Jinan Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, approved by the State Council in 1991, is located in the eastern part of the city, with a total planning area of 318 square kilometers, and the three major cities of Jingshidong Road, Tourism Road, and Century Boulevard crossing the area. After more than 20 years of development and construction, it has formed the central area, the Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and the Suncun New Area. "After more than 20 years of development and construction, it has formed the central district, comprehensive bonded area and Sunchun new area, with five street offices and a resident population of 400,000 people.
Jinan Hi-Tech Zone has - Communication International Innovation Park, Qilu Software Park, High-tech Venture Service Center, Jinan Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Jinan Overseas Educated Personnel Pioneering Park and other national professional parks; with the 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 the national innovative drug incubation base and a number of national gold medals. In 2016, it was approved by the State Council as one of the Shandong Peninsula National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zones, and in 2017, it was approved as "Overseas Chinese Dream Garden". In 2017, it was approved as the "Overseas Chinese Dream Garden".
Jinan Hi-Tech Zone focuses on the development of four leading industries: electronic information, biomedicine, intelligent equipment and modern service industry. It has successively built the national supercomputer Jinan Center, Wave High Performance Computing Center, National Comprehensive New Drug R&D Technology Platform, Quantum Technology Research Institute, Shandong Province Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing Public **** Technology Platform and other technical support platforms, and has a number of intellectual property achievements with independent core technologies in the fields of high-efficiency servers, big data development and application, and quantum communication technology, and the technical level has reached the world's First-class. At present, the high-tech zone has gathered more than 20 provincial innovation public ****service platforms, 57 incubators and crowdsource spaces, more than 195 R&D institutions above the provincial level, and a total of more than 680 high-tech enterprises. As of April 2020, the total number of listed enterprises in the zone reached 118, including 92 New Third Board listed enterprises. It has more than 10 national talent attraction gold medals such as National Overseas High-level Talents Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base, Ministry of Science and Technology Innovation Talents Cultivation Demonstration Base, Overseas Chinese Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base of Qiaomengyuan, and National Expert Service Base, etc. It has been awarded as an advanced unit of the province's talent work by Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government for many consecutive years.
The Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone is adjacent to Steel City District, Laiwu District, Shanghe County, Jiyang District, Pingyin County, Changqing District, Lixing District, Tianqiao District, Huayin District, Shizhong District, Lixia District and Zhangqiu District.
The Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone is near tourist attractions such as Yimeng Mountain Tourist Area, and specialties such as Lu Cuisine, Xueli Big Crab, Sea Cucumber Elbow, Scallion Oil and Salt Meat Puff Cake, and Oil Explosion Fish and Celery.