China News Service, Shanghai, April 20. Title: 30 years of Pudong development and opening up: Science and technology "source code" builds Zhangjiang innovation ecological "gravitational field"
Author Fan Zhonghua Yu Mei Li Shuzheng
In the summer of 1992, the 17-square-kilometer area on the Zhangjiang side of the hinterland of Shanghai ’s Pudong became China ’s first development park named after “high-tech”, geographically linking the three dotted layouts of Pudong ’s trade, finance, and manufacturing. Functionally, it writes the "source code" that is vital to Pudong's rapid rise.
Just like the endless evolution of the same code, 28 years later, with a complete industrial chain, rich science and innovation ecology and talented people, Zhang Jiang is taking on the mission of a global innovation source and interpreting it as a "science city" to the world. summary.
"Zhang Jiang's functional positioning is built on the important background of Pudong's development and opening up based on the whole country, facing the world, and facing the future. In the 1990s, Pudong has started to develop the three major industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine and software in a forward-looking manner." Shanghai Hou Jin, the full-time deputy director of the Office for Promoting the Construction of Science and Technology Innovation Center, recalled.
Entering Zhangjiang at the same time as these future-oriented high-tech industries is a group of scientific research institutes with strong scientific research strength. Industry and scientific research "walking on two legs" is Zhang Jiang's unique innovation in the name of "high-tech".
The Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences moved here from Puxi at that time. After leaving the research atmosphere formed by the development of the former site for nearly half a century, Pudong ’s new site has “nothing around it”. Chen Kaixian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, admitted that he was “a bit confused and confused and felt full of hope. The open environment plays a role. "
Chen Kaixian introduced that when the Institute of Medicine came to Zhangjiang, on the one hand, it promoted the closer cooperation between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai, and finally led the Shanghai Institute of Advanced Research, Shanghai University of Science and Technology to land in Zhangjiang. On the other hand, a larger series of medicines had established a series of research centers. The drug research and development system is improving day by day.
Science first, become a pilot light for industrial development. Chen Li, chairman of Hualing Pharmaceuticals, once worked for Roche Pharmaceuticals in the United States. In 2003, he introduced the Roche Pharmaceutical R & D Center to Zhangjiang, because "there was a visit to Zhangjiang at that time, and the infrastructure for pharmaceutical R & D innovation was here."
Today, Zhang Jiang has gathered three industrial clusters led by integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence. A total of more than 50 new drugs have been obtained, and more than 400 new drug varieties are being studied; 6 of the top 10 global chip design companies have established regional headquarters and R & D centers here; and Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Island is the only batch of artificial intelligence application scenarios in Shanghai. "AI + Park" implementation carrier.
Chu Qing, CEO of Ziguang Zhanrui, a benchmarking company in integrated circuit design in China, called Zhang Jiang "like gravity, stepping in step by step, the more development is inseparable."
"The information industry is very complex, and no company can independently build the entire industrial chain. In Zhangjiang, the industrial chain has penetrated 7 layers from the top-level intelligent operating system, hardware, chip design, etc. to the bottom-level chemical material manufacturers. It is the most complete place in the domestic integrated circuit industry chain. "Chu Qing explained.
The science and technology ecology is a "magnet" and a fertile ground to inspire innovation.
With Zhang Jiang's advantages as a free trade pilot zone and a national independent innovation demonstration zone, Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceutical (China) Co., Ltd. participated in and promoted the pilot work of the Chinese drug marketing authorization holder (MAH) system to achieve Revolutionary changes in China's drug management.
Hutchison Whampoa Pharmaceuticals was able to quickly market its first anti-cancer innovative drug, fruquintinib, to the market and was included in the National Medical Insurance Directory last year.
"We came to Zhangjiang to start a business in 2002 with the idea of 'doing China's independent innovation medicine' and become a beneficiary of the system innovation in the free trade zone," said Cui Yunbin, senior vice president of Hutchison Huangpu, Zhangjiang is a "blessed land" for entrepreneurs.
Ma Handong, the co-founder of the smart medical science and technology enterprise Senyi Intelligent, explained the reason for starting a business in Zhangjiang: "First, the company needs comprehensive talents with medical and artificial intelligence technology backgrounds. Zhangjiang is a very rare place to find such talents. ; Second, we are only 50 meters away from our major customers, which is very convenient. "
"We want to root the source of innovation here, let the leading enterprises drive the formation of more small ecology and vertical ecology, let more enterprises grow up, and form a real spillover effect." Yuan Yuan, Chairman of Shanghai Zhangjiang (Group) Co., Ltd. Tao told reporters from China News Service.
According to Yin Jie, vice president of Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Zhang Jiang's development is to establish a place where science and technology, industry and education are integrated.
"In the first 5-10 years, Zhang Jiang built a batch of scientific research facilities such as Shanghai Light Source, National Protein Facility, and New Drug Creation Platform; on this basis, research universities such as Shanghai University of Science and Technology were established to export talents with original innovative capabilities; The third step is to further develop around the construction of the Shanghai Science and Technology Center. "Yin Jie said.
Wu Qiang, the full-time deputy director of the Shanghai Office for the Advancement of Science and Technology Innovation Center, pointed out that Zhangjiang Science City strives to achieve new breakthroughs in scientific discoveries, technological innovations, new industrial directions, and new development concepts around the strengthening of technological innovation strategy functions. Build a world-class science city and make steady progress.
In this regard, Yin Jie is full of confidence: "In the next five years, there will be a number of scientific facilities built here, coupled with Fudan, Shanghai Jiaotong University and other universities, a few square kilometers may accommodate tens of thousands of scientists and professors, Zhang Jiang's future is unlimited. "(Finish)