The Jinqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, was approved by the State Council in 1990. It has a planned area of 20.48 square kilometers.

Jinqiao ETDZ focuses on both its traditional pillar industries, such as automobile manufacturing, electronic information, household appliances, food, and biomedicine, and its emerging industries of the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence. It has drawn a roadmap for industrial upgrading, including future vehicles, intelligent manufacturing, and big video.

Jinqiao ETDZ is an automobile industry highland with the most complete industrial chains in Shanghai, and clusters ranging from vehicle manufacturing, research and development of key parts, chips, communications, software, and big data, have been formed. It has gathered a large number of first-class enterprises at home and abroad, including Huawei, SAIC GM, the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center, Nokia Bell, the China Mobile Research Institute, Valeo, and SAIC Infineon.

According to statistics, Jinqiao ETDZ, which only covers 2 percent of the land in Pudong, has contributed to 25 percent of Pudong's industrial economy scale, among which the output value of the automotive industry in the zone accounts for half of Shanghai's total.

Equipped with a solid foundation for advanced manufacturing, Jinqiao ETDZ will step up efforts to promote the development of smart manufacturing using artificial intelligence (AI) and aim to establish a professional, comprehensive and superior industrial layout in its AI industry.

The zone will strive to become an internationally competitive AI core industrial cluster and make efforts to cultivate emerging industries related to AI, such as intelligent chips, intelligent connected vehicles, intelligent robots and intelligent hardware.

Traditional industries in the zone will be upgraded, and an "AI plus" characteristic industrial layout will be formed, aiming to create a new growth engine for the zone's competitive industries, such as advanced manufacturing, finance and shipping.