Jinan Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone was established with the approval of the State Council in 199 1. Located in the east of the city, with a planned total area of 3 18 square kilometers. Via Shidong Road, Youyou Road, century avenue and other main roads. After more than 20 years of development and construction, it has formed the "three major areas" of the central area, the comprehensive bonded area and the Suncun New District, and has five sub-district offices under its jurisdiction.
Jinan High-tech Zone has national professional parks such as Communication International Innovation Park, Qilu Software Park, High-tech Innovation Service Center, Jinan Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Jinan Overseas Students Pioneer Park. It has a number of national-level gold-lettered signboards such as national software export innovation base, service outsourcing demonstration base, game animation industry base, integrated circuit design industry base, overseas high-level talent innovation and entrepreneurship base, and national innovative drug incubation base. In 20 16, it was approved by the State Council as one of the national independent innovation demonstration zones in Shandong Peninsula. In 20 17, it was approved as "Overseas Chinese Dream Garden". It was awarded the Sino-German (Jinan) SME Cooperation Zone by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Jinan High-tech Zone focuses on developing four leading industries: electronic information, biomedicine, intelligent equipment and modern service industry. It has successively built technical support platforms such as National Supercomputing Jinan Center, Inspur High Performance Computing Center, National Comprehensive New Drug R&D Technology Platform, Quantum Technology Research Institute, and Shandong Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Platform in the fields of high-performance servers, big data development and application, and quantum communication technology. , has a number of intellectual property achievements with independent core technologies, and its technical level has reached world class. At present, the High-tech Zone has gathered more than 20 provincial innovation service platforms, 57 incubators and creative spaces, 195 R&D institutions above the provincial level, and more than 680 high-tech enterprises. By April 2020, the total number of listed companies in the whole region had reached 1 18, including 92 listed companies in the New Third Board. It has more than 10 national-level gold-lettered signboard for attracting talents, such as the national overseas high-level talent innovation and entrepreneurship base, the innovative talent training demonstration base of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the overseas Chinese innovation and entrepreneurship base of Qiaomengyuan, and the national expert service base, and has been awarded the advanced unit of talent work in Shandong Province by the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government for many years.
Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone is adjacent to Gangcheng District, Laiwu District, Shanghe County, Jiyang District, Pingyin County, Changqing District, Licheng District, tianqiao district, Huaiyin District, Shizhong District, Lixia District and Zhangqiu District.
Near the high-tech industrial development zone, there are tourist attractions such as Yimeng Mountain Tourist Area, and there are special foods such as Shandong cuisine, sherry crab, sea cucumber elbow, chopped green onion, bacon muffin, fried fish and celery.