In 2025, Huai'an City formulated action plans for the integrated cluster development of each strategic emerging industry and has systematically promoted the implementation of tailored policies for each industry. The city has also implemented projects for cultivating enterprises above a designated size and listed companies, striving to strengthen leading enterprises and specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative enterprises while persistently promoting industrial expansion and quality improvement. From January to November, the added value of industrial enterprises above the designated size, industrial invoice sales, and industrial electricity consumption in Huai'an increased year-on-year by 8.2%, 9.5%, and 7.9%, respectively.

As an important support for new industrialization, Huai'an has always taken major project implementation as its priority. The city has continued the tradition of dedicating the first meeting after the Spring Festival to strategic deployment for five consecutive years. By establishing a promotion mechanism of "monthly review, quarterly training, and annual assessment with rewards and punishments," the city has continued to achieve breakthroughs in project implementation.

Giving full play to the demonstration and leading role of the "Number One Investment Promotion Officers," the city held high-quality investment promotion meetings in Hangzhou, Ningbo, and other places, as well as the Huaihe River Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention and the Huai'an Golden Autumn Economic and Trade Symposium for Investment Promotion, successfully promoting the successive implementation of many quality projects; the city also optimized the evaluation system for science and technology projects, and built a chain service mechanism for registration review and project cultivation, ensuring the sound development of the implemented projects. Additionally, the city deepened the "five-stage" lifecycle management mechanism for the projects, improved industrial investment supervision agreements, established an early warning mechanism for lagging projects, and comprehensively improved the project conversion rate.

Hanbon Sci. & Tech. Co., Ltd. made its debut on the STAR Market; within the year, two 100-billion-yuan-level advanced manufacturing clusters—the cluster of intelligent equipment and new energy and the cluster of new-generation information technology—will be formed; 10 national-level specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative enterprises and 224 provincial-level specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and innovative enterprises are thriving... In the first three quarters, Huai'an achieved a regional GDP of RMB 393.789 billion, an increase of 6.0% year on year.