Innovative Nanjing: Gathering global wisdom to create a common future
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NANJING, China, June 25, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--
On the morning of June 21, the 2021 Nanjing Tech Week officially kicked off. It
attracted global attention and opened the "Innovation Moment" again.
At the opening ceremony, Xu Nanping, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Science
and Technology, said, "Nanjing, as the first batch of national innovative
cities, has set a new benchmark for the construction of national innovative
cities." It will continue to increase the efforts to support Nanjing in
creating original innovations and efforts in the areas of strategic source,
carbon peaks, carbon neutrality, and scientific and technological system
comprehensive reform pilot areas, according to the Organizing Committee of
Nanjing Tech Week.
In the keynote speech, Fan Gang, professor of economics at Peking University,
said that the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a national strategic scientific
and technological force, is cooperating more and more closely with Nanjing, and
a group of CAS high-end innovation resources is accelerating the gathering,
forming a regional innovation highland of subject clusters and spatial
agglomeration. At the meeting, the 3rd-generation Semiconductor National
Technology Innovation Center (Nanjing) was unveiled.
As the representative of Russia, the guest country of this year's Tech Week,
Mr. Raspertov, Acting Director of the Department of International Cooperation
of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, said
in an online speech that this year's Tech Week has a rich series of
Russian-Chinese cooperation activities involving information technology,
biotechnology, new materials, AI and other fields. This in-depth cooperation
showed that Russian and Chinese scholars and researchers are interested in
establishing contacts and developing mutually beneficial cooperation in the
priority areas of the two countries. "I believe that the various activities
held here will help build a sustainable platform and promote the implementation
of international scientific and technological projects and innovation
cooperation."
The World Intellectual Property Organization released the 2020 edition of the
Global Innovation Index, showing that Nanjing has achieved great improvement in
four years, and its ranking has jumped from 94th in 2017 to 21st; Nanjing is
ranked 8th in the global scientific research cities selected by the
authoritative journal "Nature".
Innovation has been integrated into the blood of Nanjing's development and has
become the distinctive temperament of the city.
Source: The Organizing Committee of Nanjing Tech Week
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