Local officials and enterprise
representatives in Hefei shared their views on Tuesday about
industrialization and commercialization of innovations, which has been
high on the development agenda of the capital city of Anhui province. Wu
Zhongcheng, president and general manager of CAS (Hefei) Institute of
Technology Innovation Co., Ltd., emphasized the importance of
accelerating the commercialization of scientific and technological
achievements, noting that it is still difficult for such achievements by
scientists and institutions to successfully enter the market. "It
is difficult for China, and also for the world. We have made several
explorations to quicken the process," Wu said. His company set up
relevant funds financed by venture capital for possible
commercialization of its achievements, and to meet funding demands for
enterprises to manufacture. He said
their work centers around deploying their innovation achievements
throughout the industry chain. "We focus on the three major areas of
future industry -- digital economy, life science, and new materials - to
build relevant R&D public service platforms. At the same time, by
introducing professional teams, we seek to build a system of 'platform
+teams +services,' and establish venture capital funds for
industrialization of science and technology." Macro
Silicon, located at the Hefei National High-tech Industry Development
Zone, is a model company for intellectual property protection and
management in Hefei and awarded for this by the local government in
2015. Currently, the company has more
than 400 registered intellectual property rights and 17 patents for
their semiconductor products, chips and integrated circuits. Chen
Shanshan, director of the planning and development center of Macro
Silicon, told China.org.cn that the company pays great attention to
self-developed technologies, and her company and the entire industry got
a lot of attention, investment and government support. "When
we started our business in 2009, from company registration to loan
support, the Hefei High-tech Zone gave us a lot of help," Chen recalled.
"We still remember that our first loan was the innovation loan of the
high-tech zone, which was 350,000 yuan. Although it's not a big amount,
the support and encouragement given to us is very large and inspiring." Afterwards,
the company's formal mass production and industrialization have enjoyed
the support of corresponding special policies introduced by the
high-tech zone. In the past decade, in order to support technological
innovation, Hefei has gradually improved the policy system and business
environment, and has provided high-tech enterprises with assistance such
as technology insurance, angel investment, and the introduction of
high-level foreign talents. Since
China's reform and opening up in the late 1970s, Hefei has been firmly
taking innovation as the primary driving force for development, and has
continued to improve scientific and technological innovation
capabilities. As the pace of technological innovations accelerates, a
large number of original creative ideas and major scientific and
technological achievements have come from Hefei, ranging from China's
first microcomputer, the world's first Video CD player, to the quantum
science satellite "Mozi," dark matter particle explorer satellite
"Wukong" and the quantum computer prototype "Jiuzhang". The
Hefei High-tech Zone, approved and established by the State Council, is
one of the first national zones of its type. Now, it has more than
200,000 talents working in different areas, more than 3,000 of whom are
foreign talents. Over 40,000 enterprises are located in the zone, among
them 1,500 are national level high-tech companies. There are more than
200 various funds and venture capital initiatives with a total scale of
220 billion yuan set up to help innovations and entrepreneurship. According
to Xu Zhaohui, director of the Science and Technology Bureau of Hefei
High-tech Zone, in the face of the complex international situation and
the COVID-19 pandemic, the high-tech zone has seized and created
opportunities out of crisis and difficulties. Compared with the same
period last year, the number of new enterprises located in the zone has
exceeded 10,000, and the number of new high-tech enterprises has
exceeded 300. "In the next three to
five years, the zone will strive to build a world-class business
environment, a source land of original innovations, and high-quality
industrial systems. We will work to achieve greater breakthroughs in
high-quality development, accelerate technological and financial
innovation, stimulate the vitality of innovation and entrepreneurial
talents, as well as enhance innovative management systems and
mechanisms. Yan Ping, deputy
secretary-general of the Hefei Municipal People's Government, added
that, this year, Hefei has established a key industry chain-leader
system, focusing on 12 key industries, which means that relevant
responsible officials of the Communist Party of China (CPC) municipal
committee and the municipal government serve as industry chain leaders
to take care of their needs respectively. In
this move, Hefei hopes to clarify the specific needs of the development
of each industrial chain and optimize industrial policies and measures. "The innovation sector is like the gene and cell of a city. It is distributed in various places of the city." Yan said.
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