As a town of Shanghai second to none, the economic development of Malu is obvious to all. Since recent years, in combination with the construction of the new Jiading city, Malu has been gradually adjusting its industrial structure and heading the town economy with such a development strategy as 'Maintaining the development of the secondary industry, exploring the tertiary industry and optimizing the primary industry', which has enabled the always high speed economic development of Malu.
　　Secondary Industry: Malu with industry as its pillar, has strong industrial basis. A full range of world celebrated enterprises including Flextronics, Philips, Remy Martin, Pepsi, McDonald, Ericsson, Heavy Machinery, family enterprise of the Greek shipping magnate, etc. have established their regional headquarters and R&D centers in Malu, which form the 6 leading pillar industries of Malu, i.e. electronics, auto parts, machinery manufacturing, garments, pharmaceuticals & health products and food industries. Meanwhile, Malu also pays much attentions to the development of urban industry, increase of the space of factory premises and the output of land. Moreover, through support for enterprises of strength, promoting ordinary enterprises and holding down the adverse development of those in inferior market positions, Malu is in an effort to achieve the maximum economic benefits.
　　Tertiary Industry: based on the development opportunities brought from the construction of new Jiading city and F1 international circuit, Malu goes all out to build its tertiary industry and have the city function more complete. With Huyi Road and Baoan Road as the center for the development of its tertiary industry, Malu is expediting constructions of such projects as Huge Plaza, Lotus Supermarket, Taizhou Mansion and Oriental Garden, etc., and introducing new industrial mode in hope of developing new economic growth point of Malu.
　　 Primary Industry: In the process of agricultural development, Malu Town always attaches great importance to the optimization of the primary industry by increasing the input in agriculture and integrating rural land resources, adjusting agricultural structure reasonably and focusing on the development of high quality agriculture. In particular, Malu grapes with a planting history of over 20 years would be more an attraction point for agriculture constructions of Malu. Since recent years, Malu has been exerting itself in developing sightseeing agriculture and the grape science, technology & culture festival, grape thesis park and tree seedling base of over 1000 mou, etc. have now become a new hot point of the agriculture construction of Malu.