In the past five years, the province’s scientific and technological system has faithfully implemented the “Eighth Five-Year Plan”, strived to create an “important window” and comprehensively implemented the innovation-driven development strategy, which has achieved some important things that should be done and can be done. The province’s scientific and technological innovation has entered a critical stage from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, from point breakthrough to system capacity improvement. In 2020, the province’s R&D investment intensity will reach 2..8%, the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress reached 65%, and the added value of high-tech industries accounted for 59..6%, achieving the strategic goal of “becoming an innovative province by 2020 and basically building a strong province of science and technology”.
In the past five years, we have thoroughly implemented the important deployment of the CPC Central Committee on scientific and technological innovation, firmly established the work orientation of strengthening the province with innovation, and implemented the strategy of “innovation first”. In 2020, the Seventh Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee made the “Decision on Building a High-quality and Powerful Talent Team to Build a High-level and Innovative Province”, emphasizing the strong province of talents and innovation as the distinctive signs of the “first strategy” and “important window”; The Eighth Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee took the creation of “internet plus”, “Life and Health” and “New Materials” as the “first grasp” of the “Thirteen Strategies”, which promoted the province to form a strong atmosphere and strong synergy for innovation and development. Our province’s regional innovation capability ranks fifth in China and third in provinces and regions for 13 consecutive years, and the technological innovation capability of enterprises ranks third in China for 5 consecutive years. The R&D expenditure of the whole society has increased from 1011 in 2015..200 million yuan will increase to 184 billion yuan in 2020 (ranking fourth in the country in 2019), accounting for 2..36% to 2.8%。 In 2016, one scientific and technological work was encouraged by the supervision of the State Council, and there were two in 2018 and 2019. Six national innovative cities (Hangzhou, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing and Jinhua) and the first batch of five national innovative counties (cities) (Changxing, Xinchang, Cixi, Yueqing and Anji) were approved, ranking second and first in the country in total.
In the past five years, in accordance with the requirements of the “Four Orientations”, we have made great efforts to enhance the innovation ability, and the supporting role of science and technology has been significantly enhanced. The contribution rate of scientific and technological progress has increased from 57% in 2015 to 65% in 2020, and the added value of high-tech industries has increased from 4909 in 2015..900 million yuan increased to 9960..500 million yuan. The construction of the innovation source of the Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the west of the city has achieved initial results, and the added value of industry, service industry and high-tech industry has broken through the 100 billion yuan mark. Two national self-created zones, Hangzhou and Wenzhou, Ningbo, and two national new-generation artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zones, Hangzhou and Deqing, were listed, ranking first in the country. Two national high-tech zones (8 in total) and three national agricultural science and technology parks (9 in total) were added. It was approved to build three national clinical medical research centers (infectious diseases, children’s health and diseases, and eye diseases) and a national-level major scientific and technological infrastructure-a high-gravity centrifugal simulation and experimental device to achieve a “zero” breakthrough. From 2016 to 2019, it won 109 national science and technology awards, including 41 leading ones. Major breakthroughs have been made in tackling key core technologies, resulting in a number of major landmark achievements such as “video perception and video compression coding technology”, “ectinib hydrochloride” new anti-lung cancer drug, EB (Baijing) big data computing platform, and “Darwin” second-generation neuromimetic brain chip.
In the past five years, we have always adhered to the “two-wheel drive” of scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation, continuously deepened the reform of the scientific and technological system, and formed a regional innovation system with Zhejiang characteristics. First, the technological innovation system with enterprises as the main body has been gradually improved. The number of high-tech enterprises has increased from 6,437 in 2015 to 22,158 in 2020, and the number of small and medium-sized science and technology enterprises has increased from 23,930 to 69,119, showing a pattern of “five percent”, that is, the scientific and technological investment, scientific and technological personnel, R&D institutions, scientific and technological projects undertaken and authorized patents of enterprises account for 80% to 90% of the province. Second, the open cooperation mode of science and technology with the focus on introducing famous universities in colleges and universities to build innovative carriers has been continuously improved. Newly introduced and cultivated high-end scientific research institutions such as China-France Aviation University, Hangzhou Research Institute of Beihang University, Institute of Oncology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang Research Institute of Tianjin University, etc., and nearly 1,000 innovative carriers have been introduced and built in provinces, cities and counties. The construction mechanism of the science and technology community in the Yangtze River Delta has been continuously improved, and remarkable progress has been made in comprehensive innovation and reform experiments, joint research on key core technologies, joint construction and sharing of scientific and technological resources, and joint innovation activities. Our province has established international scientific and technological cooperation relations with more than 50 countries and regions, signed formal cooperation agreements and set up joint research and development plans with eight important countries and regions such as Israel, and built 79 international scientific and technological cooperation bases (40 at the national level) and 27 overseas innovation incubators. Third, the transformation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements characterized by “Zhejiang Pat” is becoming more and more mature. Successfully approved the only provincial-level national demonstration zone for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, 55 physical technology markets and 135 online technology markets were jointly established by provinces, cities and counties, and 19 transactions were made in the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” auction..200 million yuan, the total amount of technology transactions increased from 24.2 billion yuan in 2015 to 1,475 yuan in 2020..800 million yuan. Fourth, the innovative service model led by science and technology commissioners and industrial innovation service complexes has achieved remarkable results. A total of 1 science and technology commissioners were dispatched..850,000 person-times, the country took the lead in realizing “there are science and technology commissioners in every township”. At the summary meeting of the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the national science and technology commissioners system held in 2019, our province made a typical speech as the only provincial government representative. A total of 138 provincial-level complexes were built, basically realizing the “two full coverage” of traditional block economy and modern industrial clusters, and the experience was popularized throughout the country.
In the past five years, we have concentrated on “grasping strategy, grasping planning, grasping policies and grasping services”, promoting the transformation of functions from R&D management to innovative services, and continuously optimizing the “ten linkages” innovation ecology. First, laws and regulations are becoming more and more perfect. The Regulations on Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements in Zhejiang Province and the methods of scientific and technological awards were revised, and a series of documents were issued, such as “50 new policies on science and technology” and “internet plus”, the construction of a highland for science and technology innovation in life and health, basic research, the reform of “three evaluations”, scientific research integrity, and the promotion of R&D investment in the whole society. Second, the scientific research environment is more relaxed. We will deepen the reform of “running at most once” in the field of science and technology, and continuously improve the service system of “brain of science and technology”. Five indicators, such as the network running rate and the running rate of 56 items at the department level, lead the country. Accelerate the reform of decentralization and empowerment, reduce the project application materials by 1/3, reduce the review time by 1/3, and reduce the integration of provincial science and technology plans by 30%; The project leader realizes “three complete autonomy” in technical route selection, team formation and direct funding arrangement. The third is to accelerate the gathering of innovative talents. The number of academicians of the two academies has increased from 46 in 2015 to 55 (7 in 2019). A total of 250,000 foreign talents were introduced, and the number of R&D personnel per 10,000 employees increased from 97.5% in 2015..68 person-years will be raised to 125 person-years in 2019. In 2019, all 11 districts and cities achieved net inflow of talents, and the net inflow rate of middle and high-end talents in Hangzhou and Ningbo ranked first and second in the country.
Fourth, the atmosphere of innovation and entrepreneurship is strong. There are more than 1,000 incubators and creative spaces for all kinds of science and technology enterprises, including 83 national incubators and 163 creative spaces, ranking fourth in the country. Innovation leads the expansion of science and technology funds such as funds, and the “new fourth army” such as universities, Ali departments, returnees and Zhejiang merchants departments has flourished. It has hosted 7 consecutive China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the number of award-winning enterprises ranks first in the country. Since its implementation in 2015, the “Innovation Voucher” has issued a total of 4.9 billion yuan, ranking first in the country, and the overall utilization rate and sharing rate of large scientific instruments and equipment in the province have increased by 5%.
In the next step, the province’s science and technology system will target the new goal and new orientation of building an “important window” in Zhejiang, faithfully implement the “Eighth Five-Year Plan”, strive to build an “important window”, thoroughly implement the strategy of strengthening the province with talents and innovation, adhere to the “four orientations”, grasp the “first strategic grasp” of the three science and technology highland, vigorously cultivate strategic scientific and technological strength, accelerate the realization of scientific and technological self-reliance, and strive to make scientific and technological innovation an “important”.
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)