For stock market analysis, refer to the Jin Qilin analyst reports, which are authoritative, professional, timely, and comprehensive, helping you uncover potential investment themes. (Source: Baopu Finance) Reposted from Baopu Finance: The industrial rainforest has formed, and Xuanwu has made a perfect comeback. By Jin Lun.
In Nanjing, there are four districts with a land area of less than 100 km². From smallest to largest, they are: Qinhuai District (49.11 km²), Gulou District (54.18 km²), Xuanwu District (75.46 km²), and Jianye District (81.75 km²). Today, we focus on Xuanwu District, because in the first half of this year, its gross regional product (GDP) grew by 5.8% year-on-year, ranking first in Nanjing city. Occupying only 1% of the city's land area, it contributed nearly 15% of the total retail sales of consumer goods (TRSCG), and its per capita TRSCG remained the highest in the province. However, three years ago, Xuanwu's growth rate was the lowest among the main urban districts. Why has it become the "growth champion" three years later?
Xuanwu District Has 12 "Championships"
Regarding Xuanwu District's "first-place" rankings, I have counted 12 "championships," which you can see directly in the table: (Chart: Baopu Finance) Xuanwu's permanent population is only 537,200, so it is understandable that it has achieved many "firsts" in per capita data. However, in terms of GDP growth rate, total retail sales of consumer goods, software and information services revenue, number of nationally registered large models, and biomedical revenue, how did Xuanwu manage to secure so many "firsts"?
Opening a Port, Building a Factory, and Overcoming Hardships
In the first half of the year, Xuanwu's GDP grew by 5.8% year-on-year, ranking first in Nanjing city. This was not achieved by relying on investment but by doing three things while making strenuous efforts. First, by "careful consideration" of four tracks: seeds planted three years ago are bearing fruit collectively this year. Starting in 2023, Xuanwu anchored on four emerging industrial tracks: biomedicine, the Silk Road economy, data and large models, and green and low-carbon industries (pronounced "careful consideration" in Chinese). By the first half of this year, these have formed a tangible driving force. (Xuzhuang High-tech Zone) Second, by relying on a stable "ballast stone": consumption and services support the basic foundation. Third, by relying on hard investment in "major projects": 60 projects worth over 100 million yuan have been completed and put into production. New drivers of growth are not just slogans but are achieved through hard work.
The story of data and large models is mainly about "opening a port and building a factory": using three years to "cultivate" an industrial cluster. This is the most patient long-term investment in Xuanwu's investment attraction history. In the spring of 2023, staff from the Xuzhuang High-tech Zone frequently traveled between Nanjing and Shanghai. In the same year, the Jiangsu International Data Port was established, accompanied by the "Data Industry 10 Measures" policy and 30 million yuan in support funds, sending a clear signal to the market. iFlytek arrived—in July 2024, iFlytek's Code Large Model National Headquarters was inaugurated in Xuzhuang High-tech Zone. In just over half a year, its code-related business volume exceeded 30 million yuan, securing large orders from PetroChina, CNOOC, Huatai Securities, and others. CECEP Big Data arrived, and the Jiangsu Data Exchange arrived—by the end of 2025, it had gathered 2,200 data element ecosystem players and listed 4,418 data products. The Xuanwu Large Model Factory was established, benchmarked against Shanghai's "Model Space": after three years of intensive cultivation, AI-related enterprises exceeded 1,000, with companies like Rongtong Liujiu Technology, Golden Arches Data, Dassault Systèmes, Baidu, Zhujing Technology, and Jiangsu Chuangu flocking in. Among the first 40 national industry clouds in Digital China, Xuanwu has gathered three clouds: "Agricultural Machinery Cloud," "Mechanical Equipment Industry Cloud," and "Zero-Carbon Cloud," ranking among the top urban areas nationwide. Thirty-two large models in the district have been registered nationally, accounting for over one-third of the province's total, consistently ranking first in Jiangsu. In March 2026, the Jiangsu International Data Port released a special support policy, integrating seven core elements: computing power, space, talent, services, finance, scenarios, and data. In 2025, Xuanwu District provided nearly 3 million yuan in data industry funds to enterprises. In 2026, it plans to add 60 new data enterprises, striving for the district's data enterprises to exceed 1,800 by the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. "Opening a port, building a factory," overcoming hardships, behind it all are countless adjustments and strenuous efforts.
Creating Excellence from Scratch, Building a Hub
Xuanwu's Silk Road economy uses a single building to build a "national bridge" connecting Jiangsu with Central Asia. This is a masterpiece of Xuanwu's internationalized opening-up path, despite being "not a port, not bordering a border." It can be seen as "creating excellence from scratch"—that is, it didn't exist before, but now it is outstanding. In March 2024, the Soho Holding Group and Xuanwu District collaborated to build the Jiangsu Central Asia Center in Hongshan New City. It officially began operations in September 2025 and was upgraded to a national-level economic and trade cooperation platform in less than a year. The platform is located in Building 4 of "Xuanwu Light" in Xuanwu's Hongshan New City, a place I have actually visited. With a total area of 23,000 square meters and seven floors, it is a comprehensive service platform integrating trade services, "Silk Road e-commerce," technical exchanges, cultural exchanges, and product exhibitions. The previous investment attraction logic was "attracting enterprises," but now it has been upgraded to "attracting nodes": the platform integrates "one-stop" service functions for finance, taxation, legal affairs, and intellectual property rights. It has linked over 3,000 enterprises, providing services such as trade resource matching and supply-demand relationship facilitation. It has attracted nearly 100 domestic enterprises to settle in. Twenty-six Central Asian national institutions and enterprises have come to gather, including the Nanjing Office of the Kazakh Trade Policy Development Center. Enterprises have deployed front-end warehouses, overseas warehouses, and industrial bases in locations such as Yili Khorgos, Almaty, Astana, and Tashkent, forming a "five-star chain" to build a logistics network covering key nodes in Central Asia. At the 2025 Jiangsu (Astana) Import and Export Commodities Exhibition, contracts worth 800 million yuan were signed on-site. From January to August 2025, Soho Holding Group's imports and exports to Central Asia increased by 67% year-on-year. "Creating excellence from scratch," Xuanwu has built an excellent hub. In the first half of 2026, Xuanwu's total wholesale and retail sales reached 255.508 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%, with the aforementioned hub also contributing to this achievement.
Complete Closed Loop, Comprehensive Acceleration
The development of Xuanwu's biomedical industry can be summarized as a "complete closed loop." Xuanwu's natural endowment for developing biomedicine lies in the concentration of universities, research institutes, tertiary hospitals, science and technology innovation platforms, and chain-leading enterprises. The Jiangsu Jicui Medical-Engineering Cross-Research Institute combines the strengths of Southeast University in "engineering," Nanjing Medical University in "medicine," and the Jiangsu Provincial Industrial Technology Research Institute in "transformation," and has been approved as a provincial-level concept validation center. The Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Clinical Medical Research Institute was put into use at the end of last year, building a full-chain support system covering from basic research and applied research to clinical translation. (Drum Tower Hospital Clinical Medical Research Institute) I have visited the site, and staff demonstrated the bio-3D printing process to me on the spot: what comes out of the nozzle is not plastic, but biological materials loaded with cells—printing out tissue engineering scaffolds, artificial bone cartilage replacements, skin substitutes, and organ-on-a-chip devices for drug screening.
The State Key Laboratory of Neurology and Oncology Drug Research, run by Simeere Pharmaceutical, is the only national-level key laboratory independently built by an enterprise in the domestic pharmaceutical field. The staff told me that Simeere's most dazzling star product is its independently developed Class 1 new drug, Edaravone Dexborneol Concentrated Solution for Injection (brand name: Xianbixin®), used for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke (cerebral infarction). Its historical peak annual sales exceeded 2.5 billion yuan, making it the "absolute cash cow" of Simeere's neuroscience division. Baijiahu Precision Medical Holding Group Co., Ltd. is an open innovation and entrepreneurship community led by Simeere Pharmaceutical Group, supported by government policies, and coordinated with mature pharmaceutical companies. Previously, it took eight years for Kefeiping's P-CAB innovative drug, Kepalaprazole Sodium Tablets, from project initiation to market approval, while Simeere's Xiannuoxin took only 14 months. (Kefeiping Pharmaceutical) Speed is one of Xuanwu's advantages. In 2025, the district's biomedical industry revenue reached 33.15 billion yuan, ranking first in the main city, and it was also first in the main city in the first half of this year. Xuanwu's excellence stems from its continuous focus on quality and speed. Moreover, artificial intelligence is rewriting the "Thirty-Year Rule" of new drug development (taking ten years, investing one billion dollars, with a success rate below 10%). From new drug development to medical devices, from raw materials and excipients to advanced diagnostics, Xuanwu has built a complete industrial closed loop.
Green and Low-Carbon, Renewing an Old Building
Let's talk about the story of "green and low carbon," which is one of Xuanwu's important industries. Era Electric Power (Jiangsu) Technology Co., Ltd. was established in Xuanwu District on October 21, 2024, with a registered capital of 100 million yuan and a registered address at Room 501, Jiahui Building, No. 185 Zhujiang Road, Xuanwu District. It is a wholly-owned second-level subsidiary of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL). The Dir Travel online ride-hailing platform followed the "chain leader" Era Electric Power to settle in Xinjiekou, and during the same period, other companies also moved in: Era Qiji (focusing on heavy-duty truck battery swapping), and Yunxiang Auto (new energy mobility services). CATL's Super Charging and Battery Swapping Service Center was put into use in mid-June 2025. On November 26, 2025, Jiahui Building was officially reopened and renovated: this old building, built in 1990 and 36 years old, was renovated according to the international LEED & WELL Gold certification standards, welcoming a new future. In short, the leading company CATL has led a group of chain enterprises to rapidly gather in this old building. At the same time, Xuzhuang High-tech Zone, as one of the first batch of carbon peak and carbon neutrality pilot parks in Jiangsu Province, has taken one year to successfully build a full-chain service ecology covering from carbon accounting to carbon trading. Xuanwu has created the province's only green and low-carbon service industry cluster and built the country's first "digital carbon"-themed Jiangsu GDC International Digital Carbon Valley. The "Zero-Carbon Cloud" platform of CECEP Big Data and Tsinghua University's "Tiangong Database" have chosen to settle here. (Xuzhuang High-tech Zone) Green and low-carbon is not just a slogan in Xuanwu but a solid economic achievement, driving employment, tax revenue, and consumption.
Xuanwu's Industrial Rainforest Has Formed
Therefore, the story of Xuanwu's comeback is indeed a model, not following the old routine of "giving money and land": Xuanwu spent three years first solidifying the "base" of the industrial ecosystem (data port, large model factory, data exchange, Central Asia platform, low-carbon cluster), then replaced "old policies" with "new tools" like computing power vouchers and corpus vouchers, and finally, through the closed-loop services of the Enterprise Comprehensive Service Center, rapidly and comprehensively improved the business environment. "Slow is fast": enterprises in Xuanwu have experienced the proactive engagement and full-process coordination of the Enterprise Comprehensive Service Center, forming a complete closed loop of "acceptance—coordination—feedback—follow-up." As enterprise efficiency improves, they naturally reciprocate and accelerate their development. This is the underlying reason why Xuanwu District, despite the dual constraints of land and policy, can still achieve the highest GDP growth rate in Nanjing city. Behind the 5.8% growth rate is an industrial ecosystem composed of 117 high-quality projects, 9 municipal-level high-energy projects, 32 registered large models, 26 Central Asian institutions, 33.15 billion yuan in biomedical revenue, and over 1,000 AI-related enterprises. The industrial rainforest has formed, and Xuanwu has made a perfect comeback.