Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, January 11th Title: Tackling Hard Science and Technology and Building "Intelligent Extreme"-Building a Scientific and Technological Innovation Community in the Yangtze River Delta
Xinhua news agency reporter
At the beginning of the new year, the smart factory of Shanghai Xinshida Robot Co., Ltd. is in full swing, but the smart and efficient robot employees are busy. They accurately integrate bearings from Wenzhou, servo motors from Quzhou and harmonic reducers from Suzhou, and they can get off the assembly line every 12 minutes. Such "all-Yangtze River Delta-made" robots have been rolled off the assembly line for more than 3,000 units, and the toughness and efficiency of the industrial chain have been significantly improved.
This is the robot exhibit at the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition (photo taken on November 29th, 2023). Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Yushe
Paying attention to the breakthrough of scientific and technological innovation and coordinating scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are the major strategies of the Supreme Leader General Secretary. On November 30, 2023, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed at the symposium on further promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta that the Yangtze River Delta region should strengthen cross-regional coordination of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. It is necessary to integrate scientific and technological innovation forces and superior resources across regions and departments, realize strong alliance and create a source of scientific and technological innovation.
Over the past five years or so, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has become a national strategy. The ability of regional innovation strategy has been continuously improved, and the vitality of scientific and technological innovation community has surged, which contains the broadest and deepest strength of China’s economy and has become a strong growth pole for high-quality development.
A science and technology corridor to build a "smart creation" growth pole
Recently, in the satellite digital factory of G60 star chain "chain owner" enterprise Gusi Aerospace, many innovative commercial satellites for technical research and spare parts supply in G60 science and technology corridor were assembled off the assembly line. In the near future, these satellites will go to space and mark the "G60 Star Chain" created by the Yangtze River Delta in the bright Xinghai.
This is the exterior of the planning exhibition hall of G60 Science and Technology Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta in Songjiang District, Shanghai (photo taken on November 18th, 2020). Xinhua news agency
Relying on the traffic arteries such as G60 Expressway and Shanghai-Suzhou-Lake High-speed Railway, the G60 Science and Technology Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta connects Shanghai Songjiang, Jiangsu Suzhou, Zhejiang Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Jinhua, Huzhou and Anhui Xuancheng, Wuhu and Hefei in series, aiming at high-level science and technology to stand on its own feet, constantly consolidating the main position of "making economy by intelligence" and becoming a new benchmark of "innovation corridor".
Visitors stopped to watch in front of a fully free heavy groove pipe cutter for operation demonstration (photo taken on September 19, 2023). Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Yushe
"20.04 million yuan, deal!" Jin Liu, an executive of Zhixin Haozheng Regenerative Medicine Technology Co., Ltd., recalled the scene of the first auction of scientific and technological achievements in G60 Science and Technology Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta, and he is still excited. In 2019, Zhi Xinhao won the technical authorization of "using new human endodermal stem cells to prepare functional islet tissue on a large scale in vitro" at the highest price in the audience, and then became the leader in the innovative treatment of diabetes. At present, the Regenerative Medicine Center that Zhi Xinhao is investing 65 million yuan in Shanghai has been opened, which will provide innovative treatments for diseases such as diabetes and liver disease, and provide an innovative platform for the industrialization of regenerative medicine technology.
From "knocking at the door" by every enterprise to "opening the door" by nine cities, science and technology elements and resources are rushing freely in G60 Science and Technology Corridor. From 104 million yuan in the first session to 10.968 billion yuan in the fifth session, the auction turnover of scientific and technological achievements, which has increased by a hundredfold in five years, is an intuitive presentation of the scientific and technological vitality and industrial heat in the Yangtze River Delta.
Overlooking the capped experimental building of super gravity centrifugal simulation and experiment device from the air (photo of drone, taken on July 17, 2023). On July 16th, 2023, the experimental building of super-gravity centrifugal simulation and experimental device built by Zhejiang University was fully capped. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Long Wei)
"containing new quantity" breeds "gold content" A large number of major scientific and technological achievements continue to emerge: the world’s first set of macaque cerebral cortex single cell spatial distribution map, "Nine Chapters No.3" quantum computing prototype, high-gravity centrifugal simulation and experimental device … ……G60 Science and Technology Corridor National Science and Technology Award accounts for 1/6 of the country, and the number of PCT international patent applications has increased by 163.4% in five years, accounting for 1/9 of the country.
This is the control hall of the fully superconducting tokamak nuclear fusion experimental device (EAST) after the successful experiment (photo taken on April 12, 2023). At 21: 00 on April 12th, 2023, China’s fully superconducting tokamak nuclear fusion experimental device (EAST), known as the "artificial sun", set a new world record and successfully realized the steady-state high confinement mode plasma operation for 403 seconds. Xinhua news agency reporter?Huang Bohan?absorb
High efficiency can enhance new kinetic energy. Over the past five years, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has become a national strategy. The number of high-tech enterprises has increased from 1/12 to 1/8, the added value of strategic emerging industries has increased from 11.5% to 15%, and the number of listed enterprises in science and technology innovation board has exceeded 20% in the country.
"From’ gathering’ of geographical space to’ collaboration’ of R&D and innovation, and then to’ fission’ of development and expansion, G60 Science and Technology Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta focuses on the original breakthrough of’ from 0 to 1′ and the innovation of the whole industrial chain of’ from 1 to 100′, and the toughness of industrial chain, innovation chain and value chain has been continuously improved, striving to become the forerunner of China manufacturing towards the integrated development of advanced corridor created by China, pilot corridor driven by science and technology and institutional innovation, and production city. Cheng Xiangmin, secretary of Shanghai Songjiang District Party Committee, said.
An innovation list, breaking out of the system "experimental field"
Opening the "Yangtze River Delta Integrated Science and Technology Cloud Platform", a series of joint research needs that have been "successfully unveiled" have come into view, covering synthetic biology, complex industrial scene robot systems and many other future industries facing new productivity.
The Yangtze River Delta Integrated Science and Technology Innovation Cloud Platform comprehensively combs the coordinated development of multiple industrial chains in the Yangtze River Delta (photo taken on January 10, 2024). Xinhua news agency
In August, 2022, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the people’s governments of three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta jointly issued the Cooperation Mechanism for Joint Tackling Key Problems in the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community, which closely interacted with each other, and enterprises issued questions, jointly published lists, jointly unveiled lists, jointly supported and jointly managed, and realized the "trinity" of task linkage, fund joint and management Unicom.
"Innovation needs come from enterprises, solutions are selected by enterprises, and when to implement them is determined by enterprises. The government sets up a platform, creates appropriate compliance processes, ensures that enterprises find truly powerful publishers, and ensures that government funds are used for’ real needs’." Liu Jinyuan, director of Innovation Service Department of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, said. At present, three provinces and one city have issued 48 key tasks of "Enterprises’ Issues", and the number of enterprises in China has exceeded 380, of which the Yangtze River Delta accounts for 85%, and the R&D investment in the task of uncovering the list has exceeded 1 billion yuan.
This is the booth of a major science and technology infrastructure cluster at the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition (photo taken on November 29th, 2023). Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Yushe
A sensor company in Shanghai released an international cutting-edge technical demand on the Yangtze River Delta integrated science and technology platform, and soon six companies came to "reveal the list", and finally two companies in Jiaxing, Zhejiang and Suzhou, Jiangsu were identified to tackle the problem. "We have been pondering for several years. After receiving the support of the Yangtze River Delta joint research project, we have cooperated to complete chip design and process verification in 2023, and it is expected to master key technologies." The director of industrial cooperation of this Shanghai sensor company said.
The latest Annual Development Report of Science and Technology Innovation Community in the Yangtze River Delta in 2023 shows that among the top ten scientific advances in China in 2022, there are six in the Yangtze River Delta, accounting for more than half of the country.
A shared platform to cultivate ecological "vitality source"
More than 40,000 sets of large-scale scientific instruments with a value exceeding 52.2 billion yuan are concentrated on one platform, which is a "marriage" jointly completed and continuously promoted by the science and technology departments in the Yangtze River Delta. From scratch, find out the family background and draw the "distribution map" of collaborative innovation resources. Now enterprises and researchers can realize cross-regional service sharing and instrument interoperability by placing an order with one key.
We should not only do our own things well, but also do our common things well, and the regional scientific and technological resources sharing network is continuing to deepen. Up to now, the service platform for sharing scientific and technological resources in the Yangtze River Delta has gathered more than 3,000 service organizations of various types. The Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Voucher has been tried first. Since its launch in 2021, more than 3,000 enterprises have applied for it, with the application amount exceeding 200 million yuan and the payment amount exceeding 67 million yuan.
The deep soil of scientific research and innovation is injected into the open, efficient and full of vitality, which breeds a lush and innovative ecological "tropical rainforest". The data shows that the annual growth rate of regional collaborative innovation index in the Yangtze River Delta is 9.5%, the regional R&D investment accounts for 30.5% of the national total, and there are 71.18 R&D personnel per 10,000 people, nearly twice the national average.
A group of car body welding robots demonstrated their work at the 23rd China International Industry Fair (photo taken on September 19th, 2023). Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Yushe
The research institute located in Jiangsu introduced the Shanghai talent team to complete the prototype product development, incubated the enterprises in Shanghai and mass-produced the products, and obtained the capital investment from Anhui. In the future, the industry will be enlarged in other areas of the Yangtze River Delta … Anbo Zhihui Semiconductor Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., which is often mentioned by Liu Qing, director of the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center and supported by the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center, is a microcosm of the deep integration of science and technology innovation and industry in the Yangtze River Delta region.
In addition, in view of the leading and subversive "hard technology", the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center uses financial funds to support it in the early stage through the "combination of allocation and investment" to accelerate the technology maturity and go to the market. As of December 2023, the Yangtze River Delta Innovation Center has organized and implemented 97 major technological innovation projects in the Yangtze River Delta region, of which the Yangtze River Delta Innovation Center and local parks have invested about 2.6 billion yuan.
"Integrate global innovation resources, integrate science and technology resources in the Yangtze River Delta, collect major technical needs, and organize collaborative research. Who gives the question, who pays the money, who takes the question and who uses the money, breaks the geographical limitation of scientific research financial funds to support scientific and technological innovation, continuously enriches the construction of science and technology community, and allows innovative resources to flow smoothly in the Yangtze River Delta region. " Liu Qing said.
This is the open innovation booth at the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition (photo taken on November 29th, 2023). Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Yushe
With the deepening of collaborative innovation ecology, more and more "hard technologies" have been attacked in the Yangtze River Delta: the Center for Excellence in Innovation of Brain Science and Intelligent Technology of China Academy of Sciences and Suzhou Institute of Brain Space Information of Huazhong University of Science and Technology have jointly unlocked the first mouse brain "traffic map"; Zhejiang University, Zhijiang Laboratory and University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have jointly discovered a new mechanism of femtosecond laser-induced micro-nano structure of complex systems.
Scientific research co-creation, industrial co-prosperity, factor sharing and talent co-education … The ecological picture of the integration of science, technology and innovation in the Yangtze River Delta is slowly unfolding and full of vitality. (Reporter Wang Yongqian, Yao Yujie, Joline, Gong Wen)