From the unknown "Water Chestnut Village" to the "vigorous" scientific innovation highland, Zhangjiang Science City has bravely stood at the forefront of the times. Over the past three decades, Zhangjiang has become bigger, stronger and warmer, and is marching towards the palace of scientific innovation. Let's listen to Yuan Tao, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Zhangjiang Group, tell the story of Zhangjiang's struggle.
Zhangjiang Science City, representing the symbol of innovation in Shanghai, has expanded from the initial planning area of 17 square kilometers to the current 220 square kilometers, and has a larger space and stage for scientific and technological innovation; With the breakthrough of a series of systems, today's Science City has gathered about 24000 enterprises, stimulating the tide of scientific and technological innovation
based on the leading area of Pudong, Zhangjiang Science City has been deeply cultivated. Over the past 30 years, Zhangjiang has written a history of entrepreneurship and development from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong. Recently, some media came to Zhangjiang to talk with Yuan Tao, the secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Shanghai Zhangjiang (Group) Co., Ltd., and listened to his story about how Zhangjiang tried to strengthen the innovation engine and build a highland of independent innovation.
Figure: Yuan Tao, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Zhangjiang Group
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It was born of reform and opening up,
Accumulate a surge of strength
Zhangjiang High tech Park was born and prospered due to the reform and opening up.
The development tide of Pudong has spawned a number of development companies. On July 28, 1992, Zhangjiang Group's predecessor, Shanghai Zhangjiang High tech Park Development Company, was listed, and Zhangjiang High tech Park officially opened on the same day.
Figure: Zhangjiang Group's predecessor, Shanghai Zhangjiang High tech Park Development Company, was listed
"In a sense, Zhangjiang Hi tech Park has witnessed the process of Pudong's reform and opening up, the development of Shanghai's science and technology industry and research, and is also a microcosm of reform and opening up." Having worked in Zhangjiang for five years, Yuan Tao personally experienced and witnessed the development of Zhangjiang in the past five years, and also understood the history of the past 25 years.
"These 30 years are extraordinary for Zhangjiang." In Yuan Tao's view, Zhang Jiang, who started from scratch and worked hard, has come a long way. If you use three words to describe the changes in Zhangjiang, "bigger", "stronger" and "more temperature" are more appropriate.
All are stories.
1992
The initial planning of Zhangjiang High tech Park is 17 square kilometers;
1999
After the implementation of the strategy of "focusing on Zhangjiang", the planned area of the park has expanded to 25 square kilometers;
2011
Zhangjiang has been approved as a national independent innovation demonstration zone, with the land expanded to 75.9 square kilometers;
2014
The expansion of Shanghai Free Trade Zone and the incorporation of Zhangjiang Free Trade Zone with an area of 37.2 square kilometers;
2021
Zhangjiang Science City has expanded to 220 square kilometers.
"Zhangjiang has become larger, and the entire development area has undergone tremendous changes. In the past, there was only one Zhangjiang Town, but now the concept of Zhangjiang Science City involves nine surrounding towns." As the core bearing area of Shanghai Science and Innovation Center, Zhangjiang, which is growing day by day and year by year, has accumulated tremendous strength.
"Zhangjiang has become stronger." After 30 years of unremitting efforts and hard work, Zhangjiang has become a fertile land for innovation and entrepreneurship, a highland for innovation in China and a gathering place for major hard core industries in Shanghai.
"Zhangjiang is getting hotter." The third change made Yuan Tao feel deeply. Over the past 30 years, thanks to the reform and opening up, Zhangjiang Hi tech Park has given Zhangjiang's innovation entrepreneurs more opportunities to understand the world, integrate into the world and participate in world competition. In particular, the spirit of "encouraging success and tolerating failure" is advocated here, which is also an international spirit, a mentality and a way of life that is brave to meet challenges and participate in world competition.
"Zhangjiang has transformed from a simple science park into a science city integrating industry and city. It is bustling and bustling every day, with people coming and going, and the temperature and fireworks of the city." Yuan Tao believes that Zhangjiang is more like a paradise for entrepreneurship.
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"From 0 to 1", Science City
The characteristics of scientific innovation are increasingly obvious
"The vitality represents the state of Zhangjiang, especially the vitality of innovation and industrial development." Yuan Tao said.
Figure: Zhangjiang High tech Park Incubation base
(Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi tech Entrepreneurship Service Center) was officially completed
Zhang Jiang has gone through 30 years since the establishment of the park, and his original intention is unswerving. "Zhangjiang undertakes the national mission, and should be brave to lead the trend in scientific and technological innovation, stand on the front line, and accept the challenges of the world." Zhangjiang has always kept its original intention, and has always polished Zhangjiang's hard core nature at the forefront of science and technology.
"From 0 to 1", Zhangjiang fosters innovation at the source. The scientific characteristics of the Science City are becoming increasingly obvious. Major scientific and technological infrastructure and R&D institutions are gathering at an accelerated pace. National and even global scientific research achievements continue to emerge here.
At present, China has only approved four comprehensive national science centers, and Shanghai Zhangjiang is on the list.
How to develop scientifically, and how to seek common ground while reserving differences? Yuan Tao believes that each place has its own characteristics. Who can stand out depends on the achievements, whether hard core technology, hard core industry can be born, and whether the problem of neck sticking can be solved is the most important.
The science center means that more attention should be paid to the innovation policy source capability. Adhering to high-quality development and highlighting scientific and technological innovation is the inherent mission of Zhangjiang Group, and is also the consistent action program of generations of Zhangjiang developers and builders.
"In the past 30 years, Zhangjiang has focused on Sino foreign joint development and global resource allocation. Next, we want to turn our original ideas and achievements into visible and accessible technologies and products relying on our own resource planning capabilities."
In Yuan Tao's proposal, Zhangjiang should become the palace of scientific innovation and the first place for new technologies and products.
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On fertile land,
about 24000 enterprises have grown up
Open the distribution map of enterprises on the science and technology innovation board, you can clearly see the "highlight" area of Zhangjiang. Statistics show that on the third anniversary of the opening of the Science and Technology Innovation Board, there are more than 40 Zhangjiang enterprises listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, mainly focusing on leading industries such as biomedicine and integrated circuit, which shows the "hard core" strength of Zhangjiang enterprises.
Over the past 30 years, in the fertile land of Zhangjiang Science City, about 24000 enterprises, more than 1800 high-tech enterprises and 179 foreign R&D centers have "broken the ground". In 2021, the total revenue of the enterprise will exceed trillion yuan, showing a high growth trend of more than 10% annually.
Many people wonder why Zhangjiang can become Zhangjiang in Shanghai, the whole country and even the whole world? What successful experiences can be learned and copied?
"If Zhang Jiang has made some achievements, he must stand on the shoulders of his predecessors." At the beginning of the establishment of Zhangjiang High tech Park, AI was mentioned in the industrial orientation. Yuan Tao believed that "it was extremely rare to gain insight into the hot industries decades later in that era." The insight and judgment of early pioneers laid a solid foundation for the development of Zhangjiang.
"Zhangjiang Group regards the creation of innovative ecology as the top priority of the function development of the Science City, with continuous investment and long-term company. only long R&D and unswerving perseverance are available." "Ten years to sharpen a sword", "generation after generation to do", "predecessors plant trees, and later generations enjoy the cool"... In the noisy development of various "vents", Zhangjiang has always maintained patience and determination, and fought for "hot industry" in the "cold bench".
Since the first incubator was launched in 1995, 100 professional incubators have been launched; Take the lead in building and operating an open innovation center for large enterprises such as Johnson&Johnson and Microsoft Lab, and create a leading area for the financing and development of large, small and medium-sized enterprises; Integrate resources such as scientific investment, scientific loans, incubators, drug valley platforms, and innovation colleges, and take the lead in building a scientific innovation service platform with multiple functions of "investment, loan, incubation and learning"
Zhangjiang Group has invested in more than 100 projects, 19 projects such as Keboda have been listed in domestic and overseas capital markets, and 11 projects such as Shengmei have been listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board; There are 50 investment funds, with an investment amount of 3 billion yuan and a return investment multiple of about 3 times. The "circle of friends" and "ecosystem" are expanding.
During the activity of the 30th anniversary of the founding of Zhangjiang Group, Yuan Tao sighed: "Thanks for the great era, it is the era that created Zhangjiang Group, and it is the Zhangjiang Science City that we love and strive for."
In his view, Shanghai has a unique geographical location and modern commercial civilization, with global enterprises, talents and resources gathering. The world-class city function of "embracing hundreds of rivers" supports the development of industry and cultivates the "tropical rain forest" of scientific and technological innovation.
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The future has come,
"City of the Future" set sail
Where is the highest "twin tower" in Shanghai in the future? In Zhangjiang Science City!
Drive along the Huaxia Road Elevated Road to the downtown of Shanghai. When you get to Central, you can see two tall buildings in the distance, which echo each other from afar. This is the Zhangjiang landmark "Science Gate", which is "growing high" every day.
"We should give full support to Zhangjiang!" At the end of September this year, in the newly completed Zhangjiang Science Hall, Li Qiang, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, emphasized that. In 1999, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Government put forward the strategy of "focusing on Zhangjiang", which is also "raising the power of the whole city".
Why do successive municipal Party committees and governments attach so much importance to Zhangjiang and put it on the "top of the heart"? The key word is "ecology".
"From artificial intelligence island to cell gene industrial park, robot valley, instrument park to innovative medicine base, to online economic park, private enterprise headquarters park, listed company headquarters park, etc., these industrial parks are built according to an ecological logic."
Yuan Tao said that Zhangjiang Group has targeted upstream and downstream resources in each characteristic industrial park.
Figure: Shanghai Light Source
Now, standing at a new starting point, Zhangjiang Science City has a series of national strategic overlapping opportunities, such as the National Science and Innovation Center, the Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone, the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, the Pudong Leading Zone, and the High Level Talent Highland. How can we seize the opportunity?
"In the national high-tech parks, as the nearest place to the world, we will continue to hold high the banner of reform and opening up to accommodate the development of global innovation elements in Zhangjiang."
Yuan Tao said that Zhangjiang workstations will be established in some global innovation centers to better publicize Zhangjiang and China's market charm, so that global innovation elements will flow to China continuously; We will further strengthen independent innovation, and rely on many institutions of higher learning, national research and development institutions, and scientists to transform their ideas and innovative achievements into productive forces. Relying on Zhangjiang's rich industrial ecology, industrial scale and state-owned platform, we will spare no effort to explore and accelerate the source of original strategies.
In addition, we will continue to focus on the forefront of scientific and technological development, pay attention to the subdivisions of the three major tracks in Shanghai, and take the lead in exploring the future fields, so that these tracks can always see the achievements of Zhangjiang, make Zhangjiang's voice heard, and contribute to Zhangjiang's strength.
At the just concluded World AI Conference, the concept of "Zhangjiang · Future City SUPER CITY" was put forward. The pilot area of Zhangjiang Digital Twin "City of the Future" will be built around "one island" (artificial intelligence island), "one hall" (Zhangjiang Science Hall) and "one city" (Zhangjiang Science City), with Zhangjiang Central District covering an area of 4.1 square kilometers.
"Focus on Zhangjiang", to achieve Zhangjiang. Looking back on the past 30 years, the future has come!
