Shenzhen’s State-owned Enterprise Builds All-age 15-Minute Convenient Living Circles with Nationally Promoted Community Service Models

According to official releases from the Ministry of Commerce, eight central government departments jointly issued a circular in June 2026 to roll out 38 replicable benchmark practices developed across national pilot zones for urban 15-minute convenient living circles. Multiple innovative approaches trialled in Shenzhen have been selected for nationwide promotion, centring on integrated planning, unified investment attraction, consistent operation and standardised management of community and neighbourhood commercial hubs to enrich business formats and complete public amenities.

Shenzhen has accelerated city-wide construction of 15-minute convenient living circles over recent years. The municipal government released a dedicated implementation plan in 2023 setting six core tasks supported by 17 targeted measures to advance pilot development. The city was designated a national pilot for city-wide full-scale rollout of 15-minute living circles in 2025. As a backbone municipal state-owned enterprise, Shenye Group drives local delivery of these community frameworks through three core strands of work: integrated care for the elderly and infants, creation of all-age liveable residential spaces, and deep fusion of neighbourhood commerce and public services.

Integrated Intergenerational Care Lays Grassroots Welfare Foundations

Embedded community service complexes deliver one-stop multi-generational support for residents across Nanshan District’s Shahe Sub-district. One facility combines medical consultation, rehabilitation, elderly care, nursery provision, fitness, education and recreational zones under a single roof, catering to all age brackets and acting as a flagship demonstration of Shenye Group’s grassroots welfare delivery.

A specialised industrial platform under the group was formally incorporated in January 2021, followed by organisational restructuring in July 2023 to fulfil central and municipal reform pilots on optimising elderly and childcare market environments. The restructured entity operates three interconnected platforms covering asset management, smart service systems and industrial collaboration, and has pioneered a holistic integrated care framework for large megacities balancing supply and demand for senior and early-years support.

Nursery services operated by the group deliver accessible, low-cost provision for working households. Ninety-nine per cent of its nursery campuses operate on inclusive pricing terms, and ninety per cent accept infants under one year old, with admissions open for babies as young as one month. Established nurseries record an average occupancy rate of 86.8 per cent and recruitment rates reaching 136.4 per cent, reflecting broad public recognition of affordable childcare capacity.

Elderly care infrastructure extends down to residential compounds via a four-tier network spanning sub-district, community, housing estate and home-based support. The group’s dedicated senior care brand holds Guangdong’s five-star elderly care accreditation and provincial certification for integrated medical and residential care, maintaining consistent occupancy above ninety per cent. It is among the first non-Hong Kong mainland providers to join the Guangdong Residential Care Scheme, currently accommodating nearly eighty elderly residents from Hong Kong and establishing a cross-border elderly care benchmark between the two regions.

The enterprise has developed an integrated intergenerational service model unifying spaces, service packages and multi-skilled staff to address concurrent care demands for older and younger generations. Five integrated intergenerational hubs are now operational across Shenzhen. The pioneering site at Shentie Yifu Mansion connects nursery and elderly service wings via internal passageways, with regular intergenerational group classes and joint birthday events held to satisfy both older residents’ social connection needs and children’s developmental learning requirements.

By May 2026, Shenye Group has launched 226 integrated welfare projects covering elderly care, childcare and medical support, including ninety-three senior care facilities, 124 nursery campuses and nine medical service hubs. The portfolio delivers over 2,000 residential beds for elderly residents and nearly 5,000 nursery places, establishing the operator as Shenzhen’s largest provider of community home-based elderly care and one of the country’s largest registered childcare operators by facility volume.

All-age Friendly Residential Upgrades Redefine Quality Urban Housing

The landmark Shenzhen Women and Children’s Centre, originally built in 1994, reopened after comprehensive PPP renovation led by Shenye Group in June 2023. The revamped venue houses indoor children’s exploration zones and dedicated performance theatres, hosting close to 2,000 public welfare events and welcoming 12.42 million visitors to date. The regeneration scheme adopts a sustainable “public welfare plus commercial” operating model, drawing on diversified revenue streams from self-operated retail, joint ventures and property rents to fund sustained free public services.

Child-friendly design standards are embedded at the preliminary planning stage for all new residential developments operated by the group. Tai Rui Mansion incorporates six themed recreational zones including parent-child educational spaces and wellness lounges. Shenye Yunzhu integrates a community library stocked with 3,500 circulating books and structured cultural learning programmes. Shenye Shanshui Dongcheng delivers dual children’s play zones alongside a 54,000-square-metre landscaped urban garden featuring a dedicated rice cultivation plot for hands-on agricultural education.

Lightweight micro-renovations repurpose underused overhead floor spaces within older residential compounds. Refurbished zones at Shenye Dongling Estate incorporate play equipment, reading corners and craft workshops, unlocking underutilised built space at low cost to deliver accessible parent-child activity areas within walking distance of residents’ homes. All-age inclusive facilities are mandated as core planning elements rather than optional add-ons for every new residential development and community renewal project delivered by the group.

Integrated Commercial and Public Services Diversify Neighbourhood Amenity Zones

The 2026 Shenye Jinfeng National Youth Football Championship kicked off at Bijia Mountain Sports Park on 19 June, drawing youth teams nationwide to compete on on-site pitches directly adjacent to the commercial amenities of Shenye Upper Town. The mixed-use complex breaks the conventional enclosed retail centre format, connected via aerial footbridges to Lianhua Mountain and Bijia Mountain urban green belts. It hosts major outdoor events including the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Flower Show and Spartan Race tournaments, merging retail consumption, outdoor sport and urban sightseeing within a single interconnected public precinct.

An integrated party service hub within the complex coordinates cross-sector collaboration between government bodies, commercial operators, schools and local households under a cross-enterprise party committee framework. Twenty affiliated party branches maintain partnership links with almost 300 public and private institutions, embedding hospital outpatient services, municipal science museum outreach and supplementary education provision within the 15-minute service radius of the retail district.

Historic neighbourhoods adopt distinct integrated amenity frameworks at Shenye Dongling, blending Lingnan cultural landscapes with contemporary retail formats while retaining traditional local commercial character. A dedicated service street caters to delivery couriers and other flexible employment workers, offering free rest facilities, drinking water and charging stations alongside mainstream consumer retail outlets.

The group extends integrated amenity models to peri-urban rural-urban fringe zones via agritourism developments including coastal and riverside seasonal rural parks in Dapeng, Xinfeng and Nan’ao, creating outdoor educational leisure spaces that widen the geographic scope of the 15-minute living circle framework.

From cross-generational inclusive welfare provision and child-centred community spatial transformation to multi-functional integrated commercial precincts, Shenye Group structures all service delivery around tangible resident demands, consolidating complete public amenities and recreational spaces within a 15-minute walking radius. Ongoing municipal-wide rollout of 15-minute convenient living circles sees the municipal state-owned enterprise continue refining all-age community service scenarios, expanding the geographical reach and functional scope of grassroots public amenities across Shenzhen’s residential districts.