A view of the Civic Center and Futian CBD. File photo

Futian District’s economy continued to outpace expectations in 2025, recording a gross domestic product (GDP) of 642.02 billion yuan (US$92.54 billion) for the year, up 8% year-on-year, the Futian District Statistics Bureau reported on Feb. 3.

Futian’s GDP per unit area again led the city. The district achieved a land-output (GDP per square kilometer) of 8.162 billion yuan, surpassing 8 billion yuan /km² and standing at 4.2 times the citywide average. Compared with the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan (6.044 billion yuan/km²), Futian’s land productivity rose by 2.118 billion yuan/km². The bureau noted that this level is roughly three times that of Hong Kong and about 1.5 times that of Singapore.

Over the past five years, Futian’s economy has climbed successive thresholds, crossing the 500 billion yuan and 600 billion yuan marks and breaking through 640 billion yuan. The district’s five-year average annual growth rate reached 5.5%, exceeding its 14th Five-Year Plan targets and underscoring Futian’s role as a high-quality growth engine in Shenzhen.

Futian’s key 2025 economic indicators:

Financial sector: Added value rose 16.5% year-on-year, an increase of 9.7 percentage points compared with 2024. Futian now accounts for nearly half of Shenzhen’s financial industry value added.

Services: From January to November 2025, operating revenue of above-scale profit-making service enterprises in Futian increased 5.7% year-on-year. By subsector, software and information technology services grew 2.2%, leasing and business services by 3.2%, and internet and related services surged 44.3%.

Industry and manufacturing:Above-scale industrial added value increased 6.5% year-on-year in 2025; manufacturing grew 8.7%. The computer, communication and other electronic equipment manufacturing category expanded by 12.3%.

Investment: Fixed-asset investment in the district fell 7.8% year-on-year, while non-real-estate project investment rose 7.4% — an improvement of 2.2 percentage points over 2024.

Trade and consumption:Total imports and exports reached 949.18 billion yuan, up 5.2% year-on-year. Retail commodity sales rose 8.9%.