Xi'an Hi-tech Industries Development Zone has embraced new development phases by investing in innovation-driven industries with high growth potential.

2016 witnessed an actual use of foreign investment of $3 billion and actual introduction of domestic investment of 50 billion yuan ($7.25 billion) in the zone.

Twenty projects with individual annual production volumes of 1 billion yuan settled down in the zone, as well as 15 research and development centers from the world's top 500 enterprises.