The DBH Life and Health Industrial Park is one of the largest industrial parks of its kind in Shenzhen and is recognized as a specialized park for the cell and gene industry chain. BGI Group's MGI Tech successfully listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. 

Yantian District has 36 innovation entities for the life and health industry at or above the municipal level, forming an industrial ecosystem led by BGI as the flagship, with gene sequencing as the core, and derivative development in segmented fields such as cell storage, gene therapy, biological breeding, in vitro diagnostics, and early tumor screening. 

The life and health industry is a strategic emerging industry in Yantian, centering on four major sectors — high-end medical devices, big health, cells and genes, and synthetic biology.