Author: Gentle Shi Chenglei.
Six major science and technology innovation industry clusters have been initially formed in the Hetao Cooperation Zone, and the "hardness" of science and technology innovation space and the "temperature" of scientific research facilities are rapidly increasing.800,000 square meters of high-quality scientific research space has been put into use in the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone, attracting many major scientific and technological innovation projects.
Standing on the terrace on the top floor of the Shenzhen State-owned Assets and State-owned Enterprise Industrial Innovation Center, looking out, egrets skim the river from time to time, and the scenery on both sides of the river is in full view. Not far away, you can see Futian Port, Huanggang Port and the Lok Ma Chau area of Hong Kong under construction.
In August this year, the "Development Plan for the Shenzhen Park of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone in the Hetao" (hereinafter referred to as the "Hetao Plan") was issued, which clearly proposed to "build an important pole of the international science and technology innovation center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and strive to become an important engine for the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area".
Today, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone in the Loop (hereinafter referred to as the "Loop") has entered a period of accelerated development. What kind of innovative energy is contained in this hot land?Walk into the Hetao Cooperation Zone to have a look.
The birth of the "giant scientific research laboratory".
In fact, since the signing of the Memorandum of Co-operation between Hong Kong and Shenzhen on Promoting the Common Development of the Lok Ma Chau Loop in 2017 to the release of the Loop Plan, the co-operation in science and technology innovation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong has never stopped.
Relying on its special location and policy advantages, the Hetao Co-operation Zone is being built into one of the areas with the closest cooperation in science and technology innovation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. In this regard, Bai Zhiqiang, vice president of the Shenzhen International Quantum Research Institute, has a very vivid description: "In the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone, academicians can walk to participate in the industry forum. As you can see from the map, around the Shenzhen International Quantum Research Institute, there are a number of scientific research institutions such as the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Innovation Research Institute of the University of Chinese Hong Kong.
At present, the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone and the Hong Kong Park jointly focus on the three major fields of life science, information science and materials science, and have initially formed six major science and technology innovation industry clusters.
In Bai Zhiqiang's view, this high concentration of scientific and technological innovation resources has brought a strong agglomeration effect. It can be observed that R&D institutions and science and technology enterprises are also growing in positive proportion. There are 200 national high-tech enterprises in the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone, 36 "specialized, special and new" enterprises in the city, 956 invention patents for science and technology enterprises and scientific research institutions, and a total of 1,781 PCT applications, showing the vigorous development of the high-tech industry.
Many doctoral entrepreneurial teams from Hong Kong have taken a fancy to the innovative "software and hardware" of the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone, and Dr. Dink from Hong Kong Chinese University is one of them. In 2021, together with other PhDs from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Chinese of Hong Kong, he founded Shenzhen Xianyang Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Xianyang Technology"), and became the first batch of enterprises to settle in the Blue Bay Incubation Port of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
As a science and technology enterprise, in the process of growth, there is a demand for joint research with high-end scientific research institutions and universities, the demand for the industrialization of R&D results, and the demand ......for a large number of technical talentsWhen it comes to why he chose the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone, Dink has full confidence in this choice.
If the Hetao Cooperation Zone is compared to a "giant scientific research laboratory", then scientists and entrepreneurial young people from home and abroad are looking forward to this grand scientific research experiment bursting out with new energy.
At present, the Hetao Co-operation Zone, the only major platform with the theme of scientific and technological innovation in the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, is writing a new chapter in Shenzhen-Hong Kong science and technology innovation at an impressive speed.
A world-class park should have a world-class space for science and technology
In the spring of this year, Xie Yong, the head of the cell ** project of the Futian Biomedical Innovation R&D Center of the University of Chinese of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), moved part of the R&D team from Hong Kong to the office located in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Science and Technology Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone, and began the life of office and scientific research in the two places.
One of the reasons for moving to the Loop is that the Loop is more easily accessible and is only more than an hour away from the office in Hong Kong. Second, we can make full use of the various resources of the two places, cooperate with each other, and learn from each other's strengths. Xie Yong pointed to the International Biomedical Industrial Park across the road through the window and introduced that the Futian Biomedical Innovation and R&D Center of the University of Hong Kong Chinese (Shenzhen) has a 1,900-square-meter laboratory here, which has advanced cytometers and other experimental equipment. At present, the team has established a joint laboratory with the center, and borrowed the experimental equipment of the International Biomedical Industrial Park, which can save a lot of scientific research costs for the team.
Originally a single-storey factory building and a multi-storey office building, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Science and Technology Park has not only gathered scientific research institutions such as the Futian Biomedical Innovation and R&D Center of the University of Chinese Hong Kong (Shenzhen) and the Shenzhen Futian Research Institute of the City University of Hong Kong, but also attracted science and technology enterprises such as Yuanrong Qixing, Corerain Technology, Empyrean and XtalPi, becoming an international science park integrating the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Center, a high-end innovation resource gathering area, and a gateway to the headquarters of famous enterprises in the Bay Area.
At present, the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone has built 11 professional parks, including the Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Science and Technology Park, the International Biomedical Industrial Park, and the Shenzhen State-owned Assets and State-owned Enterprises Industrial Innovation Center. During the in-depth investigation of the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone, the reporter of "Southern" magazine was often amazed by the density of hardware facilities such as scientific research institutions, innovative enterprises, and service organizations here.
Shenzhen Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone Development *** hereinafter referred to as "Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Company") was established in November 2018 and is a platform company specially established by Shenzhen for the development and operation of the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone. Li Yan, vice president of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Company, told the reporter of "Southern" magazine that the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone is only 302 square kilometers, 800,000 square meters of high-quality scientific research space has been put into use, and the future planning of scientific research and supporting space will reach 3.6 million square meters.
At present, the scientific research space of the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone is still growing rapidly, which can be described as changing with each passing day. On 7 September, the Shenzhen branch of the Hong Kong Science Park was officially opened, and so far 18 Hong Kong enterprises and institutions have settled in, which is the first scientific research space operated by Hong Kong and subject to international management rules in the mainlandWith a construction area of about 210,000 square meters, the first phase of the Hetao Science and Technology Innovation Center, a science and technology innovation complex integrating scientific and technological research and development, laboratories and supporting services, has recently been completed and delivered, and a number of heavyweight national platform institutions, unicorn enterprises and scientific research centers will soon settle in ......
A world-class park should have a world-class space for science and technologyIn the next 10 years, the company will also build more than 3 million square meters of scientific research and supporting space. Li Yan said.
Go all out to solve the worries of scientific research talents
As the southern operation carrier of the national strategic force of quantum science and technology, the Shenzhen International Quantum Research Institute was established in September 2021 in the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone. Walking into the hall on the first floor of the Shenzhen International Quantum Research Institute, the scientific research achievements such as superconducting quantum chips on display show the fruitful results of this scientific research institution. Just two days before the reporter's interview, this R&D institution had just celebrated its second birthday.
The rapid development of the institute is inseparable from the service provided by the Hetao for the construction of the institute. When it comes to the supporting services of the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone, Bai Zhiqiang frequently praises it.
For example, Bai Zhiqiang said that the renovation of the institute involves the construction of many laboratories, which usually takes at least one or two years, but the relevant departments of the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone worked overtime and completed it in only half a year. The institute has about 200 students, and in the past, they were scattered around the institute, making it difficult to ensure safety. After learning about it, the relevant departments of the Hetao Cooperation Zone quickly coordinated a centralized accommodation area for the use of the research institute.
Supporting services for scientific research are a perceptible business environment. At present, the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone is accelerating the construction of an all-round, full-process and full-cycle three-dimensional comprehensive service system, and making every effort to solve the worries of scientific researchers.
Funding is one of the biggest challenges for tech start-ups. Li Yan told the reporter of "Southern" magazine that the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Company and the investor jointly initiated the establishment of the first science and technology innovation equity investment in the Hetao Cooperation Zone with a scale of 1 billion yuan - Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation**, and has successfully decided 10 projects with a total investment of about 3100 million yuan.
On October 12, Shenzhen Science and Technology Library (Futian District Library) was unveiled in Shenzhen Park of Hetao Cooperation ZoneSupporting facilities such as scientist service platforms, intelligent sports facilities and public supporting service platforms have been built one after another, providing diversified and high-quality public service spacesImplement the supply of special talent housing, and build a talent station ...... in the Hetao Cooperation ZoneIn the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation Zone, the "hardness" of the science and technology innovation space and the "temperature" of scientific research facilities are rapidly increasing simultaneously.
Li Yan introduced that in order to solve the problem of insufficient commercial and residential space in the Hetao Cooperation Zone, Hetao No. 1, a comprehensive platform integrating high-end commerce, business offices, cultural activities and public space, is expected to be completed in 2024 in the Futian Free Trade Zone area of the west wing of the Shenzhen Park of the Hetao Cooperation ZoneIn the Huanggang Port Area of the East Wing, the first super high-rise commercial and residential complex in the Hetao Cooperation Zone, including 100,000 square meters of office space, 70,000 square meters of talent housing and commercial facilities, is also under construction.
In the future, a comfortable and warm science and technology innovation city will rise on the banks of the Shenzhen River.
*: Southern Magazine.