◇In 2020, when presiding over a symposium on solidly promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta in Hefei, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region should not only provide high-quality products, but also provide high-level scientific and technological supply to support the high-quality development of the country" and "the three provinces and one city should gather scientific and technological strength, focus on key areas and key links such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence, and make breakthroughs as soon as possible".
◇When presiding over a symposium on in-depth promotion of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta in Shanghai in 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "the Yangtze River Delta region should strengthen cross-regional coordination of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Vigorously promote scientific and technological innovation, strengthen the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, give birth to new industries, new formats and new models, expand new space for development, cultivate new momentum for development, and better link the Yangtze River Economic Belt and radiate the whole country".
◇According to the newly released "2024 Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index", since 2018, the Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index has grown at an average annual rate of 9.26%.
◇"The total value of equipment in our center is more than 720 million yuan, and there are 24 sets of equipment with a unit price of more than 5 million yuan. On the basis of ensuring the scientific research of the school, these advanced equipment are all open to the public. Many small and medium-sized enterprises can enjoy high-end scientific research equipment services without building their own laboratories. Chen Feng, director of the analysis and testing center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, told reporters. At present, the center has more than 10,000 off-campus registered users, including about 7,000 users in the Yangtze River Delta.
◇Statistics show that up to now, there are 28 major scientific and technological infrastructures completed or under construction in the Yangtze River Delta. The construction of photonic large scientific facilities such as Shanghai light source, ultra-strong and ultra-short laser device, and soft X-ray device is progressing in an orderly manner, and the construction of the National Clinical Medical Research Center has begun to take shape. The integration capacity of the regional innovation system has been continuously enhanced.
◇Shanghai provides the "brain" composed of chips and software; About 200 kilometers to the west, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, provides power batteries as the "heart"; More than 200 kilometers to the south, Ningbo, Zhejiang, provides an integrated die-casting machine that completes the "body...... In the Yangtze River Delta, new energy vehicles have gradually formed a "4-hour industrial circle" with the characteristics of a modern industrial system, and are moving towards a world-class new energy vehicle industry cluster, with more than 40% of the country's new energy vehicles produced in the Yangtze River Delta region.
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It has 9 cities with a GDP of one trillion yuan, gathers more than 30% of the country's high-tech enterprises, and has a regional R&D investment intensity of 3.23%, nearly 0.7 percentage points higher than the national average......
The Yangtze River Delta region, which is embraced by Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, has continuously improved the "quality" of development with a surge of innovation.
Since the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has been elevated to a national strategy in 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping has gone deep into the most active areas of scientific and technological innovation again and again during his inspection in the Yangtze River Delta region, and has face-to-face exchanges with scientific and technological workers in three provinces and one city.
In 2020, when presiding over a symposium on solidly promoting the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta in Hefei, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region should not only provide high-quality products, but also provide high-level scientific and technological supply to support the high-quality development of the country" and "the three provinces and one city should gather scientific and technological strength, focus on key areas and key links such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence, and make breakthroughs as soon as possible".
When presiding over a symposium on in-depth promotion of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta in Shanghai in 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "the Yangtze River Delta region should strengthen cross-regional coordination of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation." Vigorously promote scientific and technological innovation, strengthen the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, give birth to new industries, new formats and new models, expand new space for development, cultivate new momentum for development, and better link the Yangtze River Economic Belt and radiate the whole country".
On April 30, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting to review the "Opinions on Several Policies and Measures on Continuously and Deeply Promoting the Integrated and High-quality Development of the Yangtze River Delta", proposing to accelerate breakthroughs in key core technologies, coordinate the promotion of the upgrading of traditional industries, the growth of emerging industries, and the cultivation of future industries, and jointly build innovation chains, industrial chains, and supply chains on a larger scale.
Looking at the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai has outstanding comprehensive advantages, Jiangsu has a developed manufacturing industry, Zhejiang has a leading digital economy, and Anhui has active innovation and good ecological resources. By seeking "a game of chess for development", Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui will accelerate the construction of world-class industrial clusters. According to the newly released "2024 Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index", since 2018, the Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index has grown at an average annual rate of 9.26%.
Zhu Jianhe (left), a member of the team of Anhui Advanced Functional Polymer Thin Film Engineering Laboratory, explains the operation of experimental equipment to team members at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Light Source Experimental Line Station (photo taken on April 10, 2024) Photo by Fang Zhe / This magazine
Deeply cultivate the "experimental field" of institutional innovation and reshape the pattern of regional integration innovation
From the release of the "Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community Construction and Development Plan" by the Ministry of Science and Technology in December 2020 to the inauguration of the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community Construction Office in Shanghai in 2021, a special group has been established around key cooperation matters such as joint research, basic research, and achievement transformation...... The three provinces and one municipality are driven by institutional innovation and scientific and technological innovation to reshape the development pattern of regional integration and innovation.
Integrate innovative resources, and work together with the central government and the local government to promote joint research to "take root". After the establishment of the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community Construction Office, the relevant departments of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the science and technology departments of the three provinces and one city have established a quarterly consultation mechanism for the work class, focusing on key and difficult issues such as improving the joint research mechanism, formulating a three-year action plan, and improving the ability of science and technology innovation to curate sources. The "Implementation Measures for the Joint Research Plan of the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community (Trial)" was issued to establish rules and regulations for integrated innovation and escort. At the same time, a secretariat was set up, and the science and technology departments of the three provinces and one city selected cadres to work in Shanghai to strengthen cross-provincial overall coordination.
The demand for innovation comes from the enterprise, the solution is selected by the enterprise, and the implementation time is determined by the enterprise...... The Yangtze River Delta Integrated Science and Technology Innovation Cloud Platform is the publicity and service carrier of the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community for innovation subjects, integrating the functions of science and technology innovation policy promotion and enterprise supply and demand docking in the Yangtze River Delta field. The reporter opened the platform website, and a series of technical requirements for "unveiling the list successfully" came into view. Atomic layer deposition process and equipment research and development applied to compound semiconductors, quantitative evaluation and audit system of credibility of artificial intelligence algorithms...... Technology companies are here to find real solutions.
In 2023, according to the notice on the solicitation of demand for joint research in the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community jointly issued by the science and technology departments of the three provinces and one city, Henlius, a Shanghai-based biopharmaceutical company, released the technical requirements of "key technology development and industrialization of domestic manufacturing of antibody drugs" on the platform. "Finding technology by ourselves is like looking for a needle in a haystack, with the help of the platform, we can efficiently and accurately connect with the Yangtze River Delta 'circle of friends'." Shan Yongqiang, general manager of Henlius Global Innovation Center, said. In the end, East China University of Science and Technology and Bailinke Pharmaceutical Equipment Technology (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. "unveiled", and the three parties jointly tackled the development and industrialization of key technologies for domestic manufacturing of biological antibody drugs.
Statistics show that since 2022, the three provinces and one municipality have released a total of 48 key unveiling tasks of "enterprise problems", with more than 380 unveiling units nationwide and more than 1 billion yuan in R&D investment. In 2023, a total of 130 needs of enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta will be collected, and 20 leading enterprises such as Shanghai Yudu Semiconductor, Zhongkexin Integrated Circuit, Chery New Energy Vehicle, and Jiangsu Kangyuan Pharmaceutical will be included in the joint research plan.
Break down institutional barriers and "one-click sharing" of scientific and technological resources. Cryo-EM, spherical aberration EM, 700M liquid NMR, Laboratory Animal Center, P2 Pathogenic Microbiology Laboratory...... Walking into the analysis and testing center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, all kinds of advanced scientific instruments are dizzying.
"The total value of equipment in our center is more than 720 million yuan, and there are 24 pieces of equipment with a unit price of more than 5 million yuan. On the basis of ensuring the scientific research of the school, these advanced equipment are all open to the public. Many small and medium-sized enterprises can enjoy high-end scientific research equipment services without building their own laboratories. Chen Feng, director of the analysis and testing center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, told reporters. At present, the center has more than 10,000 off-campus registered users, including about 7,000 users in the Yangtze River Delta.
Three provinces and one city work together to build a Yangtze River Delta science and technology resource sharing service platform, more than 40,000 sets, worth more than 52.2 billion yuan of large-scale scientific instruments concentrated on one platform, the country's enterprises, scientific research personnel only need to "one-click order", can achieve cross-regional service sharing, instrument interoperability.
In addition, many places in the Yangtze River Delta have piloted the use of financial science and technology funds to support small and medium-sized science and technology enterprises in the pilot area to purchase technology research and development, inspection and testing services from professional institutions in the form of electronic vouchers, and support the general exchange of science and technology innovation vouchers, so as to promote technology, capital, talent and other elements across the region "hand in hand". "Science and technology innovation vouchers are like 'consumption vouchers' in the field of science and technology services. Through the platform, we received the 300,000 yuan innovation voucher issued by Shanghai Institute of Technology to apply for the development service of crawler remote control diesel engine driven self-priming pump, and jointly developed a drainage robot system with the university. Wang Qiyan, general manager of Jiangsu Boyu Pump Industry Co., Ltd., said.
Statistics show that in 2023, the number of enterprises applying for science and technology innovation vouchers in the Yangtze River Delta will reach 2,377, with 146 million yuan of cross-regional purchase services and 39.68 million yuan of innovation voucher redemption, an increase of 6.3 times, 3.6 times, and 3.8 times respectively compared with 2021.
Break down administrative barriers and promote cross-provincial "innovation collaboration". The Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone, which spans Qingpu in Shanghai, Wujiang in Jiangsu and Jiashan in Zhejiang, is a breakthrough in the national strategy of Yangtze River Delta integration. In November 2019, aiming at "not breaking administrative subordination and breaking administrative barriers", the Yangtze River Delta Integration Demonstration Zone was established, focusing on the tasks of planning and management, ecological protection, fiscal and tax sharing, public services, etc., carrying out all-round integration experiments, and promoting the "end" of provincial development to become the forefront of inter-provincial cooperation.
Since its listing, the Yangtze River Delta Integration Demonstration Zone has formed a total of 136 institutional innovation achievements, covering eight aspects such as planning and management, fiscal and tax sharing, of which 42 have been replicated and promoted nationwide. For example, the establishment of a mutual recognition mechanism for foreign high-end talents of "one place and mutual recognition of three places". The establishment of the country's first cross-provincial high-tech industrial development zone - the Yangtze River Delta Integration Demonstration Zone, inter-provincial high-tech zone, etc.
"Under the traditional development path, each region has its own high-tech zone and economic development zone, and the competition for investment is very fierce. The establishment of cross-provincial high-tech zones is to proceed from the actual interests of the two provinces and one municipality and strive for the greatest common divisor of development. Zhu Zhengwei, Minister of Business and Industrial Development of the Executive Committee of the Yangtze River Delta Integration Demonstration Zone, said. This year, the two provinces and one municipality agreed to implement the operation mechanism of "joint meeting + promotion class + area management agency" for cross-provincial high-tech zones, and play a greater leading role in the construction of national high-tech zones.
For example, the demonstration zone focuses on the professional qualifications set by the state and implemented by the provinces themselves, such as second-level constructors, second-level cost engineers, and junior registered safety engineers, to promote the unification of examination standards, mutual recognition of grades and certificates, break the restrictions on professional and technical personnel's cross-provincial practice and work, and promote the free flow of talent elements.
The Yangtze River Delta Integration Demonstration Zone is a microcosm. The corridor economy, including the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor and the Yangtze River Delta Digital Trunk Line, the enclave economy including the Science and Technology Innovation Enclave and the Industrial Enclave, and cross-provincial collaborative innovation are showing a trend of a hundred flowers blooming in the Yangtze River Delta.
According to the "2024 Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index", the turnover of technology contracts exported from Shanghai to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui in 2023 will be 74.432 billion yuan, an increase of 3.31 times compared with 2018. The number of invention patents jointly applied by Shanghai with Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui was 4,911, an increase of 1.75 times compared with 2018.
An optical interferometer used in the Jiuzhan 3 experiment at the University of Science and Technology of China (taken on October 15, 2023) Courtesy of the University of Science and Technology of China
Strengthen the source of original innovation and enhance the "hard power" of strategic science and technology
Solve Gaussian boson sampling math problems 100 billion times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer. In November 2023, a research team composed of Pan Jianwei and Lu Chaoyang from the University of Science and Technology of China, together with the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, jointly built a quantum computing prototype "Jiuzhan No. 3", taking another important step on the road to developing a quantum computer.
Open "Chapter 9 No. 3", which is lined with metal modules slightly larger than fingernails with fiber optic "pigtails". These modules, called superconducting single-photon detectors, are the "eyes" of the "Nine Chapter 3" that capture and recognize individual photons. Born in Shanghai, encapsulated in Zhejiang, and then applied in Anhui, each detector has experienced a journey of collaborative innovation in the Yangtze River Delta.
According to the "China Regional Science and Technology Innovation Evaluation Report 2023", including R&D expenditure, R&D personnel, number of high-tech enterprises, etc., a total of 13 indicators in the Yangtze River Delta account for more than 30% of the country. Jointly implementing major scientific and technological projects and working together to enhance the "hard power" of strategic science and technology are not uncommon in the construction of the Yangtze River Delta science and technology innovation community.
Strengthen the construction of national strategic scientific and technological forces, promote the cluster of large scientific facilities in an orderly manner, and forge a sharp weapon for scientific and technological innovation.
In mid-May this year, the Shanghai light source line station project, a major national scientific and technological infrastructure construction project, passed the national acceptance. The project includes the construction of 16 new state-of-the-art beamlines and experimental stations, the establishment of user-assisted laboratories and user data centers.
"Shanghai Light Source is the first third-generation synchrotron radiation light source in Chinese mainland, which is like a 'super microscope', which can see the microscopic world clearly and reveal the generation and evolution mechanism of material microstructure." Tai Renzhong, vice president of the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told reporters.
During the trial operation of the project, the new line station has served about 80,000 hours and provided customized technical solutions for 35 domestic leading enterprises, more than half of which are Yangtze River Delta enterprises, such as Nanjing Huirui Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., China Baowu Iron and Steel Group, etc.
"It only takes two hours to drive from the laboratory in Hangzhou to Zhangjiang in Shanghai, and it is very convenient to live in a guest house for users when encountering experiments that take many days to complete." Haitao Zhang, a researcher at the School of Pharmacy at Zhejiang University, comes to the Protein Science Research (Shanghai) facility almost every two months to conduct experiments. As the world's first comprehensive large-scale scientific facility in the field of life sciences, the facility has served 1,985 research groups from nearly 450 scientific research institutions and enterprises.
Statistics show that up to now, there are 28 major scientific and technological infrastructures completed or under construction in the Yangtze River Delta. The construction of photonic large scientific facilities such as Shanghai light source, ultra-strong and ultra-short laser device, and soft X-ray device is progressing in an orderly manner, and the construction of the National Clinical Medical Research Center has begun to take shape. The integration capacity of the regional innovation system has been continuously enhanced.
Accelerate the construction of various laboratories and enhance the ability to curate innovation. In mid-April this year, the 2024 Global 6G Technology Conference with the theme of "Innovation Foresees the Future of 6G" was held in Nanjing, attracting widespread attention at home and abroad.
In 2018, the Purple Mountain Laboratory in Nanjing established a 6G key technology research team. "The development of 6G now is to provide super connectivity for the intelligent information society of the future." You Xiaohu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Purple Mountain Laboratory, said.
Basic research is the general switch of scientific and technological innovation. From the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, to the Purple Mountain Laboratory in Jiangsu, the Zhijiang Laboratory in Zhejiang, and then to the Hefei Science Island, various laboratories in the Yangtze River Delta aim at the world's cutting-edge technologies and continue to make breakthroughs.
From a high proportion of "chimeric monkeys", to cloned monkeys "Zhongzhong" and "Huahua", to the miniaturization of large scientific devices...... At the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Exhibition, rows of basic research results were exciting.
Relying on the National Technology Innovation Center, promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Organically combining the national strategic deployment with the innovation needs of the Yangtze River Delta region, the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, which was listed in 2021, takes the mission of tackling key core technologies in important fields as its mission, and continues to promote the transfer, transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements in the Yangtze River Delta region.
On the eve of May Day, the scrap steel cutting robot developed by CCID Shanghai Research Institute was officially shipped to Zhanjiang Iron and Steel Base to start engineering application. It took less than two years for this new robot to be signed and launched in April 2022 to the release of the product in December 2023. In this regard, the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center has played a key role as a driving force.
"As the steel industry accelerates the green and intelligent transformation, the proportion of electric furnace steelmaking has increased, and a large amount of scrap steel needs to be cut in order to meet the size requirements of the furnace." Du Dongpo, executive vice president of CCID Shanghai Research Institute, was keenly aware of this market demand during the enterprise investigation.
Traditional scrap cutting has a high temperature, more dust, and a harsher working environment. Changing to robot operation, it faces technical problems such as how to identify the type and size of scrap steel, how to plan the robot's action path, and how to accurately judge where to cut from.
After learning of the technical needs of the enterprise, the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center connected it with global innovation resources, and finally promoted joint research: the University of Technology Sydney is responsible for intelligent algorithms, Changzhou Jicui is responsible for key components, and CCID is responsible for general integration, and the center also provides international cooperation fund pool support for the project. "The final landing of the scrap intelligent cutting robot has filled the gap in the industry. We estimate that this new product corresponds to a potential scrap processing market of nearly 30 million tons. Du Dongpo said.
Liu Qing, director of the center, introduced that since its listing, the center has laid out and built 98 professional R&D carriers in Shanghai and Jiangsu, with more than 16,000 R&D personnel, supporting about 100 major industrial technology innovation projects in the form of "combination of allocation and investment", more than 9,000 transfer and transformation of technological achievements, and more than 20,000 service enterprises.
A Q-Truck, an unmanned heavy-duty truck from Xijing Technology, conducts dynamic testing at the site of the Unmanned Commercial Vehicle Joint Laboratory in Shanghai (photo taken on September 26, 2023) Photo by Fang Zhe / This magazine
Aiming at world-class innovation centers to enhance the competitiveness of the whole industry
"After the meeting in Hefei in the afternoon, I returned to Shanghai in less than two hours by high-speed train. Tomorrow morning, I will take the high-speed train to Hefei for a meeting, and the high-speed train will return to Shanghai at four o'clock in the afternoon, and I can go home for dinner. In March this year, Li Bin, the founder of NIO, shared a short video he shot on the Internet, showing the frequent interaction between the two places in the field of new energy vehicles.
Promoting industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation is making the Yangtze River Delta a "test field" for new quality productivity. Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui have formed an industrial pattern of "you have me, I have you", and the competitiveness of the whole industry has been significantly improved.
Work together to build a modern industrial system. This is a four-hour "journey" to produce a new energy vehicle - Shanghai provides the "brain" composed of chips, software, etc.; About 200 kilometers to the west, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, provides power batteries as the "heart"; More than 200 kilometers to the south, Ningbo, Zhejiang, provides an integrated die-casting machine that completes the "body......
In the Yangtze River Delta, new energy vehicles have gradually formed a "4-hour industrial circle" with the characteristics of a modern industrial system, and are moving towards a world-class new energy vehicle industry cluster, with more than 40% of the country's new energy vehicles produced in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Since 2016, NIO has carried out in-depth industrial layout around Hefei and has built two advanced manufacturing bases. At present, more than 70% of NIO's industrial chain partners come from the surrounding areas 600 kilometers away from Hefei. Relying on the mature industrial chain and location advantages of the Yangtze River Delta, NIO leads the national high-end pure electric vehicle market of more than 300,000 yuan, and released its second brand Ledao for global sales in May this year.
"We have set up core business units such as vehicle manufacturing, business headquarters, and key components in Hefei, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places." Li Bin believes that relying on the division of labor and cooperation between different regions, the Yangtze River Delta is expected to build a world-class innovation center for intelligent electric vehicles.
New energy vehicles are just the epitome. Statistics show that the industrial scale of the three leading industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine and artificial intelligence in the Yangtze River Delta accounts for 3/5, 1/3 and 1/3 of the country respectively, and the modern industrial system is constantly improving.
Taking biomedicine as an example, since 2019, Shanghai alone has approved a total of 24 Class 1 domestic innovative drugs, including the first CART cell therapy product in China and the first domestic biological innovative drug listed in United States. At present, the Yangtze River Delta has a number of well-known biomedical industrial parks such as Shanghai Zhangjiang High-tech Zone, Suzhou Industrial Park, Hangzhou High-tech Zone, Lianyungang Economic and Technological Development Zone, etc., and the total global licensing transactions of biomedicine in the Yangtze River Delta have accounted for more than 70% of the country's total in the past five years, reflecting the competitive advantage of the Yangtze River Delta biomedical industry cluster.
Forward-looking layout of future industries. Sit in the simulated cockpit, control the joystick to pull up and steer, and the display simulates flying over rivers, buildings, and looking down on the ground...... Located in the factory of Yufeng Future Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. in Jinshan District, Shanghai, visitors can experience the joy of low-altitude flight.
Liu Xingyu, deputy general manager of Yufeng Future, introduced that the M1 electric aircraft successfully made its first flight in October 2023, and all the three core links of electric system, flight control system and composite materials were localized. "The five-seater manned design can fly 250 kilometers efficiently and reach a cruising speed of 200 kilometers per hour, which is considered to be the 'air taxi' of the future."
Focusing on future health, future intelligence, future energy and other directions, the Yangtze River Delta region, including Shanghai, will accelerate the layout of cutting-edge fields such as brain-computer interface, quantum technology, and aerospace utilization, and deploy a number of future industrial clusters that lead the world by 2035. The three provinces and one city work together to provide excellent soil for future industrial growth. In the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui Province, the team of the Anhui Advanced Functional Polymer Thin Film Engineering Center is racing against time to carry out related research.
"This project is a key R&D plan undertaken by 'Hefei Light Source' and 'Shanghai Light Source', aiming to provide key core materials for the mainland's new display industry and new energy vehicle industry." Li Liangbin, secretary of the Party Committee and deputy director of the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory of the University of Science and Technology of China, told reporters that the two comprehensive national science centers in Zhangjiang and Hefei, Anhui Province have carried out "two hearts and two co-creations" to light up the "light of cooperation" for the future development of the industry.
Seek cooperation and win the future with openness. "Westwell has a very strong relationship with Hong Kong, and the first group customer is Hutchison Port; Together, we have built a number of benchmark projects, including helping Hutchison Thailand build the world's first 'driverless and manned' hybrid project, and signing an order with United Kingdom Hutchison for 100 autonomous trucks. In May, the "Pujiang Innovation Forum" came to Hong Kong for the first time, Tan Limin, chairman of Shanghai Xijing Technology Co., Ltd., said at the symposium.
Pujiang Innovation Forum, World Artificial Intelligence Conference, World Laureates Forum, World Manufacturing Conference...... The Yangtze River Delta has given birth to a number of global science and technology innovation exhibitions and cooperation platforms, and various innovative entities in the region have actively carried out international scientific and technological cooperation and exchanges.
The Shenzhen Digital Earth International Science Project, in which many units in the Yangtze River Delta are deeply involved, has attracted more than 20 international organizations and relevant foreign institutions to participate. Volkswagen and Xpeng have jointly developed two connected vehicles for the Chinese market Germany, the first of which will start production in Hefei in 2026...... From the "first kilometer" of basic research to the "last kilometer" of industrial innovation, the open innovation of the Yangtze River Delta not only has a "tale of two cities", but also a "global journey".
"The integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has entered a new stage, and it has also ushered in new challenges." Zhang Zhongwei, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission and executive deputy director of the Yangtze River Delta Regional Cooperation Office, said that in the future, it is necessary to continue to improve the innovation ability, industrial competitiveness and synergy level of the Yangtze River Delta, so that the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta can play a leading and exemplary role in the process of Chinese-style modernization.
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