"In the past year, I have felt unprecedented joy in starting a business and a sense of accomplishment in making my dream come true. At the Guangdong Provincial High-Quality Development Conference held in Shenzhen on February 18, Yan Ning, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, shared her feelings about starting a business in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for a year. A year ago, Yan Ning announced his resignation from Princeton University to prepare for the establishment of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences in Shenzhen. Within a year of coming to Shenzhen, the workplace quickly changed from a rough room to a modern laboratory, and attracted dozens of outstanding talents from the medical fields of neurological and psychiatric diseases, infectious diseases, neurobiology and other medical fields to independently lead the laboratory ......
In February 2019, the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was publicly released, clearly proposing to "build an international science and technology innovation hub". Over the past five years since the implementation of the Outline, the scientific and technological cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has been deepened, the flow of scientific and technological elements such as data, capital and talent has accelerated, and the strength and attractiveness of science and technology innovation in the Greater Bay Area have been continuously enhanced. The establishment of the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences is a reflection of the growing attraction of the Greater Bay Area to scientific and technological talents, and it is also a microcosm of the Greater Bay Area's acceleration of building China's science and technology innovation highland.
In Guangming District, where the Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences is located, Shenzhen is promoting the construction of Guangming Science City with the strength of the whole city, focusing on the three disciplines of information, life and new materials. At present, the large scientific device of synthetic biology is operating smoothly here, the construction of more than 20 major scientific and technological innovation carriers is advancing on a rolling basis, and more than 20 academician teams and more than 5,400 scientific research talents from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are constantly running out of innovation "acceleration".
To the north of Guangming Science City, the China Spallation Neutron Source, the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, and the Guangzhou Nansha Science City have formed clusters. To the south of Guangming Science City, the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Hong Kong University of Chinese and other "old powerhouses" have accumulated a lot of experience.
According to Nancy Yip, President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong has strong scientific research capabilities and status as an international financial center, while the nine mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area, such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou, have a sound industrial system and a complete industrial chain, and are connected to the broad mainland market.
On February 4 this year, the first "Bauhinia" high-quality power supply wiring in China built by the Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau of China Southern Power Grid was officially put into operation in the Shenzhen Park of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone in the Hetao between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, meeting the extremely high requirements of high-tech enterprises, research institutions and laboratories for power supply reliability, continuity and stability.
Any unexpected power outage or short-term voltage fluctuation may cause damage to experimental samples or loss of experimental data, and high-quality power supply is one of the biggest guarantees for our stay. Yang Chao, director of smart energy systems at the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, said.
It is understood that at present, about 800,000 square meters of high-quality scientific research space has been renovated in Hetao Shenzhen Park, and 11 specialized parks have been built; It has brought together 7 Fortune 500 R&D centers, 10 major national scientific research platforms, 10 Hong Kong university research institutions, and more than 160 high-end scientific research projects. China's first high spatiotemporal resolution electron microscope and other leading scientific and technological achievements ...... were born
It is only a thirty or forty minute drive from the City University of Hong Kong. Chen Furong, dean of the Futian Research Institute at City University of Hong Kong, who studies electron microscopy in the Shenzhen Park of the Loop, said that scientific innovation requires a flash of inspiration and impulse: "I came up with an idea in Hong Kong, and I could immediately try it in the laboratory here." ”
In recent years, the convergence of high-end scientific research resources in the Greater Bay Area has accelerated, creating a spark of innovation. Last year, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster ranked second in the world for the fourth consecutive year in the 2023 edition of the Global Innovation Index "Science and Technology Clusters" released by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Gong Guoping, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said that the world's top science and technology clusters rely on the efforts of the Greater Bay Area to continuously improve the whole process innovation ecological chain of "basic research + technological research + achievement transformation + science and technology finance + talent support", continuously optimize the regional innovation system, and promote the construction of an international science and technology innovation center.
It is understood that the current R&D investment intensity in the Greater Bay Area exceeds 34%, R&D investment, effective number of invention patents, PCT international patent applications and other major scientific and technological indicators have maintained the first place in the country.
Ai Xuefeng, director of the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission and director of the Provincial Greater Bay Area Office, recently said that it is necessary to grasp the layout of science and technology and industrial innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Accelerate the construction of an international science and technology innovation center and a comprehensive national science center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, coordinate and promote the construction of the three major science cities of Guangming, Songshan Lake and Nansha in Shenzhen, promote the optimization of the layout of major scientific and technological infrastructure, and build an innovation pattern of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Loop and the "two points" of Guangdong-Macao Hengqin, and the "two corridors" of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong and Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao.
**: Xinhua News Agency
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