What do you like about Nanjing?

  If you were to describe Nanjing, would you say it looks like the male lead in a campus idol drama? Gentle, handsome, broad-minded, well-off, and, most importantly, excellent academic performance. According to the report card of the “China City Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Evaluation Report” that was just issued, Nanjing ranked first in the growth rate of high-tech enterprises and scientific research output in 2023. It is definitely a top student.

○  How many high-tech enterprises are attracted to Nanjing, the “male protagonist”? According to the data, from 2019 to 2023, the total number of high-tech enterprises increased from 4,680 to 10,048, with an average annual growth rate of 21.04%; the number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises increased from 6,685 to 23,569, with an average annual growth rate of 37.02%.
○  “What do you like about me?”
○  “It’s worth the research!”
○  If there is a dialogue between Nanjing and high-tech enterprises, I think it must be like this.

01How high is Nanjing’s research value?○  For high-tech enterprises, Nanjing’s character, appearance, mind, family background, etc. are not enough to attract them. Nanjing’s “research” value is the “ultimate temptation” for them, because they know that the “research” value with high “scientific” content is the “growth value” that helps them move towards the new and climb higher. And this happens to be Nanjing’s innate advantage.○  So, how high is Nanjing’s “research” value? Let’s continue to look at the data: As a famous city of science and education, Nanjing has more than 50 general colleges and universities, more than 120 national-level R&D platforms, more than 90 academicians of the two academies, over one million college students, and a total talent resource of nearly 4 million people; the “one academy and four institutes” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are also deeply rooted in Nanjing… There are many universities, colleges and institutes, high-level talents gather, and scientific research strength is strong. This is Nanjing’s “research” value.

○  With the blessing of “research” value, this “academic bully” of Nanjing is stubborn from the bottom of his heart, striving to be the first in scientific and technological innovation, and seeking breakthroughs from “0 to 1”, from “1 to 10”, and then from “10 to 100”.

○  Well aware of this, Nanjing is working hard to cultivate first-class innovation entities: accelerating the construction of a series of major scientific and technological innovation platforms, including Purple Mountain Laboratory, National Integrated Circuit Design Automation Technology Innovation Center, National Third Generation Semiconductor Technology Innovation Center, National High-Performance Membrane Materials Innovation Center, etc., to promote the production of original and subversive scientific research results, accelerate the industrialization process of scientific and technological achievements, and build a main supporting area for an industrial science and technology innovation center with global influence, turning “bottleneck” into “trump card”.

02From Freehand Brushwork to Fine Brushwork○  Looking for the next Earth! In July this year, a scientific research team led by the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly launched a survey of nearby habitable planets, and the relevant research results were published as the cover article in the Journal of Space Science. The scientific research team expects that the plan will achieve a major scientific breakthrough from “0 to 1” and discover for the first time Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of nearby sun-like stars. These “new continents” in the universe are expected to become ideal “second homes” for humans.○  The latest pulse of 6G can be felt and touched here. In the past year, Zijinshan Laboratory has initially built a 6G end-to-end experimental platform, and the real-time transmission rate of 6G photonic terahertz communication has increased from 400Gbps to 1Tbps, breaking the world record again; 6G research and development has achieved a number of key technological breakthroughs, and some technologies have been used in satellite communications and other fields…

○  The dream of enjoying the cool under the rice is also coming true. In the Zhongshan Laboratory of Biological Breeding, researchers are nurturing the hope of a good harvest from the source. The Zhongshan Laboratory of Biological Breeding here is a scientific and technological innovation platform in the seed industry built in accordance with the national laboratory. In the more than one year since its establishment, the Zhongshan Laboratory has launched a number of scientific research projects aimed at major technological breakthroughs in the seed industry, cloned key genes of rice indica and japonica subspecies, and strongly supported the breeding of high-quality and high-yield rice and the creation of broad-compatibility rice germplasm resources.○  The best in the country and the leading in the world all demonstrate Nanjing’s scientific and technological innovation. There are many breakthroughs like this in Nanjing: the National Third Generation Semiconductor Technology Innovation Center (Nanjing) released a new technology for trench silicon carbide MOSFET, breaking through key processes and being the first in China; Jiangsu Jicui Advanced Polymer Materials Research Institute developed more than 20 products in short supply in the country, filling the domestic gap; Zhongke Chaojing developed the “Qilin Knife” tumor precision radiotherapy software and hardware integrated product, breaking the “bottleneck” situation of high-end radiotherapy technology and achieving a new breakthrough in independent high-end radiotherapy brands; Southeast University was responsible for the overall design of the FAST (commonly known as the “China Sky Eye”) cable-driven pulley maintenance system construction project successfully passed the acceptance of the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was officially put into use…

○  Today, Nanjing has already made a name for itself in research and development. In the latest ranking of global scientific research cities, Nanjing ranks 6th; in the evaluation of the innovation capacity of national innovative cities, Nanjing ranks 4th in the country. Nanjing is turning the freehand brushwork of “global research and development, starting from Nanjing” into a detailed painting.

03Nanjing shows sincerity○  It has become a consensus that “If you want to do research and development, go to Nanjing, where there is the source of original innovation.”○  With the help of high “research” value, high-tech enterprises in Nanjing have achieved rapid growth. Let’s continue to look at the data: From 2019 to 2023, in terms of the main scale, the city’s industrial high-tech enterprises above designated size will increase from more than 1,000 to more than 2,000, with an average annual growth rate of about 20%; in terms of operational quality and efficiency, according to the Torch Annual Report data, the city’s high-tech enterprises with annual revenues of over 100 million yuan have increased from more than 800 to more than 1,200, and operating income has increased from more than 700 billion yuan to more than 1 trillion yuan.

○  No pretense, treat you well with all your heart, give you everything you want, and let you gain something. Nanjing is trying to show the utmost sincerity.○  In recent years, Nanjing has attached great importance to the development of innovative enterprise clusters with high-tech enterprises as the core, implemented the “Ningchuangjia” science and technology enterprise cultivation action plan, implemented the “four basic projects” of “building foundation”, “strengthening foundation”, “chain foundation” and “solidifying foundation” for the cultivation of innovative enterprise clusters, and built a full-chain service system of “mass innovation space-incubator-accelerator-science and technology park” to strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation. In the performance “examination” of national-level science and technology enterprise incubators, Nanjing has ranked first among cities in the country in the number of excellent results for four consecutive years.

○  Nanjing has created a brand activity of “unveiling the list and taking charge” for technology transfer. In 2023, 169 technical requirements and 320 patents (achievements) will be collected and released for the whole city, effectively connecting the supply side of scientific and technological achievements of universities and research institutes with the demand side of transformation and application of enterprises. In 2023, the transaction volume of technology contracts exceeded 100 billion yuan, and 29 projects in Nanjing won the 2023 National Science and Technology Award.

○  Nanjing has also invested real money for three consecutive years, focusing on the difficulties and bottlenecks of industrial autonomy and control, and organizing the implementation of major municipal science and technology projects. From 2021 to 2023, a total of 35 major municipal science and technology projects will be approved in three batches, focusing on the role of enterprises as “question setters”, “answerers” and “examination personnel”, supporting leading science and technology enterprises to take the lead in establishing innovation consortia, collecting technology research lists from enterprises every year, refining the support direction for the year, and then inviting enterprises and institutions to take the lead and work together to solve problems.○  Thinking of what you think and giving you what you need. Nanjing is gentle and considerate, and it is the true love of high-tech enterprises.

○  In other words, with good looks and talent, as well as sincerity, steadfastness and enterprising spirit, who can not love our Nanjing?