The construction of an international science and innovation center in Gyeonggi Province is progressing steadily and rapidly.
2024-08-14
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Editor’s Note:
As China's visa-free "circle of friends" continues to expand, "China Travel" is popular on global social media, and "City is not a City" is quickly becoming popular across the country. Beijing, as the capital of China, a world-famous ancient capital and a modern international city, has become a popular choice and an important window for tourists at home and abroad. Therefore, the Publicity Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Guangming.com jointly planned and launched a series of overseas videos entitled "Beijing, Please Answer - The "V View" Operation of a Super City", which collects what overseas bloggers and experts and scholars have seen, heard, thought and thought, and uses the "micro" scenes of super cities as the entry point to explore and reveal the secrets with immersive experience as the main line. Under each recording lens, tell the story of Beijing in the new era; in a series of theoretical reviews, interpret the development of Beijing in the new era, and show the charm of Beijing to overseas netizens and young groups, while outlining a real and tangible image of China.
At the National Science and Technology Conference, the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, and the Conference of Academicians of the Two Academies held in June 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech emphasizing that the nation will prosper if science and technology prosper, and the country will be strong if science and technology are strong. Chinese-style modernization must be supported by scientific and technological modernization, and high-quality development must rely on scientific and technological innovation to cultivate new momentum. Beijing's construction of an international science and technology innovation center is an important mission entrusted to Beijing by the Party Central Committee. As one of the regions with the strongest scientific and technological foundation, the most concentrated innovation resources, and the most active innovation subjects in my country, Beijing's construction of an international science and technology innovation center is an important support for promoting the high-quality development of the capital and taking the lead in basically realizing socialist modernization.
Accelerating the construction of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center is an important means to gather new production factors and break through technical bottlenecks. It is also an important support for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and accelerating the formation of a new development pattern. In the overseas video series "Beijing, Please Answer - The "V View" Operation of a Super City", Thai blogger Just Pai Tiew (Just Pai Tiew -ก็แค่ไปเที่ยว) and Ye Qianqian, head of Baidu Media Center and public relations director of the Intelligent Driving Business Group, experienced Beijing's driverless vehicles together. "When I met a worker on the road, the car could automatically stop driving and honk the horn. It was really amazing!" Just Pai Tiew, who experienced the driverless vehicle for the first time, said excitedly that he hoped Beijing would bring more amazing scientific and technological achievements in the future. In recent years, Beijing is accelerating its integration into the world innovation system, becoming an important source of international cutting-edge science and technology and an important driver of global industrial transformation, and achieving a new leap in the process of building an international science and technology innovation center.
Focusing on the strategic goal of "basically forming Beijing as an international science and technology innovation center by 2025", Beijing has fully utilized its advantages in education, science and technology, and talents, adhered to the "four orientations", and accelerated the construction of Beijing into a major world science center and innovation highland with the fundamental goal of accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, supporting high-quality development as the main line, and comprehensively deepening reform as the driving force, which has effectively supported the construction of a strong country in science and technology and Chinese-style modernization. The analysis of the source of disciplines in the "International Science and Technology Innovation Center Index 2023" report shows that among the 11 disciplines in the field of science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM), Beijing's chemical science, earth science, environmental science, information and computing science, agricultural veterinary and food science, and engineering are ranked first in the world.
Representative achievements continue to emerge. In 2023, Beijing will have a number of high-tech achievements, including the ultra-large-scale intelligent model "Wudao 3.0", the world's first successful experiment of non-human primate interventional brain-computer interface, a 256-core blockchain-specific acceleration chip, and the world's first liquid oxygen-methane rocket Suzaku-2 that successfully entered orbit. In 2023, the city's registered technology contracts exceeded 100,000, reaching 106,552, an increase of 12.1% over the previous year; the transaction volume exceeded 800 billion yuan, reaching 853.69 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4%. The number of invention patents per 10,000 people in Beijing increased from 48.2 in 2014 to 262.9 in 2023.
The global digital economy benchmark city has been basically established. In 2023, the added value of the city's digital economy will account for 42.9% of the regional GDP. A number of leading technology companies with global influence have been cultivated, and the number of "unicorn" companies ranks among the top cities in the world. High-tech industries continue to grow, and high-growth and high-potential future industries are being cultivated at an accelerated pace. The global digital economy benchmark city has been basically established. High-tech industries are accelerating development. The research and development of original new drugs and high-end medical devices continues to lead the country, and the number of innovative medical devices and Class III devices that have entered the innovation channel and been approved for listing ranks first in the country. Accelerate the layout of strategic emerging industries such as commercial aerospace, new energy, new materials, and low-altitude economy, and new tracks for future industries such as quantum, biomanufacturing, and 6G are constantly opening up.
Build a series of cross-domain and large-scale collaborative innovation platforms. Continue to promote the establishment of national technology innovation centers, national manufacturing innovation centers, etc. in Beijing, and focus on promoting the construction of platforms such as the National New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center, the National Blockchain Technology Innovation Center, and the National Green and Low-carbon Building Technology Innovation Center. Support the construction of public underlying technology platforms and pilot platforms, create ultra-large-scale artificial intelligence model training platforms, blockchain trusted digital infrastructure platforms, and related field pilot maturation platforms, concept verification platforms, etc., to accelerate the rapid iteration and innovative breakthroughs of cutting-edge technologies and underlying technologies. During the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum, nearly 120 events were held, and a number of major scientific and technological innovation achievements were released to the world. 16 measures were introduced to further support the development of foreign-funded R&D centers in Beijing, and a total of 107 foreign-funded R&D centers have been recognized and supported.
An innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness has basically taken shape. Starting from mobilizing the enthusiasm of scientific researchers, the Beijing Regulations on Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements will be implemented in depth. Beijing issued and implemented the Implementation Measures for Beijing to Support the High-Quality Development of World-Class New R&D Institutions, and further promoted the "unveiling the list and taking charge" mechanism. We will continue to strengthen the diversified investment mechanism, explore the path of multiple forces such as "national-city-district-enterprise" to invest in basic research, and build a diversified investment mechanism of "financial + external" two-way efforts based on the Beijing Natural Science Foundation. In 2023, external funding will reach 342 million yuan, and for the first time, the financial investment and external investment of the Beijing Natural Science Foundation will be 1:1. Beijing took the lead in the "lump-sum system + negative list" system for all project funds among the natural science funds of various provinces and cities across the country, covering more than 800 supporting units in the city, which greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of scientific researchers.
On the new journey, the construction of Beijing Science and Technology Innovation Center should adhere to the "four aspects", better coordinate the advantages of education, science and technology, and talents, give play to the advantages of the new national system, adhere to the organic combination of government, market, and society, promote the deep integration of government, industry, academia, research and application, and enhance the overall efficiency of the science and technology innovation system. Coordinated promotion of scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation, strengthen international scientific and technological cooperation and open sharing, and strive to build Beijing into a world scientific frontier and a source of technological innovation for emerging industries and a gathering place for global innovation elements as soon as possible.
Coordinate the work of education, science and technology, and talents. Education, science and technology, and talents are an organically connected whole that jointly support the construction of a socialist modern power. We must strengthen top-level design, make good strategic layout planning, base ourselves on the strategic positioning of the capital, and serve the overall situation of national high-quality development. We must implement the national "Double First-Class" construction strategic deployment, support Beijing universities to fully integrate into the construction of an international science and technology innovation center, promote the construction of a new phase of high-end innovation centers in Beijing universities, strengthen organized scientific research, break down barriers to cooperation between universities and research institutes, and enable talent to flow through cooperation between schools, schools and enterprises, and institutes and enterprises. Support colleges and universities to accelerate the construction of basic disciplines, emerging disciplines, and interdisciplinary disciplines, and implement the national strategic action for cultivating top talents in basic disciplines in depth, so as to retain the source of vitality for accelerating the construction of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center. Strengthen the evaluation subject status of employers, improve the evaluation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements and talents, and maximize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the majority of scientific and technological workers.
Promote technological innovation with institutional innovation. At present, the world is facing multiple challenges such as geopolitical tensions and economic weakness. We must boldly break down all ideological obstacles and institutional barriers that restrict technological innovation and comprehensively improve the overall efficiency of the innovation system. We must continue to promote high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, implement the new round of pilot reform measures in Zhongguancun, and promote the introduction of the next batch of reform measures around finance, achievement transformation, talent incentives, and corporate innovation. Strengthen intellectual property protection, optimize the mechanism of rapid and coordinated protection of intellectual property rights and diversified dispute resolution, and form a more efficient and higher-quality intellectual property service system. Improve the classification evaluation system for free exploration and task-oriented scientific and technological projects, strive to clear the bottlenecks in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in universities, research institutes, medical institutions, etc., and encourage scientific researchers to carry out long-term and original research.
Strengthen international scientific and technological cooperation and open sharing. We should promote international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation with more open thinking and measures, integrate into the global scientific and technological innovation network on a larger scale and at a deeper level, promote the sharing and complementary advantages of scientific and technological resources, talents, technologies and other aspects in various regions, and continue to attract international scientific and technological organizations, industry alliances and other institutions to gather and develop in Beijing. Build an international scientific and technological cooperation and exchange platform similar to the International Space Station, such as joint laboratories, science and technology parks, etc., to provide opportunities and channels for exchanges and cooperation for scientific and technological talents from all parties. Organize the Zhongguancun Forum with high quality and create a national platform for global scientific and technological innovation exchanges and cooperation. Continuously improve the admission policy for foreign talents and provide convenience for foreign talents to come to China for innovation and entrepreneurship. We can strengthen talent training and exchange. Through joint training, exchanges and visits, we can improve the comprehensive quality and international competitiveness of talents and provide strong talent support for scientific and technological innovation.
(Author Guo Hongxing is an assistant researcher at the School of Public Administration, Tsinghua University)
Source: Guangming.com
