Nanjing Jiangning High-tech development zone is located in the middle of Jiangning District, Nanjing，The zone was created on June 2, 1994，In 1997, it was approved as a high-tech industrial development zone by the State Science and Technology Commission，With a planning and control area of 195 square kilometers, it is the only development park in China that integrates high-tech industrial zone, university town and scenic tourism resort，It is an important part of the “8+1” core system of The National Independent Innovation demonstration Zone in Southern Jiangsu Province. It has been successively approved as a national innovative characteristic park, a national innovative talent training demonstration base, and a national torch bio-pharmaceutical characteristic industry base.
Nanjing Jiangning Hi-tech development zone has prominent advantages in science and education resources，It has settled in 16 universities such as China Pharmaceutical University and Nanjing Medical University, 260,000 teachers and students, and scientific research institutes such as Software Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has built 27 engineering and technology centers, 8 postdoctoral workstations and 2 provincial incubators；The zone has a steady concentration of high-end talents. It has 9 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 experts in the 10,000 Person Plan, 19 entrepreneurship and innovation talents of Jiangsu Province, 120 “321 talents” of Nanjing City, 127 enterprises founded by talents, 38 high-tech enterprises and 79 private science and technology enterprises.
The zone has obvious advantages in characteristic industries, forming an industrial development pattern dominated by life science, high-end intelligent manufacturing and modern service industry. There are more than 250 life science enterprises, and many new drugs and innovative achievements such as monoclonal antibody, anti-AIDS, anti-tumor and xenotransplantation have been generated；The zone has significant advantages in environment and transportation. Surrounded by two rivers and three mountains, the overall greening rate is over 45%. Nanjing Metro Line 1, Nanjing Ring Expressway, Nanjing Hangzhou Expressway, Nanjing Hangzhou high-speed railway, 104 National Highway and so on pass through the park. In the next step, the park will focus on building high-tech industrial clusters, and build a modern high-tech industrial new city with distinct industrial characteristics, outstanding innovation efficiency, pioneering institutional mechanisms, and coordinated economic and ecological development.
