Outlook · Chronicle of Governance ｜ Yangtze River Delta Research Institute explores the deep integration of science and technology and economy
In 2014, the top leaders of the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, the President of the State, and the Chairperson of the Central Military Commission made important instructions in the report jointly submitted by the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Tsinghua University: "The exploration and practice of the Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute over the past 10 years shows that provincial-school cooperation is an effective model for optimizing the allocation of scientific and technological resources, promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and achieving the integration of science and technology and economy. We hope to summarize experience, make persistent efforts, continuously consolidate the achievements of provincial-school cooperation, comprehensively deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system, and strive to build the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute into a new innovation carrier with advanced level, and make greater contributions to promoting the construction of the regional innovation system
Since its establishment 20 years ago, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has encouraged the development of scientific research projects in the market, emphasizing that innovation should be guided by application and industrialization.
The Yangtze River Delta Research Institute takes the application needs of enterprises as the starting point, gives full play to its own advantages of innovation elements, acts as both a think tank and a promoter, and in-depth cooperation with enterprises fills the "last mile" between scientific research and industrial application.
The Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, as a new type of innovation carrier, has precisely played the role of "bridge" and "commando" from basic research in universities to product development in enterprises, completing the transformation of "enterprises want to do it but can’t do it, venture capitalists want to invest but don’t dare to invest, and governments want to do it but can’t do it".
The Yangtze River Delta Research Institute not only focuses on individual innovation projects and enterprises, but also builds an industrial ecosystem in a chain by fully integrating the superior resources of the government, universities, and R & D institutions to "build a research institute, an industrial park, and a specialized fund."
From a company’s demand, to the development and application of a series of technologies, to the successful listing of a product… In Huang Kaisheng’s opinion, the demand innovation-driven theory and technological innovation, the "Ten Hundred Thousand Project" reflects the role of enterprises as the main body of innovation, and is also a vivid practice of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute to build an innovation chain around the industrial chain to serve market demand.
The Yangtze River Delta Research Institute hopes to deeply connect the innovation resources of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute with industrial innovation through the "Deep Roots Plan", fully empower industrial development, and gradually form a standardized and replicable process for the transformation of innovative achievements.
Text | "Outlook" Newsweek reporter Shi Xiangzhou, the former name of Shang, Qian Peshan, Gu Xiaoli
The "two skins" of scientific research and industry have always been an important constraint restricting our country’s innovation resources to give full play to their driving efficiency.
A set of public data in 2019 shows that there are about 30,000 scientific and technological achievements and more than 1 million patented technologies in China every year, but only 20% can be converted into mass production, and only 5% can form an industrial scale, far below the level of about 60% in developed countries.
Innovating the system and mechanism to build a bridge of deep integration between science and technology and the economy, so that more scientific research results can be smoothly transformed into practical productive forces, is an inevitable requirement to release the vitality of scientific and technological innovation and promote high-quality economic development.
At the end of 2003, under the personal promotion of the top leader of the then Zhejiang Provincial Party Secretary, the Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the "Yangtze River Delta Research Institute") was officially established and landed in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. As a new innovation carrier jointly built by the Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government and Tsinghua University, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has been based in Zhejiang and facing the Yangtze River Delta since its establishment. It has explored an effective model of provincial-university cooperation with self-support and market-oriented operation, and gradually grown into an important industry-university-research experimental platform and achievement transformation base in the Yangtze River Delta region.
In 2014, the top leaders of the General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, the President of the State, and the Chairperson of the Central Military Commission made important instructions in a report jointly submitted by the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Tsinghua University: "The exploration and practice of Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute over the past 10 years shows that provincial-school cooperation is an effective model for optimizing the allocation of scientific and technological resources, promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and achieving the integration of science and technology and economy. We hope to sum up experience, make persistent efforts, continuously consolidate the achievements of provincial-school cooperation, comprehensively deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system, and strive to build the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute into a new innovation carrier with advanced level, and make greater contributions to promoting the construction of the regional innovation
"One is rooted in innovation and the other is facing the market. We are a bridge and a’rapid response force ‘between these two links," Huang Kaisheng, party secretary and president of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, said in an interview with Outlook Newsweek. "After years of exploration, we have summed up a Big Dipper model that includes various transformation elements of’government, industry, university, research and development.’ We have built a system of transformation of scientific and technological achievements from applied basic technology research to large-scale production of products, and opened up a new path of deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial development."
This year, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute celebrates the 20th anniversary of its establishment. The rural fields where rice waves rolled in Jiaxing in the past are now the highlands of science and technology innovation where talents gather and kinetic energy is surging. In the past 20 years, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has established 1 national key laboratory, 2 provincial key laboratories, 3 provincial engineering centers, 5 research institutes, and more than 80 research centers. It has established a national international science and technology cooperation base, a national science and technology enterprise incubator, and a national overseas talent offshore innovation and entrepreneurship base. More than 800 overseas high-level talents have been introduced and trained, and more than 1,000 technology enterprises have been invested in incubation. Among them, 75 have been successfully listed. The output value of equity-owned enterprises in 2022 is about 420 billion yuan…
Looking to the future, Huang Kaisheng said that the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute will further grasp the law of innovation, consolidate the elements of innovation from all parties, explore a new national system, face industrial needs, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and build a new innovation carrier with advanced level as soon as possible, so as to make greater contributions to promoting the construction of the regional innovation system.
Application-oriented optimization of scientific and technological resource allocation
During the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, a video of foreign athletes introducing the smart beds equipped in the Winter Olympic Village exploded on social media and received hundreds of millions of views.
This smart bed can not only adjust different forms such as sleeping and sitting positions through the remote control, but also turn on the massage mode to help athletes release competition pressure and improve sleep quality.
The manufacturer of this smart bed can become the official supplier of Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, thanks to a "two-way rush" between the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute and the manufacturer Qisheng Technology.
By chance, Yang Xiangdong, vice president of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, who is engaged in intelligent manufacturing research, learned that Qisheng Technology is developing a smart bed with sensing capabilities, but due to the limited R & D strength of the enterprise, progress has been sluggish.
"Only by meeting the actual needs of enterprises can innovation be valuable." Yang Xiangdong told reporters that the development pain point of Qisheng Technology is precisely the starting point of innovation of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute. After Qisheng Technology asked questions, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, together with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University, worked in depth with enterprises to increase application research and development around specific application scenarios, and implemented a number of scientific research achievements such as intelligent sensors and big data analytics technology. Finally, this smart bed was created, opening up a new track for long-cycle innovation for enterprise development.
How can scientific research be more closely integrated with the market? Since its establishment 20 years ago, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has encouraged the development of scientific research projects in the market, emphasizing that innovation should be guided by application and industrialization.
"Scientific research results are either on the shelves or on the shelves." A line of words on the wall of the office building highlights the unique innovation concept of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, which is also the goal it has always pursued during the 20-year construction of new innovation carriers.
- Link innovation resources to effectively connect supply and demand.
What are the achievements of scientific research institutions? What resources do enterprises need? This is the prerequisite for the smooth transformation of innovation achievements. In reality, on the one hand, some scientific researchers do not know what the market needs; on the other hand, a large number of innovation needs in the industrial field cannot be met.
To make scientific research better serve economic development, it is necessary to break this information asymmetry and make the connection between innovation supply and market demand more effective.
Flexible electronics, as a disruptive science and technology generated by the high degree of cross-integration of disciplines, is an important strategic opportunity for our country’s independent innovation to lead the future industrial development. In 2016, Professor Feng Xue of the School of Aerospace and Aviation of Tsinghua University, who has made many achievements in the field of flexible electronics technology, had the idea of applying the cutting-edge technology of flexible electronics to the industry. After learning about this situation, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute actively gave full play to the advantages of resource integration, guided by major national needs, and intensively connected with local government departments, university scientific research management institutions, and social and private capital forces to find investment, build platforms, and solve problems for the project team, and smoothly promoted the landing of Zhejiang Tsinghua Flexible Electronics Technology Research Institute in Jiaxing
From a small research group to a flexible electronics professional team of more than 180 people, from scratch to an approved state key laboratory, Zhejiang Tsinghua Flexible Electronics Technology Research Institute has achieved a number of landmark achievements in the fields of life and health, aerospace, and major industrial equipment testing. It has led the demonstration in serving major national strategies, Zhejiang’s economic development, and school discipline construction.
"The original intention of the establishment of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute is to promote the education and scientific research of Tsinghua University and the comprehensive development of science and technology, economy and society in Zhejiang Province and the Yangtze River Delta." Huang Kaisheng said that in order to effectively link resources, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has used its own advantages to introduce scientific and technological resources from the establishment of Tsinghua University, and has successively built high-end scientific research platforms such as the State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics, the Center for Advanced Model Animals, and the Chinese Population Tumor Sample Database in Zhejiang.
On the other hand, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute makes good use of its own brand resources, and overseas "Taobao" holds more than 100 talent activities such as project roadshows, policy consultation, and "capital and intelligence" docking every year, which has connected a large number of high-quality talents and projects to the local area.
- Horizontal development, allowing innovation capabilities to serve the market accurately.
Compared with vertical projects approved by higher-level science and technology departments or institutions, horizontal projects formulated by enterprises or research institutes based on the technical difficulties existing in the actual production process place more emphasis on the application value of scientific research results.
Over the years, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has focused on life and health, new materials, advanced manufacturing, integrated circuits, etc., highlighting "horizontal technology development", accurately matching innovation resources according to the technical difficulties existing in the actual production process of enterprises, narrowing the distance between scientific research and industry, and enabling innovation capabilities to accurately serve the needs of enterprises.
Data show that the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute horizontal contract value accounted for 80% of the total contract value, the horizontal contract amount of more than 1 million yuan accounted for 46% of the horizontal contract amount, the annual commitment of enterprises and institutions horizontal contracts over 100, patent authorization over 100, the total amount of scientific research funding exceeded 400 million yuan.
Experts said that enterprises are based on market demand and problem orientation, and put forward key core technology needs, which need to be "interpreted" by the transformation link to lead scientific research projects and achieve innovative breakthroughs. As a new innovation carrier of self-support and enterprise management, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has turned the natural ground to industrial needs from the top-level design, built a bridge between scientific research and industry through horizontal topics, and promoted the development of disciplines with practical needs, forming a market-oriented closed-loop ecosystem of scientific and technological innovation.
- Deep binding, scientific research institutions and enterprises grow together.
Focusing on the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute not only provides technical cooperation services for enterprises, but also helps enterprises transform their innovative ideas and enhance their own scientific and technological innovation capabilities.
"At first, companies just wanted to find a technical team to develop smart beds, but in the process of cooperation with Qisheng Technology, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute proposed the development direction of using smart bed data to develop health management services," Yang Xiangdong said.
In order to achieve this transformation, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has partnered with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University and Qisheng Technology in depth. In terms of innovation chain, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University is responsible for providing basic theoretical support and development direction planning for key technologies of health big data, that is, completing the original innovation of "from 0 to 1"; in the transformation chain, the Intelligent Equipment Technology Research Center of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute is responsible for forward-looking key technology and innovative product research, that is, completing the application transformation of "from 1 to 10"; in the industrial chain stage, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute and Qisheng Technology jointly established Zhe************* Data Service Co., Ltd., which is responsible for transforming the original samples into products of stable quality and mass production, and establishing a health management service system to realize the cross-border transformation of enterprises. Qisheng Technology is responsible for making products into commodities that meet the needs of sales and entering the market circulation, and completing the monetization process of "from 10 to 100".
"We should not only hand over the technology to the enterprise, but also provide the enterprise with relevant concepts and future application scenarios and implementation paths of the concept." Yang Xiangdong told reporters that Zhe************* Data Service Co., Ltd. is mainly responsible for the application transformation of samples and the analysis and processing of user usage data, providing support for the direction of technological innovation. Through this data service company, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has helped Qisheng Technology achieve a leap from a traditional bedding manufacturer to a health management service provider.
"The’Qisheng model ‘is’with the head of Tsinghua University and the feet of entrepreneurs’." Yang Xiangdong said that for a long time, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has taken the application needs of enterprises as the starting point, played the advantages of its own innovation elements, and served as both a think tank and a promoter. In-depth cooperation with enterprises has filled the "last mile" between scientific research and industrial application.
Zhejiang Tsinghua Institute of Flexible Electronics Technology Flexible Integrated Device Manufacturing Pilot Line (photo taken in June 2022). Photo courtesy of Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute
All factors empower the transformation of scientific and technological achievements
From scientific and technological research and development to product production is a worldwide problem. From a practical point of view, this process generally consists of four stages: basic research, forward-looking technology research, key technology development and industrial product development. Basic research is often undertaken by universities and research institutes, while industrial product development is generally undertaken by enterprises. The forward-looking technology research stage, as well as the key technology development, integration and system demonstration stage between these involve complex elements and required resources, and it is difficult for universities, research institutes and enterprises to be competent. The government, considering efficiency, management and fair competition, is not suitable for direct responsibility.
Feng Yecheng, vice president of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, said that as a new type of innovation carrier, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has precisely played the role of "bridge" and "commando" from basic research in universities to product development in enterprises, completing the transformation work of "enterprises want to do it but can’t do it, venture capital wants to invest but can’t dare to invest, and the government wants to do it but can’t do it."
After years of practice, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has successfully explored a set of unique "government-industry-university-research financial application" Beidou seven-star model, which corresponds to seven major innovation elements in the whole chain of industry-university-research cooperation, including government, industry, universities, scientific research, finance, technology intermediaries, and market applications. The core of this model is the whole-process intervention of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, which comprehensively coordinates various elements and resources to help the successful transformation of innovation achievements.
- From offshore incubation to international cooperation, improve the success rate of talent recruitment.
Through the introduction of talents, it is a common practice in many places to achieve the transformation of results. But overcoming the "acclimatization" in the process of talent introduction is a major difficulty.
In the past 20 years, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has explored the "offshore incubation + soil transplantation" model in the process of helping localities introduce overseas talents, which has effectively improved the probability of overseas talents successfully landing.
In March 2010, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute established an innovation and entrepreneurship base overseas, becoming the first international technology transfer base in Zhejiang Province to "go global". Since then, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has established 2 innovation centers and 9 offshore incubators in many overseas countries.
Li Yuanyuan, director of the International Cooperation Department of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, introduced that through overseas offshore incubators, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute can connect with suitable high-tech projects, enterprises, and talents, and select potential and high success index entry bases for observation and review. First, the local incubation is carried out, and then the domestic introduction is more mature.
Not only that, in the process of introduction, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute also focuses on the overall packaging and introduction of talents together with their teams, projects, technologies and other innovative elements, which is the so-called "transplantation with soil".
Li Yuanyuan mentioned that means such as offshore incubation and "transplantation with soil" not only help to reduce the "acclimatization" in the process of talent flow, but also help to reduce the running-in time of talents and teams, and promote the smooth transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
At present, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has 406 incubation projects and more than 100 "soil transplantation" projects, forming a pattern of "incubation overseas and transformation in Zhejiang". It has also carried out scientific and technological cooperation with more than 30 well-known overseas scientific research institutions and leading enterprises, and carried out global "listing".
- "Investment + Incubation", the whole process cares for the growth of the enterprise.
The transformation of scientific research achievements from the innovation chain to the industrial chain requires the process of achievement formation, evaluation, testing, pilot test, small-scale deployment, and large-scale production. In response to many "long-term difficulties" encountered in the transformation of early scientific and technological achievements, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute supports the growth of enterprises through the whole process of "investment + incubation".
In terms of investment, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute explores the organization of the capital chain around the innovation chain through capital integration and equity operation, and uses the capital chain to promote the industrial chain.
For example, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute and Shenzhen Innovation Investment Group Co., Ltd. jointly established the Red Soil Fund to explore the investment funds initiated by scientific research institutes; and Zhejiang Industrial Fund Co., Ltd. jointly funded the establishment of science and technology fund of funds to expand the resource integration capacity in the field of science and technology finance.
Up to now, the total scale of science and technology innovation funds directly participated in and managed by the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute exceeds 3.50 billion yuan, and the scale of sub-funds exceeds 10 billion yuan. Through the "equity system" model, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has successfully introduced a number of supplementary chain, extended chain and domestic replacement projects in sub-sectors such as integrated circuits and photoresists. In the past five years, the incubation projects in the campus alone have paid 1.96 billion yuan to the local government, effectively feeding back the local finance, and the two-way benign nourishment model has been formed by the hospital-local cooperation.
Wang Guangnian, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, said that through the direct investment of its funds to obtain equity, the market-oriented operation has quickly provided start-up funds for technology enterprises, and established equity relations with enterprises, forming an ecosystem of mutual cooperation, resource sharing and complementary advantages. This not only helps technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises get through the difficult stage of entrepreneurship, but also supports the sustainable and stable operation of the market-oriented operation model of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute.
In addition to financial support, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute also provides a full range of incubation services for enterprises in the early transformation stage.
In 2011, Dr. Zhao Zhong, who was studying in the medical school of a well-known overseas university, returned to China to establish Zhejiang Guichuang medical apparatus Co., Ltd. (later renamed "Guichuang Tongqiao") through the recruitment activity "Overseas Students Zhejiang Tour" of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, dedicated to the innovation of peripheral and neurovascular intervention and implantation medical apparatus research and development, manufacturing and sales services.
In the early stage of entrepreneurship, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute hired Zhao Zhong as a part-time researcher of the research institute, helped him recruit troops, sent commissioners to "one-on-one" to guide Zhao Zhong’s entrepreneurship, and assisted him in applying for and receiving the title of national talent to obtain certain scientific research funds for technical research; in the "bottleneck period" of enterprise entrepreneurship, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute coordinated investment institutions to help him raise funds, and assisted the Provincial Department of Science and Technology to establish a project "Provincial Key Enterprise Research Institute of Vascular Medical Apparatus" to provide special project funding support…
Today, Guichuang Tongqiao has developed more than 50 high-end medical apparatus with independent intellectual property rights in the field of peripheral and neurovascular intervention to fill the gaps at home and abroad, and will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2021. Like Guichuang Tongqiao, there are more than 50 companies that have cultivated unicorns or quasi-unicorns, specialized and innovative, and provincial major industrialization projects through the "investment + incubation" model of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute.
- "One hospital, one garden, one fund", chain thinking builds a complete industrial ecology.
Not only does it focus on individual innovation projects and enterprises, but the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute also builds an industrial ecosystem in a chain by fully integrating the superior resources of the government, universities, and R & D institutions.
"One Hospital" refers to the establishment of professional research institutes relying on the scientific and technological and talent advantages of Tsinghua University and the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute to gather high-end talents for key common technology research; "One Park" refers to the establishment of industrial parks that integrate local industrial and environmental advantages to create gathering space for promoting the industrialization of innovative achievements; "One Fund" refers to the full mobilization of social resources to establish specialized funds to smooth financing channels for raising effective social investment.
Through this model, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has established professional research institutions such as Advanced Storage Research Institute, Flexible Electronics Research Institute, Wuzhen Laboratory, Xiangfu Laboratory, etc., effectively breaking down the barriers of technology, market, capital, and talent circulation, and promoting a number of leading technologies from the laboratory to the market quickly, forming a good demonstration effect.
Taking the Advanced Storage Research Institute as an example, during the construction process, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, together with the School of Integrated Circuits, the Department of Computer Science and Technology, and the Department of Automation of Tsinghua University, established an advanced storage research institute, namely "One Institute", to carry out research in key equipment, core operating systems and other fields; in Jiaxing 5G Wisdom Valley, Zhejiang, where the Advanced Storage Research Institute is located, or "One Garden", the upstream and downstream enterprises around the memory chip layout provide industrial chain support for the research institute’s achievements; and then the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, Zhejiang Zhejiang Hua Investment Co., Ltd. and local government departments cooperate to establish the "Shanhai Collaboration Fund" to provide support for the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, namely "One Fund".
According to industry analysts, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute’s market-oriented and industrial demand-oriented industry-university-research full-chain cooperation model fully mobilizes the participation of innovative entities such as enterprises, scientific research institutes and universities, and explores the formation of a government-supported, university-based, application-oriented scientific research work as the foundation, to meet market demand as the foothold, Financial Institution Group and intermediaries fully participate and cooperate to promote the aggregation and participation of innovative elements such as industrial chain, innovation chain, and capital chain, forming a virtuous and circular teaching, scientific research, and industrial integration innovation mechanism.
New energy vehicle manufacturing and welding line at the New Energy Vehicle R & D Center of Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute (photo taken in June 2021). Photo courtesy of Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute
Deploy innovation chains around the industrial chain
To enable scientific research and innovation resources to better serve the industry and enable the transformation of innovative achievements, a key measure is to bring scientific research closer to industrial demand and deploy an innovation chain around the industrial chain.
In recent years, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has deepened innovation and transformation cooperation in key industries and regional characteristic industries, promoted the transformation of innovative achievements into real industrial activities, implemented new growth points and value creation, and enhanced regional innovation capabilities and economic vitality.
- "Ten Hundred Thousand Projects" to help enterprises tackle key technologies.
In order to strengthen industry-university-research cooperation with central enterprises, industry leaders and scientific research institutes, and better serve enterprises to play the role of "question makers" and "marking people", in recent years, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has implemented the "Ten Hundred Thousand Project", planning to carry out strategic cooperation with more than 10 central enterprises, carry out key core technology research with more than 100 local leading enterprises, and provide scientific and technological services to more than 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises. At present, this project has solved more than 100 core technical problems in the industry, 12 of which have reached the international leading level, and 6 technologies have broken the blockade of foreign technology.
For example, the Hydrogen Materials and Engineering Research Center of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has joined forces with large central enterprises such as China National Offshore Oil Corporation and China Three Gorges Corporation to carry out core technology research in the fields of large-size ultra-thin alloy bipolar plates and proton exchange membranes. The output of green hydrogen per megawatt-hour has reached the international leading level, and has jointly built hydrogen energy comprehensive utilization demonstration bases with Ordos, Karamay and other places.
From a company’s demand, to the development and application of a series of technologies, to the successful listing of a product… In Huang Kaisheng’s opinion, the demand innovation-driven theory and technological innovation, the "Ten Hundred Thousand Projects" reflects the role of enterprises as the main body of innovation, and is also a vivid practice of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute to build an innovation chain around the industrial chain to serve market demand.
"The’Ten Hundred Thousand Thousand Project ‘can further integrate and optimize the advantageous resources of all parties involved in the production, education and research, build a collaborative innovation development system, weave a dense regional innovation network, and integrate science and technology with the economy." Huang Kaisheng said.
- "Deep Roots Plan" to empower the construction of county science and technology innovation system.
Focusing on the development goals of in-depth participation and service in the construction of regional innovation systems, and promoting the deep integration of science and technology with the local economy, Jiaxing City and the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute have proposed the idea of implementing the "Deep Roots and Institutes Cooperation, Building Innovation Jiaxing Action Plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "Deep Roots Plan"). The Yangtze River Delta Research Institute will give full play to the platform advantages of its own new innovation carrier, focus on the advantageous industries and key industries of each county (city, district), establish a science and technology innovation platform, and create a "1 + N" county-level science and technology innovation service system.
Yang Xiangdong said, "’1′ refers to scientific research, ‘N’ refers to a full range of science and technology innovation services. The Yangtze River Delta Research Institute hopes to deeply connect the innovation resources of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute with industrial innovation through the’Deep Roots Plan ‘, comprehensively empower industrial development, and gradually form a standardized and replicable process for the transformation of innovative achievements."
Located in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, Wuzhen Laboratory (Tongxiang Innovation Center of Yangtze River Delta Research Institute) is a typical example of this.
Tongxiang City, an important glass fiber production base in the world. In recent years, Tongxiang has actively created a full-chain development pattern of characteristic new materials represented by high-performance power battery materials, glass fiber and composite materials, differential and high-performance chemical fibers. In 2022, the total output value of Tongxiang’s glass fiber and composite materials industrial cluster exceeded 30 billion yuan.
Wang Genliang, vice president of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, said that around the development needs of Tongxiang’s leading industries, Wuzhen Laboratory focuses on the direction of cutting-edge materials, builds a R & D innovation system covering the city with a "one-district, multi-park" layout, and promotes the extension of Tongxiang’s cutting-edge materials industry chain, the transformation and upgrading of traditional advantageous industries, the introduction of high-level talents, and the cultivation of local industrial talents.
Up to now, Wuzhen Laboratory has accumulated more than 40 transformation and cultivation projects, with a total planned investment of over 2 billion yuan, and an annual output value of over 2.50 billion yuan after delivery. Among them, 31 of the projects that have been landed have been awarded Tongxiang City-level talent projects, and 35 "three new" projects such as new energy, new manufacturing, and new materials have been developed around Tongxiang City, accounting for nearly 90%.
Through the "Deep Roots Plan", the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has cooperated with Jiaxing’s five counties (cities) and two districts to build 11 science and technology innovation platforms and innovation centers, including the Yangtze River Delta (Jiaxing) branch of the China Institute of Standardization and Wuzhen Laboratory. Relying on the platform, it has introduced 6 academicians, applied for 45 national and provincial talents, and attracted more than 150 science and technology innovation projects, forming a global innovation pattern with emphasis and unified coordination with Jiaxing’s counties (cities and districts).
From "provincial-school cooperation bridge" to "comprehensive innovation platform", from "science and technology cooperation" to "resource agglomeration", from "deep cultivation Jiaxing" to "radiating the Yangtze River Delta and looking at the world", since its establishment 20 years ago, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute has always kept in mind the instructions of the supreme leader of the general secretary, facing the national strategy and serving the market demand, with the goal of building a new innovation carrier with advanced level, constantly self-iterating, and making greater contributions to promoting the construction of the regional innovation system.
"At a new starting point, the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute will focus on focusing on national strategic needs and stimulating innovation vitality, explore new mechanisms for development, deepen innovation cooperation, and contribute more wisdom to the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta," Huang Kaisheng said.
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