The ‌2025 CCID Top 100 Innovative Districts‌ List, recently released by the CCID Consulting Co, highlights Chongchuan's continued innovation-driven progress, ranking ‌48th nationwide‌—two spots higher than in 2024.

CCID Consulting is a subsidiary of the ‌China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID)‌ of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

In recent years, Chongchuan has rigorously implemented an ‌innovation-driven development strategy‌, enhancing industrial efficiency and accelerating ‌intelligent manufacturing and digital transformation‌. It has made major strides in cultivating specialized and high-tech enterprises, significantly strengthening the integration‌ between industry and innovation. 

By 2024, strategic emerging industries accounted for ‌over 40 percent‌ of Chongchuan's industrial output, while high-tech industries contributed ‌62.59 percent‌, both leading citywide. The district was also designated as Nantong's ‌first pilot zone for connected and intelligent vehicle technologies‌‌.

In 2024, the Chongchuan Economic Development Zone (CCEDZ) was recognized as a ‌provincial-level green industrial park‌, CIMC Container Co was named a ‌national manufacturing champion in a single product category‌, ‌CIMC Safeway Co‌ earned ‌national green factory status‌, and ‌Yutai Semiconductor‌ Co joined the rosters of China's and Jiangsu's ‌unicorn enterprises‌.

The district also hosted consecutive innovation and entrepreneurship conferences in 2024, attracting ‌176 tech projects‌ and ‌60 science and technology talent leadership projects‌, with ‌18 individuals‌ selected for ‌national talent programs‌.

An aerial view of Chongchuan district in Nantong. [Photo provided to nantong.gov.cn]