Starting being established in 2001, Suqian High-tech Industrial Development Zone was approved as a provincial economic development zone by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province in 2006. In March 2012, it was finished. On February 13, 2017, it was upgraded as a national high-tech zone with the approval of the State Council. It has planning area 50 square kilometers with built area 30square kilometers. 

With machinery manufacturing, food and beverage, and new materials as the leading industries, it has the provincial public service platforms of science and technology such as the transformation of scientific and technological achievements service center, north Jiangsu industrial technology research institute, the provincial glassware products quality supervision and inspection center, 123 research and development centers above the provincial level, 35 people from the national major talent project, 255 leading personnel, 4 academician workstations, 9 post-doctoral workstations, 24 enterprise graduate workstations. It has built a national film material characteristic industry base, a provincial new material science and technology industrial park, a provincial intellectual property pilot park, a provincial circular economy industrial park, a provincial new industrialization (new material industry) demonstration base, a provincial "Internet + advanced manufacturing" characteristic industry base, and a national Torch Suqian High-tech Zone metal alloy characteristic industry base.