China News Service, Beijing, August 13 (Reporter Sun Zifa) Wang Zhigang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, proposed that national high-tech zones and high-tech enterprises should become the stabilizer of macroeconomic growth and the main force to ensure employment and promote entrepreneurship.

  In order to promote high-tech zones and high-tech enterprises to play a greater role in stabilizing growth, ensuring employment, and promoting high-quality development, the Ministry of Science and Technology held a national high-tech zone and high-tech enterprise high-quality development promotion meeting in Beijing on August 12. Wang Zhigang was present at the meeting. The above requirements are clearly stated in the speech.

  Wang Zhigang pointed out that after more than 30 years of development, national high-tech zones and high-tech enterprises have played an important role in transforming development methods, enhancing independent innovation capabilities, optimizing industrial structures, and enhancing international competitiveness, and successfully explored effective ways to closely integrate technology and economy. , realize the transformation from promoting the industrialization of science and technology to paying more attention to the source of innovation, and from integrating into the main economic battlefield to more actively supporting national development and security.

Especially since the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the national high-tech zone has effectively coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, showing strong anti-risk ability and growth momentum against the trend.

At the same time, in the face of high-quality development, high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and stable growth and employment, national high-tech zones and high-tech enterprises need to further improve the quality and level of development.

  Wang Zhigang said that the national high-tech zone and high-tech enterprises should actively respond to the national strategic needs, actively respond to the severe situation of the current economic downward pressure, and become the stabilizer of macroeconomic growth and the main force of ensuring employment and promoting entrepreneurship.

  The first is to focus on enhancing comprehensive strength and give full play to the important supporting role of stabilizing the economic fundamentals.

It is necessary to do a good job in the investment and construction of major projects, expand and strengthen leading industries, ensure the safety of the supply chain and industrial chain, and make every effort to prevent and control the epidemic.

  The second is to focus on improving the ability of innovation sources, and strengthen the leading and demonstration role of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.

It is necessary to gather national strategic scientific and technological strength, improve originality, and create a talent highland.

We must have the will to innovate, rely on technological innovation to strengthen the foundation, and continue to increase investment in research and development in the long run.

  The third is to focus on optimizing the innovation ecosystem and promoting high-level innovation and entrepreneurship.

  The fourth is to build an efficient and collaborative innovation network, strengthen east-west cooperation and north-south interaction, and play a radiating and driving role in regional high-quality development.

  The fifth is to focus on cultivating and growing high-tech enterprises, improve the cultivation system, increase resource support, and promote the implementation of policies that benefit enterprises.

  Sixth, focus on the development and implementation of scientific research assistant positions, and play an important role in ensuring employment.

  Shao Xinyu, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, presided over the meeting and emphasized that the national high-tech zones and high-tech enterprises should further unify their thinking, closely follow the country's major needs, and enhance their sense of mission to serve the overall situation.

It is necessary to further strengthen responsibilities, clarify work priorities, draw up a task list, strengthen organizational mobilization and resource planning, and form a joint force for stable growth.

It is necessary to speed up the work progress, form more physical workload, and ensure the completion of the expected goals by the end of the year.

It is necessary to strengthen the monitoring and statistical analysis of the economic operation of the high-tech zone.

  At the promotion meeting, the relevant leaders of national high-tech zones such as Beijing Zhongguancun, Shenzhen, Harbin, Shanghai Zhangjiang, Changsha, Lanzhou and the heads of many high-tech enterprises exchanged speeches, and relevant leaders of 173 national high-tech zone management committees, and Representatives of more than 1,000 high-tech enterprises participated in the conference through video connection.

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