According to Baidu Encyclopedia, Shekou generally refers to the location of China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone, namely Shekou Street in Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province and the jurisdiction of China Merchants Street. Located in the southeast of Nantou Peninsula in Shenzhen, it is adjacent to Shenzhen Bay in the east, the Pearl River Estuary in the west, and across the sea from Yuen Long and Liu Fu in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It belongs to Nanshan District, with an area of 10.85 square kilometers. It is the first export-oriented economic development zone in China that is completely developed by China Merchants. It belongs to Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. Therefore, Shekou in Shenzhen belongs to Nanshan District.

Since the reform and opening up, "Shekou" has been a "test tube" of China Special Economic Zone, and there have been many amazing institutional breakthroughs in economic development. With the evolution of its own development, Shekou also makes full use of its geographical advantages adjacent to Hong Kong, gives full play to the role of "test tube" in social construction, and consciously explores the transformation from the pioneer of economic system reform to the pioneer of social system reform. Every community construction in Shekou has formed a refined and normalized new community operation mechanism, and the Party Working Committee of Shekou Street is determined to push Shekou from the benchmark of economic development to the benchmark of social development.