Competition for the number of high-tech enterprises in 24 provincial cities: Guangzhou ranks first, but the enterprise qualification is not as good as Hangzhou?

　　The number of state-level high-tech enterprises is an important indicator to measure the industrial transformation and upgrading of a region.

As the provincial capital city is the center of higher education and the development center of science and technology industry in the province, the number of high-tech enterprises it owns can better illustrate the innovative strength of the regional economy.

　　A reporter from China Business News sorted out the number of high-tech enterprises in 24 provincial capitals (autonomous region capitals) cities (Urumqi, Yinchuan, and Xining) in 2019. After that, they found that the current first-tier city, Guangzhou, is far ahead of the provincial capitals. There are more than 10,000 technology companies, with Hangzhou and Nanjing ranking second and third.

In general, the proportion of high-tech enterprises in capital cities in the central and western regions in the province is generally higher than that in the eastern coastal areas.

　　Guangzhou is far ahead

　　Although the total GDP of Guangzhou has gradually dropped from third to fifth in recent years, it is not as good as Beishangshen and Hangzhou in the development of the Internet industry, but in terms of the number of high-tech enterprises, Guangzhou is still far ahead of the provincial capitals.

　　The Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau reported on October 29 that the city has implemented high-tech enterprise cultivation activities in 2015, and the number of high-tech enterprises has more than sixfold in four years.

The total number of high-tech enterprises in Guangzhou has increased from 1919 in 2015 to 12,099 in 2019, achieving rapid growth for four consecutive years.

　　At present, the total number of high-tech enterprises in Guangzhou ranks fourth among inland cities; among the provincial capitals, Guangzhou is more than twice that of Hangzhou, which ranks second.

　　According to preliminary statistics, the number of high-tech enterprises with annual operating income of more than 10 billion yuan in Guangzhou has increased from 8 in 2015 to 17 in 2019, an increase of 112.5%; high-tech enterprises with annual operating income of more than 1 billion From 93 in 2015 to 226 in 2019, an increase of 143%.

　　Despite the large number, there are still some problems in the development of high-tech enterprises in Guangzhou.

Peng Peng, executive chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Institutional Reform Research Association, told China Business News that Guangzhou lacks leading technology companies like Huawei, and leading companies account for a large proportion of research and development, and they have a great role in pulling upstream and downstream.

　　Take the Internet industry as an example. A few days ago, the Internet Society of China released the "Top 100 Chinese Internet Companies in 2020". Guangzhou has 7 companies, ranking third, while Shenzhen has 6 companies and Hangzhou has 4 companies.

Although Guangzhou surpasses Shenzhen-Hangzhou in number, Shenzhen has Tencent and Hangzhou has Alibaba. One company can surpass Guangzhou's many companies.

　　From the perspective of spatial layout, Guangzhou's high-tech enterprises are mainly located in Huangpu and Tianhe, which has also driven Guangzhou's urban development to continue to extend eastward. Since the beginning of this year, Huangpu and Tianhe have led the increase in housing prices in Guangzhou.

　　Nanjing surpasses Wuhan Chengdu

　　After Guangzhou, Hangzhou ranks second with 5528.

In recent years, Hangzhou's digital economy has developed rapidly, but the current emerging industries in Hangzhou are overly focusing on model innovation, and there is still a big gap between Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen in terms of investment in scientific and technological research and development.

　　Nanjing's performance is also very impressive.

Nanjing's overall scientific and educational strength is second only to Beijing and Shanghai, ranking third in the country. However, for a long time in the past, Nanjing has not well connected with the links between high-end production factors and modern industrial development.

Statistics show that as of 2017, Nanjing has a total of 1,850 high-tech enterprises, which is a long way from Wuhan (2827) and Chengdu (2473) in the central and western regions.

　　However, in recent years, Nanjing has focused its efforts on the construction of a “innovative city”. From 2017 to 2019, Nanjing’s total GDP rose from 1.17 trillion yuan to 1.4 trillion yuan, ranking first in the province and the eastern part of the province’s trillion-level GDP cities; The number of technology companies has increased from 1,844 to 4,680, surpassing Wuhan and Chengdu, two large central and western science and technology cities, and ranking third in the provincial capital. It is expected to exceed 6,000 by the end of this year.

　　Chen Liu, deputy dean of the Yangtze River Institute of Industrial Economics, Nanjing University, analyzed to a reporter from China Business News that Nanjing began to promote the construction of an "innovative city" in 2017. The main goal is to transform rich scientific and educational resources into industrial innovation advantages. Important measures include in-depth implementation. The "two implementations and one integration" project refers to the implementation of scientific and technological achievements projects, the implementation of new research and development institutions, and the development of campus integration.

The orientation of this strategy is to vigorously incubate and support technology companies, and focus on this point in the assessment objectives.

　　Although it was surpassed by Nanjing, the number of high-tech enterprises in Wuhan and Chengdu is still in the leading position in the central and western regions, and both currently exceed 4000, and the high-tech zones of the two cities have gathered a group of listed companies.

For example, Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone has gathered dozens of listed companies such as Fiberhome Communications and Huagong Technology, and it is one of the most densely listed companies in my country.

　　In addition to Wuhan and Chengdu, several powerful provincial capitals in the central and western regions also performed very well.

Especially in Xi'an, one of the five major cities of higher education, the number of state-owned high-tech enterprises reached 3,673 last year.

　　In contrast, Jinan, the capital of Shandong, the third largest economic province, and Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan, the largest economic province in the central and western regions, although there are more than 2,000, there are still obvious shortcomings compared with cities of the same type.

　　Professor Geng Mingzhai, the honorary dean of the School of Economics of Henan University, analyzed by China Business News that Zhengzhou lacks a high-level platform for gathering innovative talents, and there is no good university, large academy, and so the total and level of high-quality innovative talents are not enough.

Without the development and support of in-situ industrialization of innovative achievements, the development of high-tech industries in Henan has a major shortcoming.

　　The Zhengzhou City Education Bureau recently responded to the proposal of the CPPCC member that Zhengzhou, as a national central city, carries the important mission of leading the integrated development of the Central Plains urban agglomeration, supporting the rise of Central China and serving the overall development of the country, but the development of higher education is not optimistic.

　　"As of the end of 2019, there were 67 resident colleges and universities in Zhengzhou, but only 26 undergraduates (16 publicly run). There is only Zhengzhou University with a'double first-class' construction university, and the remaining 40 colleges are all higher vocational colleges. 2019 In 2012, Zhengzhou City’s enrollment plan for postgraduate students was 11,000, and the enrollment plan for doctoral students was only 982, which is much lower than that of Wuhan, Nanjing, Xi’an and other surrounding provincial capitals and other central cities of the country. The service capacity, support capacity and contribution of the company are obviously insufficient." Zhengzhou Education Bureau pointed out.

　　Proportion of provincial capital: highest in Xi'an and lowest in Nanjing

　　From the perspective of the proportion of the number of high-tech enterprises in each provincial capital city to the province in which it is located, 10 of the provincial capital cities in the statistics have this ratio exceeding 50%. Except for Haikou, the remaining cities are from the central, western and northeastern regions. The highest ratio in Xi'an is 84%.

In addition, more than 70% in Changchun, Chengdu, and Haikou, more than 60% in Kunming, Harbin, Taiyuan, and Guiyang, and more than 50% in Wuhan and Lanzhou.

　　As one of my country's top five higher education centers, Xi'an has a number of prestigious universities, such as Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xidian University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, etc., with strong scientific and educational capabilities.

Xi'an’s high-tech industry and R&D investment account for a particularly high proportion of Shaanxi as a whole.

　　According to statistics from the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Statistics, in 2019, the top five R&D expenditures in the province are Xi'an, Baoji, Hanzhong, Yan'an and Weinan, which are 48.176 billion yuan, 2.528 billion yuan, 1.641 billion yuan, 1.569 billion yuan and 1.297 billion yuan, respectively. Yuan, accounting for 82.4%, 4.3%, 2.8%, 2.7% and 2.2% of the province respectively.

　　In addition, there are five cities where this ratio is less than 30%, namely Nanchang, Guangzhou, Shijiazhuang, Jinan and Nanjing.

Except for Nanchang, the rest are from the eastern coastal areas.

　　Associate Professor Ding Changfa of the Department of Economics of Xiamen University analyzed by CBN reporters that compared with coastal areas, capital cities in the central and western regions have a higher primacy degree. This primacy degree is not only reflected in GDP, but also in scientific, educational and cultural resources. For example, universities in Shaanxi Province are mainly located in Xi'an, and universities in Sichuan are mainly located in Chengdu.

But the eastern coastal areas are obviously different. For example, the best university in Fujian is in Xiamen, and the number of high-tech enterprises in Xiamen has surpassed Fuzhou; Nanjing in Jiangsu is strong in higher education, but Suzhou has a lot of scientific and educational resources.

　　That is to say, in the central and western regions, the provincial capital cities are the single-level core cities of the province where they are located, and they concentrate the best resources in the province, such as education, medical care, industry, and capital, while in the developed eastern coastal areas, there are often double centers. Even in many centers, the economic development level of some non-provincial capital cities even exceeds that of provincial capital cities.

　　At the same time, in the two major urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, the spillover effects of high-tech and technological innovation resources in leading cities on the surrounding areas are very obvious.

For example, driven by Shanghai, Suzhou's high-tech industries are developing rapidly, and the number of high-tech enterprises is significantly ahead of Nanjing, the provincial capital.

　　Author: Lin Xiaozhao