Editing Surrey, British Columbia (section)

== Economy ==

[[File:Sfusurrey.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Central City (Surrey, British Columbia)|Central City]], the tallest building in Surrey from 2003 to 2017]]
Surrey is one of the largest industrial centres within British Columbia, with a burgeoning high technology, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, health, education, agriculture, and arts sector.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Key Sectors |url=http://www.surrey.ca/business-economic-development/4958.aspx |access-date=February 14, 2015 |publisher=City of Surrey |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215065927/http://www.surrey.ca/business-economic-development/4958.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Increase in filming activity in Surrey resulted in 189 productions, including 15 at the city hall plaza, in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Another record-breaking year ensures Surrey is part of Hollywood North |work=CBC News |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/surrey-hollywood-north-1.4473248 |access-date=January 4, 2018 |archive-date=January 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105012145/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/surrey-hollywood-north-1.4473248 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2018, Surrey opened a $68&nbsp;million biofuel facility, the first in North America.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Janet |date=March 9, 2018 |title=North America's first bio-fuel facility opens in Surrey |work=Global News Radio |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/4074601/north-americas-first-bio-fuel-facility-opens-in-surrey/ |access-date=March 20, 2018 |archive-date=March 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321064119/https://globalnews.ca/news/4074601/north-americas-first-bio-fuel-facility-opens-in-surrey/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

There were six employers in Surrey in 2017 each with more than 1,000 staff across BC: [[Fraser Health]] with 25,000; [[School District 36 Surrey|School District 36]] with 10,560; City of Surrey with 3,400; [[Coast Capital Savings]] with 1,738; Starline Windows Group with 1,400; [[Kwantlen Polytechnic University]] with 1,332.<ref name="BiV">{{Cite book |title=Book of Lists |date=2018 |publisher=Business In Vancouver |page=76}}</ref>

=== Agriculture ===

Farming has strongly been attached to the economic well-being of Surrey, as the city of Surrey itself fostered and cemented a robust culture of farming. Approximately a third of Surrey's land is preserved and designated as farmland that is utilized for the local production of food to cater the city's growing population as well as increasing employment opportunities via the creation of local jobs. Agriculture continues to invigorate Surrey's economy employing 3300 people or 1.6 percent of Surrey's overall labour force. Manufacturing is also a highly diversified sector where products are produced for developed and emerging industries that range from the cutting of lumber for various BC logging firms to constructing wind turbines as many Surrey-based environmental firms are capitalizing on the city's initiatives for the clean energy sector.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Economic Development |url=http://www.surrey.ca/business-economic-development/3506.aspx |access-date=February 14, 2015 |publisher=City of Surrey |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215065730/http://www.surrey.ca/business-economic-development/3506.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Farming |url=http://www.surrey.ca/files/Agriculture_Sector_Profile_LORES.pdf |access-date=February 14, 2015 |publisher=City of Surrey |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924112038/http://www.surrey.ca/files/Agriculture_Sector_Profile_LORES.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Health care ===

The health sector makes a significant contribution to Surrey's economy. Surrey is home to almost 900 health-related businesses where major focuses in several life science sub-sectors that include infectious diseases, marine bio-science, neuroscience, oncology and regenerative medicine. [[Surrey Memorial Hospital]] is the second largest employer in the City of Surrey with an annual operating budget of $149.2{{nbsp}}million while the health care organization, [[Fraser Health]] employs more than 4,100 people and an additional 350 active physicians at SMH.<ref>{{Cite web |title=City of Surrey Health |url=http://www.surrey.ca/files/10618_Health_Sector_Profile_Brochure__LORES.pdf |access-date=February 14, 2015 |publisher=City of Surrey |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924112034/http://www.surrey.ca/files/10618_Health_Sector_Profile_Brochure__LORES.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Due to population growth in the region, a new hospital in Surrey is planned to be built in Cloverdale; it is projected to be completed in 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fraserhealth.ca/news/2019/Dec/its-official-second-hospital-coming-for-people-in-surrey |title=Its official second hospital coming for people in Surrey |website=www.fraserhealth.ca |accessdate=December 28, 2021 |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228225736/https://www.fraserhealth.ca/news/2019/Dec/its-official-second-hospital-coming-for-people-in-surrey |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Technology ===

Although not as large as Vancouver's technology sector, Surrey also has an emerging tech sector with a highly anticipated incubator that will potentially act as a base to jump-start ideas into various start-up companies from local innovators, inventors, investors and entrepreneurs.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}