With Bao’an and Longgang districts urbanized in 2004, Shenzhen has no rural areas and no farmers. But the city continues to develop modern urban agriculture. During the 11th five-year program, the city plans to invest 8.82 billion yuan in 39 key agricultural projects in six major categories, including a safe agricultural products base, an agricultural high-tech park, agricultural processing and distribution, forestry, eco- agricultural tourism, which will form an urban agriculture with typical Shenzhen characteristics.

Buji Farm Produce Wholesale Market
Covering an area of 120,000 square meters, the Buji Farm Produce Wholesale Market has a floor space of more than 200,000 square meters. More than 2,000 enterprises from the country's 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions engage in dealings of more than 3,000 varieties of farm produce in the market. It has topped its counterparts in China for many years in succession in terms of sales revenue. Its business has also expanded to South China, Hong Kong and the Southeast Asian region.