(1) Introduction: Jingzhou Central China Agricultural Hi-Tech Industry Development Park (hereinafter referred as CCAHT) was founded on July 19, 2016, under the approval of the provincial government. It is the combination of former Central China Agricultural Hi-Tech Industry Development Zone and Jingzhou South City Economic and Technological Development Zone. The park has a total area of 131.1 km², with a central sector of 22.1 km². The park is generally divided into two parks with former Jingzhou South City Economic and Technological Development Zone renamed as South City Hi-Tech Park, and former Central China Agricultural Hi-Tech Industry Development Zone renamed as Taihu Hi-Tech Park.

(2) Spatial distribution: The park is planned with the layout of “one belt, two wings and three axes-based multi-clusters”. One belt refers to the Jianghan Canal Ecological and Cultural Tourism Towns Belt. Two wings refer to the South City Administrative Area on the east and Taihu Administrative Area on the west. The three axes refer to the North City Fast Track, Taihu Canal, and Nonggao Avenue and its eastern extension. The multi-clusters refer to the clusters along the three axes, i.e. wood and dyeing integrated cluster, high-end equipment manufacturing cluster, and textile industry cluster in the South City Hi-Tech Park. The clusters in the Taihu Hi-Tech Park include food fine processing, modern agricultural production model base cluster, and agricultural biological technology industry cluster.

(3) Development goal: Strive to upgrade it to a national agricultural hi-tech zone, and finish building the “five bases and four centers”, namely the Agricultural Technological Innovation and Integrated Demonstration Base, Seeds R&D and Production Base, High-end Equipment Manufacturing Base, Modern Agricultural Demonstration Base, Central China Snack & Health Food Processing Base, and the Central China Agricultural Products Trading Center, Central China Agricultural Big Data Center, Central China Agricultural Technological Achievement Transformation Service Center, and the National Agricultural Davos Forum Exhibition Center. The park aims to achieve a total social production value of more than RMB 100 billion, including regional production value of RMB 38 billion, fixed asset investment of RMB 35 billion and paid investment promotion capital of RMB 28 billion, in 2020. It also aims to cultivate more than 40 hi-tech enterprises, over 15 listed companies, no less than 60 agriculture related academician and experts stations, research and development centers at or above province level, and labs at or above province level, 3,000 technological achievements and patent applications, and 200 technologies promotion and new products application.