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The amount of industrial land in Hong Kong falls
considerably behind Singapore and Shenzhen

Compared with our neighbouring cities, Hong Kong allocates a much lower proportion of land for
industrial usage.

In Hong Kong, only 9.6% of the total built-up area is dedicated to industrial use, equivalent to 2,600 hectares.
Meanwhile, just across the Sham Chun River, the government of Shenzhen announced in 2016 that in order to boost
the city’s competitiveness, at least 27,000 hectares of land is reserved for industrial use, accounting for no less than
30% of the total urban built-up area. The industrial land area in Singapore is also more than triple that of Hong Kong,
at close to 9,700 hectares.
Although it can be argued that the economic structure of the two other cities is not the same as Hong Kong, the
significant differences in absolute industrial land area is still worth noticing.
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