6.6% is incredibly low and this number has been discussed a lot in Chinese forums.
as a Shenzhen guy,
I'd like to say the most important reason may be the price of the land has been increased quite a lot in the last years.
Many manufacturing companies, even Huawei moved out of Shenzhen this year, some go to Dongguan, Huizhou, which are other cities of Guandong, and some go to Vietnam, Thailand.
The reason is quite simple, they cannot afford the price of land to build the factory, and the salary cost is higher since the housing rent price also goes higher. Some factory owners work hard for a year, while the incoming is even less than the value increased of lands he owns.
So the business all goes to the lands, housing, malls. People don't know where is the top, but people believe is far more yet. Because Hong Kong, the city next to Shenzhen, has a higher land price.
For the future, the great bay area may solve this issue. Shenzhen will focus on the development of high-tech technology as a research center and enterprise center. The manufactory will move to Dongguan, Huizhou. While HongKong serves as a business/finance center. Guangdong will be the transaction center.
It is possible with the highly developed traffic net. The high-speed railway connected every city of the great bay area. People and things can move fast. Taking trains has become easier and more convenient than taking buses now.
When I last spoke with cadres, I'd say I scared them quite a bit when I said that they can't really hope to attract new industry now, and there is no imagined "higher value" manufacturers around who will come to supplant leaving ones.
And when they began to talk "what about trying retaining existing ones?" I said that they need not to look after SMEs as they are set to leave to cheaper countries invariably, but after the few remaining "giants" like Huawei, Allwinner, DJI, and likes of them.
They didn't believe me that Huawei will dare to leave in its sane mind, but it did. Now I can't get enough of pocket space for business cards from them, and can't attend a single industry event in peace...
Interesting points... question - What is the difference between the Business/Finance sector vs. the Transaction center - and why do they need to be different?
Business/Finance center I mean is related to financial activities. such as listing, financing, investment.
No real product sold/purchased here, people only play number games. like HKEx
Transaction center is only for selling and buying. no number magic, but trades. like Canton Fair
