I. Prologue
To further implement the strategy of reviving the city by edution
and science, to boost the S&T invovation, to promote the development
level of ecomony and society, to strenthen the city¡¯s competition
power, and to push forward the city¡¯s new development leap, this
program is therefore enacted.
Chengdu, having rich resources of science and technologies, is one
of West China¡¯s cities concentrated with higher learning academies,
science research institutions, and high-tech corporations. It has
490,000 various professional technicians, 28 academicians of Chinese
Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, and more
than 2700 various R&D institutions including 10 international
R&D reaching centers and 21 higher learning academies. With
the comparatively powerful R&D forces, 63% of the city¡¯s academicians
and over 70% of national key laboratories and engineering centers
are engaging in the high-tech research and application. Because
of Chengdu¡¯s better science and technology industrial advantages,
a large numbers of S&T corporations, especially private high-tech
corporations, are rapidly growing up and S&T innovation platform
represented by Chengdu high-tech zone has taken shape, which create
excellent environment of S&T innovation and business¡¯ carving
out owing to a series of favorable policies have been constituted,
such as wider opening, investment environment improving, high-tech
achievement transferring, industrialization and so on. But there
are still differences between Chengdu and coastal cities, for example,
a. not many of the city¡¯s products of its own IPR, b. lower of proportion
of high-tech industry, c. high-tech GDP of 2001 only accounts for
23.96% of city¡¯s GDP while other developed countries are usually
over 50%, and Shenzhen 2001¡¯s has reached 45.87%, c. lack of high-tech
corporations which can resist the risk of market competition, d.
weak of talent attraction, which leads to low proportion of talents
who are directly engaging in S&T innovation and industrilization,
e. imperfect of the environment and mechanism for S&T innovation
and business¡¯ carving out. Under the situation therefore, it is
imperative to implement the Chengdu High-tech Action Program, to
define the strategic orientation, the development objectives and
the priorities of Chengdu¡¯s high-tech S&T, to speed up the S&T
innovation, to realize the high-tech industrialization, and to push
forward the city¡¯s leaping development.
II. Strategic Orientation
1. Possess of national first class R&D level, possess of a number
of international well-known and national first grade higher academies
and science research institutes to have R&D international level
strength in some science fields, possess of a batch of science first
class achievements with the own intellectual property rights to
make the city one of domestic enrichment cities yielding high-tech
achievements.
2. Possess of a group of national first class S&T innovation
talents who are mastering the core technologies, who are good at
operating capitals, who are familiar with the international brokering
rules, and who are with high quality of modern management and business
decisiveness to make the city one of gathering cities of various
innovation talents.
3. Possess of a swarm of national first grade high-tech industries.
In the fields such as electronics & IT, biochemicals, new materials,
and the integration of optics, machinery and electron form a group
of domestic top-ranking backbone high-tech corporations and industries
which are capable of sharing the large market proportion by manufacturing
well-known brand products and contributing a lot to GDP growing,
so that to make the city one of our country¡¯s typical cities boosting
economic and social development by the way of S&T innovation.
4. Possess of national first class surroundings of innovation and
business carving out, possess of national first class high-tech
innovation medi-service system, innovation incubating base, S&T
investment and financing system to make the city one of the cities
yearned towards by international and domestic excellent talents
for its highly open and superior standards of living and working.
III. Development Goals
Goals up to 2005:
(I) Innovation Capabilities
1. Research and development level: S&T investment growing scope
will be higher than one of finance revenue growing, and R&D
investment will reach RMB 6.5 billion accounting for 3% of GDP as
well as 75% of corporation investment. The patents annually approved
will be over 2000, including 200 invention patents, among the forepart
of the nation with 100,000 people owning 20 patents. The high-tech
corporation production value of the own intellectual property rights
will account for more than 50% of high-tech industrial GDP.
2. Innovation talents: The city¡¯s various technical professionals
will reach 640,000 with the number of S&T personnels among each
100,000 staff lining in the front of big and medium cities, including
over 20% S&T personnels directly engaging in R&D. The annual
training period of staff will not averagely less than 2 weeks.
3. Innovation institutions: Totally set up the service-oriented
S&T innovation platform for carving out incubators, venture
investment, technical property right exchange, decision-making consultation,
intellectual property right protection, and achievement transfer.
Possess of 50 well known incubators with areas of one million square
meters, 110 mobile postdoctoral centers and doctoral research workshops,
30 international research centers. The size of initial business
investment capital reaches RMB 2.5 billion, technical exchange contracts
amount to RBM 1.5 billon. Turn the city into the technical exchange
center of west China.
(II) Industry Development
1. Development priority: Continuously increase the core competitive
edge for the four leading industries of electronics & IT, biochemicals,
machinery (including automobile), and foodstuff (including tobacco).
Develop high-tech products to markedly enlarge the market sharing
rates. Relatively increase the market competitiveness of the strategy
industries such as software design, Chinese medicine modernization,
integral auto manufacture, electric ending product manufacture,
and aero-space and equipment set design & manufacture. Strive
for the particular status among the global work-together system
in some disciplines. Continuously reconstruct and upgrade the traditional
industry by high technology. Bring along industrialization by IT
to accelerate the development of modern logics, finance, and consultation.
2. The scale of industries: One or two corporations with production
value up to RMB 5 billion, 10 up to RMB 2 billion, 20 up to RMB
1 billion, 150 up to RMB 100 million, and 1000 high-tech corporations.
The average increase rate of high-tech production value will increase
more than 1.5 times of GDP average annual increase, amounting to
RMB 90 billion, accounting for 35% of the city¡¯s industrial GDP,
and 25% of the city¡¯s export value. The coverage of quality plantation
and animal husbandry will reach 90%, with the commercial farm produce
ratio of more than 75%. The growing value of the third industry
will accounts for 48% GDP.
(III) Surroundings Construction
1. City¡¯s information industry: The infrastructure will be basically
digitization providing excellent basic public platform for the varied
vocational information system. E-government will be overall brought
into effect to realize the sharing of information resources with
the society. The construction of digit communities will take into
initial shape, with e-business climate, and city¡¯s port bandwith
10 mega per 100 thousand people, and over 5 million person-time
accesses per year for the government doorway website.
2. Policies of S&T innovation: The favorable policies of innovation
will keep ahead among the whole country. Strive for the national
advanced cities of intellectual property protection.
3. People¡¯s living level: Urbanization reaches to 57%. S&T popularization
infiltrates into the various aspect of the social living, citizens¡¯
science culture quality and living level are to be generally raised,
the gross rate of higher education recruit reaches to 30%, the quantity
of computer possession reaches 50 per 100 household, and the citizen¡¯s
Engel coefficient is about 35%.
The goal by 2010:
The system of S&T innovation take into shape. The power of S&T
sustainable innovation is obviously increased to make the city the
national key base of R&D and high-tech industrialization as
well as the S&T innovation model base of West China in the front
list of national capital cities on the competitive edge.
IV Implementation Steps
High-tech Action Plan¡¯s implementation will be generally realistic,
i.e. one year one difference, and two years great difference, and
five years on a new terrace, and ten year first class.
(I) Vigorously Foster S&T Innovation Abilities
It is the core of the implementation of High-tech Action Plan to
foster S&T innovation abilities.
1. The mechanism of innovation and R&D: Encourage universities
and research institutes to engage various forms of co-operation
with different regions and different enterprises, and to make the
work of teaching and research to face the main domain of the city¡¯s
economic construction. Periodically issue the guidance of varied
research plan projects to help the universities and institutes make
researches aiming at the need of market. Define the corresponding
proportions of technical property right owned by major researchers
to activate radically the sources on S&T innovation. Set up
high-tech venture investment fund, industrial investment fund, S&T
innovation seed fund, special IPR protection fund, and special key
S&T project fund for the purpose of fostering the own IPR¡¯s
S&T achievements and S&T achievements transfer so as to
raise a batch of innovation projects for the development of high-tech
industries, and a batch of S&T corporations to resolve a series
of problems of key projects¡¯ matching set and industrialization.
2. Construct the talent¡¯s yearning place: Take the advantages of
higher education to raise a batch of high quality specialized talents,
especially the varied professional technicians for the city¡¯s key
industrial development to form the talent bank for supporting industrial
development. Pay attention to the continuous education of renewed
knowledge in order to constantly meet the need of the new situation
for varied talents. Open up the channel of talent introducing, especially
for the talents who own the core technologies, or with capital and
projects, or financier being good at operating capitals, or high
standard leading talents familiar with modern management, or professional
technical consulting agents. Further deepen the reform of talent
administration, carry out the talent policies, and perfect the talent
market to form the mechanism of various talent rational flow. Enlarge
the rewards for the people with the outstanding S&T contributions
to construct the talent¡¯s yearning place of West China.
3. Construct the innovation system: Fully development the incubator
industry, and set up the network platform of different incubating
level combined closely with the economic development. Open up the
channel of venture investment, and perfect the platform of S&T
financing and investment. Flourish the technical property right
transactions, and set up the platform of the innovation factor circulation.
Vigorously develop the modern consulting services, and set up the
decisive consulting platform for the S&T innovation and carving
out. Enlarge the support and protection for IPR to form the IPR
platform. Perfect the agency servicing institutions for S&T
innovation and carving out, compose the servicing platform for achievement
transference.
(II) Vigorously Promote The Industrial Development
To promote the industrial development is the keystone of the implementation
of Chengdu High-tech Action Plan.
1. Enhance the construction of high-tech industrial belt: On the
base of the national level Chengdu high-tech region, Chengdu Economic
& technology development region and various S&T parks, plan
out and construct the high-tech industrial belt, high-tech innovation
and exporting & processing industrial belt, and the belt of
traditional industry reformed by the high-tech so as to gain the
mass effect and radiate leading effect, expand the high-tech industrial
scope, and construct the swarm high-tech industries.
2. Promote the economic interlaced competition among county regions:
Encourage each district (city) and county on the base of local orientation
and advantages to actively foster specialized industries other than
tended similar industries and imitated development and by the interlaced
competition take their own relative advantage to shape the regional
industrial structure arrangement on rational working division, function
interpenetration and concerted development.
3. Drive the industrialization by IT: Vigorously develop the agricultural
information technology. Research and develop the newly agricultural
information system platform and the agricultural specialist information
system to increase the overall quality of the farm produce. Implement
the development strategy with the industrialization by IT. Recast
and raise the corporation¡¯s comprehensive abilities, and explore
the new industrialization way by IT and network technology. Vigorously
develop the industries of telecom communication, finance, logistics,
tourism, conference & exhibition and other related newly industries,
and upgrade the city¡¯s modern service level by the way of IT.
4. Foster the strategic industries: Fix attention on the potential
and prolong demands of both foreign and domestic market, fully dig
up the relative advantages of our city¡¯s economic development. Concentrate
strength to choose the promiseful leading and backbone industries
which have higher industrial relevancy, and stronger aftereffect
of industrial contribution and increase. Attract home and foreign
big corporations to invest, cooperate, merge, recombine in Chengdu.
In the fields such as software design, Chinese medicine modernization,
integral auto manufacture, modern electric ending product manufacture,
and aero-space and equipment set design & manufacture, foster
a batch of potential and advantaged corporations to form up the
strategic industries which can guide the economy and raise the city¡¯s
comprehensive competitive edge.
(III) Vigorously Construct The Surroundings Of Innovation And Carving
Out
To construct the innovation surroundings is the foundation High-tech
Action Plan Implementation.
1. Optimize the soft surroundings: Accelerate the transforms of
the government functions, thoroughly clean up the policies and regulations
not in line with the international practice, and deepen up the reform
of administrative approval system. Entirely boost the construction
of social credit institutions to create the fair space for innovation.
Strengthen the protection and management for IPR and severely clamp
down the various actions of piracy and breach of rights. Make experiments
of S&T achievement appraisal and increase the appraisal quality
and level to make the fair IPR environments for corporations and
S&T staff. At the same time, by means of Chengdu Science And
Technology Festive, vigorously hold various science popularized
activities, which are loved to see and heard by masses, to forge
the formation of health atmosphere of advocating science and opposing
blind faith by the entire society.
2. Construct the informationization innovation surroundings: Speed
up the construction of wide band trunk net & IP intercity net,
basic business net, wide band access net, and multimedia information
net. Accelerate the network construction for the Party and government
offices to bring into overall effect of E-government. Vigorously
push the business informationization application engineering and
set up business information system. Advance the construction of
regional information system, technical supervision network, and
information security system to drive the society informationization.
3. Broaden the S&T exchanges: Strengthen the exchanges in the
aspects of talent, technology, project, and financing with domestic
and foreign well-known cities. On the base of city¡¯s sponsorship
for the activities such as International S&T Conference Of Traditional
Chinese Medicine Modernization And New Technology & Products
Exposition and China Computer Festival, extend the exchange fields
and gradually make the city one of the center cities for the international
academic exchanges in some high-tech fields so as to establish the
city¡¯s mark rank and increase the city¡¯s image.
4. Construct ¡°Chengdu High-Tech Cultural Community¡±: Imitate the
international surroundings for S&T innovation and carving out.
Create conditions and integrate the facilities such as modern science
palace, consulting and serving institution for corporation carving
out, business establishing salons, S&T financing super-market,
expert boarding houses, digital library, technology property exchange
bourse, and technical training center through thorough argument
and scientific planning so as to build up the modern innovation
and carving out community abounding in innovation, information sharing,
risk resisting, credibility and multi-win.
