Pudong New Area is a "window" for Shanghai and even China to the world, and also a "window" for the world to understand China. On the 6th, the "Yangtze River Delta Practice of Chinese-style Modernization" online theme interview activity in Shanghai focused on Pudong New Area, and successively interviewed and investigated Zhangjiang Robot Valley, Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, Jinqiao 5G Industrial Ecological Park, Lujiazui Software Park and other parks, scientific and technological innovation carriers and enterprises. Among them, the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, headquartered in Shanghai Zhangjiang Science City, is an excellent "window" for the world to observe the transformation of science and technology in the Yangtze River Delta.
The Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center is a comprehensive national technology innovation platform approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, led by the Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Technology Innovation Research Institute, and jointly built by relevant institutions in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, which was officially inaugurated in June 2021, and is an important strategic scientific and technological force for implementing the national innovation-driven development strategy and the national strategy of integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.
Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center is positioned to transform from science to technology, organically combines the national strategic deployment with the innovation needs of the Yangtze River Delta region, promotes the transfer and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements in industry, education and research collaboration, adheres to the concept of "R&D as an industry, technology as a commodity", provides source technology supply and transformation services for the industrial development of the Yangtze River Delta region, and serves the innovation and transformation and development of regional enterprises. Among them, Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Technology Innovation Research Institute was established in April 2021, responsible for the construction and operation of the headquarters of the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, and fully promoted various construction tasks according to the ideas of market-oriented, platform-based functions, charter-based management, enterprise-based operation and integrated development.
The Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center is committed to building a "test field" for the reform of science and technology systems and mechanisms in the Yangtze River Delta region. As of May this year, the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center has built 5 professional research institutes in Shanghai and Jiangsu, with nearly 92,15000 R&D personnel, involving a new generation of information technology, new materials, equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, energy and environmental protection and other fields, transferring and transforming nearly 6000,20000 technological achievements, and serving more than 310,440 enterprises; Established the "Enterprise Joint Innovation Center" with 14 leading enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta region, solving more than 78 enterprise technology needs, with a contract amount of about 16.77 billion yuan; Established strategic cooperation with 5579 overseas universities and innovative organizations to meet the technology needs of domestic enterprises, and established "global innovation partners" with 68 foreign-funded enterprises in China to build an open innovation ecosystem; It has cooperated with <> domestic universities and institutes to cultivate basic industrial talents, build a talent training community for the integration of industry and education, and cultivate a total of <>,<> masters and doctors in engineering; Benchmarking national science and technology self-reliance, focusing on forward-looking, leading, and original technologies that are expected to fill the domestic gap, <> major industrialization technology innovation projects have been cultivated and incubated through the "combination of allocation and investment".
On this experimental field, many innovative strategies have been proposed and implemented, such as "allocation and investment" to support leading and disruptive technology projects. The Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center focuses on a type of technology project with high risk in the early stage of the frontier, market judgment failure, but may have a subversive impact on the future industry and industry, and fill the gap, for this purpose, select a project manager team, incubate and establish a project company with absolute control of the core team, and provide scientific research funding support in the early stage of the project company. The project completes the set R&D goals, if it does not obtain market financing, the final acceptance will be tolerated and failure; When the project completes the established R&D tasks and starts financing, the funds supported by the National Innovation Center in the early stage will be converted into equity of the company at the market investment price. Through the professional research and judgment of the National Innovation Center, the use of financial funds to provide early investment support, accelerate the maturity of technology, promote more cutting-edge, disruptive and original technologies to cross the "valley of death", and guide market capital to participate in investment in strategic emerging technologies.
Thanks to this experimental field, many scientific and technological innovations have come to fruition. Jiangsu Industry and Research Institute of Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center aims at the domestic independent and controllable of the third-generation semiconductor epitaxial equipment, introduces the core team of "silicon carbide epitaxial equipment" to organize the implementation of independent research and development, incubates and establishes a major project company "Core Third-generation Semiconductor Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd." by combining allocation and investment, and promotes the integration of Shanghai's advantageous R&D resources and Jiangsu industrial supporting facilities, and rapidly carries out technological research and industrialization. After more than a year of hard work, the first epitaxial equipment prototype was successfully completed, which has the advantages of high cost performance and high production capacity compared with similar foreign products. At the end of 2022, the company received a B+ round of financing with a valuation of nearly 20 billion yuan, and the 2550.1 million yuan initially supported by Jiangsu Industry and Research Institute of the National Innovation Center has now increased to 17 million yuan.
Tan Ruijun, deputy director of the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center and secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Technology Innovation Research Institute, said that in the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai is the main force in the construction of national strategic scientific and technological forces, and has always played a "dragon" role, playing a unique role of leading, radiating and driving force. Therefore, it is necessary to further give full play to the advantages of Shanghai Global Science and Technology Innovation Center, strengthen the ability of global innovation resource allocation, not only represent Shanghai, but also represent the entire Yangtze River Delta, increase efforts to introduce and gather global high-quality innovation resources, and promote a higher level of opening up. In addition, local enterprises in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui should be encouraged to take the initiative to connect with scientific and technological innovation resources such as universities, research institutes, national laboratories and major scientific and technological infrastructure in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Hefei, and strengthen collaborative innovation between industry, education and research. The government strengthens the guidance of policies and mechanisms, makes good use of mechanisms such as "unveiling the leader" and "horse racing", allows fiscal funds to pay for technology consumption, who comes up with the problem, who pays, who takes the question, who uses the money, breaks the geographical limitations of scientific research financial funds to support scientific and technological innovation, continuously enriches the construction of scientific and technological innovation community, and allows resources to flow smoothly in the Yangtze River Delta region.
The Shanghai station of the "Yangtze River Delta Practice of Chinese-style Modernization" online theme interview was held from May 5 to 5, and will also go deep into Qingpu, Minhang, Songjiang and other districts to explore and record the story of Chinese-style modernization in the Yangtze River Delta. (Shangguan News Author: Ren Junmang)