The Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone is the first state level economic and technical development zone approved by the State Council in 1990, and is the first one named as "export processing zone", with 27 km2 planned area, where the science and technology industry centralized 6 km2 zone was named as the "Jinqiao Modern Science & Technology Park", approved by the State Ministry of Science& Technology. The 3-km2 area in the south zone was a closed custom administration area, agreed by the State Council and approved by eight ministries and commissions, such as and General Customs Agency etc. In this zone, the five leading industries, such as electronic information, automobile and its components, modern household appliance, new material, foodstuff and pharmacy, are critically developed. Common development of industrial chains and export and procurement of foreign exchange are promoted through the interrelating effect of the leading industries.

　　Among the 500 biggest trans-national companies, 37 companies have entered the Jinqiao, which invested 54 businesses in all. The companies with investment over 100 million USD are the Shanghai GM, Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Sony and SVA, Hitachi, UAES, Siemens Mobile, Shanghai Huahong-NEC, Kodak China, Shanghai Kyocera Electronics and Shanghai Sharp etc. The projects with sales income over 1 billion yuan are Shanghai HP, Shanghai Huahong, Shanghai LG, Shanghai Sharp, Kodak Electronics, Leveno, AJ Corporation, etc. Those with taxes above 100 million yuan are the Toshiba computer, Johnson Cosmetics, Kyocera Electronics, Leveno Electronics, Omron automatics, Intel Dairy, Seng Ling Electric, Shanghai Sine Pharmaceutical Corp, etc.

　　With 18 years’development and construction, the Jinqiao Export Processing Zone has become a Hi-Tech industry zone with electronic information, automobile and its components, modern household appliance, new material, foodstuff and pharmacy as major industries, and become the first national model area passing ISO14000 international environment management system in Shanghai, accepted and approved by the State Environment Protection Administration.