The Summer Palace [Photo via tuchong.com]

Haidian District is located in the northwest of Beijing, with an area of 430.77 square kilometers. By the end of 2024, there were 3.122 million permanent residents in this district. In 2024, the GDP of Haidian District was CNY 1290.71 billion.

Haidian is a renowned scientific, educational, and cultural district in China. It has 83 colleges and universities represented by Peking University and Tsinghua University, 138 scientific research institutes represented by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 29 national engineering research centers, and 73 national key laboratories.

By the end of 2024, the district was home to 92 national key laboratories of China, accounting for 63.4 percent of the city's total and 17.9 percent of the country's. It also hosted 172 business incubators, including 22 national-level technology business incubators certified by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. The district housed nearly 10,000 national high-tech enterprises, 2,953 municipally-level "specialized, refined, differential, and innovative" small and medium-sized enterprises, and 404 national-level "specialized, refined, differential, and innovative" little giants (a designation for top-tier specialized SMEs). Additionally, the district was home to 51 unicorn enterprises, representing over 40 percent of the city's total.

Haidian District prides itself in containing many places of interest and rich tourism resources, including Xiangshan Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, Wanshou Mountain, Jingyi Garden, Jingming Garden, Summer Palace, Changchun Garden, Yuanmingyuan Park, Wofo Temple, Dajue Temple, and Biyun Temple, etc.