East China’s Jiangsu province made every effort last year to seize the new round of global scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, implement the innovation-driven development strategy, seize the industrial outlet, consolidate the foundation stone of innovation, strive to be the pioneer of China's scientific and technological and industrial innovation, and activate new momentum of high-quality development with high-level scientific and technological innovation.
On the first day of 2023, the Suzhou High-speed Railway New City put 131 intelligent connected vehicles into operation. Xiangcheng District, where the Suzhou High-speed Railway New City is located, is among the top in the country as an area for road test, demonstration application and demonstration operation of ICV.
More than 200 intelligent connected vehicles enterprises in the High-speed Rail New City Industrial Park generated sales of 20-billion-yuan last year, up more than 60% year on year.
Liang Zhiyao, Member of the Standing Committee of the Xiangcheng District Committee of Suzhou, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Suzhou High-speed Railway New City
We will enhance the centripetal force and attraction of Suzhou High-speed Railway New Town in the country’s connected vehicle industry and create a model of the High-speed Railway New Town in the wave of industrial innovation cluster construction in the era of digital economy.
The latest statistics show that the proportion of output value of strategic emerging industries and high-tech industries in Jiangsu increased to about 41% and 48.5% respectively in 2022.
Ten clusters, including new power, Internet of Things and biomedicine, have been approved as national advanced manufacturing clusters, ranking first in China.
The province added 7000 high-tech enterprises, bringing the provincial total to 44 thousand, ranking second in the country.
On the first day of the new year, the Taihu Quantum Intelligent Computing Center, the first quantum artificial intelligence computing center in China, was unveiled in Wuxi.
The center will provide a new public computing infrastructure for computing power, statistics and algorithm services required by quantum AI applications, and create a new benchmark for domestic computing infrastructure.
Zhu Haifeng, Vice President of Wuxi Photonic Chip Research Institute, Shanghai Jiaotong University
In the future we will serve and empower the local integrated circuit and biopharmaceutical industry and cooperate to form an industrial cluster with a level of 10 billion yuan or even 100 billion yuan.
It is estimated that Jiangsu's R&D investment in 2022 will reach 370 billion yuan, accounting for more than 3% of the regional GDP for the first time, which is roughly the same as Germany and Denmark, the top ten countries in the global R&D investment intensity.
The province's contribution to scientific and technological progress has reached about 67%, and its regional innovation capacity continues to be among the top in the country.
