Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park was established on July 28, 1992 as China's state-level high-tech industrial development zone. After seventeen years of accumulation and development, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, through providing high value-added products and services with innovative core technologies to progressively replace the life cycle of traditional industries, represents the revolutionary transformation trend of China's economic development pattern.

Taking "Integration and Innovation" as the development axis, "resource integration control" and "service integration innovation" as the driving force, the park is presenting five kinds of development status including focalizing national strategies, integrating industry development, promoting R&D collaboration, innovating developing modes and leading the cutting edge technology..

After 14 years of development, the Park has established a framework for biomedicine industry and information industry chain and innovation chain. A number of national industry bases including Shanghai National Biomedical Industry Base, National Information Industry Base, National Integrated Circuit Industry Base, Semiconductor Lighting Industrial Base, National 863 Project China Eastern Information Security Industry Park (CEISIP), National Software Industry Base, National Software Export Base, National Culture Industry Example Base, and National Network Game and Animation Industry Base have been established at the Park so far.In respect of scientific innovation, the Park is equipped with incubators of various modes and types and has national incubators and national pioneering park for overseas Chinese students and scholars established here. A number of new economy based enterprises at the Park have made great progress. A park culture and innovation atmosphere of "self-design, self-operate and free competition" and "Encourage success and tolerate failure" is coming into being.