Located in the northeast of Pudong New Area, near the Yangtze River estuary, with a planned area of 10 square kilometer. It is a comprehensive international free trade zone with many functions such as bonded warehousing, commodity display and trading, export processing, etc. The first phase of 6.4 square kilometers has been closed for operation. 3.5 million square meters of commercial and residential buildings, standard workshops, exhibition halls and other buildings have also been completed and put into use. World-renowned enterprises such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, IBM and JVC have all invested and set up factories here.

In 2002, 979 Chinese and foreign-funded projects were introduced in the whole region, an increase of 53.2% over 200 1. Seventy of the world's top 500 enterprises have settled in the bonded area. At present, there are railway equipment, mechanical products, textile accessories, post and telecommunications and other bonded trading markets 10. In 2002, the total value of import and export goods in the bonded area reached more than 1 10 US dollars. With the successful completion of the third phase reconstruction project of the port area, the total container transport volume reached 4.634 million TEUs in 2002, accounting for more than 60% of the city's total.