Economic Daily:
It's well-known that Jiangsu province is one of the crucial parts in the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and is also one of the major components of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Moreover, Jiangsu is the place where the Belt (the Silk Road Economic Belt) and Road (the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road) converge. Given all this, what efforts has Jiangsu made to leverage its status as an economically-developed province to drive growth so as to better serve the country toward creating a new pattern of development? Thank you.
Ma Xin:
For a long time now, Jiangsu has seized the opportunities brought about by national strategies, and given full play to the advantages of its distinctive industries. By boosting "chains" via "points" and driving "networks" via "chains," we stepped up efforts to advance integrated development of innovation chains, industrial chains and supply chains, creating more new strengths for innovation-driven growth so as to make contributions to China's overall high-quality development. We have focused our work on the construction of "one center, one base and one hub."
The construction of the "one center" aims to promote cross-regional collaboration in sci-tech innovation and industrial advancement so as to build an industrial and sci-tech innovation center with global influence. We have made coordinated efforts to ensure progress in both sci-tech innovation and industrial advancement, to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields and to facilitate the commercialization of scientific and technological advances. For example, the founding of the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute has connected scientific research with industries. It follows the idea that "make R&D an industry and take technologies as commodities," and support scientific and technological research in a new way which makes use of both fiscal allocation and investments. Over the past ten years, the institute has undertaken over 20,000 research programs entrusted by enterprises, carried out 5,000 major national and provincial-level research programs and helped build 1,350 new types of innovation enterprises. By doing so, a beneficial cycle has taken shape where development of industries gets boosted by sci-tech research while innovation in science and technology gets advanced by industrial development.
The construction of the "one base" focuses on efforts to strengthen, consolidate and extend industrial chains, so as to build a basis for an advanced manufacturing sector with a global competitive edge. The manufacturing sector in Jiangsu has witnessed advanced development with its scale accounting for one eighth of the national total. Moreover, the province developed a complete range of industries with complete chains. Industries empowered by science and technology have developed into industrial chains, clusters and beyond. Take XCMG Hanyun Technologies as an example, it developed China's first industrial internet platform, offering services to more than 80 fields besides the equipment manufacturing sector. Thanks to digital and intelligent transformation, and network-based connectivity, the platform helps to realize the multiplier effect of industrial internet, and promote industrial development in a smart, green and integrated manner.
The construction of the "one hub" aims to give multiple strengths of geographical position, opening-up and regional coordinated development full play so as to build a globally attractive and two-way open hub. We have made greater efforts to boost development of the province that serves as the intersection of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and support enterprises to "go global" and promote industries to "bring in foreign investments." Resource factors both domestic and from abroad will gather in Jiangsu and be allocated to Jiangsu, which will be helpful in ensuring a new stage in the opening-up reach. Jiangsu has fully integrated into and contributed to the development of the Yangtze Economic Belt and the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and has strengthened synergy with other regional development strategies and major regional strategies, so as to better leverage its role in driving regional and national development. Thank you.
