On October 24th, the second working meeting of the 2016 Yangtze River Delta Regional Innovation System Construction Joint Conference was held in Lin ‘an, and the heads of relevant departments from the Science and Technology Department (Science and Technology Commission) of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces attended the meeting.
The meeting summarized the work of regional scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta in 2016, and discussed the key work in the next stage and the work plan for 2017. The meeting pointed out that in 2016, with the close cooperation of science and technology departments in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui and other provinces and cities, Zhejiang Province made progress in an orderly manner and basically implemented its main tasks. First, the regional cooperation mechanism has been further improved; Second, actively promote collaborative innovation in Industry-University-Research and strengthen regional linkage of scientific and technological achievements transfer; Third, strengthen joint research on common key technologies in the Yangtze River Delta region to provide technical support for solving major problems facing the region; The fourth is to further promote the sharing of regional scientific and technological public resources and actively carry out regional scientific and technological cooperation activities. The meeting introduced that under the construction of the regional innovation system in the Yangtze River Delta, the science and technology departments (committees) of the three provinces and one city cooperated to jointly promote the construction of public science and technology infrastructure such as the “Yangtze River Delta Large-scale Scientific Instruments Collaborative Sharing Network”. As of June 2016, “Yangtze River Delta Dayi Net” has gathered 21,245 sets of large-scale scientific instruments and facilities from 1,489 units in the region, with a total value of more than 21.805 billion yuan. In addition, in 2016, the universal convertibility mechanism of innovative vouchers in the Yangtze River Delta region was further explored, and Jiaxing and Huzhou in Zhejiang Province and some areas in Shanghai and Jiangsu realized universal convertibility of innovative vouchers.
The meeting held that the joint meeting on the construction of regional innovation system in the Yangtze River Delta should further consolidate the scientific and technological resources of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, so as to deepen the scientific and technological cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta region, expand its scope and innovate its methods. At the meeting, relevant personnel from the Science and Technology Conditions and Basic Research Department of the Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province introduced the relevant information of innovation vouchers, and relevant personnel from the Planning and Finance Department introduced the construction of the science and technology expert database. Participants had a heated discussion on the universal exchange mechanism of innovation vouchers in the Yangtze River Delta region, the information sharing and intercommunication of expert databases and other matters that need to be submitted to the joint meeting for consideration. All parties attending the meeting said that the next step is to strengthen regional linkage, accelerate the universal exchange of innovative vouchers in the Yangtze River Delta region, improve and open up the Sifang scientific and technological expert database, strengthen exchanges and linkages in all aspects, accelerate the regional flow of innovative resources, and enhance the level of regional integration.
(Author: technology and finance Times reporter He Piaopiao)