The global financial crisis bring negative impact to the "intellectual Northwest Valley" - Xi'an High-tech Zone , but the Xi'an High-tech Zone in 2009, but to rely on independent innovation, endogenous development model, the financial crisis, the face of adversity to achieve a steady progress.

Founded in 1991, the Xi'an High-tech Zone was approved by the State Council, the first state-level high-tech area, the northwest, at the places where the most high-tech enterprises, known as the "Northwest intellectual Valley." Here more than 90% of the enterprises are technology enterprises with independent intellectual property rights, so in the face of financial crisis, Xi'an High-tech Zone proposed to train their own development of independent innovation as the "lifeline."

Xi'an is China's universities, research institutes strength among the nation's cities, has a clear technological advantage. The face of sudden and severe crisis in the international situation, Xi'an High-tech Zone to take decisive measures to encourage enterprises to select a core competitive edge products to market. Such as GPS satellite navigation is mainly engaged in the core chips and related software development and production of Chinese Xun Microelectronics Inc., short period of time developed a number of internationally competitive products, market orders and sales in last year's same period last year doubled.

As of November 2009, "Northwest intellectual Valley" has achieved operating income of 267.802 billion yuan, an increase of 30.02%.

According to the plan, "Northwest intellectual Valley" in 2020 revenue will grow to 3 trillion yuan, the new IPRs 12 million pieces, over billions of dollars annual income of the enterprise to reach 50, over hundreds of billions of high-tech large-scale enterprises Group will reach to 2-3.