Coordinated Action: Anhui's

The Yangtze River Delta integrated development has given Anhui a larger new mission as well as great opportunities and dividends. In 2025, from building platforms to institutional innovation, Anhui has been continually seeking new breakthroughs in cross‑regional industrial coordination across the region.

This year, national high‑tech enterprise Juque Electronics doubled its orders in the Yangtze River Delta market. Their reliability‑testing equipment can accurately detect defects in phone screen pixels, core components of new‑energy vehicles, and semiconductor power devices, making the company an important link in YRD's next‑generation information‑technology supply chain. Yet just two years ago Juque faced a development bottleneck of "strong technology but no market."

How to break the common start‑up dilemma of "strong technology but hard to connect with market"? In 2025, Anhui leveraged the technical platform of the Yangtze River Delta Industrial‑Chain and Supply‑Chain Security Research Institute, based in Hefei, to open a "digital fast lane" along the industrial chain.

A reporter entered the institute and saw the large screen behind them displaying a information platform: "On this screen behind me is the institute's specially developed full‑factor dynamic database and intelligent matchmaking platform covering the Yangtze River Delta's key industries. Organized along the industry chain, it clearly maps upstream raw materials, midstream manufacturing, downstream application terminals, and supporting universities and research institutes. When a company like 'Juque Electronics' joins the platform, it can proactively search for downstream enterprises and also be matched with research teams that can provide technical support."

With the platform's support, Juque rapidly opened up the YRD market. The platform now connects 970,000 business entities across the Yangtze River Delta and covers more than a dozen key fields, including new‑energy vehicles, integrated circuits, and biomedicine.

An official in charge said the platform essentially solves the problems of "visibility" and "linkage." It integrates the definitions, classifications, production processes, upstream suppliers, and downstream users of core products at critical points along the industrial chain to create an overall association. This provides precise navigation for upstream and downstream firms, allowing users to find desired innovation resources and target markets with a single click.

The efficient operation of this "intelligent hub" is rooted in years of deepening systemic connections and integration between Anhui and the industrial chains of Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang. By forming 24 Yangtze River Delta innovation consortia and jointly building the G60 Science‑and‑Technology Innovation Corridor and multiple industrial‑chain alliances in areas such as new‑energy vehicles, artificial intelligence, and integrated circuits, the four regions have together developed a number of closely cooperative and complementary emerging industrial clusters. This year, Anhui has shown a more pronounced "hub" role and agglomeration effect in the integration process: interprovincial neighboring functional zones such as Dingshan‑Chahe and Pukou‑Nanqiao have been upgraded, paired city cooperation between Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui has helped northern Anhui cities launch 10 joint parks, and cross‑province cooperation platforms like Liusong Modern Industrial Park have achieved breakthroughs in institutional innovations such as fiscal‑tax sharing and statistical accounting.

As Anhui's links with the industrial chains of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang grow tighter, more companies are choosing Anhui as a strategic base for expanding into the YRD market. Guangde City, at the border of Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangsu, has used its unique location and close interactions with these provinces and Shanghai City to become a gathering point for capital, personnel, and logistics. This year, Guangde Economic Development Zone developed a more specialized industrial park to host industry projects and attracted a number of new entrants.

Today's Anhui is actively linking with Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to pursue breakthroughs in aligned coordination, collaborative action, interconnectivity and shared protection, and is gradually building a complementary, win‑win industrial ecosystem with Shanhai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In the first eleven months of this year, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang had 4,425 ongoing projects in Anhui each valued at over RMB 100 million, with actual funds in place totaling RMB 781.35 billion—61% of the province's external investment inflows. Anhui continues to inject strong momentum into the construction of world‑class industrial clusters in the Yangtze River Delta through its innovation strengths and industrial foundation.