The 2022 Jiading Colleges and Research Institutes Forum was held in Jiading district, Shanghai on Nov 16.
The 2022 Jiading Colleges and Research Institutes Forum gets underway on Nov 16. [Photo/WeChat account: sh-jiading]
Jiading district director Gao Xiang said that since 2015, the district has been working nonstop to erect a research and innovation hub. Jiading has developed enabling platforms and policies for new technologies, continuously disseminated such innovations, and contributed to their transformation as colleges and research institutes have gathered in the district.
At the event, Gao also made note of Jiading's plans to further integrate production, learning, and research as well as to amass more creative components and scientific and technological outcomes. She added that stronger brand effects and coordinated growth of the sci-tech industries are emerging at the same time in the district.
Jiading has helped 153 industry-university-research cooperation projects during the last five years. Tongji University Science and Technology Park was built with the support of advantageous policies, attracting a large number of start-ups, including Shanghai Tongyu Automotive Technology Co, which was formed by Tongji University students and faculty.
During the same period, Jiading collaborated with research institutes to establish companies, of which the listed ones have a total market cap of more than 200 billion yuan ($28.06 billion) and there are now more than 30 high-tech businesses with an output value of at least 100 million yuan.