Pudong New Area has strengthened its leadership in high-end sectors during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), accelerating the development of innovation hubs and advanced manufacturing corridors.

Shanghai Zhangjiang Science City's growing concentration of AI, biomedicine, and integrated circuit enterprises is positioning the area as a core engine of Shanghai's global competitiveness.

Kehais Building in Pudong New Area. [Photo/WeChat ID: pdnews]

Zhangjiang Science City's Kehais Building exemplifies this momentum, bringing together young entrepreneurs, global scientists, and innovation investors. Its dense research-to-commercialization activities reflect Pudong New Area's strategy of turning pilot zones into fully formed industrial belts.

Anchored in the innovation detonation ecosystem, incubators are scaling faster paths for transforming breakthrough research. Events such as the Cap of Good Hope Science Salon demonstrate Pudong New Area's effort to attract global talent and deepen international knowledge exchange.

AI-powered startups are also finding rapid deployment pathways through integrated scenarios. Model Matrix Community, Shanghai's first vertical model cluster, connects early-stage developers with partners across manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and mobility to shorten the last mile from laboratory prototype to commercial adoption.

As Shanghai releases new measures to expand AI applications, Pudong New Area is tasked with building low-cost, high-intelligence-density clusters in Zhangjiang town, advancing vertical model innovation, embodied intelligence, and large-scale compute infrastructure.

Pudong will advance science–industry integration, drive breakthroughs in core technologies, expand world-class clusters, and strengthen global influence during the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30).