It is an important task for Shanghai to build three world-class industrial clusters of biomedicine, integrated circuits and artificial intelligence. Entering 2022, Shanghai's three leading industries have made a strong start, reflecting resilience and vitality on the new track.
According to the statistics of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, 8 of the domestic innovative drugs approved by the State Food and Drug Administration for listing in 2021 are from Shanghai, which not only has a new high in quantity, but also almost every one is the "first" new drug. The new pharmaceutical equipment "born" in Shanghai will better benefit the people's livelihood after listing, forming an industrial scale of about 720 billion yuan.
Shanghai Lianying, which jointly won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award with other institutions, recently launched the second phase of the industrialization demonstration base construction, with a total investment of more than 3.1 billion yuan. "We must promote the process of developing and industrializing all high-end medical equipment, core components and advanced technologies, and build a world-class high-end medical equipment industry cluster." Zhang Qiang, chairman of United Pictures Medical, said.
The picture shows the 3.0T magnetic resonance of Lianying in use in the hospital. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
At the site of the SMIC Lingang Base project with an investment of 57.6 billion yuan in the first phase, the machine has been roaring and hot since January 2022, laying at least 1,000 piles every day. After more than 20 years of development, from Zhangjiang to Lingang, Shanghai has become one of the regions with the most complete integrated circuit industry chain, the most advanced comprehensive technology level and the strongest independent innovation ability in China. In 2021, the scale of Shanghai's integrated circuit design industry climbed to 120 billion yuan, an increase of 26.8% year-on-year.
The picture shows visitors experiencing somatosensory robots at the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
Shanghai, which successfully held four World Artificial Intelligence Conferences, is already a hot land for AI innovation and entrepreneurship. In the first three quarters of 2021, the scale of Shanghai's artificial intelligence industry exceeded the mark of 200 billion yuan. Relying on the advantages of complete industrial categories and industrial Internet development, the Shanghai Industrial Intelligence Center recently officially started construction in Minhang District, which will create an integrated model room for the deep integration of AI and the real economy.
"Taking the 23 major industrial projects newly started in Pudong New Area as an example, the number of three pilot industrial projects accounted for 50% and the investment amount accounted for 80%." Wu Jincheng, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, said that Shanghai is still formulating a new track layout plan, especially in the fields of digital economy, green and low-carbon, and meta-universe, so that experts can judge the technical prospects, let enterprises discover market demand, and let the market verify the value of the track. (Reporters Zhou Lin, Yang Youzong, Gong Wen)