Searching for the Soil of Science and Technology Innovation and Seeking Development Opportunities, Hundreds of Multinational Companies Focus on Shanghai Songjiang Innovation | Industry | Company
On August 22, 2023, the DEMO WORLD Enterprise Open Innovation Conference was held in Songjiang, Shanghai. The conference is themed "Embracing Openness" and features industry leaders from various fields such as intelligent manufacturing, biopharmaceuticals, and artificial intelligence. Through various methods such as speech sharing, special sessions, demand release, case studies, and ranking selection, the conference aims to promote the flow of global innovation resources in the industry.
On site, hundreds of multinational companies focused on Songjiang. As one of the earliest regions in Shanghai to introduce and utilize foreign investment, Songjiang is a region with obvious characteristics of gathering foreign-funded enterprises and an outward oriented economy. As of the first half of this year, Songjiang District has attracted a total of 6850 foreign-funded enterprises from 134 countries and regions, and has been approved for 63 foreign-funded research and development centers, accounting for about 10% of the city's total. There are also 20 regional headquarters of multinational companies, significantly enhancing their regional core functions and competitive advantages.
Last year, in the comprehensive development level assessment and evaluation of 217 national level economic development zones by the Ministry of Commerce, Songjiang Economic Development Zone ranked 11th and the total import and export volume ranked third in the country, achieving a historic breakthrough. For many years, one out of every three laptops and one out of every three mobile phone cameras worldwide have been manufactured by the Songjiang Economic Development Zone.
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Chen Rong, Deputy District Mayor of Songjiang District, stated that as the birthplace of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta, Songjiang has always aimed at international advanced science and technology innovation capabilities and industrial systems, focusing on strategic emerging industries such as "6+X", and striving to build new generation electronic information, new materials, new energy vehicles, biopharmaceuticals and other industry clusters worth billions of yuan, as well as several industry clusters worth billions of yuan such as integrated circuits, modern equipment, and artificial intelligence.
Under the guidance of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor strategy in the Yangtze River Delta, the industrial capabilities of the nine cities complement each other, and a "1+7+N" industrial alliance system has been built around the deployment of innovation chains in the industrial chain. 16 industrial alliances and 11 industrial cooperation demonstration parks have been established.
A series of data reflects the development trend of continuous enhancement of Songjiang's economic innovation momentum. As of now, there are 1634 industrial enterprises above designated size in Songjiang, ranking first in the city for two consecutive years and second in terms of industrial output value above designated size in the city. This year, the R&D investment intensity is expected to exceed 7%, with 88% of R&D investment coming from market entities. There are 83 national level specialized and innovative "little giants", 1056 municipal level specialized and innovative enterprises, and 2595 high-tech enterprises.
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In the theme promotion section, Chen Chao, Director of the Songjiang District Economic Committee, gave a detailed introduction to the guests on the national strategy of serving the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta, the comprehensive economic situation of Songjiang District, and the support policies for industrial development in Songjiang District. At present, Songjiang District has formulated and issued several policies on accelerating the industrial development of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta. In terms of enterprise introduction policies, enterprise technological transformation policies, and industrial technological innovation policies, key support has been given to the development of productive service industries, new infrastructure construction, and headquarters economic development. Subsidies for new infrastructure projects and special support for the film and television cultural industry have been carried out.
In addition, Songjiang District has formulated and issued the Implementation Measures to Support the Construction of the Songjiang Financial Cluster, the Source Area of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta. Key support has been given in the introduction, listing, listing, investment attraction, and financing channels of financial institutions, optimizing the allocation of financial resources, allowing high-quality financial resources to better play a multiplier effect, and serving the development of the industrial cluster of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta and the construction of Songjiang New City.
"Numerous Fortune Global 500 companies, Chinese listed companies, unicorns, and innovative technology companies, as well as frontline venture capital and investment institutions, have gathered in Songjiang to seek development opportunities brought by the new round of scientific and technological revolutions such as AI and biopharmaceuticals." Founder and CEO of ChiNext, Nan Lixin, stated that he wants to find a better soil for the development of science and technology innovation and cultivate more innovative enterprises.
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At the opening ceremony, the guests focused on N interpretations of "local innovation", "sustainable innovation", "AI innovation", "technological innovation", "cross-border innovation", "collaborative innovation" and other innovations, and combined their own corporate practices.
According to the Investment Promotion and Development Center of Songjiang District, in recent years, a number of major scientific and technological achievements have been landing in Songjiang, and high-precision and cutting-edge technologies have been continuously breaking through. For example, the biological rhythm disorder somatic clone monkey model of G60 Brain Intelligence Base, AST large silicon wafers and other independently controllable major original achievements continue to emerge.
Chen Rong stated that we should focus on "marketization, rule of law, and internationalization" to cultivate a fertile ground for innovation, and make every effort to build an international first-class science and technology innovation ecosystem guided by the new development concept. By strengthening the "butterfly transformation" of science and technology innovation, industry "fission", and factor "fusion", we can nurture industrial "nuclear explosion points", create new development highlights, accelerate the improvement of strategic industrial cluster competitiveness, and enhance the ability to gather global innovation resources.
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