At the beginning of the new year, the smart factory of Shanghai Xinshida Robot Co., Ltd. is hot, but it is busy with smart and efficient robot employees, who accurately integrate bearings from Wenzhou, servo motors from Quzhou, and harmonic reducers from Suzhou, and can take a robot off the assembly line every 12 minutes. More than 3,000 such "Made in the Yangtze River Delta" robots have been rolled off the assembly line, and the resilience and efficiency of the industrial chain have been significantly improved.
This is a robot exhibit at the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition (photo taken on November 29, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
Paying attention to breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation and coordinating scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is a major strategy that General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been thinking about and drawing with love. On November 30, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the symposium on deepening 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 advantageous resources across regions and departments, achieve strong alliances, and create a source of scientific and technological innovation.
Over the past five years since the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has been elevated to a national strategy, the regional innovation source capacity has been continuously improved, and the vitality of the 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.
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A science and technology innovation corridor to jointly build a "smart manufacturing" growth pole
Recently, in the satellite digital factory of Gesi Aerospace, the "chain master" enterprise of G60 Starlink, innovative commercial satellites for technical research and component supply in many places on the G60 science and technology innovation corridor have been rolled off the assembly line. In the near future, these satellites will go to space to mark the "G60 Starlink" made in the Yangtze River Delta in the bright sea of stars.
Relying on the G60 high-speed and Shanghai-Suzhou-Lake high-speed railway and other transportation arteries, the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta connects Songjiang in Shanghai, Suzhou in Jiangsu, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Jinhua and Huzhou in Zhejiang and Xuancheng, Wuhu and Hefei in Anhui.
"20.04 million yuan, transaction!" Jin Liu, an executive of Zhixin Haozheng Regenerative Medicine Technology Co., Ltd., recalled the scene of the first Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Scientific and Technological Achievements Auction, and is still excited. In 2019, Zhixinhao Zheng won the technical authorization of "large-scale preparation of functional pancreatic islet tissue using new human endodermal stem cells in vitro" at the highest price in the audience, and then became a leader in the innovative treatment of diabetes. At present, Zhixinhao is investing 65 million yuan to build a regenerative medicine center in Shanghai, which will provide innovative therapies for diabetes, liver disease and other diseases, and provide an innovative platform for the industrialization of regenerative medicine technology.
From enterprises "knocking on the door" one by one, to nine cities taking the initiative to break through barriers to "open the door" for enterprises, science and technology innovation elements and resources are flowing freely in the G60 science and technology innovation 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 has increased by 100 times in five years, which is the intuitive presentation of the vitality and industrial heat of science and technology innovation in the Yangtze River Delta.
"New content" 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, "Jiuzhan No. 3" quantum computing prototype, hypergravity centrifugal simulation and experimental equipment...... The G60 Science and Technology Innovation 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 exterior of the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Planning Exhibition Hall in Songjiang District, Shanghai (taken on November 18, 2020). Xinhua News Agency
High efficiency to enhance new kinetic energy. Since the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has become a national strategy for more than five years, the number of high-tech enterprises has increased from 1/12 to 1/8 of the country, the added value of strategic emerging industries has increased from 11.5% to 15% of GDP, and the number of companies listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board has accounted for more than 20% of the country.
"From the 'gathering' of geographical space, to the 'collaboration' of R&D and innovation, and then to the 'fission' of development and growth, the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta focuses on the original breakthrough of 'from 0 to 1' and the innovation of the whole industrial chain from '1 to 100', and the resilience of the industrial chain, innovation chain and value chain has been continuously improved, and it strives to become an advanced corridor for Made in China to be created in China, a pilot corridor driven by the two-wheel drive of science and technology and institutional innovation, and a pilot corridor for the integrated development of industry and city. Cheng Xiangmin, secretary of the Songjiang District Party Committee of Shanghai, said.
An innovation list, breaking out of the "test field" of the system
Opening the "Yangtze River Delta Integrated Science and Technology Innovation Cloud Platform", a series of joint research needs that have been "successfully unveiled" come into view, covering many future industries oriented to new productivity, such as synthetic biology and robot systems for complex industrial scenarios.
The Yangtze River Delta Integrated Science and Technology Innovation Cloud Platform comprehensively sorts out the coordinated development of multiple industrial chains in the Yangtze River Delta (taken on January 10, 2024). Xinhua News Agency
In August 2022, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the people's governments of the three provinces and one municipality in the Yangtze River Delta jointly issued the "Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community Joint Research Cooperation Mechanism", which closely interacted, enterprises came up with questions, jointly issued lists, jointly unveiled lists, jointly supported, and jointly managed, so as to realize the "trinity" of task linkage, capital cooperation, and management connectivity.
"The demand for innovation comes from the enterprise, the solution is selected by the enterprise, and the implementation is determined by the enterprise, and the government has set up a platform to create a suitable compliance process to ensure that the enterprise finds a truly powerful unveiler and ensures that the government funds are used to the 'real demand'. Liu Jinyuan, director of the Innovation Service Department of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, said. Today, the three provinces and one city have released a total of 48 key unveiling tasks of "enterprise problems", and the number of unveiling units nationwide exceeds 380, of which the Yangtze River Delta accounts for 85%, and the R&D investment in the unveiling task exceeds 1 billion yuan.
A sensor company in Shanghai released an international cutting-edge technical demand on the Yangtze River Delta integrated science and technology cloud platform, and soon 6 companies came to "unveil the list", and finally determined two companies in Jiaxing, Zhejiang and Suzhou, Jiangsu to tackle key problems. "We have been pondering for several years, and after receiving the support of the Yangtze River Delta joint research project, we have cooperated to complete the chip design and process verification and tape-out in 2023, and are expected to master the key technologies. The director of industrial cooperation of the Shanghai sensor company said.
According to the latest "2023 Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community Annual Development Report", among the top ten scientific advances in China in 2022, six are in the Yangtze River Delta, accounting for more than half of the country.
A sharing platform to cultivate the "source of vitality" of the ecology
Bringing more than 40,000 sets of large-scale scientific instruments worth more than 52.2 billion yuan on one platform is a "marriage" jointly completed and continuously promoted by the science and technology departments of the Yangtze River Delta. Starting from scratch, finding out the background and drawing a "distribution map" of collaborative innovation resources, enterprises and researchers can now realize cross-regional service sharing and interoperable instruments with just one click of the order.
Not only do "our own things", but also do "common things", and the regional science and technology resource sharing network is continuing to deepen. Up to now, the Yangtze River Delta science and technology resource sharing service platform has gathered more than 3,000 service organizations of various types, and the Yangtze River Delta science and technology innovation voucher has been piloted first, with a total of more than 3,000 enterprises applying for the voucher since its launch in 2021, with an application amount of more than 200 million yuan and a redemption amount of more than 67 million 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 29, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
The deep soil of scientific research and innovation, injected into the open, efficient, and vibrant spring of vitality, has given birth to a lush and innovative ecological "tropical rainforest". According to the data, the average annual growth rate of the Yangtze River Delta regional collaborative innovation index has reached 9.5%, the regional R&D investment accounts for 30.5% of the country, and the number of R&D personnel per 10,000 people is 71.18 person-years, which is nearly twice the national average.
The research institute in Jiangsu has introduced a team of Shanghai talents to complete the development of prototype products, incubated enterprises in Shanghai and carried out mass production of products, obtained capital investment from Anhui, and will expand the industry in other parts of the Yangtze River Delta in the future...... Liu Qing, director of the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, often mentions that Amber Zhihui Semiconductor Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., which is supported and incubated 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 the early investment through the "combination of allocation and investment" to accelerate the maturity of technology and enter the market. As of December 2023, the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center has organized and implemented 97 major technological innovation projects in the Yangtze River Delta region, of which about 2.6 billion yuan has been invested in the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center and local parks.
"Integration of global innovation resources, integration of Yangtze River Delta science and technology resources, integration of major technical needs, integration of organization and collaborative research. Whoever makes the question, who pays, who takes the question, who uses the money, breaks the geographical limitations of scientific research financial funds to support scientific and technological innovation, continuously enriches the construction of scientific and technological innovation community, and allows innovation resources to flow smoothly in the Yangtze River Delta region. Liu Qing said.
A group of body welding robots perform an operation demonstration at the 23rd China International Industry Fair (photo taken on September 19, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Fang Zhe
The continuous deepening of the collaborative innovation ecology has allowed more and more "hard technologies" to be implemented in the Yangtze River Delta: the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligent Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Suzhou Institute of Brain Spatial 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, talent co-education...... The ecological picture of the integration of science and technology innovation in the Yangtze River Delta is slowly unfolding and full of vitality.
Text reporters: Wang Yongqian, Yao Yujie, Zhou Lin, Gong Wen
Video reporters: Wang Hongliu, Yao Yujie, Sun Qing, Gong Wen
Poster design: Jiang Zihan
Editors: Chu Xinghua, Song Weiwei, Cheng Hao, Guo Jieyu
Co-ordinator: Wang Jie, Fang Sixian