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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Beijing, January 16 (Xinhua) — China plans to expand its innovation hubs from individual cities to large regional clusters with the goal of creating globally influential scientific and technological innovation centers over the next 10 years, according to Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun.
This measure, proposed at the Central Economic Work Conference last December, will expand Beijing's international tech innovation hub to encompass the entire Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Meanwhile, Shanghai's hub will now encompass the entire Yangtze River Delta, incorporating major economic hubs such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui.
The third node in the plan is the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
"This transition marks a new phase where innovation hubs are moving from single-city development to comprehensive regional coordination," Yin Hejun said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday.
“The main goals are to further expand innovation capabilities, ensure leadership in high-tech industries, and attract highly skilled personnel, ensuring the creation of globally influential scientific and technological innovation centers by 2035,” Yin Hejun said.
Over the past few years, innovation centers in Beijing, Shanghai and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have achieved a number of cutting-edge results and contributed to the formation of several advanced manufacturing clusters.
In 2024, the R&D expenditure intensity in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong Province reached 6.58%, 4.35%, and 3.6%, respectively, making them the top three regions in the country.
Their innovative strength and vitality have also received global recognition. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou innovation cluster topped the "Global Innovation Index 2025" published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), overtaking the Tokyo-Yokohama cluster in Japan for the first time to take first place.
Many companies have expanded their presence in these leading innovation hubs to leverage the clustering effect and spur their own development. Among them is Chengdu-based IT services provider JoyGovAI (the capital of Sichuan Province, southwest China), which has opened branches in Beijing and Shanghai and is in the process of establishing an office in Shenzhen.
"Concentrating resources in these innovation clusters can help companies coordinate and share resources, as well as facilitate collaboration on industrial advances. This will reduce innovation costs and shorten the R&D cycle," said Huang Hu, the company's chairman, adding that the company will leverage the clustering effect to promote the transfer of more technologies from the lab to the market.
The entrepreneur noted that expanding the network of international scientific and technological innovation centers will help better integrate technological innovation with industrial progress, which is also a key priority for the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology over the next five years. According to Yin Hejun, efforts will focus on promoting integration, strengthening the role of enterprises as the main drivers of innovation, and supporting the creation of a modern industrial system.
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