Xinghua city in East China's Jiangsu province held a science and technology innovation conference on Aug 16.
It gathered representatives of government, industry, academia, research institutes and finance, in a bid to promote the integrated development of sci-tech innovation and industrial innovation.
Chen Fengjian, Xinghua's Party secretary, said the conference invited sci-tech talent and innovative enterprises from Xinghua, but businesses that were developing outside the city, to be the main guests. The aim was to open up new paths for the integration and development of sci-tech innovation and industrial innovation through exchanges.
He added that Xinghua would undertake measures such as establishing platforms for funding cooperation and strengthening full process follow-up services for sci-tech talent from Xinghua and the sci-tech innovation enterprises they had founded, thereby achieving win-win development.
The science and technology innovation conference gets underway. [Photo/WeChat account: xinghuafabu]
Li Bin, vice-mayor of Xinghua, gave a briefing on the city's talent policies for sci-tech innovation and its fund support environment.
Gao Jun, deputy director of the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute, presented related fund policies. He said that he would leverage the guiding role of fiscal funds, promote the research and development of common key technologies in the industrial supply chain and enhance the industrial innovation level and enterprise innovation capability of Xinghua.