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CHONGQING, China, Dec. 31, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Chongqing Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone Mingyue Lake International

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition concluded Thursday in Chongqing

Liangjiang New Area. Contestants across the country leveraged their ideas and

proposals to win industrial support totaling 300 million yuan and start-up fund

worth 500 million yuan.

The competition, one of the country's biggest science and innovation contests,

focuses on the four major tracks, including high-end intelligent manufacturing,

high-end biomedicine, semiconductor and intelligent information technology, and

new energy and new materials.

The event seeks to introduce and cultivate innovative leading talent teams and

high-quality projects, accelerate the gathering of high-end innovative

elements, create a full-factor and full-chain innovation ecosystem, and help

the new area play a better leading and exemplary role in the scientific and

technological innovation of Chongqing.

Since the competition was officially launched in June, it has attracted nearly

2,000 teams (projects) from home and abroad with seven city promotion

roadshows. More than 60 authoritative venture capital institutions and hundreds

of well-known investors participated in the competition.

After seven months of heated competition, the micro-nano additive manufacturing

technology industrialization project won the special prize of the competition,

and received a landing support award of 100 million yuan. In addition, the

competition also selected one first prize, two second prizes, four third

prizes, 10 winning prizes and 10 innovation prizes, which were awarded 50

million yuan, 20 million yuan, 10 million yuan, 5 million yuan and 2 million

yuan respectively.

As the first national-level development and opening up new area in the inland

region, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area accounts for less than 1.5 percent of the

city's area, but generated 15 percent of its GDP. To be specific, during the

13th Five-Year Plan period, the GDP of the new area increased by 7.5 percent

annually and reached 367.5 billion yuan in 2020, with the total large-scale

industrial output exceeding 450 billion yuan.

In recent years, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area has actively laid out the

ecological layout of scientific and technological innovation, adhered to the

idea of "scientific innovation + industry", and focused on attracting worldwide

enterprises and teams with advanced innovation achievements in related fields,

breakthroughs in core key technologies and good industrialization prospects. Up

to now, 40 universities, colleges and institutes at home and abroad have been

introduced. The new area is developing collaborative innovation in a green

manner, gathering a large number of advanced technologies and innovative

talents for Chongqing.

At present, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area is speeding up the construction of

the core bearing area of innovation centers with national influence. The

Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone will be built into an influential

highland for gathering global innovation elements, a highland for promoting

collaborative innovation and cooperation among universities, colleges and

institutes, an important source of scientific and technological innovation,

industrial innovation and emerging industries.

Source: Chongqing Liangjiang New Area