Founded in 1988, Harbin High and New Technology Industry Development Zone (哈尔滨高新技术产业开发区)is a national-level high-tech zone, consisting of the Science and Technology Innovation Park and Technology Industrial Park.

The former has a planned area of 20 square kilometers, and the latter has 110 sq km.

The Scientific and Technological Innovation Town adheres to the principle of being a technology-based, ecologicaly-friendly and people-oriented organization and features a layout in the shape of a snowflake.

The infrastructure construction for a 9.5-sq km area - the initial area of the town - speeded up in 2010. A total of 14 large research and development projects, which occupy more than 1.6 million sq m and attracted an investment of over 6 billion yuan($910.2 million), have been set up in the town.

The first group of projects belonged to Harbin Welding Institute of Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Harbin Institute of Electrical Instrument, and Heilongjiang Zhongke Fangde Software Limited.

The industrial output reached 91.5 billion yuan in 2009, representing a year-on-year growth of 18.6 percent. Out of that, revenue of high-tech businesses accounted for 74.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 19.2 percent.