Laoshan District issued ＂Stars Plan＂ policies and measures to accelerate the breakthrough of source innovation.

Original title: Laoshan District focuses on the layout of seven key industrial chains and four emerging industry professional parks, and fully accelerates the breakthrough of source innovation.

"Star Project" promotes the upgrading of key industrial chains.

Scientific and technological innovation is related to the future.

On the morning of June 19th, Laoshan District Science and Technology Innovation Conference was held to mobilize the whole region to make progress and make breakthroughs, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and accelerate the development of new quality productivity. At the scene, Laoshan District issued the Three-year Action Plan for the Implementation of the "Star Plan" in Laoshan District and Twelve Policies and Measures for the "Star Plan", and unveiled the Alliance for the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements in Laoshan District, awarding the top ten scientific and technological innovation platforms, top ten scientific and technological innovation enterprises, the first batch of "star enterprises" and the first batch of "star talents" in Laoshan District.

Scientific and technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, which is the core element of developing new quality productivity. Laoshan District is an important position for the city to implement the innovation-driven development strategy. It has always insisted on scientific and technological innovation as the first driving force for high-quality development. At present, it is focusing on the layout of seven key industrial chains and four emerging industry professional parks, making every effort to accelerate the breakthrough of source innovation and continuously accumulate the energy of scientific and technological innovation. The data shows that in 2023, the R&D investment intensity of enterprises in Laoshan District reached 4.32%, the turnover of technology contracts accounted for 9% of GDP, the output value of high-tech industries accounted for 86.7% of the total industrial output value above designated size, the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people was 180, and the number of high-tech enterprises per 10,000 enterprises was 178, ranking first in the city in five indicators. These achievements have laid a solid foundation for Laoshan District to implement innovation-driven development strategy at a higher level, develop new quality productivity according to local conditions, and continuously enhance regional core competitiveness.

Accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements

The foundation of the formation of new quality productivity lies in innovation. As one of the regions with the most intensive innovation resources, the most abundant innovation vitality and the best innovation ecology in the province, Laoshan District has three universities in the region, and has cultivated 920 high-tech enterprises, 540 specialized and innovative enterprises, 22 "little giant" enterprises, 47 provincial gazelle enterprises, 9 unicorn enterprises, and 197 key enterprise laboratories and technology innovation centers. Give full play to the advantages of intensive scientific research elements and stimulate the innovation vitality of all elements, which has become the proper meaning of Laoshan District to build a source of innovation leading the development of provinces and cities.

Laoshan District actively encourages scientific research institutions and innovation centers to carry out technical research around the needs of enterprises by strengthening the dominant position of enterprise innovation, so as to promote the deep integration and development of Industry-University-Research. At the meeting, the Laoshan District Scientific and Technological Achievements Transformation Alliance, which has absorbed more than 100 members of various types, was officially unveiled.

"As the first chairman of the alliance, we hope to use this platform to explore boldly in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the direction of deep integration of innovation chain, capital chain, talent chain and industrial chain, and carry out technical research with member units around the needs of enterprises in the region to promote the deep integration of Industry-University-Research." Xin Song, deputy director of Science and Technology Department of China Ocean University, said.

Qingdao Radium Test and Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., headquartered in Laoshan District, is a typical sample of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities with the support of Laoshan District and China Ocean University. As a leader in the research and development of laser radar equipment, market sales and the application of environmental meteorological stereo remote sensing system, Qingdao Radium Measurement and Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. has an average annual growth rate of more than 70%. "By building high-level scientific and technological innovation platforms such as key laboratories and R&D centers with universities and research institutes, the company has continuously improved the transformation efficiency of scientific and technological achievements, achieved intergenerational breakthroughs in products, and accelerated the scientific and technological achievements from laboratories to production lines." Li Rongzhong, general manager of Qingdao Radium Test Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. said that next, the company will actively carry out technical research and implement results transformation with universities and colleges in the two fields of government public service and industrial industry, and empower all industries to be safer and more efficient through laser technology, which will help the rapid economic and social development of Laoshan District and Qingdao City.

Grasping the construction of key science and technology innovation platforms is a key measure to improve the ability of innovation strategy in Laoshan District. Qingdao Research Institute, established in December 2020, is an engineering and capital platform for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements with the support of the municipal and district levels. "We put forward the’ Dolphin Plan’, which effectively promoted the transformation of many achievements from Tsinghua University, Central University of Finance and Economics, Shandong University, China Ocean University, Qingdao University, Georgia University, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Shenzhen Peking University Medical Center of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and other institutions in Qingdao Institute of Industry and Research." Zhao Yubo, Executive Dean of Qingdao Research Institute, told the reporter that since its establishment, the platform has incubated 64 enterprises, cultivated 5 high-tech enterprises, transferred 63 transformation technologies and incited social investment of 830 million yuan. By the end of 2023, Qingdao Institute of Industry and Research had achieved a total revenue of 1.33 billion yuan in Qingdao and a tax revenue of 50 million yuan in Laoshan District.

"Focusing on the’ last mile’ of the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, Laoshan District has implemented the’ Star Plan’ and built a model of Laoshan in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements by promoting the deep integration of schools and places, accelerating the transformation of achievements, optimizing the innovation ecology and other measures. By 2026, more than 400 projects will be put into the transformation and cultivation repository of scientific and technological achievements, more than 30 enterprises will be transformed and incubated locally, more than 20 demonstration technology transfer institutions will be established, and more than 300 technical brokers will be employed. Bo Wei, director of the Laoshan District Science and Technology Bureau, said.

Emerging industries and new quality generate.

Industrial innovation is the fundamental way to realize the value of scientific and technological innovation. Laoshan District, which accelerates the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, will transform scientific and technological innovations into real productive forces and promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial system by shaping new advantages, enhancing new kinetic energy and opening up new tracks.

Molding new advantages-going "new" and making the modern industrial system bigger and stronger. Laoshan District is further optimizing the industrial layout according to the optimization and adjustment of the city’s modern industrial system, focusing on the construction of four professional parks, namely, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, marine biomedicine, intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet, and striving to promote the total scale of four industrial chains, namely, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, marine biomedicine, intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet, to exceed 100 billion yuan in 2024, and accelerate the construction of a new highland of high-end manufacturing in the city. To this end, Laoshan District vigorously carried out the three-year action of building a strong science and technology innovation zone, fully integrated into the "Qingdao Science and Technology Corridor", and focused on building Songling Road Science and Technology R&D Zone, Zhuzhou Road Industrial Innovation and Entrepreneurship Zone and Zhang Cun River Transformation and Upgrading Zone with four major professional parks as the leader, gradually forming a spatial pattern of "three-zone linkage" with distinct levels, reasonable division of labor and complementary functions. At the same time, Laoshan District also vigorously develops three advantageous industries: modern finance, software and information services, and cultural tourism, and strives to make the total scale of modern service industries exceed 100 billion yuan in 2024, and accelerate to become an important financial center and tourism center in provinces and cities.

Enhance new kinetic energy —— On the one hand, Laoshan District focuses on developing marine economy, giving full play to the advantages of marine characteristics, accelerating the cultivation of new marine productivity, giving priority to the development of marine biomedicine, marine equipment and marine information, and building a leading area for marine science and technology innovation in the city. On the other hand, we will accelerate the upgrading of traditional industries, focus on the digitalization of industries, give full play to the role of industrial Internet platforms such as Haier kaos, and accelerate the intelligent transformation and digital transformation of traditional enterprises. This year, 10 enterprises will be guided to upgrade, and the industrial technological transformation will increase by more than 15% throughout the year. At the same time, we will speed up tackling key technologies in emerging industries, focus on the emergence of cutting-edge technologies, breakthroughs in key technologies, and the application of the whole chain in major scenarios, and deepen scientific research models such as "revealing the list and taking the lead" and "directional entrustment", and chain owners will formulate a road map for tackling key technologies, so as to promote the accurate matching of innovative resources with industrial needs.

Open up a new track-Laoshan District also foresees the layout of future industries, deeply explores the construction of future industrial pilot areas, and promotes the construction of innovation matrices by universities, leading enterprises and new R&D institutions, aiming at introducing more subversive and forward-looking innovations in perovskite, solid-state batteries, synthetic biology, marine medicine and other fields, and enhancing the output capacity of new knowledge and technologies in the region.

Promoting the "key variable" of scientific and technological innovation has become the "maximum increment" of high-quality development. Laoshan District is promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation with greater efforts and more practical measures, and strives to achieve that by 2026, the proportion of technology contract turnover in GDP in the whole district will exceed 9.5%, the investment intensity of R&D of enterprises will exceed 4.5%, the number of scientific and technological innovation platforms at or above the municipal level will exceed 400, the number of annual achievement transformation projects of universities and colleges in the district will exceed 1,000, and the number of high-tech enterprises will exceed 1,200. (Qingdao Daily/Guanhai News reporter Yi Tao)