Technological innovation has become a "fixed star" for stabilizing the economy

　　Since the beginning of this year, the situation at home and abroad has become more complex and severe, and the downward pressure on the domestic economy has increased.

my country has given full play to the leading role of scientific and technological innovation, promoted important progress in scientific research on the new crown pneumonia epidemic, in-depth implementation of major scientific and technological tasks, and continuous emergence of important scientific and technological achievements, providing strong and effective scientific and technological support for solidly stabilizing the economic market.

　　"Double entrepreneurship" drives employment to double

　　Enterprises are the main body of innovation. Encouraging and supporting enterprise innovation is the strategy to stabilize the economy and the way to strengthen the foundation.

　　Wu Jiaxi, deputy director of the Achievement Transformation and Regional Innovation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, introduced that the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance jointly launched ten actions to support the improvement of enterprises' technological innovation capabilities. Establish a normalized participation in the national science and technology innovation decision-making mechanism for enterprises, guide and support all types of enterprises to regard scientific and technological innovation as their core competitiveness, and provide strong support for promoting stable economic growth and high-quality development.

　　Refinancing for technological innovation, point-based loans for corporate innovation... The precise drip irrigation of financial living water promotes the deep integration of technology, industry and finance.

As of the end of July, the balance of loans to small and medium-sized technology enterprises was 1,488 billion yuan, an increase of 209.2 billion yuan from the beginning of the year; the balance of loans to high-tech enterprises was 1,0856.3 billion yuan, an increase of 1,387.6 billion yuan from the beginning of the year.

The National Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Fund invested 2.029 billion yuan, driving social capital investment of 19.483 billion yuan; in 2022, there will be 64 new companies listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, reaching a total of 442, and the initial raised funds will exceed 643.8 billion yuan, with a total market value of nearly 5.7 trillion yuan .

　　Employment is the biggest livelihood.

The total number of college graduates in 2022 is 10.76 million, exceeding 10 million for the first time.

At the same time, affected by various factors such as the epidemic and the increasing downward pressure on the economy, the employment situation is grim.

　　The Ministry of Science and Technology, together with six departments, encourages various innovative entities to develop and implement scientific research assistant positions, and attract college graduates to participate in scientific research-related work.

Experts said that the position of scientific research assistant is of great significance and can attract more potential scientific and technological talents to engage in scientific research.

Under the current economic situation, scientific research assistants have become the reserve army of scientific research talents, providing a talent pool for my country's scientific and technological innovation and development.

As of August 31, a total of 179,000 scientific research assistant positions have been employed, of which more than 150,000 college graduates in 2022.

　　Various technology-based enterprises have also contributed to promoting employment and stabilizing the economy.

"According to statistics, there are 330,000 high-tech enterprises in the country within the validity period, accounting for 0.7% of the total number of enterprises in the country, contributing more than 70% of the national enterprise R&D investment in the year, and absorbing 11.2% of the national graduates of the year." Torch Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology Director Jia Jingdun said.

　　Cultivate new growth points

　　Smart farms, smart ports, smart mines, smart factories... Not long ago, the news that the Ministry of Science and Technology started to support the construction of a new generation of artificial intelligence demonstration application scenarios has attracted widespread attention.

　　"Stabilizing the economy is not about static stability, but about achieving progress while maintaining stability, and stabilizing with progress. Technological innovation must play a key role, and the economy must be stabilized at the level of achieving high-quality development and building a new development pattern." Strategic Planning of the Ministry of Science and Technology Xing Huaibin, deputy director of the department, said that the creation of a number of major technological innovation application scenarios is based on this consideration.

"We choose major application scenarios that have a certain industrialization foundation and represent the future development direction, and coordinate the allocation of scientific and technological innovation resources. We hope that each major scenario can promote the improvement of innovation capabilities of the entire industry chain. After the document was released, local governments are very active, and enterprises are also very enthusiastic. actively."

　　The construction of major application scenarios of scientific and technological innovation, including 10 artificial intelligence demonstration application scenarios such as smart farms, also includes major application scenarios such as cultivation of black soil, hydrogen into ten thousand homes, green buildings and healthy communities.

Xing Huaibin introduced that this work will be promoted one by one, and released in batches. Through key support and continuous construction, the cultivation and formation of new economic growth points will be accelerated.

　　"Science and technology support economic development, and we must focus on solving the key technological bottlenecks that restrict industrial development. To this end, we must increase investment in technological innovation, promote the deep integration of technology, industry, and finance, implement a new nationwide system, and gather superior technological innovation resources to achieve key breakthroughs. " said Chen Baoming, deputy director of the Science and Technology Talent Exchange and Development Service Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

　　Actively explore major tasks, implement systems such as "revealing the leaderboard" and "horse racing", implement the chief scientist responsibility system for cutting-edge exploration projects, and set up subversive technology projects... The Ministry of Science and Technology, various departments and localities continue to improve "jointly condense scientific and technological needs, jointly design and develop Tasks, jointly organize project implementation” working mechanism, support scientists to explore boldly, and are accelerating the formation of a number of strategic, critical, and important scientific and technological achievements that have a major traction and driving effect on economic development.

　　The transformation and application of the achievements of major scientific and technological projects has also been accelerated in an all-round way.

The construction of 12 national demonstration zones for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements has been steadily advanced. Six actions, including the roadshow of national scientific and technological plan achievements and the empowerment and entrepreneurship of university achievements, have been successfully implemented.

As of July 31, a total of 346,900 technology contracts were registered across the country, and the transaction value of technology contracts was 2.04 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 26.06% and 33.84% respectively.

　　Innovation highlands become economic highlands

　　Technology empowers and stabilizes the broader economic market, turning innovation highlands into economic highlands.

　　With the approval of the State Council for the construction of Changchun and Hadaqi National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zones, four provincial-level high-tech zones in Xinyang, Karamay, Zunyi and Chuzhou have been upgraded to national high-tech zones. The total number of districts reached 173.

　　The data shows that in the first seven months, the 173 national high-tech zones achieved a total industrial production value of 17.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.1% year-on-year; operating income was 27.4 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%; total exports were 2.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year. ; Fixed asset investment (excluding farmers) was 3.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%.

　　my country's economic development is facing multiple challenges, and technological innovation should play a more important role.

The Ministry of Science and Technology attaches great importance to scientific and technological support and stable growth. On the one hand, it will focus on the most important innovation carrier of the National High-tech Zone, and continuously optimize the environment for innovation and entrepreneurship; on the other hand, it will focus on enterprises, the most active innovation subject, and continue to improve corporate innovation. ability.

The national high-tech zone and self-created zone have accelerated the progress of investment and construction of major projects, strengthened the overall coordination of various innovation resources, promoted the solid implementation of science and technology policies, and optimized innovation and entrepreneurship services. And the future industry continues to grow, and the total economic volume continues to maintain rapid growth, showing strong development resilience and anti-risk capabilities, making important contributions to stabilizing growth and ensuring market players and employment.

The next step is to further implement the innovation-driven development strategy, make greater progress in achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, open up new fields and new tracks for economic development, stabilize the economy with science and technology, and promote development with innovation.

　　She Huimin