The on-site exchange and research activity on the construction of “Innovation China” pilot cities (south area) on Thursday was held in Xianning. Huai Jinpeng, Secretary of the CPC Leading Group, Executive Vice Chairman and the first Secretary of the Secretariat of China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), Shu Wei, member of the Standing Committee, member of the Party group and Secretary of the Secretariat of CAST, and Lv Zhaoping, member of the Party group and Secretary of the Secretariat of CAST attended the meeting, and Guo Shenglian, Chairman of Hubei Association for Science and Technology attended and addressed the promotion meeting.

Meng Xiangwei, secretary of Xianning municipal Party committee, Wang Yuanhe, deputy secretary and mayor, Liang Xilin, member of the Standing Committee and director of United Front Work Department of Xianning municipal Party committee, and Yang Liangfeng, member of the Standing Committee of Xianning municipal Party committee and secretary of Party working committee of Xianning High-tech Zone attended the relevant activities respectively.

"Innovation China" is the brand action that CAST strives to build this year. It aims to give full play to the talent intelligence and organizational network advantages of CAST, build a technical service and trading platform of resource integration and supply and demand matching, realize talent aggregation, technology integration and service cohesion, and promote science and technology to better serve economic and social development. Through active application and strict selection, Xianning has been selected as one of the first batch of 22 "Innovation China" pilot cities (parks).

“Innovation China” pilot cities (south area) representatives, some persons in charge of national institutes, and relevant experts from "Innovation China" service group were invited to participate in the activity.

3 experts from Beijing Zhongguancun Administrative Committee, Shenzhen CRI, and Yangtze Delta Region Institute of Tsinghua University, Zhejiang made a guidance lecture in the promotion meeting; Hubei Association for Science and Technology, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Association for Science and Technology, China Institute of Communications, Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, China Industry-University-Research Institute Collabration Association, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and Xianning made an exchange speech, and introduced and demonstrated the construction and application of the network service platform of "Innovation China · Hubei Center".

When presiding over the promotion meeting, Huai stressed that we should thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches and the spirit of the fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, scientifically grasp the new development stage, thoroughly implement the new development concept, and speed up the integration into the new development pattern. The biggest resource of the associations for science and technology is talent, and their biggest advantage is organization advantage. Science and technology associations at all levels should do a good job, concentrate their efforts on doing their own thing well by using the platform set up by the "Innovation China", and empower the ecological construction of science and technology innovation through organizations to better serve regional economic development; to solve these problems, we should enable innovation to meet the scientific and technological needs of enterprises, markets and industries to the greatest extent. We should be determined to promote innovation and entrepreneurship and the progress of the scientific and technological industry, foster innovation, entrepreneurship and create a sound ecosystem, accelerate the in-depth integration of science and technology with the economy, and help the development of a modern industrial system.

Huai stressed that we should do practical things, and make use of the advantages of the association's organization, mechanism, support and factors to effectively solve the problem of gathering innovation factors in enterprises and markets, and transform talent potential energy into innovation potential energy and development potential energy; we need to get things done, concentrate our efforts, strengthen our convictions, and continue to innovate, turning our ideas into approaches and measures, our approaches and measures into demonstration and mechanisms, and demonstration and mechanisms into institution building and capital support to promote a virtuous circle of talents, technology, enterprises, finance, policies and other factors of production into a chain, and to build a sound ecosystem that effectively promotes innovation and prosperity in science and technology, providing stronger support for high-quality development.

On the same day, the participating experts and representatives also visited the special exhibition on the integration of science, technology and economy, and went to Hubei Xiangcheng Intelligent Electromechanical Industry Research Institute and Xianning CSG Optoelectronic Glass and other units and enterprises in Xianning High-tech Zone for investigation and research, and held group discussions to strengthen docking and communication. (By Jiang Mingzhu/Xianning Daily)