位于广州以南的深圳以“硬件硅谷”文明，而深港大区被评为全球第二大密集城市群（以专利衡量 ） 。
The southern city of Shenzhen is already known as the “Silicon Valley of Hardware,” and the greater Shenzhen-Hong Kong area is ranked second in terms of global inventive clusters (measured by patents).