Zhaoqing High tech Zone: Building an innovative "hotbed" and strengthening the "backbone" of enterprises

Recently, theTorch Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the secondbatch of pilot units for the corporate innovation scoring system, and theZhaoqing High-tech Zone in Guangdong successfully made the list. This pilotwill effectively leverage social capital, financial institutions, andgovernment resources to provide precise support to enterprises that rank highin the innovation scoring.

Enterprises arethe main body of innovation and the vanguard of innovation. A reporter fromScience and Technology Daily found during an interview in Zhaoqing High-techZone that there is a continuous strengthening of the position of enterprises asthe main body of innovation, with "specialized, refined, special, andnew" as the direction, building a "nursery" for scientific andtechnological innovation, promoting the aggregation of various innovativeelements to enterprises, making the enterprise "skeleton" strongerand "muscles" more robust.

Policy"strong support" makes enterprise vitality burst

In 2002,Professor Chen Ruiai from South China Agricultural University, chairman ofZhaoqing Dahua Agricultural Biological Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to asZhaoqing Dahua Agricultural), came to Zhaoqing High-tech Zone with his ownscientific research results and established Zhaoqing Dahua Agricultural."The company creates a good research atmosphere and conditions forresearchers, allowing them to focus on research," said Chen Ruiai. Forresearchers who have achieved research results, rewards are given in the formof cash, commissions, stock incentives, etc. Valuing talents gives theenterprise a continuous driving force. At present, the company has built ahigh-level R&D team led by academicians, professors, industry experts, anddoctors, with more than a hundred people, and has established severalscientific research platforms such as the Key Laboratory of BiologicalTechnology and Product Creation for Animal Disease Prevention and Control ofthe Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. The company has obtained 44 newveterinary drug certificates, nearly 200 patents, and has won provincial andministerial science and technology awards many times, forming a virtuous cycleof enterprise development and local economic development. Chen Ruiai, who callsherself a "technical veteran worker" of Zhaoqing High-tech Zone, hasa special affection for Zhaoqing High-tech Zone. "The development ofZhaoqing Dahua Agricultural cannot be separated from the full support ofZhaoqing High-tech Zone," she said. She gave an example that the "noapplication, immediate enjoyment" platform that went online this year hasbeen highly praised by the majority of scientific and technological workers.The function of this platform is leading in the country, and the submission andsubsidy of the report are accounted for in the next second, which is the newspeed of the new era. Zhao Shuyu, director of the Innovation andEntrepreneurship Service Center of Zhaoqing High-tech Zone, said that in recentyears, Zhaoqing High-tech Zone has placed the introduction and cultivation ofhigh-tech enterprises in an important position, introduced a series of policymeasures, and the vitality of enterprise innovation has been continuouslybursting. At present, there are 164 high-tech enterprises in Zhaoqing High-techZone, and by the end of this year, the total number of high-tech enterprises isexpected to reach more than 216, with a net increase of more than 52, setting arecord high in the history of the park. In addition, Zhaoqing High-tech Zone relieson enterprises to establish 74 provincial-level engineering centers (enterprisetechnology centers, key laboratories), and the proportion of large-scaleindustrial enterprises establishing R&D institutions exceeds 50%.

Environment"warm" enterprises settle down

The company'srevenue was 1 million yuan in the first year of establishment, 5 million yuanin the second year, more than 14 million yuan in the third year, and therevenue in 2021 is expected to break through 20 million yuan. This rapidlydeveloping enterprise in Zhaoqing High-tech Zone is Guangdong QuanxingEcological Technology Co., Ltd., incubated by the Wuhan University (Zhaoqing)Resources and Environmental Technology Research Institute. The company wasestablished in April 2018, and its technical achievements have beensuccessfully applied in Zhaoqing, Shaoguan, Shenzhen, Jiangxi, and otherplaces. "In order to break through the last mile of the transformation ofresearch and development results, the company plans to build a research anddevelopment pilot base, and Zhaoqing High-tech Zone has given greatsupport," said Zhou Minghua, the deputy general manager of the company'soperations. At present, the land of 30 acres for the base has been basicallyimplemented. The support of Zhaoqing High-tech Zone has given the company moreconfidence in its development here. The founder of the company, Dr. WangWeixing, has purchased a house in Zhaoqing High-tech Zone and moved hisfamily's household registration to Zhaoqing High-tech Zone. "Alldepartments are service departments, all positions are service positions, andall public servants are service personnel." In front of the administrativeservice center of Zhaoqing High-tech Zone, a reporter from Science andTechnology Daily saw these words particularly eye-catching. "If you are infull bloom, the breeze will come by itself." A good business environmentand innovation environment have attracted a large number of technologycompanies to come here. In recent years, Zhaoqing High-tech Zone has successivelyintroduced several projects with an investment of more than 10 billion yuan,such as Ningde Times project, Xiaopeng Intelligent New Energy Automobile, andWanyang Mass Entrepreneurship City. The person in charge of Zhaoqing High-techZone said that Zhaoqing High-tech Zone will take the opportunity of beingselected as the second batch of corporate innovation scoring system pilot unitsto discover and excavate a number of small and medium-sized enterprises withstrong R&D capabilities, great growth potential, and mastering key coretechnologies. At the same time, guide innovation resources to gather totechnology enterprises, and create a high-frequency interactive scientific andtechnological innovation ecosystem among multiple subjects such as technologyenterprises, government parks, financial institutions, investment institutions,and colleges and research institutes.

Source: Scienceand Technology Daily