As evaluated and certified by the Torch High Technology Industry Development Center, Ministry of Science & Technology, in 2016, Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone ranked third among all of its counterparts in the country, only second to Zhongguancun in Beijing and Shanghai Zhangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone.

This year, the Zone will make greatest efforts to accomplish an industrial investment of RMB26.5 billion, which will be a year-on-year increase of 33% and will represent over 35% of its yearly fixed investment. It will make its scale of the bio-industry exceed RMB30 billion, and invest RMB4 billion in the sector. What's more, its business revenue from the financial sector will be more than RMB58 billion, with an added value of RMB15 billion.

In 2016, with an industrial added value of RMB143.65 billion, a year-on-year rise of 8.5%, the Zone realized an investment in fixed assets amounting to RMB63.67 billion, 15.3% higher than the previous year, a gross volume of foreign trade of RMB171.19 billion, an increase of 19.2% over a year ago, and a total fiscal revenue of RMB37.66 billion, a year-on-year growth of 5.4%.

The Zone will give strong momentum to the development of the modern service industry to achieve a growth rate of 11% in added value this year.

In addition, the Zone will focus on the development of the IT industry and foster 50 large-scale IT companies in 2017.