achieve breakthroughs in a number of core key technology areas and emerging technology areas.