As one of the first national high-tech industrial zones approved by China's State Council in 1991, the Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone has evolved into a world-renowned innovation hub.

Located in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, the zone is home to 22 new-type research and development institutions, including the Grand Union of Innovation, the CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, and the Deep Space Exploration Lab. It also hosts a group of industrial parks such as China Speech Valley and the Quantum Information Future Industry Science and Technology Park.

The zone gathers more than 30 leading quantum technology enterprises, and fosters a quantum industrial cluster comprising nearly 70 companies in the sector. 

It is also cultivating prominent clusters in emerging industries like artificial intelligence, photovoltaics, and new energy. There are more than 400 biomedicine enterprises in the zone, included eight publicly traded companies.

The zone has attracted 3,400 high-tech firms, over 4,000 national-level sci-tech SMEs, 97 specialized tech companies with great growth potentials known as "little giants," as well as five unicorn companies and 35 listed enterprises. The high-tech zone employs over 550,000 individuals, including more than 8,800 high-level professionals, most in the province.