Relying on well-known ancient Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Metro Guangling is located in the eastern part of Yangzhou city, positioning to develop water body landscape, illustrate ecological characteristics, pass on canal cultural heritage and reflect modern civilization. The new city area is a combination of administration, information, finance, commerce, tourism, housing and other functions, a modern city area with rich water resources, Yangzhou’s largest oxygen bar, a modern industry cluster district and a future Central Business District (CBD). The total planned area of Guangling New City is 22.5 square kilometers, divided into three big functional regions: the southern part is Guangling Industry Park with an area of about 9.5 square kilometers; the northern part is Ecology Travel Resort with an area of around four square kilometers; and Central Business District covers an area of about 8.5 square kilometers, including 2.52 square kilometers as the information service industry base.

As the industrial power source of Metro Guangling, Jiangsu Information Industry Service Base is the only professional base of information service industry in Jiangsu promoted by the joint efforts of Jiangsu Information Industry Hall and Yangzhou Municipal People's Government. Covering an area of 2.52 square kilometers, with a total investment of 5.0 billion, it is mainly designed for providing centralized, specialized, low-cost, and sophisticated call center services for telecommunications industry, IT industry, commercial industry, retail trade and manufacturing industry, postal services, logistics, civil aviation, television shopping, media, business process outsourcing and other industries as well as government offices, institutions and other organizations. Taking roots in Yangtze River Delta, facing the whole nation and serving the whole world, Jiangsu Information Industry Service Base is gradually becoming the best practice base for call center industry in China and even the world, a benchmarking training base for national product service and a talent training and dispatch base for call center industry.
 
In 2008, infrastructure construction was fully under way. The Information Industry Service Base, the first project, completed on schedule.  Efforts to attract outside investment obtained preliminary success for the twelve key enterprises such as Alibaba, Digital China, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, China Railcom, and intellectual Alliance had entered the park.