Zhongan News Client NewsThe Yangtze River Delta is one of the regions with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness and the strongest innovation ability in China. On November 30, 2023, the general secretary of ** stressed at the symposium on in-depth promotion of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta presided over in Shanghai that the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta should be further promoted, the innovation ability, industrial competitiveness and development level should be further enhanced, and a new pattern of higher-level reform and opening up should be formed.
The three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta have drawn a map and woven a dream together, polishing the background of innovation in the Yangtze River Delta more and more. In January this year, the Anhui Provincial Institute of Science and Technology Information, together with the Shanghai Institute of Science, the Jiangsu Institute of Science and Technology Information, and the Zhejiang Institute of Science and Technology Information, jointly released the "Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index 2023" (hereinafter referred to as the "Index Report"), which aims to enhance the source of collaborative innovation in the Yangtze River Delta region and support the high-quality integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta as the evaluation object. Based on 2011, the index system of 20 secondary indicators was used to measure and evaluate the collaborative innovation development process of the Yangtze River Delta region from 2011 to 2022.
The development of the Yangtze River Delta regional collaborative innovation index from 2011 to 2022.
According to the report, the Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index has increased from 100 points (base period) in 2011 to 262 in 202248 points, since 2018, the average annual growth rate of the Yangtze River Delta regional collaborative innovation index has reached 1117%, the construction of a science and technology innovation community in three provinces and one city has accelerated. From the perspective of the changes in the five first-level indicators, the achievement sharing indicator increased the most, from 159 in 201824 points improved to 443 in 202226 points, with an average annual growth rate of 2917%;This is followed by the resource sharing indicator, which rose from 197 in 201851 points to 277 in 202214 points, with an average annual growth rate of 884%;The third is the innovation cooperation indicator, which rose from 133 in 201833 points rose to 186 in 202228 points, with an average annual growth rate of 872%;Relatively speaking, the development and growth rate of the two indicators of industrial linkage and environmental support is slightly slow. In addition, in the ranking of 41 cities in three provinces and one city, Shanghai continues to play a leading role in driving the integration of science and technology cooperation and innovation in the Yangtze River Delta region, followed by Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou and Hefei, becoming important hubs for cross-regional collaborative innovation in the Yangtze River Delta. Compared with 2018, Jiaxing's collaborative innovation level ranking has improved the fastest, from the original 17th to 6th in 2022, and Anhui's Fuyang, Lu'an and Xuancheng are second only to Jiaxing, rising 9, 8 and 7 respectivelyAcceleration.
The development of the first-level indicators of the Yangtze River Delta Regional Collaborative Innovation Index.
Accelerate the convergence of innovation resources. The intensity of R&D investment in the Yangtze River Delta region reached 323%, nearly 07 percentage points. The Yangtze River Delta region has 76 R&D personnel per 10,000 people20 person-years, nearly twice the national average. The number of large-scale instruments shared in the Yangtze River Delta has reached more than 40,000 sets, with a value of more than 52.2 billion yuan, providing an important platform for promoting open innovation and cooperation. The accelerated convergence of people, money and materials has provided solid support for the three provinces and one municipality to achieve "leapfrog development" in key areas.
The integration of science and technology is accelerating. The number of international scientific and technological cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta region reached 27,916, an increase of 50% over 2018, and all 41 cities were deeply involved in the regional scientific research cooperation network. The number of patent transfers in the Yangtze River Delta reached 35,504, and the number of cooperative invention patents reached 10,640, an increase of 355 times and 177 times. The turnover of technical contracts between the three provinces and one city reached 18634.5 billion yuan, an increase of 4 over 201819 times, accounting for 13 of the turnover of all technical contracts in three provinces and one city96%。At the same time, the turnover of all technical contracts in the three provinces and one city accounted for 27 percent of the national technical contract turnover94%, compared with 2018, this value has increased by nearly 10 percentage points, and the efficient transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the three provinces and one city has made an important contribution to the development of national innovation and development.
Industrial innovation is accelerating. The profit of the high-tech industry in the Yangtze River Delta reached 466.1 billion yuan, an increase of 34% over 201832%, accounting for 1 4 of the profits of the country's high-tech industry. The total industrial output value of enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta National High-tech Zone is 83,6901.7 billion yuan, an increase of 62 percent over 201863%, accounting for nearly 30% of the total industrial output value of enterprises in the national high-tech zone. As of September 2023, the number of cross-regional investment enterprises of listed companies in the Yangtze River Delta region between the three provinces and one city has reached 5,389, of which Shanghai has the largest number of invested enterprises, accounting for the cross-regional investment of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui in the Yangtze River Delta region. 15% and 3696%。A large number of chain main enterprises around the development of the three provinces and one city to carry out cooperation and division of labor and strong chain coordination, incubated a number of innovative enterprises with key core technologies, the Yangtze River Delta cross-regional capital flow for the three provinces and one city to provide an important impetus for scientific and technological innovation and industrial layout coordination, and gradually formed a multi-chain synergy model dominated by the capital chain. (Reporter Xu Huiyuan).