From 2 square kilometers to the actual development area of nearly 30 square kilometers, the Xiqing Economic Development Zone has built a "5+2" modern industrial system driven by emerging and modern service industries. It includes five advanced manufacturing industries of electronic information, automobile and parts, high-end equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, and high-end household goods. It has formed a distinctive development pattern of "one zone and 11 parks", and become the new engine leading local high-quality development.

Xiqing Economic Development Zone [Photo/WeChat account: Tianjinxiqing]

In 2021, Xiqing EDZ has completed modernizing management operations.  Xiqing Economic Development Group Co., Ltd. has positioned itself as the operator of the zone. While promoting its four major businesses of regional construction and development, park operation, urban services and public industry, the zone has also expanded its assets operation, industry investment, and finance services. In 2022, Xiqing Economic Development Group had an operating income of 860 million yuan (about $122 million) and total assets of 14.5 billion yuan, becoming a leading State-owned enterprise in the district.

In recent years, the zone had the opportunity to develop international semiconductor industry, focusing on the development of the integrated circuit industry, package-testing and other fields. It has actively integrated into the global circuit industry and innovation chains and strived to build an industrial ecology. The zone has so far gathered 151 enterprises, including Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, NXP, and Brite Semiconductor, which has achieved a total industrial output of 155 million yuan.

Xiqing Economic Development Zone [Photo/WeChat account: Tianjinxiqing]

Integrated circuit industry is the core of information technology and the strategic industry that supports the national economic development and guarantees national security. At present, Xiqing EDZ has become the only integrated circuit production base in Tianjin. It is the gathering area for Tianjin’s semiconductor integrated circuit talent innovation and entrepreneurship alliance. At the end of 2021, "Xiqing integrated circuit industry theme park" was identified as among the first batch of municipal industrial theme parks in Tianjin.

Now, the zone is striving to build an integrated circuit theme park. Relying on the existing foundation of wafer manufacturing, it has attracted enterprises in chip design, integrated circuit packaging and testing fields to settle down in Xiqing. It continues to extend, strengthen and supplement the industrial chain, and created an industrial ecology.