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Shantou Leading All Prefecture-level Cities of the Province in Terms of Scientific and Technological Results

Shantou Leading All Prefecture-level Cities of the Province in Terms of Scientific and Technological Results

Write: Ziggy [2011-05-20]

The high-tech industry in Shantou has been developing rapidly. By now, a carrier of high-tech industry that covers the whole city is basically in place. It is composed of Shantou High-tech Zone, provincial-level private technology park, bases of distinctive industries and specialized towns, and a fairly complete technical innovation system composed of public technological innovation platform, key laboratories and scientific research institutes. Shantou leads all the prefecture-level cities of the province in terms of scientific and technological results thanks to a merging technical innovation system, continuous reinforcement of the independent innovation capability of enterprises and a constant emergence of outstanding technology-intensive enterprises. High-tech industry is exerting increasingly significant influences on economic growth, and has become an important powerhouse for building an innovative Shantou.
In Shantou, innovations are made by enterprises. In our technology-intensive enterprises, there are a large number of outperformers, such as Chaosheng Electronics, Guanghua Chemical Factory, Jingang Glass, Aofei Animation, Huaxing Metallurgical Spares Factory, Dongfang Zirconium, Jinming Plastic Equipment Factory, Xilong Chemical Engineering and Nanyang Cables, which feature strong independent innovation capacities and occupy the leading position in their respective industries. By strongly implementing technical innovation projects and fostering technology-intensive enterprises, Shantou has continuously improved the technical innovation system that relies on enterprises as the main force, remains oriented toward the market and integrates production, learning and research. Shantou now has 636 city-level private technology-intensive enterprises, including 287 provincial-level private technology-intensive enterprises, 62 high-tech enterprises recognized as per the new standard, 3 enterprises (Longxi Chemical Engineering, Chaosheng Electronics and Guanghua Chemical) that were included into national pilot enterprises of innovation by the Ministry of Science and Technology, SASAC and All-China Federation of Trade Unions, and 7 enterprises that were listed into provincial pilot enterprises of innovation by 6 departments, including the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, 2 of which have passed acceptance check and been recognized as the first innovative enterprises of the province.
Shantou makes full use of the "3 types of fees" for science and technology at all levels to continuously increase the investment in science and technology and accelerate the service system for scientific and technological innovations. The enthusiasm of enterprises for developing new technology and new products has been inspired. The capability of independent innovation has been enhanced steadily and a technical innovation system that relies on enterprises as main force has basically taken shape.
Currently, all high-tech enterprises and 80 of the private technology-intensive enterprises of Shantou have set up their own technical development institutions. A fairly complete technical innovation system has basically taken shape, which involves public technological innovation platform, key laboratories, scientific research institutes, engineering technical research and development centers and technological intermediate service agencies. On the one hand, the development of technology-intensive enterprises has promoted the continuous expansion of the scale of high-tech industry of Shantou. The high-tech products cover a wide range of fields, including mechantronics, electronic information, bioengineering and fine chemical new materials. The number of high-tech products has increased from 207 in 2001 to 430 in 2008, while their output value has grown from RMB 9.8 billion yuan in 2001 to RMB 34 billion yuan in 2008. On the other hand, the development of technology-intensive enterprises has promoted the continuous enhancement of the independent innovation ability of the city. In 2008, the city undertook 150 scientific and technological projects of provincial or higher level, including 8 national-level projects supported by RMB 1.15 million yuan of funds and 142 provincial-level projects supported by RMB 37.27 million yuan of funds. Since the beginning of this year, 18 more projects have been included into the planned scientific and technological project of the province, for which RMB 17.36 million yuan of support funds have been received.
In 2008, fifteen scientific and technological results of Shantou won the provincial prizes for science and technology advances, including 4 second prizes and 11 third prizes, making Shantou the first among the prefecture-level cities in the province in terms of the number of prizes won. The number of products, whose crucial technology and independent intellectual property are owned Shantou, is increasing continuously. So far, 30,354 patent applications have been filed, leading to the granting of 20,675 patents. Six products were recognized as the first batch of independent innovation products of the province, including "CTS-8800 Portable Digital Real-time 3D Ultrasonic Image Diagnosis System", in addition to a number of products that won honorary titles like well-known trademark and name brand product.

Source: Shantou Daily October 11, 2009