In April, 2023, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed that it is necessary to strengthen the dominant position of enterprises, promote the deep integration of capital chain and talent chain in innovation chain industrial chain, continuously improve the transformation and industrialization level of scientific and technological achievements, and build an industrial scientific and technological innovation center with global influence.
As the core engine of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center and the main position of Greater Bay Area Comprehensive National Science Center, in recent years, Shenzhen has carried out the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talents and innovation-driven development, adhered to the "Four Orientations", promoted the deep integration of the capital chain of innovation chain industrial chain, formed an innovation system with enterprises as the main body and Industry-University-Research’s efficient cooperation and deep integration, accelerated the construction of an industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence, built an innovative city in an all-round way, and made Shenzhen contributions to the country’s high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.
Scientific and Technological Innovation by going up one flight of stairs
A few days ago, the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee and Shenzhen Special Zone Daily jointly released ten major events of Shenzhen’s scientific and technological innovation in 2023. Among them, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science Innovation proposed a new treatment for Parkinson’s disease, and the research team provided a potential brand-new strategy for clinical treatment. Significant progress has been made in the research of Parkinson’s disease, which was published in the top journal Cell.
In recent years, focusing on the actual needs of solving the core problems of neural mechanism and diagnosis and treatment strategy of severe brain diseases, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Brain Diseases and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Diseases have made a number of important original achievements in animal models of multi-species diseases, strategies for early diagnosis of brain diseases, and research and development of cutting-edge cross-neural technology tools.
At present, brain institutes and brain facilities have become the source of innovation in the field of brain science in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and even the whole country, and they are also a new force for Shenzhen to focus on the frontier, strengthen basic research and seize the international highland of brain science.
Basic research is the source of scientific and technological innovation, which is related to the source innovation ability of countries and cities and the international scientific and technological competitiveness. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress, the Communist Party of China, proposed to speed up the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, especially to strengthen basic research, highlight originality and encourage free exploration.
In recent years, Shenzhen has deeply implemented the innovation-driven development strategy, constructed a diversified investment system for basic research, and insisted that not less than 30% of the municipal R&D funds be invested in basic research. The total social R&D investment accounts for 5.81% of GDP, second only to Beijing; Among them, the R&D investment of enterprises is 178.518 billion yuan, accounting for 94.9% of the total social R&D investment, ranking first in the country.
Strengthen strategic scientific and technological strength, build a national innovation platform, and give play to the leading role of science and technology. At present, the construction of Guangming Science City has taken a new step. The scientific and technological infrastructure such as synthetic biology research, brain analysis and brain simulation has been basically completed, the equipment debugging of the material genome facility has been completed, and the second phase of the National Supercomputing Center has started. The construction of Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen Academy of Medical Sciences and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Quantum Science Center was accelerated; Layout and construction of 13 national key laboratories, 4 provincial laboratories, and more than 340 municipal key laboratories, forming a laboratory system that is connected by steps.
In Shenzhen, strengthening basic research has become more and more important, and the original innovation ability has been greatly improved. The subversive and original achievements of "from 0 to 1" are constantly emerging. The number of PCT international patent applications ranks first among cities in China. There are 276,000 domestic patents authorized, ranking first among cities in China; Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou Science and Technology Cluster ranks second in the world for four consecutive years among the top 100 science and technology clusters in the world.
Emerging industries add new impetus.
At the opening ceremony of the 25th Hi-Tech Fair, Yuntian Lifei released a new generation of AI chip, which is the first domestic 14nm Chiplet large model reasoning chip, and can be widely used in AIoT edge video, mobile robots and other scenes.
"We are cooperating with a number of companies to jointly promote the application of domestic chip ecology in various industries and scenarios." Chen Ning, chairman and CEO of Yuntian Lifei, said that both robots, intelligent sensing of driverless cars, all kinds of intelligent hardware and even brain-computer interface chips need reasoning chips with large models.
As a strategic emerging technology, artificial intelligence has increasingly become an important driving force for technological innovation, industrial upgrading and productivity improvement.
At present, Shenzhen has continuously improved the industrial chain of artificial intelligence, and has a large number of leading enterprises and cutting-edge enterprises in the industry. A number of application demonstration achievements have emerged in the fields of intelligent hardware, computer vision, autonomous driving, smart finance, smart medical care, etc., and a high-quality development policy system of artificial intelligence with "one regulation, one plan, one list and one fund group" has been built, empowering thousands of industries.
The leading role of strategic emerging industries represented by artificial intelligence has become increasingly prominent, provoking the "girder" of Shenzhen’s economic development. In the first three quarters of 2023, the added value of strategic emerging industries in Shenzhen reached 1,039.339 billion yuan, up 8.3% year-on-year, and its share in GDP increased to 42.5%. Among them, industrial clusters such as intelligent networked automobiles, software and information services, new energy, intelligent sensors and intelligent robots have grown rapidly.
Mike Porter put forward a theory in "National Competitive Advantage", that is, industrial clusters help competing enterprises to improve their competitiveness and play an important role in the development of specific industries and the enhancement of national competitiveness.
In order to promote industrial clustering, high-end and green development, in 2022, Shenzhen issued the Opinions on Developing and Strengthening Strategic Emerging Industrial Clusters and Cultivating Future Industries, expanding 20 industrial clusters such as network and communication, ultra-high-definition video display, intelligent sensors and intelligent robots, cultivating and developing eight future industries such as cells and genes, aerospace technology, brain science and brain-like intelligence and quantum information, and further promoting innovation chain, industrial chain and education chain.
At present, Shenzhen is accelerating the layout of a number of new pillar industrial clusters of trillions and billions. Integrated circuits are developing full-chain technology research and full-category manufacturing; Keep up with the development trend of green, digital, unmanned and platform-based automobiles, and plan and lay out "a new generation of world-class automobile city"; Strive to build a world-class new energy storage industry center. By 2025, the added value of strategic emerging industries in Shenzhen will exceed 1.5 trillion yuan, becoming the main engine to promote high-quality economic and social development.