Core tip: Time is a fantastic thing.
The ancients used an hourglass to keep time, spending thousands of years in the flow of sand, and today's people use clocks and watches to start a day's work, study and life in the ticking sound of the clock.
In the eyes of scientists, time is a parameter used to describe the process of material movement or the occurrence of events - scientists describe the movement of molecules, electrons and other microscopic worlds on smaller time scales such as microseconds, nanoseconds, picoseconds, femtoseconds, and attoseconds.
For a city, time is an important dimension to observe the progress of a city.
On April 22, 2021, the construction of the pilot launch area of the comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area (Songshan Lake Science City) was fully launched. Now, after three years, with a sense of urgency of "time does not wait, seize the day", Songshan Lake has made the imagination blossom and turned the blueprint into reality, and the China Spallation Neutron Source, the Southern Light Source Research and Testing Platform, the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory and other large devices and platforms have converged, and the City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) and the University of the Greater Bay Area (Songshan Lake) have made new progress......
In the past three years, in the collision of molecules and electrons, in the rapid changes of attosecond and femtosecond, the prototype of Songshan Lake Science City to become an international first-class science city has appeared-the big city has just begun, and the future has come.
A scientific perspective: 1 attosecond and 3 anniversaries
Due to various conditions, the world that human beings can perceive is very limited.
On June 29, 2022, the Earth's rotation took 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours, making it the shortest day since the atomic clock was timed.
1.59 milliseconds, this extremely short time, ordinary people are completely insensitive.
Diamond, the hardest substance found naturally in nature, and pencil refills, made of graphite for writing, are both made of carbon, and their properties vary greatly only because of the different ways in which the atoms are arranged.
In the field of scientific research, the structure of matter under study is getting smaller and smaller, and more and more energy is required to decompose matter. In order to obtain high-energy particles, very large accelerators need to be built.
Only with large scientific devices can we obtain very high-energy particles, to study the microscopic world, to find the smallest units that make up matter, and to study the laws of its interaction.
As a result, large scientific devices have become a powerful tool for scientists to explore the internal structure of matter.
Time is a parameter used by humans to describe the process of movement of matter or the process of events. Seconds are familiar units of time, while microseconds, nanoseconds, picoseconds, femtoseconds, and attoseconds are commonly used units of time in scientific exploration. In the field of microscience, light can travel the length of three hydrogen atoms in parallel in a time of 1 attosecond (minus 10 seconds to the 18th power).
The use of large scientific devices to study the internal structure of matter in extremely short time units such as attoseconds is the "view of time" of scientists, and is the concrete embodiment of human beings' diligent pursuit of exploring the microscopic world.
At present, scientific and technological innovation has become a key support for improving comprehensive national strength and a key driving force for promoting high-quality economic development. The mainland has also ushered in the "prosperous era of large scientific installations".
Dongguan Songshan Lake Science City has "caught up" with the prosperity of this large scientific device - in 2018, the mainland's largest single investment scale so far, the world's fourth and China's first pulsed spallation neutron source, China Spallation Neutron Source officially operated in Dongguan Songshan Lake Science City. At the China Spallation Neutron Source, the proton beam accelerates through about 20,000 cycles in about 0.02 seconds, and the speed is increased to 0.92 times the speed of light, hitting a heavy metal target and obtaining neutrons. The China Spallation Neutron Source has become an "ideal probe" for scientists to explore the microstructure of matter.
In July 2020, Songshan Lake Science City was included in the pilot launch area of the comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area, becoming an important strategic platform for Dongguan to participate in the construction of an international science and technology innovation center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and participate in international competition and cooperation on behalf of the country in the new era, taking a fundamental transformation from a "park" to a "city".
On April 22, 2021, after intensive preparations, the construction of the pilot launch area of the comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area (Songshan Lake Science City) was fully launched, and a series of major scientific and technological infrastructure was launched simultaneously.
Now, after three years, Songshan Lake Science City has made significant progress in scientific and technological innovation, industrial agglomeration, and urban quality. This is the "view of time" of Songshan Lake Science City, with a sense of urgency of "time does not wait, seize the day", and make every effort to build a world-class science city.
This year, the construction of the advanced attosecond laser facility will start in Songshan Lake Science City. At that time, in addition to the "ideal probe", Songshan Lake Science City will also have a "high-speed camera" to study the microscopic material world, an advanced attosecond laser facility, which can help scientists freeze the "hurricane" electrons for observation. It is foreseeable that under the time scale of attosecond and other time scales, Songshan Lake Science City will further contribute to the mainland's realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance.
"The taste of science": the country's important weapons are "piled up", and the industry is moving from "new" to "quality"
In 2024, students who take the college entrance examination and those who are admitted to graduate school will have a new choice when filling in their voluntary schools - City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan).
On April 16, the Ministry of Education approved the formal establishment of the City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan), a mainland-Hong Kong cooperatively-run school with independent legal personality.
The official establishment of the City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) is a great gift to the third anniversary of the full launch of the construction of Songshan Lake Science City, which was one of the major infrastructure projects launched on April 22, 2021.
The City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) and the University of the Greater Bay Area (Songshan Lake Campus) under construction are important parts of the science and technology innovation sector of Songshan Lake Science City.
The construction of a science city not only inherits the resource endowment of the original "city" of architecture, environment and industry, but also lies in the convergence and flow of innovative elements and more "scientific taste".
The official operation of the China Spallation Neutron Source has laid the "first move" for the construction of Songshan Lake Science City. Since the full launch of the construction, Songshan Lake Science City has stepped out of the distinctive footprint of scientific and technological innovation and the magnificent atmosphere of a future city.
In three years, the cluster of large scientific devices has taken shape, and the "rainforest" of science and technology innovation ecology has been accelerated——
The second phase of the project will start construction on March 30, 2024, and will mainly build 11 neutron spectrometers and experimental terminals, and the target beam power of the accelerator will be increased from 100 kilowatts to 500 kilowatts in the first phase. The province's first boron neutron capture treatment center building was completed and put into use.
Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has made a number of major scientific research progress, gathered 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, submitted 1019 patent applications, incubated 36 industrialization companies, and participated in 211 national and provincial scientific research projects. The world's largest amorphous alloy material is here.
In November 2022, the Southern Light Source Research and Test Platform was put into use, which will provide important support for the key technology prefabrication research, engineering construction, and open operation of the Southern Advanced Light Source in the future.
3 years, gather the world's talents and use them. By the end of 2023, the talent agglomeration effect of Songshan Lake Science City has been continuously enhanced, bringing together 92 national-level talents, 30 provincial-level talents in Guangdong Province, 637 characteristic talents in Dongguan City, and 2,800 talent card holders in Dongguan City, with talents with bachelor's degree or equivalent ability or above accounting for 56% of the total employed population, and the total number of talents exceeding 200,000.
In 2023, the R&D investment intensity of Songshan Lake will reach 13.4%, ranking first in the country, and the "taste of science" in the air is getting stronger and stronger.
In three years, the industry has become a trend, to "new" to "quality"——
Following the difficulty of finding the Mate60 series, on April 18, Huawei Pura 70 series mobile phones were released. Huawei's "light boat has crossed ten thousand mountains" and continues to evolve. The urban narrative of Huawei and Songshan Lake continues to play out.
On December 21, 2023, the new campus of Songshan Lake Headquarters of XbotPark Robot Base was officially opened, building a dream factory of hard technology entrepreneurship that is unique in the world. The "Robot Army" has risen strongly.
In the past three years, Dongguan Industrial Digital Building, Songshan Lake Developer Village, Tencent Cloud (Songshan Lake) Digital Economy Industrial Base and other traction platforms have been launched one after another. The digital economy is surging. In the past 2023, the revenue of Songshan Lake's digital economy digital economy digital economy exceeded 33 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 88.3%, and the support of new economies such as the digital economy has been significantly enhanced.
In the past three years, the Songshan Lake Biomedical Industry Base has grown day by day, bursting out with new industrial momentum. The prototype of Songshan Lake's diversified integration and multi-polar support of the modern industrial system has emerged, and the industry and science and technology have promoted each other to accelerate the cultivation of new quality productivity.
In the past three years, hundreds of scientific and technological activities have been held, and the atmosphere of scientific and technological innovation has become increasingly strong——
Hundreds of scientific and technological activities were held, such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Academician Summit, the Songshan Lake Science Conference, the Huawei Developer Conference, the Songshan Lake Mathematics Forum, the Ultrafast Laser Application Development Conference, and the "Songhu Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. The "smell of science" is getting stronger and stronger.
In three years, from the park to the city, the city has a new look——
A large number of high-quality urban facilities such as Songshan Lake Vientiane City, Songshan Lake Science Park and Banyan Tree have been launched, Songshan Lake Future School and Songshan Lake No. 3 Primary School have been opened, landmark buildings have risen, "fireworks" have steamed, and the integrated development of "industry and city people" has reached a new level.
From the gathering of large scientific devices, the gathering of the phalanx of "important weapons of the country", to the gathering of academicians and scientific research workers on the shore of Songshan Lake, "it will not be an accident to meet world-class scientists", to the establishment of high-level universities, the cultivation of talents has shown a new atmosphere, and then to the agglomeration of robots, digital economy, biomedicine and other industries...... In the past three years, the innovation level of Songshan Lake Science City has been continuously improved, the "magnetic pole effect" of gathering domestic and foreign innovation resources has been continuously amplified, and the concentration and display degree of Science City have been significantly improved.
"The Spring of Science": In the spring, the future has come
It seems to be the most ordinary and strange, but it is easy but hard. Behind the three-year butterfly change, we can see the urban ambition of Songshan Lake to become a world-class science city, and behind the three-year butterfly change, it is inseparable from the concerted efforts of a city to participate in the grand event.
In the past three years, Songshan Lake has issued a series of policy systems for scientific and technological innovation to escort the development of the Science City.
In July 2021, a number of blockbuster science and technology policies such as the "Implementation Measures for Promoting Source Innovation", "Implementation Measures for Supporting Technology R&D", and "Implementation Measures for Promoting the Transfer and Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements" were released, further escorting the development of Science City from the aspects of source innovation, technology research and development, transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, cultivation of science and technology enterprises, innovation environment, financing development, and enterprise listing.
In April this year, the Songshan Lake Science and Technology Policy Version 2.0 was released, and the policy accuracy and intensity were further upgraded, helping the high-quality development of Songshan Lake Science City, accelerating the cultivation of new quality productivity, and creating a scientific and technological innovation ecosystem with the whole chain, the whole process and all elements.
The introduction of policies focuses on landing. In the past three years, Songshan Lake Science City has mobilized to accelerate the creation of a scientific and technological innovation ecosystem such as "source innovation, technological innovation, achievement transformation, and enterprise cultivation".
Among them, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is a worldwide problem. With the support of multi-level departments such as Guangdong Province, Dongguan City and Songshan Lake Management Committee, scientific researchers have explored and practiced in a down-to-earth manner, and enterprises are "thirsty for talents", and Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has explored and formed the "Songshan Lake Model" for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, opening up the "last mile" of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and embedding it step by step into the blood of the "world factory" and integrating into the historical process of the city.
"The laboratory and the Dongguan Science and Technology Bureau have given full recognition to the team, and we are responsible for the selection and configuration of all purchased equipment. Jia Haiqiang, head of the microfabrication and device platform of Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, expressed his gratitude to the laboratory and Dongguan for their support.
In the past three years, Songshan Lake Science City has been moving forward on the road of scientific and technological innovation, interpreting the incomparably vast and brilliant future of the city.
Looking back is to move forward better. Looking back at the development footprints of the past three years, large scientific devices that provide important support for cutting-edge scientific research have gathered and formed, high-end scientific dialogues have flashed the light of wisdom, and the "two-way rush" of mutual promotion of industrial science and technology has continued to be staged, all of which tell the story of Songshan Lake Science City's continuous advancement of urban science and technology, and everywhere is filled with the "taste of science" and is moving towards the "spring of science".
It is foreseeable that in the rapid changes, in the near future, as an important strategic platform for Dongguan to participate in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center and to participate in international competition and cooperation on behalf of the country in the new era, Songshan Lake Science City will appear in front of the world with a new image of scientific and technological innovation and occupy a place in the world's scientific and technological coordinates.
Pine Lake Observation
Walk in the "Spring of Science".
Technological innovation never ends.
The theoretical concept of time can be divided into infinitesimal intervals. In the scientific community, the smallest time interval is the widely accepted concept of "Planck time", which is roughly equal to 10 to the minus 43 seconds.
In the vast process of scientific and technological innovation, a slight negligence will be left behind. The same is true for the advancement of a city.
The mountain has a ridge, and the house is solid because of the beam. In the past three years, the "four beams" of Songshan Lake Science City of "source innovation, technological innovation, achievement transformation, and enterprise cultivation" have become more and more stable, and a number of large scientific devices have been gathered and formed, laying a solid foundation for the advancement of urban science and technology.
Gathering the wisdom of the crowd can set a good policy, and the strength of the crowd will prosper greatly. The urban advancement of Songshan Lake Science City gathers the strength of the whole city and the wisdom of all directions, gathers talents from different fields from all over the world, gathers in Songshan Lake, takes root in the Science City, gathers and grows here, and jointly composes a prelude to the era of scientific and technological innovation.
Knowing where you have been, you know where you are going. More than 40 years ago, in the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Dongguan, located between the two super cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, rose as an important part of the global supply chain; in 2001, Dongguan invested in the future, "second entrepreneurship", Songshan Lake started from a lychee forest. Now, in the torrent of the era of scientific and technological innovation, Dongguan has once again seized the opportunity of the times, walked in the "spring of science", and become an increasingly dazzling pearl in China's scientific and technological innovation system.
Time is endless, and there is a time to struggle. Everyone is looking for their own speed, and Songshan Lake Science City is rushing to the sea of stars of scientific and technological innovation with a sense of urgency of "time does not wait, seize the day", and shoulder the mission and glory of a city of science and technology.
Producer: Songshan Lake Rong Media Center Source: Dongguan + Editor: Mai Qingyi Reviewer: Huang Shaohong Chen Qiliang
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