December 2020 - Chuangxing Guoji (Block A, podium and underground garage) building was announced as a recipient of the 2020-2021 China Construction Engineering Luban Prize on Dec 7.

January 2021 - The Party organizations of two enterprises in the Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone - Guozhen Group and Lehand - received provincial recognition for their exemplary work.

March 2021 – The Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone was announced as the core area of the USTC Silicon Valley (an innovation area relying on the sci-tech innovation of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei).

April 2021 – Hefei's smart speech industrial cluster created by China Speech Valley was included on the Advanced Manufacturing Industrial Cluster Final Winners List released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

April 2021 – Hefei National High-Tech Industry Development Zone won 28 awards at the 2020 Anhui Science and Technology Awards Conference.

June 2021 – Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone was listed as one of the top 10 Chinese zones featuring high-quality development of the integrated circuits industry by a consultancy firm under the China Electronics Information Industry Development Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China.

June 2021 – Enterprises in Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone won two gold awards at the 22nd China Patent Awards, the top patent awards in China.

June 2021 – Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone was listed as one of the top 100 development zones in Asia by Global magazine, Shikai Think Tank, and the China Investment Association.

June 2021 – Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone was 12th on the list of the top 100 development zones in China in 2021 in terms of the advanced manufacturing industry, which was unveiled by CCID Consulting.

July 2021 – Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone ranked 16th among China's 386 national development zones in terms of the development of its biomedicine industry, according to an annual list released by CCID Consulting and Sina Medicine.

July 2021 - Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone was approved as a national base for the transformation and upgrading of foreign trade in the home appliances industry by the Ministry of Commerce.

August 2021 - On the 8th Anhui provincial patent award list, companies in the Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone received 45 prizes, the most in the province.

September 2021 - The number of little giant companies in Hefei National High-tech Development Zone rose to 19.

November 2021 - Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone becomes Anhui province's first zone to have more than 10,000 patents.

December 2021 - The Western Returned Scholars Association of Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone was launched.

December 2021 - Hefei Ion Medical Center, an international cancer treatment center, won the Luban Prize, a major construction and engineering quality award in China.

January 2022 - According to a report released at a press conference on Jan 4, the business environment index in Hefei National High-Tech Industry Development Zone has been consistently improving for three years, reaching 90.6 points in 2021.

February 2022 - China Speech Valley was rated as a national special service export base in the field of language services, according to a notice released by the Ministry of Commerce.

November 2022 - China Speech Valley, or the intelligent voice industry cluster – located in Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui province – was included in a list of national advanced manufacturing clusters on Nov 24, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

April 2023 – Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone in East China's Anhui province was honored as an excellent unit for implementing the Enterprise Innovation Point System on April 7. The award was given by the Ministry of Science and Technology's Torch High Technology Industry Development Center.