Overview
Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone (Chengdu Hi-tech Zone) was established in 1988 and approved as one of China’s first national hi-tech zones in 1991. It is among the first pilot zones for “Building World-Class Hi-Tech Parks,” the first National Innovation Demonstration Zone in western China, and the core area of the China (Sichuan) Pilot Free Trade Zone. The Working Committee and Administrative Committee of Chengdu Hi-tech Zone are agencies dispatched by the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government.
In 2025, Chengdu Hi-tech Zone achieved a regional GDP of 366.15 billion yuan, up 6.1% year on year; total retail sales of consumer goods reached 114.83 billion yuan, up 4.0%; fixed asset investment reached 80.55 billion yuan, up 12.5%, with industrial investment at 45.06 billion yuan, up 59.1%; total imports and exports amounted to 550.8 billion yuan, accounting for 53.4% of Sichuan Province’s total and 64.8% of Chengdu’s total. The zone contributes half of Sichuan’s total import and export volume, one-fourth of the province’s listed companies, one-fourth of its national-level specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative “little giant” enterprises, and one-eighteenth of its economic aggregate.
I. Overall Layout
(I) “1+4+X” Park Development Framework
The zone covers a total area of 237.2 square kilometers, with a registered population of 957,000. It has formed a “1+4+X” development pattern comprising the national-level Chengdu Hi-tech Zone as the core, four industry-focused areas, and multiple specialized science and technology parks. Here, “1” refers to the national-level Chengdu Hi-tech Zone; “4” refers to four industrial areas: Chengdu Hi-tech South Zone, Chengdu Hi-tech West Zone, Chengdu Tianfu International Bio-town, and Chengdu Future Science and Technology City; “X” refers to specialized science and technology parks implemented steadily under the “Fully Developed Parks” initiative, focusing on microwave RF, nucleic acid drugs, Future Wing Valley (low-altitude economy), Zhuge Space (artificial intelligence), cryptography innovation, etc., emphasizing specialization and distinct features.
1. Chengdu Hi-tech South Zone — Planned as “a leading digital economy innovation hub in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, a national demonstration zone for high-quality digital economy development, a nationally premier digital industry cluster, a key national source of digital innovation, a domestic benchmark for digital ecosystem excellence, a modern financial innovation center, a world-renowned commercial district, and Chengdu’s central urban vitality area.” Covering 89.8 square kilometers, it includes the Jiaozi Park Financial Business District (Hi-tech section) and the Chengdu Hi-tech Free Trade Zone. Its focus is upgrading digital cultural creativity and high-end software industries, expanding strategic emerging sectors such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, and laying out embodied intelligence as a future industry. With over 100,000 digital economy enterprises, the zone advances technological empowerment, scenario incubation, capital infusion, and ecosystem strengthening to build influential national digital cultural creative clusters, a national AI innovation application pilot zone, and a world-class software park.
Tianfu Long Island Digital Cultural Chengdu Hi-tech South Zone Creative Park is a flagship specialized park developed by Chengdu Hi-tech Zone for the digital cultural and creative sector. As the core area of the China (Chengdu) Online Audio-Visual Industry Base (Hi-tech Section) and a national culture-science integration demonstration base, it hosts leading enterprises such as Tencent New Cultural Chengdu Hi-tech South Zone Creative Headquarters, Cocoa Bean Animation, and AG Esports. It has successfully built public service platforms including the National Ultra-HD Video Innovation Center, Sichuan Game Innovation Chengdu Hi-tech South Zone Development Center, and Digital Content Production Service Center, connecting upstream and downstream segments of the digital cultural industry within “the distance of a cup of coffee,” establishing itself as a prime hub for “Made in Chengdu” digital cultural creativity.
Chengdu Tianfu Software Park is a national software industry base, a national-level technology business incubator, and a national innovation talent cultivation demonstration base. It is also among the first “National Digital Service Export Bases” and “Nationally Registered Maker Spaces.” The park attracts leading domestic and international enterprises such as Tencent, Dell, SAP, Moore Threads, and MetaX, operating a “5C PLUS” cultivation system covering funding, entrepreneurial partnerships, customized services, industry clustering, and entrepreneurship academies. It has incubated globally competitive companies such as XGIMI, Medlinker, and Fiture. In February 2026, the park launched China’s first exclusive community for one-person AI + digital cultural creative companies — “Tianfu Software π Cube OPC Community.”
Singapore-Sichuan Hi-Tech Innovation Park is the first China–Singapore cooperation zone in western China, jointly developed by Sichuan Province and Singapore. As the core area of the National AI Innovation Application Pilot Zone and the National Next-Generation AI Innovation Development Experimental Zone, it focuses on AI and new medicine industries, aiming to become Chengdu Hi-tech Zone’s open gateway for global exchanges and supporting Chengdu’s role as a western hub for international engagement.
Business and Innovation Centre for China-Europe Cooperation is co-launched by Chengdu Municipal Government, the European Commission, China’s Ministry of Commerce, and Ministry of Science and Technology. Serving as a vital window for Chengdu’s opening-up, it operates around three cores: Europe engagement, services, and trade. Leveraging four functional platforms — Tianfu Concert Hall, Cloud Theater, International Exhibition Center, and International Conference Center — along with an international hotel, it regularly hosts high-level, diversified activities spanning technology, culture, arts, and services. The center also facilitates efficient flows of technology, talent, and information across borders in law, technology, finance, and other fields, striving to be a functional platform for western China’s international engagement.
Jiaozi Park Financial Business District (Jiaozi Park Commercial Hub) is located at Chengdu’s southern gateway, straddling both sides of the Jinjiang River, bordered by Yizhou Avenue to the west, Jinhua Road to the east, Fucheng Avenue to the north, and Tianfu First Street to the south, covering 9.3 square kilometers. Led by Chengdu Hi-tech Zone and co-developed with Jinjiang District, it aims to create a model park city under the new development philosophy, guided by urban aesthetics to enhance functions, diversify business formats, and elevate urban value. It fosters world-class commercial districts with new business scenarios and formats, accelerates landmark commercial hub construction, and supports Chengdu’s goal of becoming an international consumption center. With headquarters economy as the driver, it focuses on financial services, trade services, and business services, aggregating high-end resources and ecological factors for economic growth.
2. Chengdu Hi-tech West Zone — Positioned as a “Modern Electronic Information Industry Cluster and Demonstration Zone for Innovative Park City Development,” covering about 43 square kilometers. As the core area of Chengdu’s electronic information industry, it centers on four main segments: chips, screens, terminals, and networks, hosting leading companies such as Huawei, BOE, Intel, Siemens, Texas Instruments, and Foxconn. Key sectors include integrated circuits, new displays, and smart terminals.
Chengdu Hi-tech Comprehensive Bonded Zone (Hi-tech Park Section) is a State Council-approved special customs supervision area focusing on manufacturing, supplemented by maintenance, R&D, and logistics. It gathers high-end manufacturers like Intel, Foxconn, and Texas Instruments, forming a relatively complete IC industry chain covering design, wafer fabrication, packaging, testing, and supporting projects. In 2025, it ranked first nationwide in both import-export scale and performance evaluation.
3. Chengdu Tianfu International Bio-town — Positioned as “a major growth pole for the biopharmaceutical industry in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, a national biopharma innovation hub, and a globally influential and competitive biopharmaceutical cluster.” As one of the “One Core, Four Zones” of the China (Chengdu) Science City, it covers about 44 square kilometers and is jointly built by Chengdu Hi-tech Zone and Shuangliu District. Focusing on biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, bioservices, and biomanufacturing, it offers full-process service platforms from inspection and testing to R&D and pilot production, attracting over 20,000 industry professionals. It pioneered the province’s first “One-Stop Project Start” initiative, cutting pre-construction
4. Chengdu Future Science and Technology City — Located on the Chengdu-Chongqing economic corridor and adjacent to Tianfu International Airport, launched in June 2020 and led by Chengdu Hi-tech Zone. With a planned area of 60.4 square kilometers (urban construction land: 34.83 km², with 10 km² already developed), it forms part of the “One Core, Four Zones” of the China (Chengdu) Science City and serves as a key site for scientific and technological achievement transformation. Anchored as “the bridgehead of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, a main hub for emerging and future industries, and a new engine for world-leading sci-tech parks,” it targets aerospace as a core domain, entering high-growth segments such as low-altitude economy, near-space exploration, and commercial spaceflight, while also exploring quantum technology and embodied intelligent robotics. A preliminary “1+3+N” modern industrial system is taking shape, aiming to establish a nationally and globally influential future industry hub and a “Western Aerospace City.”
(II) Paired Collaboration Areas
Chengdu Hi-tech Zone deepens collaboration with Dayi County and Dujiangyan City, jointly building Chengdu Hi-tech West Lake Sci-Tech Park, and advancing the Qingcheng Cooperation Area as a model for empowering county-level new urbanization through paired collaboration.
With Dayi County, leveraging Chengdu Hi-tech Zone’s innovation strengths and Dayi’s eco-cultural tourism resources, the two parties have established a “1+1+N” model — one “science-innovation enclave” (Chengdu Hi-tech Dayi Sci-Tech Base), one “industrial enclave” (Dayi Smart Industry Innovation Platform), and multiple specialized sub-parks — accelerating the construction of these enclaves and focusing on smart interactive terminals, new materials, green healthy foods, and digital film-tourism sectors, striving to create a new quality productivity demonstration zone beneath snow-capped mountains.
With Dujiangyan City, they jointly develop the 11.3-square-kilometer Qingcheng Cooperation Area, centering on digital economy, cultural tourism, healthcare, and low-altitude economy, creating benchmark projects to support the “World-Class Tourism Destination” vision. Key developments include Tianfu Software Park Qingcheng Campus, Nanqiao Plaza, healthcare industrial park, and Qingcheng Mountain commercial facilities, aiming to build an eco-city nestled amid forests and rivers.
II. Industrial System
Chengdu Hi-tech Zone vigorously implements the “Fully Developed Parks” initiative, fostering multi-point industrial synergy, with the “3+6+6” modern industrial system largely in place.
(I) Electronic Information Industry
The electronic information industry continues to expand, focusing on chips, screens, and terminals, forming a relatively complete industrial chain from chip design and display manufacturing to system integration and end applications. The integrated circuit industry ranks first in central and western China, producing over 60% of the world’s iPads and 50% of MacBooks, with global leadership in flexible displays and MicroLED segments. The 63-billion-yuan BOE Gen 8.6 AMOLED production line project achieved first product lighting five months ahead of schedule. In 2025, the sector’s total output reached 318.51 billion yuan, accounting for 30% of Sichuan’s total.
(II) Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industry
The pharmaceutical and healthcare sector maintains steady quality improvement, accelerating industrialization in innovative drugs, high-end medical devices, and advanced diagnostics. In 2025, it ranked fourth nationally in comprehensive competitiveness among biomedical industrial parks. That year saw two newly marketed Class-1 innovative drugs, 20 Class-III medical devices, and 142 Class-1 drugs in clinical trials. Five “Hi-Tech Made” innovative drugs, including Keymed Biosciences’ stapokibart injection, were included in the National Reimbursement Drug List. Projects introduced include Takeda Pharmaceutical’s first China-based digital healthcare innovation center and Fosun Pharma’s second headquarters. In 2025, the sector’s output exceeded 35 billion yuan, with regulated biomedical industrial enterprises contributing 25% of the provincial total.
(III) Digital Economy Industry
The digital economy thrives with the introduction of ten major municipal-level industrial projects, including the 3-billion-yuan iQIYI Film & TV New Horizon and the headquarters of Sichuan Data Group. Chengdu Hi-tech Zone has built a national benchmark IP ecosystem for digital cultural creativity. Cocoa Bean’s Ne Zha 2 fourth globally and first domestically in box office revenue, earning praise in General Secretary Xi Jinping’s New Year’s address. Honor of Kingsset a global record for monthly active users in gaming. Approved as one of the first National Data Industry Cluster Pilot Zones, it supported Jiuyuan Yinhai and CETC Netcom in becoming the province’s first entrants into the national Top 100 High-Quality Software Enterprises and Top 100 Xinchuang Enterprises lists. In 2025, the digital economy’s total scale reached 272.82 billion yuan, up 11.3%, accounting for 35% of the provincial total, with digital-economy-related regulated profit-making service enterprises generating over 244.7 billion yuan in revenue.
(IV) Emerging and Future Industries
In 2025, emerging strategic industries reached 247.83 billion yuan in scale, and future industries reached 8.13 billion yuan, accounting for 28% and 23% of Sichuan’s totals respectively. Ant Group’s 3-billion-yuan AI corporate service headquarters was introduced, and three local enterprises including Koala Uran were listed among the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Top 100 AI Enterprises. The world’s first space computing satellite constellation was successfully launched, the first domestic passenger eVTOL rolled off the production line, and the first robot park in western China opened.
III. Scientific and Technological Innovation
Innovation momentum is robust, with 70 national-level innovation platforms, about 25% of Sichuan’s total. Eight new research institutions produced 172 original advanced technological achievements and 48 flagship products, incubating 59 enterprises, pioneering a “Open Competition for the Best Solutions” mechanism and a “Four Lists” operational model.
Technology transfer is accelerating, with Chengdu Hi-tech Zone leading the formation of a national pilot-scale innovation collaboration network, enhancing full-stack pilot-scale service capabilities. It has built 102 pilot platforms covering 15 key manufacturing industry chains, serving over 8,800 projects, facilitating 3 billion yuan in enterprise financing, and generating over 18 billion yuan in product output. Flagship products include the “Sky Walker 2” humanoid robot, supersonic aircraft, TFT glass-based Micro-LED displays, and brain-inspired intelligent computing boards. Tongwei Advanced Photovoltaic Device Pilot Platform was selected as Sichuan’s sole and first national-level manufacturing pilot platform.
The innovation ecosystem continues to improve, with the establishment of the largest industrial fund cluster among central and western China’s development zones, leveraging over 100 billion yuan in social capital investment. The zone gathers over 850,000 talents, including more than 2,300 high-level talents at national, provincial, and municipal levels.
IV. Social Undertakings
Chengdu Hi-tech Zone administers seven subdistricts: Xiaojiahe, Fangcaostreet, Shiyang, Guixi, Hezuo, Zhonghe, and Xiyuan. By the end of 2025, it had 71 communities and seven subdistrict-level elderly care service complexes.
It has been recognized as a National Popularization Area for Preschool Education, a National Balanced Development Model Area for Compulsory Education, a National Experimental Zone for Compulsory Education Teaching Reform, and a National Experimental Zone for Primary and Secondary School Science Education. The zone currently operates 89 primary and secondary school campuses and 133 kindergartens. There are 1,057 medical institutions, including 34 hospitals, 11 community health service centers, and over 1,000 clinics and outpatient facilities.
Three signature events have been created: the “Chengdu Lights Up for You” New Year celebration, the “In the Prime of Youth: Chengdu, My Home” Lantern Festival, and the “Writing Poetry on the Moon” Mid-Autumn Festival. Facilities include one major sports center, three sports parks, and 121 community-level sports facilities. The completed greenway network spans 980 kilometers, with 10 comprehensive parks, three specialized parks, 33 community parks, and 140 pocket green spaces.
V. Business Environment
Chengdu Hi-tech Zone treats business environment optimization as its top priority for high-quality development, building the “Chengxin Chengyi” brand characterized by responsive service and non-intrusive governance. Through the “Visit, Solve, Optimize, Promote” campaign, the resolution rate for enterprise demands exceeds 99%. Deepening the “Efficient Handling of One Matter” reform, all 25 items within the zone’s authority out of 33 State Council-listed matters have been implemented, with over 530,000 cases processed. The “Construction Upon Land Acquisition” mechanism operates routinely, with over 25% of pro-enterprise policies enjoying no-application-required eligibility and over 90% implementation rates. Each year, over 13 billion yuan in policy-backed loans are issued to enterprises, and seven categories of one-stop digital concierge services — covering education, housing, and more — are provided to talents, significantly enhancing corporate satisfaction.
In 2025, the zone added 48,600 new enterprises, up 7.9% year on year, bringing the total to 274,100. Within the Chengdu Hi-tech Free Trade Zone, new enterprises numbered 31,800, including 255 foreign-invested enterprises, representing 88.3% and 86.4% of the city’s FTZ totals respectively. National high-tech enterprises account for one-third of Chengdu’s total, national-level “little giant” enterprises reach 152, or 41% of the city’s total, and listed companies stand at 57.
VI. Development Goals
2026 marks the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Chengdu Hi-tech Zone will pursue the vision of “consolidating first-class status, advancing toward leadership,” implementing phased milestones with steady progression. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the zone will fully consolidate its first-class foundation, ensuring stability and depth. By 2035, it aims to achieve national leadership, transitioning from “running alongside” to “leading the pack.” By the mid-21st century, it will strive for world-leading status, becoming a global innovation hub driving technological and industrial frontiers.
In 2026, Chengdu Hi-tech Zone will uphold the spirit of “daring first, acting foremost,” exerting full effort to seize the momentum of a strong start. Breakthroughs will be pursued in seven areas: strengthening support, expanding domestic demand, optimizing structure, enhancing drivers, upgrading enterprise tiers, reinforcing carrying capacity, and advancing social undertakings. This will ensure a high-start, high-level, high-quality rollout of all work during the 15th Five-Year Plan, presenting a stronger and better Chengdu Hi-tech Zone to society, fortifying its role as the “ballast stone” and “main engine” of regional high-quality development, and contributing Hi-tech strength to the Chengdu chapter of Chinese modernization.
