On June 5th, the eighth “Innovation
and Entrepreneurship in Hai'an” theme activities opened. On that day, 325 experts
and professors from 125 colleges and universities and 350 entrepreneurs were
invited to participate in the event, at which 40 projects were signed up. During
the two-day event, in addition to the theme activities, it also successively
held the Unveiling ceremony of the Technology subbranch of Haian Rural
Commercial Bank, the press conference of scientific and technological
achievements, the special event of the industry-university-research docking in
various districts and towns, and the press conference of docking achievements
in districts and towns.
In recent years, Haian County's real
economy has grown continuously stronger and bigger through scientific and
technological innovation. Technological elements are gathering everywhere in
the rapid upgrading and transformation of the real economy. The city has
adopted strong measures to ensure key protection in the science and technology
system,from top-level design, the introduction of talents, to industry support,
ranking 15th in the selection of the “Top 100 innovative counties and cities in
China”.
Haian city has continued its vigorous
momentum in scientific and technological innovation, striving to seize the day
and make great strides. Seven "Innovation and Entrepreneurship in
Hai'an" theme activities have been held since 2014, during which nearly
2,000 industry-university-research cooperation projects have been accumulatively
implemented, and more than 1.2 billion yuan has been paid in cooperation funds.
It has won four national science and Technology Progress Awards and three
national enterprise technology centers, provincial enterprise key laboratories
and provincial academician workstations have been established. The number of
high-tech enterprises has quadrupled to 374, ranking first in the county (city)
north of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu.
Yu Lizhong, secretary of Haian municipal
Party committee, has far-reaching thinking for Haian to seize the strategic
opportunity of integrated development in the Yangtze River Delta, thoroughly
implement the new development concept, and strive to promote high-quality
development. He said that Haian has entered a new stage of innovation enabling
high-quality development. Standing at a higher starting point in the new
journey of modernization, Haian will deploy an innovation chain around the
industrial chain, relying on ten characteristic industrial clusters, and focus
on a new generation of information technology. In the 5G communication and
application, Internet of things, big data, digital economy, electronic information,
intelligent manufacturing and other key fields, efforts should be made to
attract national innovation resources, vigorously promote the transformation of
scientific and technological achievements, and actively build a modernized
county economic system supported by scientific and technological innovation. Facing
the three industries and all walks of life, in the construction of innovative
counties (cities), we should promote the innovation of thinking, organization,
technology, market, product, format, mode, management and original, managing
innovation to be a common practice in Haian.
At present, Hai'an is striving to promote
the transformation of economic development from "factor driven" to
"innovation driven", to achieve the fullfillment of development
quality and development benefits, and working at full to build a
"Technology Innovation City" with the highest cost-effectiveness, the
strongest innovation atmosphere, the best business environment and the
strongest comprehensive competitiveness in the north wing of the Yangtze River
Delta.