"During the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), we will focus on the blueprint outlined in the 'Three Hubs and Four New Missions' Strategy, and spare no effort to basically build Changsha into a global R&D center by 2030, elevating the city's overall innovation capacity into the forefront of global innovative cities," said Huang Rong, director of the Changsha Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology and secretary of its CPC Leadership Group, at a press conference held on December 15 for the 10th plenary session of the 14th CPC Changsha Municipal Committee.
With the goal of becoming a global R&D center, Changsha has made a series of solid achievements in recent years. Changsha will construct a "high-quality" innovation spatial layout, accelerate the building of the Xiangjiang Science Town as a "main engine" for sci-tech innovation, and enhance the concentration of resources such as scientific research elements, R&D tasks, and technological achievements. The city will leverage the role of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan (CZT) Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone and National Innovative City as primary platforms for innovation, striving to create a national-level hub of industrial technology innovation.
Changsha will strengthen the introduction and cultivation of "high-quality" R&D institutions, increase the proportion of institutions with "four global attributes", and establish high-level R&D institutions in frontier and future-oriented fields. The city will strive to attract more national-level platforms, including state key laboratories and national manufacturing innovation centers. The city will also actively seek the deployment of national large-scale scientific facilities in Changsha.
Huang introduced that Changsha focuses on the modern industrial system, deploys innovation chains in alignment with the needs of industrial chains, and enhances industrial technological support, striving to secure technological leadership in key areas such as equipment manufacturing, materials, and seed industries. The city will also create unique advantages in key fields like brain-computer interfaces, quantum technology, and embodied intelligence, fostering a range of cutting-edge technological achievements.
Meanwhile, Changsha will improve a "highly efficient" system for commercializing achievements, striving to create a CZT National Demonstration Zone for the Transfer and Commercialization of Scientific and Technological Achievements. It will expedite the establishment of proof-of-concept centers and specialized pilot-scale testing bases. The city will promote the gradient growth and capacity upgrading of technology-based enterprises, ensuring that all high-tech enterprises above a designated size have R&D institutions. Additionally, the city will utilize the guiding role of government investment funds and attract "patient capital" to provide full-cycle financial support to innovative enterprises.
Furthermore, to foster a "high-level" open innovation ecosystem, Changsha will deepen collaboration with regions such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, accelerate the "going global" of technology, and integrate into the global innovation network. It will adhere to the principle of "investing in people," advancing education, science and technology, and human resources in an integrated manner, and building a tiered and dynamic innovation talent team.
This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn.
Translator: Kuang Zhenzhen
Chinese source: Chinanews
