(Planning Drawing of Chuzhou Original Science and Technology City)
In order to implement in-depth the innovation-driven development strategy and stimulate science and technology innovation and accelerate the transformation of research achievements and the transition and upgrading of the zone, the management committee of the Chuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone plans to build an original science and technology city, making it China’s first demonstrative zone for the transfer and transformation of research achievements.
1. Site selection and positioning of Chuzhou Original Science and Technology City
The management committee of the Chuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone has selected the high-speed railway station areas and the Moon Bay area of the zone as the site of the city. The railway station area covers about 10 square kilometers and the Moon Bay site covers about 6 square kilometers. The positioning of the city is as follows:
(1) It will house in a concentrated manner S&T innovation industrial chains. By integrating the public resources and the dynamic market resources, the city will build a creative space and public platform that will amass the government, institutes of higher learning, research institutions, academic leaders, R&D teams, market investors and market service providers so as to form a streamlined cluster of S&T innovative industrial chains, covering R&D, minor experiments, medium experiments, exhibition, experiencing, trading and conversion of achievements into application.
(2) It will focus on the key segments of the S&T innovative industrial chains in line with demand, with emphasis putting on creating a public experiment platform and a platform for tradingand experiencing innovation achievements. At the same time, it will build engineering technology research centers to meet the demand for the development of industries in the area, relying on the resources of enterprises and research institutions and academies.
(3) It will create a platform for gathering global S&T innovation achievements and a platform for gathering high-level personnel so as to create a top-class research setting, gather the first-class market resources and create the top-class carrying environment.
(4) It will create a globally attractive and influential innovation trading and transformation center like Hannover.
(5) It focuses on practical operation in innovation and promoting application exploration and regime contribution of technological innovation.
(6) It will make the city an ideal and smart place to live in and do business, with a new type of community management mode.
2. Major projects in Chuzhou Original Science and Technology City
(1) Innovation and R&D Base
It will concentrate efforts on creating a research and experiment space in line with the demand of industries and enterprises in and outside the area and taking over of forefront science and technology achievement, by which to attract technological talents, inventors and scientists to settle in Chuzhou together with their achievements.
(a) It will build an open public laboratory, with a planned area of 100,000 square meters against the weaknesses in science and technology innovation and to meet practical needs, making it a public experiment platform for carrying out medium and small-scale experiments in key technologies (including materials) in major disciplines and in areas associated with the industries in the zone and attract achievement holders to complete their testing and participate in the application of their achievements. It is planned to cooperate with the Jiu San (Sept.3rd) Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Western Returned Scholars Association in building the project.
(b) It will build a number of engineering technology centers to meet the industrial demand of the regions and even in the country. They include 7 major categories of state- (provincial) level engineering technology centers, such as robot research and technology center, new energy vehicles research and engineering center, smart home electrical appliances (HEA) engineering technology center, environment protection engineering center, green food science engineering and technology center, basic applied material engineering and technology center and bio-engineering and technology center.
When conditions are suitable, three other engineering technology centers will be built: an auto electronics engineering center, a fermenting engineering technology center and a software development engineering center.
Part of the centers have already had cooperation partners. The emphasis will be put on cooperating with entrepreneurs and scientists.
(c) It will build a number of assessment and testing platforms, starting with four categories of assessment and testing platforms for food, HEA, automobiles and basic materials. These platforms do not only cater to the needs of industrial development in Chuzhou but also serve as a kingpin of the industrial foundation of Chuzhou. The HEA platform has been operated by the China HEA Research Institute.
(d) It will set up mechanisms for promoting the application of research achievements, with emphasis on four aspects: first, financial support mechanism, setting up an industrial development fund by bringing in venture capital and improving the investment guide mechanism; second, taxation incentive mechanism, with emphasis on implementing the central, provincial and city policies, and well-targeted integration of resources; third, an administrative service mechanism, with emphasis on improving the assistance and management level, providing good assistance and management services, and striving to promote in-situ application of research achievements; and fourth, a mechanism of ensuring the transition of industries based on the spatial resources of the development zone.
(2) Technological Innovation Trading Center
The center will be a platform for trading, exhibiting and experiencing and transferring all kinds of innovation achievements made at home and abroad. The center will be built by the Chuzhou City People’s Government in cooperation with the Ministry of Science and Technology (Torch High Technology Industry Development Center, China Science and Technology Exchange Center), the Ministry of Education (science and technology development center), UNIDO, WIPO, U.S. Association of University Technology Managers formed by more than 300 Universities, IDEA, EDA, Beijing’s Zhongguancun and Shanghai’s Zhangjiang.
The center will be operated as a company, with the market maker system to carry out both on- and off-line trading. It will cooperate with Beijing, Shanghai and other places in creating an integrated development pattern of Beijing, Shanghai and Chuzhou, with the Beijing and Shanghai at the forefront and Chuzou as the rear base. Negotiations, trading and exhibitions and other substantial operations will be done in Chuzhou.
(3) Technological Innovation Conference and Exhibition Center
In conjunction with the operation of the trading center, the economic development zone will invest in and build a high-level international conference and exhibition center, which will integrate exhibitions of research achievements, popular science, conferences, business services, catering and entertainment, making it a high-level international conference and exhibition center, which will cooperate closely with the Hannover Industrial Fair, the China Technology Import and Export Fair, the China International Industry Fair and other domestic and international fairs and make them display their famous brand products all year round at the center. Apart from the fairs , it will undertake displaying, experiencing and exchanging all kinds of achievements.
(4) Science and Technology Theme Park
The zone will build a science and technology theme park by making full use of the space in the city and in line with the needs of the cityscaping. The park will function as a place for popularizing knowledge of natural sciences, aviation and space and other top-end technology experience, VR technology experience and enhanced AR technology experience and innovative startup achievement exhibition.
The project will be planned, designed and operated by the CISDI Group Co., Ltd. of the Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. (MCC).
(5) Innovation and Originality Platform
The zone will build a national and even global innovation and originality platform and mechanism to carry out all kinds of activities, such as competitions in HEA design and creation and auto design and creation to attract domestic and foreign advanced creative ideas and thoughts to participate in brainstorming and exchanges so as to further raise the influence of Chuzhou.
The project is planned to cooperate with domestic industrial associations.
(6)Building matching facilities.
3. Steps for executing the plans on building Chuzhou Original Science and Technology City
The unified plan will be executed in steps, with the initial shape of the city to take place in the first three years, basic completion in the second three years and overall completion in another year. The specific schedule is as follows:
Substantial planning starts this year to ensure that the first phase project start officially in 2016.
The first three years: complete the first phase development of 3 square kilometers, with the public lab and part of the engineering centers completed and the trading center put into operation. By then, there will be a number of demonstrative state technology transfer organizations, making it the state science and technology achievements transfer and transformation and demonstrative zone, the state technology transfer and personnel training base, and making the creative tech city part of the national strategic goal.
The second three years: complete the construction of all projects in the creative tech city and improve the operations of the trading center, gathering the buyers and sellers of the domestic and foreign research and innovation achievements, completing the base for industrializing the research and innovation achievements, advancing the technology transactions into the front ranks in the country and holding the first fair of international science and technology achievements in around 2022.
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