On October 31st, Chengdu Science Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences was initiated to construct. The strategic cooperation agreement of this center was signed in March in 2016. The project implementation agreement was signed in July and now it is constructed. Based on Chengdu Speed, 7 scientific institutes and hi-tech technical companies will not wait long for their next overall settlement here.
We could summarize the feature of science from the settled units, including several institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, such as Institute of High Energy Physics, The Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, and so on. All of these institutes will be settled at Chengdu Science City covering an area of 25 square kilometers surrounding Xinglong Lake.
Not long ago, Beihang University Western International Innovation Park was signed to be settled at Chengdu Science City. 6 academicians simultaneously selected Chengdu Science City to transfer their cutting-edge technical achievements into technologies. As the construction of major infrastructure and the implementation of all plans, new sciences, new technologies and new industries will accelerate to gather here.
As a critical carrier platform for Sichuan to construct national comprehensive innovation pilot zone, Chengdu Science City adheres to the idea of “innovation as soul and technologies as foundation”. The largest innovation city in Western China is rising at the south of Tianfu Square, only 25 kilometers.
Now these golden regions are also used to develop fundamental sciences and seek for winning the title of national science center. “When will the artificial sun be built?” Mr. Duan Xuru, Deputy Director of Southwestern Institute of Physics, Center for Fusion Science, SWIP, is often asked. Southwestern Institute of Physics, on behalf of China, participates into international thermonuclear fusion reactor experiment plan. After its project, nuclear island design and research center, is settled at Chengdu Science City, Mr. Duan Xuru will continue to pursue the ultimate dream of human being to resolve energy problems at Chengdu Science City.
As future neighbor, Mr. Gao Xiaodong, Researcher from Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, highlighted, “Frontier science research serves as the engine of technical innovation. It is impossible to seek for immediate impact and economic benefits.”
Chengdu Science City adheres to visions and long dreams instead of immediate gains, offers these golden regions of Xinglong Lake to these scientists, and introduces China National Nuclear Corporation Circulation Technical Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences High Altitude Cosmic Ray Laboratory, Tsinghua Jinping Dark Matter Research Center and other scientific equipment. “The core mission of Chengdu Science City is to develop new sciences. We strive to create a first-class research base for fundamental sciences.” Mr. Zhang Yi, Director of Chengdu Management Committee of Tianfu New District, said that Chengdu Science City would give privilege to national major scientific project reliance units and relevant major scientific equipment. Chengdu Science City would be installed with enduring scientific genes and innovation genes at the beginning of construction.
This is the origin of Chengdu Science City. After Chengdu’s GDP amounts to over 1 trillion, Chengdu is accelerating to lift from a consumption city into an industrial city and change from element driving to innovation driving. As the leading province in Western China, Sichuan proposes to speed up to construct into a leading province of national innovation driving development. Chengdu actively shoulders relevant responsibilities and initiates the construction of Chengdu Science City in 2015.
New sciences forge new technologies and new technologies create new industries. New industries support new cities. Following this development principle, Chengdu specifies the development targets, paths and tasks of Chengdu Science City, namely surrounding targets of constructing “innovative elements gathering zone”, “innovation development pilot zone”, “the first innovation city in Western China” to develop new sciences, create new technologies, foster new industries, and construct new cities, then forming the most dynamic emerging growth pole in Western China, and seeking to win the title of National Science Center and National Technical Innovation Center.
Gathering innovation chains and rising like Silicon Valley
”We are skilled to do scientific researches but we are not good at changing these researches into marketing.” In the eyes of Mr. Gao Xiaodong, the intermediate technologies developed on the foundation of frontier scientific researches have broad application future. For instance, not long ago, at the process of Shenzhou XI spacecraft docking with Tiangong II space lab, laser radar which Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences participates into designing and researching has played an important role. Some technologies, if being conducted adaptive development and lowered cost, could also be used for automobiles to avoid obstacles and reduce collision accidents.
The question is who will transfer these technologies into marketing? To our excitement, Chengdu Science City will not only gather the research and development platforms for fundamental sciences and application sciences, but also introduce transferring platforms and enterprises linking scientific technologies and industrial economy. “By gathering and relying, Silicon Valley gains prosperity in this way.”
The trends Chengdu Science City is showing support this optimistic vision. Well-known university and scientific institutes, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Beihang University, Sichuan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Tongji University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Stanford Research Institute and so on, have established collaboration innovation bases and research centers at Chengdu Science City. Especially as the promotion of comprehensive innovation reform pilot by taking military-civilian integration in Sichuan, CASIC and New Nylon Polymer Materials Research Institute and so on also gather here. One of Chengdu’s tasks to construct national center city is build science and technology center in Western China. While Chengdu Science City serves as pioneer.
Chengdu Science City also promotes reforms in 4 fields with innovative thoughts including promoting talents and teams allocation mechanisms, technical achievements and creation trading mechanism, administrative examination and government services, talents services and so on. Chengdu has specified that if domestic universities, scientific institutes, state-owned units or companies cooperating with Chengdu Science City to construct scientific and technical innovation platforms failed to transfer their intellectual properties within a year, achievement owners or teams could implement achievement transferring independently under the condition that achievement ownership doesn't change and 70% of the benefits should be owned by achievement owner or teams (including researchers serving as administrative and leading role). Moreover, academicians from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering or overseas academies of sciences and engineering of the same level, could apply for one-time subsidy of 2 million yuan to 5 million yuan if they want to start business at Chengdu Science City.
“Starting business at the most beautiful science city.” Technical small and medium-sized enterprises bring vitality to Chengdu Science City.
“Starting business at the most beautiful science city.” Chengdu Science City has welcomed the settlements of technical giants as well as technical small and medium-sized enterprises. On October 19th, 100 guests attending the 5 Annual Conference of Western Returned Scholars and Chinese Overseas-Educated Scholars, Association Returned Scholars’ Summit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Chengdu), have inspected Chengdu Science City. On October 20th, “Growing With New Chengdu” Promotion was held in Beijing. Introducing and going globally have drawn the emerging innovation and entrepreneurship weaves to Chengdu Science City. By the end of September, Tianfu Jinrong Center A Building by the side of Xinglong Lake, was put into use. Chaoxing Electronics, Venustech, Nano High-Energy Lithium-ion Battery, Yinnuo Biological Pharmaceutical Company and so on had be settled.
While Chengdu Science City has signed with about 600 small and medium-sized technical companies only by planning drawings, environments, prospects, and incubation carriers under construction. Chengdu Science City also explores to provide convenient and open transition space with lower cost and multiple functions through the means of overall purchasing and leasing vacant commercial houses and so on. Event at transition space, Sichuan Artigent Robots, Topplus, Hermes and other local technical enterprises have Developed into the leading enterprises in entrepreneurship. Currently, Chengdu Science City has constructed 12 innovation and entrepreneurship carriers of all types with the incubation region of 694,000 square meters. It is expected that the space for massive entrepreneurship by the end of 2016 will amount to over 1 million square meters.
Chengdu Science Center has also implemented administrative examination modes and introduced professional service institutes. A comparatively complete service system has been formed.
”The rapid development is also out of our expectation.” Currently, Mr. Zhu Xiaoming, President of Dongguan Fandou Tech, praised Chengdu Science City when inspecting here and grasped cooperation opportunities on site.
