A municipal filing dated September 18 shows Shenzhen Zhuhe Technology, a Bambu Lab subsidiary, applying to temporarily occupy 75.25 square metres of urban green space and relocate five roadside trees at the northwest corner of Tongguan Road and Chengde Road, Shenzhen. The stated reason: a temporary construction entrance is needed to access the site of Bambu Lab’s planned “3D Printing Intelligent Manufacturing Headquarters Base.” Public consultation ran September 19 to 25.
The filing doesn’t confirm factory buildings are under construction, just that site access and logistics are being arranged. It follows a June 29 land purchase (plot A609-0275, 83,590.87 square metres) for RMB 141.2 million, and an April notice to relocate 10 trees and remove 24 more for site levelling.
| Figure | Value |
|---|---|
| Land cost | RMB 141.2M |
| Site area | 83,590.87 m² |
| Total building area | ~376,158 m² |
| Production space | ~281,000 m² |
| Offices/R&D | ~36,000 m² |
| Dormitories/support | ~56,000 m² |
| Target capacity | 3M+ printers/year |
| Year-one output minimum | RMB 2B (~$298M) |
| Ongoing annual minimum | RMB 4.5B (~$507M) |
At 3 million units, the RMB 4.5 billion annual floor works out to roughly RMB 1,500 ($220) of revenue per unit before materials or components, which is why the covenant doesn’t assume full use of the headline capacity. Guangming District documents also state Bambu Lab currently has no self-owned industrial land in Shenzhen, running production from rented, “increasingly fragmented” sites, alongside an interim operation at Minghu Zhigu Industrial Park that entered production after a February 25 cooperation agreement. Guangming already hosts a farm of 15,600 Bambu Lab printers, described as the world’s largest. Chinese government figures cited in the planning documents put national 3D printer exports at 5.03 million units in 2025, up from 1.87 million in 2022.