On September 23, the 2016 Pujiang Innovation Forum, a high-level, open and international science and technology innovation forum co-hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, opened in Shanghai, and Zhejiang Province was invited to participate as the guest of honor of this forum. From the 23rd to the 26th, focusing on the theme of “Two-wheel Drive: Scientific and Technological Innovation and Institutional Mechanism Innovation”, 100 well-known figures from politics, enterprises and academia from all over the world gathered on the banks of the Huangpu River to discuss innovation and cooperation.
Founded in 2008, Pujiang Innovation Forum has been successfully held for eight sessions so far, and the forum has always focused on the theme of “innovation”, planned and promoted innovation with a global perspective, formed a number of profound insights of great value for economic development and innovation activities, and produced important social influence.
Wan Gang, Yang Xiong, Minister of State for Universities and Science Joe Johnson (first from right), Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology and Sports of Mongolia Zamiyansurong Batusuri (first from left) attended the Pujiang Innovation Forum.
As the guest province, Zhejiang also focused on planning the sub-forum – Regional (City) Forum to be held on September 25. It is understood that since 2012, the Pujiang Forum has set up a guest of honor provincial mechanism, with the aim of promoting regional innovation and promoting innovation-driven development in provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). With the theme of “Gathering Innovative Elements to Create Characteristic Towns”, this year’s Regional (City) Forum will focus on the construction of characteristic towns in Zhejiang Province and discuss how to promote balanced and coordinated regional development at a higher level.
The guest of honor of this forum is the United Kingdom. In the context of China-UK cooperation entering a golden age, our province will further promote the establishment of a long-term cooperation mechanism with the UK through the benign interaction between the guest province and the guest country at this forum, carry out all-round scientific and technological innovation cooperation and exchanges, and achieve complementary advantages and win-win cooperation. According to statistics, as of July this year, Zhejiang has invested in a total of 132 enterprises in the UK, with a total investment of more than 300 million US dollars.
In recent years, our province has fully implemented the innovation-driven development strategy, and the current regional innovation capacity ranks 5th in the country. At present, Zhejiang Province is committed to accelerating the construction of innovative provinces to form new momentum for development, accelerating the cultivation of seven trillion-level industries to promote the upgrading of industrial structure, accelerating industrial transformation and upgrading, and strengthening the formation of a forced mechanism. As a pioneer force in the construction of domestic characteristic towns, Zhejiang adheres to the development concept of “innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing” in the process of promoting characteristic towns, links domestic and foreign innovative resources, innovates government management mechanisms, innovates high-end factor agglomeration mechanisms, and innovates integrated development mechanisms of industry, culture, tourism and community functions.
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)