In 2007, Gao Min came from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to the Fok Ying Tung Research Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which had just settled in Nansha, and later promoted the opening of the Nansha Branch Center of the Guangzhou Supercomputing Center to the Hong Kong scientific research community. Rooted in Nansha for more than ten years, Gaomin can be said to have witnessed great changes in the field of scientific and technological innovation in Nansha.
In recent years, the R&D investment intensity of Nansha has increased to 3.67%, the number of patent authorizations has increased by 5.5 times, the number of high-tech enterprises has increased by 8 times, and the provincial new research and development institutions account for 1/5 of the city of Guangzhou. This string of beautiful data shows that Nansha has become a new engine of innovation supported by science and technology and pooled resources.
At the same time, Nansha Science City is included in the main bearing area of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Comprehensive National Science Center; hypersonic wind tunnels, extreme marine scientific research facilities, ocean drilling and mining vessels and other national heavy equipment have fallen... Nansha is leveraging high-end science and technology resources to light up the "Bay Area Innovation Lighthouse".
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Fok Ying Tung Institute. Profile picture
On December 1, the 2021 CNBC Global Science and Technology Conference opened in Nansha, Guangzhou. Global science and technology innovation and business giants gather in Nansha to discuss the frontier development and future trends in the field of science and technology. The CNBC Global Science and Technology Conference has been held in Nansha for four consecutive years since 2018. In the past four years, the host Nansha has ridden the east wind of the CNBC Global Science and Technology Conference and has also made continuous breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation and economic development.
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the GDP of Nansha region increased by 73.6%. In the first three quarters of this year, more than 56,000 new enterprises were added in Nansha, an increase of 1 times year-on-year, 230 foreign-invested enterprises were newly established, an increase of 46.5% year-on-year, and 217 investment projects of the world's top 500 enterprises were introduced.
Another set of data shows that in recent years, the number of high-end leading and backbone talents in Nansha has increased by 7.9 times, the number of actual enterprises has increased by 9.4 times, and 219 investment projects of the world's top 500 enterprises have been introduced. Nansha has become the first choice for talents in the Greater Bay Area for innovation and entrepreneurship, and an ideal place for investment and development.
Enterprises are one of the main forces of innovation. In 2018, Zhou Meilin, founder of Hydrogen Power Zhongke (Guangzhou) New Energy Equipment Co., Ltd., chose to settle the project in Nansha. For more than three years, Hydrogen Power Zhongke has not only achieved technological breakthroughs here, but also the products have been industrialized.
Zhou Meilin introduced that Hydrogen Power Zhongke is a company dedicated to the development of key materials and components of hydrogen fuel cell power systems and the provision of hydrogen energy application solutions. The company's core product is the core key material of hydrogen fuel cell "card neck" - platinum-based catalyst, the performance parameter indicators exceed the international first-line brand, is a rare domestic high-performance catalyst batch preparation enterprises.
"This is a technology from '0' to '1', and for this original innovation, Nansha District has given us a lot of support." At present, after the product is introduced to the market, the Nansha District Government is also helping us to actively promote the project. Zhou Meilin frankly said that it is precisely because of these help that enterprises continue to achieve new technological breakthroughs.
Writing the first line of code in 2011, the Giant Sequoia database headquartered in Nansha is at the forefront of the digital economy.
In the past 10 years, Jushan Database has been adhering to the native distributed database as its core product. Xu Jianhui, co-founder of Jushan Database, said at the 2021 CNBC Global Science and Technology Conference, "Nansha has a very high-quality talent gathering advantage, which helps us absorb more top technical talents at home and abroad. ”
In the past few years, Nansha's strategic emerging industries have grown rapidly: the output value of high-tech products accounted for 57.5% of the output value of industrial enterprises above designated size. The headquarters of Geely Aerospace Science and Technology Group was stationed, and the industrialization base of Zhongke Aerospace Flight Technology was fully started. Emerging industries represented by a new generation of information technology, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine have taken shape. The construction of Nansha International Artificial Intelligence Value Innovation Park has been accelerated, the results of the four major artificial intelligence industry research and development platforms have emerged, and more than 300 artificial intelligence enterprises have settled and developed.
After more than 10 years of innovation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements in Nansha, Gaomin has also witnessed earth-shaking changes in Nansha. In his eyes, Nansha is now very different from more than a decade ago, with a first-class platform and a significant increase in the attractiveness of talents.
The 21st Century Business Herald reporter said that at present, the science and technology innovation pattern of "one city (Nansha Science City), one island (international financial island), one forum (Greater Bay Area Science Forum), and one 'special zone' (international talent special zone)" in Nansha District has initially taken shape. Under the power of these platforms, more and more high-end science and technology resources are gathered in Nansha.
Exhibition hall of the headquarters building of South China Technology Transfer Center. Profile picture
In addition to the rapid agglomeration of scientific and technological innovation resources, Nansha is also deepening the reform of the scientific and technological management system and further optimizing the innovation ecosystem in promoting the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements and improving the entrepreneurial incubation system.
South China Technology Transfer Center (hereinafter referred to as "China Transfer Center") was established in 2018, and after several years of operation, it has now become a pathfinder and leader in the transfer of scientific and technological achievements in Nansha District.
According to the data from the China Transit Center, as of December 2021, the website of the China Transit Center has served more than 40,000 users, gathered more than 60,000 high-quality innovation resources, attracted more than 750 high-quality technology service institutions such as HUAWEI CLOUD, Tianyi Cloud, and Saibao, and served more than 10,000 enterprises; the number of views of the China Transfer Center exceeded 27 million times, the average number of daily visits is large, and it is gradually becoming a comprehensive technology transfer service platform with activity, page views, and visits.
Liao Xiaodong, executive president of The China Transfer Center, said that relying on the China Transfer Network, the China Transfer Center, as a comprehensive hub platform, has gathered more than 4,000 high-end scientific and technological talents from all over the world through the Guangdong Provincial Enterprise Science and Technology Commissioner, and has provided more than 3,600 service products including cloud services, inspection and testing, instrument and equipment sharing, product development, and intellectual property services for enterprises and scientific research institutions in the province.
"Unlike the traditional technology transfer model, which mostly starts from the supply side of technology such as patents, the China Transfer Center proposes to start from the technology needs of enterprises, highlight the new transfer path with talents as the core of transfer, and build nine functional platforms such as incubator operation empowerment, international technology transfer, scientific research crowdsourcing bounty, Huachuan technology services, and 8-minute roadshow from the perspective of online and offline, which we call 'Huazhuan mode'." Liao Xiaodong told the 21st Century Business Herald reporter.
The biggest feature of the above model is to start from the demand, through the way of human bonding such as the enterprise science and technology commissioner, according to the technical needs of the enterprise to find a team with follow-up research and development capabilities and can help the enterprise solve technical problems, to achieve the docking of capabilities, and through the team's tracking of technical solutions and continuous transformation and upgrading, and establish a long-term cooperative relationship with enterprises, greatly improving the quality and efficiency of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
Liao Xiaodong introduced that since its establishment, the China Transfer Center has taken the promotion of major projects as the core task of technology transfer and transformation. At present, through the incubator, Huachuan Center has introduced more than 20 technology-based enterprises such as core concentrated energy semiconductor, hydrogen power Zhongke, Huayue Technology, Hitoli, Maxtor Technology, Microchip Detection, Guoke Helu Technology and so on to settle in Nansha, and a number of high-quality projects are under negotiation.
In terms of promoting collaborative innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Nansha District has also made new breakthroughs. Among them, HKUST Fok Ying Tung Research Institute is the most representative, which is the most important platform for the transformation of technological achievements and open innovation platform for the Mainland of HKUST, the first independent legal person scientific research institution with a Hong Kong background in Guangzhou, and the first batch of new R&D institutions in Guangdong Province.
Over the years, HKUST Fok Ying Tung Research Institute has always been a hub for science and technology cooperation between Guangdong and Hong Kong, a bridge between original innovation and commercial technology, and a youth science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship base in the Greater Bay Area as its development positioning, relying on HKUST's leading international scientific research and education advantages, and is committed to the research and development of applied science and technology and the transformation of achievements under the in-depth cooperation between Guangdong and Hong Kong. At present, the institute has obtained nearly 800 scientific research projects at all levels, provided technical services and key technology research and development for more than 200 enterprises, and obtained 186 authorized patents.
Guangzhou Kaijia Optical Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the enterprises incubated by the Fok Ying Tung Research Institute of HKUST, and its main business is the development and production of high-end intelligent optical system equipment. This year, after the company's products were introduced to the market, they broke the monopoly position of European and American countries in the domestic market.
Lou Kai, general manager of Kaijia Guangke, introduced, "The company's technology mainly comes from a professor from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, we finally chose to transform the technological achievements in Nansha, and now we have established a mature collaborative innovation mechanism between Hong Kong and Nansha, and we plan to use Hong Kong as a springboard to introduce products to the global market in the future." ”
"Today, the Institute has explored a mature mechanism for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and many professors from HKUST have transformed their technological achievements in Nansha, which has further promoted the collaborative innovation of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area." Lu Zhiqiang, the relevant person in charge of the Fok Ying Tung Research Institute of HKUST, said that in the future, the institute will gradually move towards internationalization and attract more overseas teams to innovate and start a business here.
In September next year, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) is expected to complete and open, which will leave a key piece for the layout of HKUST 2.0 in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Ni Mingxuan, President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (Preparing), said that the reform of "HKUST 2.0" will be carried out in three aspects: one is to innovate the academic structure and promote the development of integrated disciplines; the second is to promote teaching innovation and scientific research innovation, and train students to "ask valuable questions"; the third is to promote knowledge transfer innovation, based on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, incubate emerging industries with new technologies, and make "HKUST 2.0" truly become an engine for innovation-driven development.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Nansha will continue to strengthen basic innovation, increase high-end innovation resources, and support the high-end innovation platform, continue to promote core technology research and transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and achieve new breakthroughs in emerging industries.
According to the plan, Nansha will rely on the construction of Nansha Science City to build an important bearing area for the International Science and Technology Innovation Center in the Greater Bay Area and the main bearing area of the comprehensive national science center. Strengthen the core position of innovation in the overall situation of modernization construction, build a full-cycle and full-chain scientific and technological innovation and development ecology, accelerate the gathering of talents and high-end innovation resources, and create new advantages for high-quality development.
At the same time, Nansha will also aim at the international frontier of science and technology and the strategic areas that must be competed for, improve and upgrade the "1+1+3+N" scientific and technological innovation platform system, promote the construction of Nansha Science City into an international first-class science city, and build the southern pole of Guangzhou's science and technology innovation axis and the main bearing area of the comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area.
This year, Nansha issued the "Several Policies and Measures to Support the Construction of Nansha Science City in the Main Bearing Area of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Comprehensive National Science Center" (hereinafter referred to as "16 Articles of Science and Technology Innovation"), which is based on the perspective of strengthening policy orientation and optimizing the effect of policy implementation, and contributes scientific and technological strength to the construction of a comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area.
The "16 Articles of Science and Technology" proposes to support the construction of Nansha Science City and Pearl Science Park, concentrate on the layout and construction of a number of major scientific and technological infrastructure, promote the landing of a number of scientific research platforms that are in line with the research direction of industrial development in Nansha District and have a major role in supporting scientific and technological innovation, and give each platform up to 200 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
In order to accelerate the construction of Guangzhou Nansha Science City into a world-class science city, the Nansha District Government, together with the Guangzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission, recently drafted the "Guangzhou Nansha Science City Overall Development Plan (Draft for Comments)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning"). The plan proposes that by 2025, the main functional area of Nansha Science City will be basically completed, including the completion of the Guangzhou Pearl Science Park of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
The Nansha Science City, which plans 99 square kilometers, will implement a number of forward-looking and strategic major scientific and technological projects for the frontier fields of science and technology such as deep sea, deep space and deep earth.
The Guangdong Provincial Laboratory of Southern Ocean Science and Engineering (Guangzhou) settled in Nansha in 2018, focusing on solving key core scientific and technological problems such as sustainable development and sustainable use of resources on islands and reefs in the Greater Bay Area. At present, 16 academician teams and 47 high-level scientific research teams in the marine field have been gathered.
Yang Huayong, professor of the Guangdong Provincial Laboratory of Marine Science and Engineering (Guangzhou) in the South China Ocean Science and Engineering, said, "In addition to our laboratory, the South China Sea Institute of Oceanography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey must also come here to develop, and the innovative resources here can be expected in the future." ”
At the same time, Nansha will also accelerate the construction of the Pearl Science Park, make all kinds of new research and development institutions bigger and stronger, work with Hong Kong and Macao to implement major scientific and technological projects, and build a high-level research platform to collaboratively gather an innovation matrix. Relying on the cold spring ecosystem, hypersonic wind tunnel, extreme marine scientific research facilities and other world-class major scientific and technological infrastructure clusters, support the Construction of the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Provincial Laboratory (Guangzhou) to accelerate construction, and build a Southern Marine Science and Technology Innovation Center.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Nansha will take the lead in building an institutional mechanism for the deep integration of the innovation chain, the talent chain and the industrial chain, greatly improve the original innovation independent innovation ability and the ability to transform the achievements, form a number of emerging industrial clusters leading the future, and build an international talent special zone with global influence, a world-class original innovation and strategic industry source, a highland for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and become the main bearing area of the comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area.
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