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BEIJING, Jan. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

Wuhu City of east China's Anhui Province has mulled efforts in boosting the

science and technology innovation as well as digitalization to push industrial

upgrading.

Wuhu has been the gateway of commerce since ancient times and bred a commercial

culture as well as an adventurous spirit, said Ning Bo, mayor of the city.

"Innovation is the critical driver of enterprise development. Wuhu has formed a

distinct atmosphere of supporting innovation and respecting entrepreneurship,"

said Ning.

Wuhu has formulated multiple policies to encourage individuals and enterprises

to engage in sci-tech innovation. It has built ten innovation parks with an

area of more than 3 million square meters suitable for young people to start

businesses, and allocated 1 billion yuan of subsidies for independent

innovation every year.

Wuhu has also implemented a three-year plan to double the number of high-tech

enterprises, with multiple measures applied such as performance reward, project

support, R&D subsidy and equity incentive to stimulate enterprises' innovation.

In 2021, Wuhu's research and development investment

(https://en.imsilkroad.com/investment/index.html)accounted for 3.34 percent of

its GDP.

At present, a total of 55 key R&D innovation centers have been constructed in

Wuhu, taking up one fourth of the total in the province. 580 high-level

sci-tech talent teams have been summoned up and 1,276 high-tech enterprises as

well as 1,521 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have

been set up in the city.

Industrial Internet can empower industrial transformation and upgrading to

promote intelligent manufacturing in digital era, added Ning.

Wuhu has issued guidelines to select 100 benchmark demonstration enterprises to

promote the innovative development of industrial Internet, and established a

comprehensive service platform to provide technological support for SMEs.

Meanwhile, industrial Internet and projects as well as enterprise services are

well combined to promote the transformation and upgrading of the real economy

with the average profit margin of enterprises increasing by one percent.

By 2023, more than 3,000 SMEs are expected to use cloud platforms to realize

digital transformation.

In addition, Wuhu also plans to build small and medium-sized aviation power R&D

base and intelligent manufacturing innovation base, and speed up the integrated

development of aviation maintenance.

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Source: Xinhua Silk Road

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