In recent years, Shaoxing has deeply implemented the innovation driven development strategy and accelerated the construction of a national innovative city. In 2021, it was successfully established as a national innovative city, with the technology innovation capability index rising from fifth to fourth in the province, ranking second in the province. The technology innovation work was supervised and encouraged by the provincial government. One is to strengthen the cultivation of innovative entities. Actively implementing the “Double Increase” plan for technology-based enterprises, promoting the establishment of a technology innovation system with enterprises as the main body, market orientation, and close integration of industry, academia, and research. Currently, there are 2205 national high-tech enterprises and 8078 provincial-level technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises within the validity period of the city. In 2021, 12 enterprises were selected as one of the top 100 innovative enterprises in the province, ranking third in terms of quantity. We will vigorously promote the “full coverage” plan for research and development institutions and activities of enterprises above designated size, and have built a total of 1 national engineering technology research center, 5 provincial-level key laboratories, 151 provincial-level enterprise research institutes, and 568 provincial-level high-tech enterprise research and development centers. The second is to accelerate the construction of innovation platforms. Accelerate the construction of the Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, actively connect with Hangzhou West, Ningbo Yongjiang, and G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, formulate the “Shaoxing Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Plan” and the “Shaoxing Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Three Year Construction Plan”, and focus on creating a new growth pole for innovative development. Accelerate the reform and upgrading of high-tech parks. In 2021, all six high-tech zones in the city will enter the top 50% of the province’s comprehensive ranking for the first time, with Shangyu High tech Zone ranking fourth and receiving outstanding contributions from the province; Two high-tech zones were selected as the list of leaders in per mu efficiency, ranking second in the province. We improved the innovation and entrepreneurship service system, and cultivated 37 science and technology Business incubator at or above the municipal level, including 4 at the national level and 9 at the provincial level; Cultivate 155 maker spaces, including 4 at the national level and 76 at the provincial level. The third is to focus on gathering innovative talents. Seizing the opportunities of the “window period”, “upgrading period”, “breakthrough period”, and “transformation period” of talent development, in 2021, the city introduced top talents from the “Kunpeng Action” plan to achieve a “zero breakthrough”, and selected 84 national level leading talents (including 34 young talents), ranking second in similar cities in the country; The construction of the collaborative innovation center for characteristic industry engineers was approved by the main leaders of the provincial party committee and selected as the best case of national talent work. The attractiveness index of urban talents ranks 24th in the country. The fourth is to focus on improving the innovation system. Benchmarking the standards of provincial laboratories and technology innovation centers, we actively promoted the construction of three major laboratories, namely Jianhu Modern Textile, Shaoxin Integrated Circuit and Cao’ejiang New Materials. The new industrial platform of integrated circuit “million mu, 100 billion yuan” was approved as the provincial integrated circuit industry innovation center, and modern textile was listed in the first batch of technology innovation centers in the province. The Administrative Measures for the Construction of New R&D Institutions in Shaoxing was issued, and 10 new R&D institutions above the municipal level were cultivated. Tianjin University Shaoxing Research Institute, Shanghai University Shaoxing Research Institute, Zhejiang University Shaoxing Microelectronics Research Center.Three units including Xin have been listed as provincial-level new research and development institutions. Support leading enterprises to collaborate with upstream and downstream industries, as well as industry, university, and research forces, to form 11 systematic and task-based innovation consortiums.
(Source: Shaoxing Science and Technology Bureau)