Wuxi has a long-term vision for technological achievements | Wuxi | Vision
Recently, Wuxi held a Future Technology Cooperation Conference. At the meeting, Wuxi joined hands with 12 universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology to propose the Wuxi Initiative for Future Technology and Industrial Development.
What is the future industry? Why does Wuxi value future industries?
Future technology is the biggest variable in restructuring the innovation landscape and reshaping the economic structure. Artificial intelligence, quantum technology, third-generation semiconductors, hydrogen and energy storage, deep-sea equipment, and other industries belong to the future. Wuxi already has a certain industrial foundation. In 2021, a total of 12 universities in China, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, were approved to build the first batch of Future Technology Colleges. In that year, Wuxi signed cooperation agreements on future technology and talent cultivation with all 12 colleges and universities to jointly build the the Taihu Lake Lake Innovation Center through centralized signing and other forms. In the past two years, 12 future technology colleges of universities have brought 138 future technology achievements to Wuxi, some of which have reached cooperation intentions with Wuxi enterprises. At this Future Technology Conference, 17 industry university research projects were signed together.
In addition, at the meeting, Wuxi awarded Future Technology the Taihu Lake Scholarship to 12 future technology colleges in China, including Peking University and Tsinghua University. The scholarship is used to reward outstanding students of future technology colleges in colleges and universities, support the college to recruit advanced talents, explore the talent oriented and entrusted training mode, and attract talents to Wuxi for innovation and entrepreneurship. The Yangtze River Delta Life and Health Leading Talent Base, jointly initiated by the School of Future Technology at Peking University and the National Technology Innovation Center of the Yangtze River Delta, has been unveiled and established. The base will be rooted in Wuxi and strengthen the integration and development of universities, institutions, and enterprises.
From this perspective, Wuxi's forward-looking layout of future industries and platform construction is not only for the renewal and upgrading of urban industrial ecology, but also for the early layout and recruitment of talents, helping to connect the industry university research chain.
In 2022, Wuxi's contribution rate to scientific and technological progress reached 68.6%, ranking first in Jiangsu Province for 10 consecutive years. The proportion of R&D investment to GDP in the whole society reached 3.28%, and the proportion of high-tech industry output value to industrial output value above designated size reached 50.4%. It ranked 12th in the national innovation capacity evaluation of innovative cities; In the first half of this year, the output value of Wuxi's high-tech industry reached 635.299 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.7%, accounting for 51.9% of the above designated industrial output value, reaching a new high.