Liu Zhibiao & Kong Lingchi: Nanjing: Building a World-class Innovation Highland

Release time:2019-10-17Author: Liu Zhibiao & Kong Lingchi

As a megalopolis, Nanjing should take the construction of the Science and Technology Innovation Circle of the Yangtze River Delta as an opportunity to promote the construction of an innovative city. Nanjing should also take an active role in gathering innovative resources and upgrading its energy level, give better play to its function and role as a central city, and strive to become a strategic fulcrum to promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and an innovation engine to drive the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta. Nanjing should take the following five measures:1. We should focus on building an important platform for closely connecting science education resources with actual productivity, comprehensively strengthen basic scientific research, greatly enhance the ability of scientific and technological innovation, promote collaborative innovation of Industry-University-Research, provide public welfare system such as compulsory education, establish inclusive management system for career training, and promote cross-regional cooperation in scientific and technological innovation.2. Through the transformation, we can release space, create a highland of international, innovative and entrepreneurial talents, and form a multi-functional intelligent complex.3. We should actively promote the construction of the industrial innovation corridor between Shanghai, Nanjing and Hefei, build a landmark cluster of emerging industries, and accelerate the development of the industrialization of science and technology.4. We should solve the problem of the difficulty of the implementation of policies, integrate the scientific and technological R & D system, improve the evaluation of performance, accelerate the construction of the core area of the National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone in southern Jiangsu and promote the Nanjing Free Trade Zone to carry out more differentiated and innovative exploration.5. We should take the mixed economy as a breakthrough to promote the deep-seated reform of state-owned enterprises, promote the development of commodity market, promote the development of factor market, cultivate and develop market intermediary organizations, and vigorously create a social atmosphere that is good at practice, advocates innovation, dares to take risks and tolerates failure.