The Yangtze River Delta is not only rich in innovation | technology | The Yangtze River Delta
A national strategy with special significance often emerges in response to the tremendous changes of the times and often leads an era in resonance with the same frequency. In 2018, the integration of the Yangtze River Delta became a national strategy. At that time, a great change that has not been seen in a century has begun, and a wave of global protectionism has emerged. Trade frictions and technological suppression are gradually emerging. In 2020, higher quality integration in the Yangtze River Delta was seen as a first move. At that time, the century long pandemic and century long changes intertwined and overlapped, with unprecedented storms and impacts, highlighting the importance of "technological self-reliance and self-improvement". In 2023, the fifth year of the integrated national strategy of the Yangtze River Delta, a new journey of Chinese path to modernization will begin. Here, we shoulder the "mission of the times to take the lead in basically realizing modernization". People's attention is once again focused on "technological innovation", which occupies a core position in the overall modernization. For this land, the starting point of a new journey requires greater efforts to open up new paths and become pioneers."Pioneer" expresses the special mission of the Yangtze River Delta in the changing era. Due to the basic strength and special functions of this land, the Yangtze River Delta region is shouldering this mission, which can be said to be indispensable. The Yangtze River Delta is recognized as a land of prosperity and also a highland of innovation. The number of "Double First Class" universities here accounts for 1/4 of the national total, and the number of valid patents applied for each year accounts for 1/3 of the national total. The dense innovation resources and strong innovation drive have made it an important engine for China's economic development, and a large number of innovative achievements with originality, foresight, and demonstration have emerged. In the current era where scientific research and technological innovation are undergoing paradigm changes, technological development is advancing rapidly, and competition pressure is increasing day by day, the integration of the Yangtze River Delta, as a first move, naturally needs to make more achievements in technological and industrial innovation, firmly grasp the initiative of innovation, and break through with innovation. As a pioneer, the more we are in key areas, cutting-edge areas, difficult areas, and uninhabited areas, the more daring the Yangtze River Delta is to test the waters and explore the path, to explore the direction and create experience for the whole country. Improving the modernization level of industrial and supply chains, deepening strategic, forward-looking, fundamental, and driving technological layout, and launching original and leading technological breakthroughs are all important issues. Under the expectation of "higher quality integration", the innovation breakthrough here is not a unilateral breakthrough, nor a simple superposition of quantities - the word "collaboration" is particularly important and meaningful. The Outline of the Development Plan for Regional Integration in the Yangtze River Delta proposes to basically form a system of integrated development of science and technology innovation industries and a regional collaborative innovation system by 2025, become an important source of innovation in the country, and form several world-class industrial clusters. In recent years, an important task for the three provinces and one city has been to further sort out and revitalize the innovative elements and resources within the region, integrate advantageous forces, break through bottlenecks, facilitate circulation, and work together to achieve breakthroughs in key areas and links such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence as soon as possible. The "Development Plan for the Construction of the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community" issued by the Ministry of Scie