Yinzhou accelerates the construction of a high-level innovative urban area

In the afternoon of February 27, the reporters learnt from the Yinzhou District Science and Technology Innovation Leading Action Promotion Conference 2025 & Science and Technology Innovation Work Deployment Conference that this year our district will focus on carrying out four major actions to strengthen the integrated development of education, science and technology, industries, and talents, promoting the deep integration of the four chains, building a modern industrial system with Yinzhou characteristics, and accelerating the construction of a high-level innovative urban area.

In 2024, Yinzhou achieved remarkable scientific and technological innovation results, and was awarded the provincial "Science and Technology Innovation Quadripod". Its science and technology talent development index and science and technology achievement transformation index both ranked the first in the city and among the top in the province. The R&D expenditure of the whole society accounted for 3.17% of GDP, and the R&D expenditure of large-scale industries increased by 10.6% year-on-year. There were 1,340 high-tech enterprises, 1,287 national level technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, and 214 provincial-level and above enterprise research and development institutions, all ranking the first in the city. The technology transaction volume reached 10.76 billion yuan, and it has won 10 scientific and technological awards at all levels, including the second prize of the State Science and Technology Advancement Award, continuously demonstrating its leading position in innovation.

This year, Yinzhou will exert every effort to implement the action of innovation empowering industrial development, focusing on promoting the three-dimensional linkage of "doubling of technology-based enterprises, leap of gazelle enterprises and cultivation of leading enterprises", continuing to carry out the "diagnosis plus improvement" special action for research and development, supporting enterprises to cooperate with colleges and universities to carry out technological research and development, focusing on targeted investment attraction of "big, strong, green, new and high-end", accelerating the development of the science and technology service industry, and enhancing industrial innovation level.

In the platform matrix strengthening action, Yinzhou will accelerate the upgrading of science and technology innovation platforms, actively integrate into the construction of the Yongjiang Science and Technology Innovation Zone, interact with platforms such as the Zhejiang Innovation Center and the Zhejiang University Ningbo Science and Technology Innovation Center to upgrade their capabilities, promote the vigorous development of "entrepreneurship and innovation" platforms, improve the full chain incubation system, hold the 10th Makers' Competition, and attract more high-quality enterprises and projects to settle.

The preferred action for achievement transformation will deepen the exchanges and cooperation between industries, education and research, continue to carry out activities such as the 3rd Yinzhou District Technology Innovation Challenge, improve the achievement transformation service system, enhance the service capability of the Yinzhou Science and Technology Market, optimize online and offline docking functions, and help enterprises improve their achievement transformation capabilities.

In addition, Yinzhou will implement the innovative ecological optimization action, accelerate the gathering of scientific and technological talents, rely on the resources of the Ningbo Academicians' Center, carry out the "Thousand Doctors Assisting Thousand Enterprises" action, deepen scientific and technological financial services, improve the "investment, loan, financing and guarantee" system, optimize the "risk pool fund" loan cooperation mechanism, and inject financial "vitality" into the innovative ecology.

"The regional competition has entered the 'Innovation Championship', and Wenzhou, Hangzhou and other places are exploring new models such as 'investment before stock' (the initial investment of financial technology funds into enterprises in the form of technology projects, supporting the 'concept verification, small-scale testing, pilot testing, and secondary development' of scientific and technological achievements. After the invested enterprise achieves market-oriented equity financing or enters a stable development stage, the financial technology funds invested will be converted into a financial fund management and operation mechanism of "stock" rights.) and taking measures such as 'technology achievement transformation insurance'. Our district will also promote the deep integration of the four chains through the implementation of four major actions, nourish the entire innovation ecosystem with precise services, and promote high-quality development with technological innovation," said a relevant person in charge of the Yinzhou District Science and Technology Bureau.