China News Service, Guangzhou, February 19 (Reporter Wang Jian) Driverless cars shuttle on the road, the subway speeds at 160 kilometers per hour in the tunnel, and the fully automated unmanned factory operates at high speed... "Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao University" Since the release and implementation of the "Outline Development Plan for the Bay Area" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") in 2019, in the past five years, the prototype of the international science and technology innovation center proposed in the "Plan" has gradually taken shape, and scientific and technological forces have thrived in the Greater Bay Area.
Data map: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) located in Nansha, Guangzhou. Photo courtesy of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Looking back on the past five years, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has taken "manufacturing base + innovation gene" as its core competitiveness and relied on the unique advantages of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao collaborative innovation to emerge in the wave of global technology competition.
In the past five years, the genes of joint scientific research between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have become stronger and stronger, the number of joint laboratories has continued to grow, and joint innovation results have continued to emerge. According to the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the number of joint laboratory construction projects in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will reach 18 in 2023, including the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Discrete Manufacturing Intelligent Joint Laboratory, the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Environmental Pollution Process and Control Joint Laboratory, etc.
In the five-year answer sheet, the "result transformation efficiency" based on the manufacturing industry is also exciting. Compared with the past, the innovation ecology of the Greater Bay Area has become more pleasant and the industrial ecology has become more diverse.
At present, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has more than 60,000 national-level high-tech enterprises, many of the world’s top 50 universities, 9 national major scientific and technological infrastructures and 50 national key laboratories. “Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou Science and Technology Cluster" ranked second in the Global Innovation Index for four consecutive years. The "Boao Forum for Asia Innovation Report 2023" analyzed and compared several other major bay areas in the world from the four dimensions of invention patents, PCT patents, patent families, and patent citation times, and concluded that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is in comprehensive patent capabilities. on top of the list.
The Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province revealed that Guangdong is now organizing a joint funding plan for scientific and technological innovation with the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission and the Macau Science and Technology Development Fund to support innovation entities in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to jointly conquer key core technologies and carry out cooperation in technology research and development and industrialization of results. , create a highland for intellectual property cooperation on scientific and technological achievements, and actively build a Guangdong-Hong Kong technology research and development and achievement transformation consortium.
Data map: Flying cars designed by companies in the Greater Bay Area. Photo by Wang Jian
Over the past five years, Guangdong has also focused on building Nansha in Guangzhou, Qianhai in Shenzhen, and Hengqin in Zhuhai, setting examples in terms of technological innovation and industrial agglomeration to help the Greater Bay Area build an international technological innovation center.
"Nansha should continue to focus on building original innovation capabilities, cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and industry-university-research forwarding." Xiao Guowei, chairman of Guangdong Jinko Electronics Co., Ltd., said that the company has developed rapidly in Nansha in recent years and is very important to Nansha's future science and technology development. He has confidence in creating development.
Xiao Guowei believes that in the future, as the construction of Nansha Science City accelerates, the Chinese Academy of Sciences system, large scientific facilities, high-end scientific research platforms, etc. will have an increasingly obvious role in improving Nansha’s original innovation capabilities, which will help Nansha become an international science and technology innovation center. Carrying the "leading" and "central hub" of the earth.
Like Xiao Guowei, he is deeply rooted in the fertile soil of science and technology innovation in the Greater Bay Area, and many scientific researchers are full of confidence in the future development of science and technology innovation in the Greater Bay Area.
Ni Mingxuan, President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), said that for the low-altitude economy that is attracting much attention nowadays, Guangzhou, an important pole in the Greater Bay Area, is making forward-looking and long-term layout, starting to build an industry ecology and industrial layout, and creating a "model of low-altitude economy" City" and build low-altitude economic industries into Guangzhou's new economic growth pole in the future. "The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) has the confidence and determination to leverage its unique advantages to help strategic emerging industries such as the low-altitude economy become an important engine for high-quality development in the Greater Bay Area," he said. (over)