On December 1, 2015, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) – Zhejiang “Two Modernizations” Integration Joint Fund Project Review Meeting and the Management Committee opened in Hangzhou. At the same time, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Liaoning and Shanxi Joint Fund Project Review Meetings were also held. Nearly 150 experts and scholars from NSFC, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology and all over the country participated in the review meeting.
Zhou Guohui, Director of the Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province, said at the opening ceremony that in recent years, Zhejiang Province has fully implemented the innovation driven development strategy based on the development requirements of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation”. The “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” drive has effectively offset the downward pressure on the economy. The temperature, measures and effects of scientific and technological innovation are getting higher and higher. At the same time, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government attach great importance to basic research, and have also received the concern and strong support of the National Foundation Committee. During the “Twelfth Five Year Plan” period, Zhejiang received 6814 NSFC projects with a total funding of 3.969 billion yuan, 1.6 times and 3 times that of the “Eleventh Five Year Plan” respectively. Since 2012, Zhejiang has received more than 1 billion yuan of NSFC funding for three consecutive years, ranking sixth in China.
He said that the overall level of basic research in Zhejiang has been at the forefront of the country, and a large number of major scientific and technological achievements with independent intellectual property rights have been made in shield equipment, industrial automatic control, organ transplantation, genetic engineering, the Internet of Things and other fields. In March this year, the provincial government and the National Foundation Committee signed a joint fund agreement on the integration of industrialization and industrialization. The convening of this meeting marks that the work of the joint fund has entered the track of healthy development, and has far-reaching significance for improving Zhejiang’s original innovation ability, independent innovation ability and international competitiveness. In the next step, under the support and guidance of the NSFC, Zhejiang will seriously learn from the work experience of its sister provinces and cities, continue to increase investment in basic research, actively promote the implementation of the joint fund, and strive to make the joint fund a “source power” and “accelerator” for gathering and cultivating original innovative talents, deepening innovation driven development, and accelerating the construction of an innovative province and a strong province in science and technology.
At the meeting, the staff of the National Natural Science Foundation of China also introduced the first review meeting. It was reported that the joint fund in 2015 focused on the major scientific issues and key technical issues common to the future development of economy, society and science and technology in the field of deep integration of industrialization and informatization in Zhejiang’s “two modernizations” deep integration national demonstration zone and surrounding regions. After the demonstration of relevant experts, the NSFC and provincial science and technology departments jointly agreed on the main funding direction of the fund, covering high-end industrial automation, industrial information physical integration 17 research directions in 5 fields of intelligent manufacturing, intelligent city and e-commerce, with a total funding of 50 million yuan. A total of 107 formal applications were received, and 104 of them were reviewed at this meeting after the expert communication review.
It is understood that the NSFC Zhejiang “two modernizations” integration joint fund is currently the only joint fund established by the NSFC and the local government to focus on the field of industrialization and informatization “two modernizations” deep integration, and is also the first joint fund of the NSFC in East China to implement the national “two modernizations” deep integration strategy The combination of basic research and industrial demand is of great significance.
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(Source: Zhang Ji, Zhejiang Online reporter)