Taizhou city helps boost enterprise innovation

A new offshore innovation center was set up by the Jiangyan district of Taizhou city – in East China's Jiangsu province – together with Beijing's Tsinghua University.

It's located some 1,500 kilometers away from Taizhou – in an industry incubation center in Shenzhen city, in South China's Guangdong province.

The new facility will focus on big health, electronics information and other key industries.

As such, the center is expected to take full advantage of the high-end innovation resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Great Bay Area – and promote the industrialization of promising scientific innovation projects in Taizhou.

Its establishment also brought the number of Taizhou's offshore innovation centers to 14. Among these are centers in Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen and Beijing – seven of which have started operating.

These centers serve as bridgeheads attracting high-end talent and high-tech projects to Taizhou, rather than being several office buildings located outside the city.

The Taizhou-based Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co is one of the beneficiaries of such the "offshore innovation" model. Its project was incubated outside Taizhou, but was industrialized locally.

The company is working with the China Medical City in Taizhou to build its third offshore innovation center and plans to conduct industry-education-research cooperation with Nanjing Medical University.

Liu Yong, founder of Recbio, said the company's innovation ability has been improving thanks to resources from cities where the innovation centers are located.

The company has over 10 research personnel in its laboratory located at the Wuhan Offshore Innovation Center and it has submitted three invention patent applications.

"These technologies and research achievements will be transferred to Taizhou and industrialized there," Liu added.