Shenzhen’s Headquarters Economy: How the City Is Using Cash Grants and Tax Incentives to Attract Multinational Regional Headquarters

A guide to the qualification requirements, financial incentives, and practical considerations for multinational companies weighing a Shenzhen headquarters

On the Qianhai waterfront, close enough to see Hong Kong across the bay, a Finnish elevator maker is getting ready to switch on something it calls its China Southern Headquarters. Kone’s decision to plant a regional command post in Shenzhen, rather than in Shanghai or Guangzhou, was not made on scenery alone. It followed roughly the same reasoning that has, over the past year, pulled ByteDance’s Douyin, a Siemens medical-imaging unit, and a lengthening list of banks and manufacturers toward the same stretch of coastline: Shenzhen is prepared to pay, in cash and in tax breaks, for the privilege of hosting a corporate nameplate.^[1]

The logic behind that willingness is old, even if the paperwork is new. A factory brings jobs; a sales office brings turnover. A headquarters, meaning the office from which a company actually runs a country, a region, or a global product line, where decisions get made and profit gets booked, brings something more valuable still: senior executives, high-paying jobs, and a long-term commitment that is much harder to relocate on a whim. Cities compete for that prize the way countries compete for a corporate tax base, and over the past three years Shenzhen has turned a general ambition to win that competition into two detailed, and occasionally overlapping, sets of rules. What follows is a walk through what those rules actually offer, what a company has to prove to collect on them, and where the fine print is likely to bite. It is written so that a reader with no background in Chinese policy can follow it start to finish without reaching for another source.

Two Rulebooks, and a Number That Keeps Rising.

Shenzhen’s pitch to headquarters-hunting multinationals actually comes out of two different filing cabinets. The older and broader of the two is the Implementation Opinion on Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Headquarters Economy in Shenzhen (known by its Chinese document number, which simply means it was the twelfth regulatory document the issuing body put out in 2023), written by the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission, the city’s economic-planning authority. It covers domestic and foreign companies alike, and it is the source of the landing bonuses, annual rewards, and office subsidies described below.^[2]

Layered on top of it is a newer, foreign-investment-specific package: twenty-two measures spread across five policy areas, put together jointly by Shenzhen’s commerce and investment-promotion authorities, which came into force on 1 January 2026 and is due to run for three years.^[3] It replaced an earlier version of the same idea from March 2025.^[4] The replacement tells its own story. The single biggest cash prize in the package, a one-time payment for setting up a recognized multinational regional headquarters, was raised in the rewrite from RMB 5 million (roughly USD 700,000) to RMB 8 million (roughly USD 1.1 million). Governments do not usually sweeten an offer that isn’t attracting enough takers, and Shenzhen’s decision to do so within a single year is a fairly blunt signal of how seriously it is taking the competition for corporate nameplates against rival Chinese cities.

The catch is that the two rulebooks are not the same rulebook wearing different labels. A company can, in principle, be recognized as a “headquarters enterprise” under the 2023 policy by Shenzhen’s own Development and Reform Commission, and separately be recognized as a “regional headquarters” for purposes of the newer FDI package. That second recognition, however, has to come from Guangdong Province, the provincial government that sits one level above the city (Shenzhen is one of several major cities inside Guangdong, in the same way Los Angeles sits inside California). Chasing both prizes generally means running two separate applications, to two separate governments, on two separate clocks, each using its own definition of what actually counts as a “headquarters.”^[5]

Earning the Right to Call Yourself a Headquarters

None of the money below is available simply for opening an office and putting the word “headquarters” on the door. Shenzhen treats the label as something to be earned, roughly the way a professional licence is earned, and a company has to clear one of four different bars to get it.^[6]

It can climb onto one of twelve recognized company rankings, a well-known global or industry league table, while also showing it already pays a minimum amount of local tax.^[7] It can point to sheer size instead: for a listed company, an average stock-market value of at least RMB 20 billion (about USD 2.8 billion), or, for a fast-growing private company, a spot on the Hurun Global Unicorn List, the well-known ranking of the world’s most valuable start-ups.^[8] It can demonstrate industry weight: meeting revenue and local-tax thresholds set for one of seventeen industry sub-categories (a bank branch, notably, is measured by its loan and deposit book rather than revenue, since branches don’t report revenue the way ordinary companies do).^[9] Or, if none of the standard boxes fit, it can simply ask: companies judged to be of major industrial or technological importance can negotiate a bespoke, one-off deal, known in Chinese policy shorthand as case-by-case negotiation, drafted jointly by an industry regulator and a district government and signed off, ultimately, by the city itself.^[10]

Foreign multinationals chasing the newer FDI package face a second, parallel test, because that package recognizes three distinct flavours of headquarters. A Regional Headquarters must be its own Shenzhen-incorporated company, with at least USD 2 million of capital actually paid in (not merely promised), managing at least two subsidiaries elsewhere in China or abroad, with a parent company worth at least USD 100 million globally.^[11] An HQ-type Entity (which can be structured either as an independent company or as a branch) needs only USD 1 million of paid-in capital and a USD 50 million parent.^[12] A Business-Unit Headquarters needs USD 2 million in capital, a USD 100 million parent, at least a year of prior Shenzhen operations, and last year’s revenue of at least RMB 500 million (about USD 70 million) or 5% of that business line’s global sales.^[13] Which of the three a group chooses is not a paperwork detail: it is decided by how the group is already organized, and it quietly determines which of the awards described next are even on the table.

What the City Actually Pays.

Strip away the policy language and the offer breaks down into a handful of payments, some one-off, some annual, and it is worth walking through what each is actually worth.

A company recognized under the 2023 policy can collect a landing reward, a one-time payment simply for choosing Shenzhen, of RMB 2 million (about USD 280,000) in its first year, plus another RMB 3 million (about USD 420,000) if it passes a second-year check-up: RMB 5 million, about USD 700,000, in total.^[14] Beyond that first bonus sits a contribution reward that can be claimed every year a company keeps growing its “comprehensive economic contribution,” a blend of depreciation, wages, profit, and R&D spending, worth 0.5% of that growth for companies in industries Beijing is prioritizing (advanced technology, broadly) or 0.2% for everyone else, capped at RMB 20 million (about USD 2.8 million) a year.^[15] On top of that, the city will subsidize half a company’s office rent, up to RMB 1.5 million (about USD 210,000) a year for five years,^[16] or refund 10% of the purchase price if it buys rather than rents its first headquarters building, up to RMB 25 million (about USD 3.5 million) inside a designated headquarters district or RMB 5 million elsewhere. There is a catch, though: sell the building inside ten years and the subsidy has to be repaid in full.^[17]

The newer FDI package adds its own, separate headline number: up to RMB 8 million, about USD 1.1 million, paid once to a foreign group whose China, Asia-Pacific, or global business-unit headquarters is recognized by Guangdong Province between 2025 and 2027, provided it can show it actually brought in at least USD 10 million of fresh foreign capital the year before, not simply relabelled money that was already there.^[18] Foreign-invested research centres get a smaller prize of their own: up to RMB 1 million, rising to RMB 6 million if the centre serves as a multinational’s global R&D hub.^[19] Individual districts (Shenzhen is carved into ten of them, including the well-known Nanshan and Futian) can add further top-ups of their own.^[20] And manufacturers who pour at least USD 50 million of new foreign investment into the city between 2023 and 2027 can earn annual rewards worth up to RMB 50 million, capped at RMB 150 million altogether, a prize clearly aimed at factories and equipment makers rather than services-oriented head offices.^[21]

Add all of that up and the total looks spectacular. It usually isn’t, and Shenzhen officials have said as much: the headquarters-specific cash awards generally cannot be stacked. A company cannot collect the full nominal value of every line item above through the same legal entity.^[22] For a multinational with several Chinese subsidiaries, that turns “which entity applies for what” into a genuine planning exercise rather than an afterthought, and the sensible move is to get the relevant government office to confirm, in writing, exactly which awards a proposed corporate structure can lawfully combine before signing a lease or filing anything.

A Tax Break With Its Own Postcode.

Everything described so far is available anywhere in Shenzhen. Kone, however, chose Qianhai specifically. Qianhai plays by an additional set of rules that do not apply to the rest of the city.

Qianhai is a 120.56-square-kilometre special zone sitting inside Shenzhen, right on the water facing Hong Kong. Think of it as a zone within a zone. Its headline draw is a 15% corporate income tax rate, against China’s normal 25%, available since 2014 and expanded in April 2024 to cover the whole area, for companies in five sectors: modern logistics, information services, science and technology services, cultural and creative industries, and business services. Beijing’s Ministry of Finance confirmed in early 2026 that the discount will run through the end of 2027.^[23] One supply-chain company operating there said the lower rate alone saved it over RMB 1 million in a single tax year, and it expects the saving to grow as its Qianhai business scales up.^[24]

The discount, however, is reserved for companies that are genuinely there, not merely registered there. Tax authorities apply what amounts to a substance test: management, staff, accounting records, and physical assets all have to actually sit inside Qianhai, a check conceptually similar to the tax-residency rules many other countries apply to weed out shell addresses.^[25] That evidence is far easier to build up month by month than to reconstruct after an auditor comes asking.

A Qianhai address also gives a headquarters access to Free Trade accounts, special bank accounts that let a company move money across the border and between yuan and foreign currency more freely than an ordinary onshore account can, which matters given how tightly China otherwise controls capital flows, plus faster customs clearance for bonded warehouses and work permits for foreign staff valid up to five years.^[26] It also comes with a set of subsidies specifically aimed at young professionals from Hong Kong and Macao, worth RMB 2,000 to 8,000 a month for up to three years, with a further RMB 20,000 per-hire bonus paid to the employer.^[27] None of that travels outside Qianhai’s boundary. A headquarters sited instead in Nanshan’s well-known Houhai/Shenzhen Bay district (home to Tencent and a thick cluster of Huawei-linked supply-chain firms) still qualifies for every citywide award described above, but not for the 15% tax rate or the Free Trade accounts. Where exactly within Shenzhen a company sets up, in other words, is not a detail to leave until after the incentive negotiations are done; it changes the value of the deal.

Shenzhen’s Rival Down the Coast.

Shenzhen sells itself, unapologetically, on its position inside the Greater Bay Area (the Beijing-promoted economic zone linking Hong Kong, Macao, and nine Guangdong cities), with Qianhai’s own officials describing the district as “a pivotal platform for Shenzhen–Hong Kong collaboration.”^[28] Kone cited exactly that logic, alongside Qianhai’s industrial base and policy support, when it announced its new Southern China base.^[29]

But set against Shanghai, China’s traditional financial capital, Shenzhen still looks like the smaller player. Shenzhen has, to date, recognized 207 multinational headquarters enterprises across six rounds of approvals^[30] plus a further 70 “trading-type” headquarters, a separate category for offices that handle a group’s purchasing, distribution, or logistics rather than its overall regional management.^[31] Shanghai, by comparison, was home to 1,084 multinational regional headquarters and 647 foreign-funded research centres as of February 2026, certifying another 30 headquarters and 15 R&D centres in a single ceremony that March.^[32] That is roughly ten times Shenzhen’s current tally.

That gap says more about Shanghai’s decades-long head start as China’s finance and services hub than about any shortcoming in Shenzhen’s current offer. Where Shenzhen competes hardest is elsewhere: a bigger cheque per successful application than a comparable Shanghai case typically sees, a policy explicitly tilted toward advanced manufacturing, high-end equipment, and next-generation information technology^[33], and momentum to match: foreign investment actually flowing into Shenzhen’s manufacturing sector jumped 95.4% year-on-year between January and November 2025, with high-tech manufacturing specifically up 60%, against a citywide total of RMB 45.17 billion in utilized foreign capital (roughly USD 6.3 billion, up 6.5% on the year) and more than 10,000 newly registered foreign-invested companies over that same eleven-month stretch.^[34] For a hardware or industrial multinational, Shenzhen’s smaller but faster-growing base, together with its direct line to Hong Kong, may simply matter more than Shanghai’s larger headline numbers; a bank or insurer, on the other hand, may still find Shanghai’s deeper financial ecosystem the better fit.

Who Is Actually Showing Up

Incentives only matter if companies actually take them, and the recent traffic into Shenzhen suggests they are. Beyond Kone, ByteDance’s Douyin (the domestic sibling of the video app known abroad as TikTok) opened its first purpose-built regional headquarters, the Houpai Center, in July 2025, and runs a second Nanshan office focused on video research and artificial intelligence.^[35] Siemens’ Shenzhen magnetic-resonance imaging unit put over RMB 1 billion into a new Nanshan research and manufacturing site in 2025, building on a presence it first opened in the city back in 2002.^[36] Marriott now runs 26 hotels in Shenzhen, more than in any other city in Guangdong, and calls the city strategically significant to its China business.^[37] Foreign banks have moved too: Kasikorn Bank, CMB Wing Lung Bank, CITIC Bank International, and OCBC Wing Hang have each opened fintech subsidiaries there; DBS has tripled up its stake in Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank; and Dah Sing Bank, opening a new Qianhai branch, became the first bank to hold licences from mainland Chinese and Hong Kong regulators at once.^[38] Among the 105 companies already carrying recognized multinational-headquarters status are Walmart China, PwC, Yum China (which runs KFC and Pizza Hut in China), Chow Tai Fook jewellery, and McDonald’s China, whose local entity trades under a far more poetic Chinese name that literally translates to “Golden Arches.”^[39] All told, companies from 180 countries now have money in Shenzhen, and more than 340 companies on the Fortune Global 500 (the well-known ranking of the world’s biggest companies by revenue) keep operations there.^[40]

The Fine Print

This is not a walk-in-and-collect arrangement, and the details that trip companies up tend to be the same ones every time.

A single project can end up dealing with four or five different government offices at once: the Development and Reform Commission for the general track, the Commerce Bureau and Investment Promotion Bureau for the FDI package, a district government for local top-ups, the Qianhai Authority for the zone’s tax and banking perks, and, if the RMB 8 million prize is in play, the Guangdong provincial government itself, since it is the body that grants that particular title.^[41] Each runs on its own timetable and its own paperwork.

Reward calculations also hinge on exactly which subsidiaries a company folds into its accounts: anything it owns 50% or more of counts automatically, but a minority stake only counts with audited proof it is genuinely consolidated. Once that list is filed, it is not easy to reshuffle later, which matters a great deal if a merger or reorganization is on the horizon.^[42] The office-purchase subsidy, meanwhile, comes with that ten-year holding requirement and a clawback for selling early, and headquarters status itself is checked every single year, with automatic removal after two straight years of falling short. Any financial model built on these numbers should therefore treat them as conditional, not as money already banked.^[43] And because Qianhai’s tax break rests on proving real operations on the ground, the sensible approach is to keep that evidence current as you go, rather than trying to assemble it retroactively once a tax inspector asks the question.^[44]

Finally, worth remembering: this is a moving target. The current FDI package runs only through 2027, the Qianhai tax break has only just been extended to the same date, and the flagship cash award has already been bumped up once, from RMB 5 million to RMB 8 million, inside three years.^[45] That is a policy environment that keeps sweetening its own offer, generally good news for anyone applying, but reason enough to build any internal business case around today’s numbers with an eye on when they next come up for review, rather than assuming they are locked in for good.

The Bottom Line

Shenzhen is not simply throwing money at any company willing to rent an office. It has built a genuinely elaborate machine: two overlapping rulebooks, four or seven ways to qualify depending on how you count, a tax-favoured enclave with its own separate rules, and an explicit ban on double-dipping. The headline numbers on offer only turn into real money for companies that plan carefully: choosing the right legal entity, applying under the right track, picking the right patch of the city, and keeping the paperwork to prove it all still holds up next year. For a hardware or advanced-manufacturing multinational weighing Shenzhen against Shanghai, Guangzhou, or a Hong Kong-based structure instead, that planning is best done early, and in direct conversation with the municipal, district, provincial, and Qianhai authorities who each hold a piece of the decision.

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^[1] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[2] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[3] “SZ unveils new incentives to attract foreign capital,” Shenzhen Daily / Shenzhen Government Online, 25 December 2025 (measures effective 1 January 2026), https://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/business/news/content/post_12568184.html

^[4] Wang Xu, “New policies attract FDI to Shenzhen,” China Daily, 14 March 2025, https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202503/14/WS67d38aa1a310c240449dac69.html

^[5] “SZ unveils new incentives to attract foreign capital,” Shenzhen Daily / Shenzhen Government Online, 25 December 2025 (measures effective 1 January 2026), https://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/business/news/content/post_12568184.html

^[6] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[7] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[8] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[9] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[10] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[11] Angel Ho, “Setting Up a Headquarters in Shenzhen: What Incentives Can You Access?,” Hongda Business Services, 21 October 2025, https://www.hongdaservice.com/blog/incentives-setting-up-hq-in-shenzhen

^[12] Angel Ho, “Setting Up a Headquarters in Shenzhen: What Incentives Can You Access?,” Hongda Business Services, 21 October 2025, https://www.hongdaservice.com/blog/incentives-setting-up-hq-in-shenzhen

^[13] Angel Ho, “Setting Up a Headquarters in Shenzhen: What Incentives Can You Access?,” Hongda Business Services, 21 October 2025, https://www.hongdaservice.com/blog/incentives-setting-up-hq-in-shenzhen

^[14] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[15] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[16] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[17] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[18] “SZ unveils new incentives to attract foreign capital,” Shenzhen Daily / Shenzhen Government Online, 25 December 2025 (measures effective 1 January 2026), https://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/business/news/content/post_12568184.html

^[19] “SZ unveils new incentives to attract foreign capital,” Shenzhen Daily / Shenzhen Government Online, 25 December 2025 (measures effective 1 January 2026), https://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/business/news/content/post_12568184.html

^[20] “SZ unveils new incentives to attract foreign capital,” Shenzhen Daily / Shenzhen Government Online, 25 December 2025 (measures effective 1 January 2026), https://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/business/news/content/post_12568184.html

^[21] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[22] Angel Ho, “Setting Up a Headquarters in Shenzhen: What Incentives Can You Access?,” Hongda Business Services, 21 October 2025, https://www.hongdaservice.com/blog/incentives-setting-up-hq-in-shenzhen

^[23] “前海15%企业所得税优惠延期（财税〔2026〕3号），优惠期限延长至2027年12月31日，”深圳新闻网／深圳特区报，7 February 2026, https://www.sznews.com/news/content/2026-02/07/content_31939107.htm

^[24] “前海15%企业所得税优惠延期（财税〔2026〕3号），优惠期限延长至2027年12月31日，”深圳新闻网／深圳特区报，7 February 2026, https://www.sznews.com/news/content/2026-02/07/content_31939107.htm

^[25] Angel Ho, “Setting Up a Headquarters in Shenzhen: What Incentives Can You Access?,” Hongda Business Services, 21 October 2025, https://www.hongdaservice.com/blog/incentives-setting-up-hq-in-shenzhen

^[26] Angel Ho, “Setting Up a Headquarters in Shenzhen: What Incentives Can You Access?,” Hongda Business Services, 21 October 2025, https://www.hongdaservice.com/blog/incentives-setting-up-hq-in-shenzhen

^[27] Angel Ho, “Setting Up a Headquarters in Shenzhen: What Incentives Can You Access?,” Hongda Business Services, 21 October 2025, https://www.hongdaservice.com/blog/incentives-setting-up-hq-in-shenzhen

^[28] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[29] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[30] 深圳市跨国公司总部企业认定名单（六批，105家）, kbosschina.com 高新技术企业认定工作网 转载, https://www.kbosschina.com/tonggao/5826.html

^[31] “深圳认定70家贸易型总部企业，” timedg.com, 11 July 2024, https://pub.timedg.com/a/2024-07/11/AP668f7f17e4b0b2f7c79ca187.html

^[32] “Multinationals expand investment, regional functions in Shanghai,” China Daily (source: english.shanghai.gov.cn), 23 March 2026, https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202603/23/WS69c0a736a310d6866eb3f481.html

^[33] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[34] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[35] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[36] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[37] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[38] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[39] 深圳市跨国公司总部企业认定名单（六批，105家）, kbosschina.com 高新技术企业认定工作网 转载, https://www.kbosschina.com/tonggao/5826.html

^[40] Debra Li, “Shenzhen building an investors’ paradise,” Shenzhen Daily / EYESHENZHEN, 8 January 2026, https://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2026-01/08/content_31896072.htm

^[41] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

^[42] 深圳市发展和改革委员会，《〈深圳市推动总部经济高质量发展的实施意见〉政策解读》（深发改规〔2023〕12号），深圳外商投资企业协会转载, https://ecnia.com.cn/policy/867

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