Jiangdong New Area (JDNA) is located on the east coast of Haikou, with Dongzhai Port to the east, Nandu River to the west, the coastline to the north, and the Haiwen Expressway and the Provincial Highway 212 in the south. With a total planned coverage of 298 k㎡, Jiangdong New Area is composed of an eastern ecological functional area and a western industrial integration area. Covering a land area of about 106 k㎡, the eastern ecological functional area is home to the 33-k㎡ Dongzhaigang National Mangrove Nature Reserve, the largest mangrove wetland in China. The western industrial integration area, which is about 192 k㎡, includes the Airport Economy Zone, the Coastal Central Business Center (CBD), the Riverside International Vitality Center, the Cultural Exchange Cluster, the Comprehensive Service Cluster, the Offshore Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cluster, and the Higher Education and Scientific Research Cluster, comprising an integrated urban-rural mix of “one port, two centers, four clusters, ten streams, a hundred cozy villages, a thousand hectares of wetland and thousands of mu of orchards”.

With the “4 + X” (“4” refers to aviation, new finance, premium consumer goods, digital intelligence, and “X” refers to export-oriented services) as pillar industries, Jiangdong New Area focuses on the export-oriented headquarters economy, taking the airport economy as the core driver, making breakthroughs in extending the value chain of foreign trade, empowering the complementary chains of new financial and digital intelligence, planning for premium consumer goods expo parks worldwide, and striving to build a demonstration zone for the modern services industry.