Expert Group of Science and Technology Ministry Assess Establishment Work of Chenzhou High-tech Zone

2012-11-02

 

The expert group of Science and Technology Ministry shows full support for the establishment of Chenzhou high-tech zone

Xiang Lili Says Chenzhou government will fully promote the establishment work

 

Deputy Director of High-tech department of Science and Technology Ministry- Hu Shihui led an expert group to visit Chenzhou and assess Chenzhou government’s work on the establishment of High-tech zone. The expert group stated that they would be fully supporting for the establishment work while Xiang Lili- Secretary of Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee stated that Chenzhou government would fully promote the establishment work as well.

 

In order to be improved as a national high-tech industry development zone to lead Chenzhou scientific and transformation development, Chenzhou municipal party committee and Chenzhou government paid much attention to the establishment of high-tech zone and achieved remarkable success. The industry scale of Chenzhou high-tech zone is keeping expanded with the upgrading of traditional industrial transformation, high speed progress of high-tech industries and increasing technological innovation capacity. In this high-tech zone, there are 27 high-tech enterprises accounting for 62.8% of whole Chenzhou city, 88 authorized invention patents, 17 scientific and technological achievements which are above provincial level, and 37 national technological projects. In 2011, its technological and engineering trade hit 51.03 billion yuan; industrial output value amounted to 40.64 billion yuan, among which 26.3 billion yuan was the high-tech output value with a rate of 65% of the whole zone and 61% of whole Chenzhou city; export and import value reached 1.28 billion dollars and fiscal revenue was up to 1.58 billion yuan. Chenzhou high-tech zone ranked fourth in 2011 provincial and upper level industrial park assessment of new industrialization.

 

The export group took an on-site investigation on the establishment work of Chenzhou high-tech zone and listened to the working report carefully. The group fully confirmed the establishment work carried out by Chenzhou municipal party committee and Chenzhou government for its clear development ideas, prominent efficiency, and highlights. The group also stated that now Chenzhou high-tech zone has a good foundation to be developed as a national high-tech zone, with a certain scale, featured characteristics, sound development trend, and high percentage of industrial park economy.

 

On the debriefing conference, Hu Shihui confirmed that they would fully support the establishment work of Chenzhou high-tech zone and presented some suggestions accordingly. Hu said, Chenzhou government needs to find new ideas to enhance the leadership, boost the development of establishment and make a sound plan with high standards with the purpose of promoting the scientific development of industrial park and city. Chenzhou should keep learning and sharing experience with others, upgrade the capacity of innovation, accelerating the combination of independent innovation capacity with the development of high-tech zones. Besides, Chenzhou should cultivate more high-tech enterprises and high-tech talents, enlarge the industrial investment for the combination of technology and finance, accelerate the speed of transferring the technology to be productivity, economy and development advantages to fulfill the establishment target at the soonest time.

 

After listening to the views and recommendations of the expert group, Xiang Lili said Chenzhou government would try its best to promote the establishment of a national high-tech zone. Chenzhou would give full play to its resources, location advantages, and undertaking transfer chances to accelerate the development of high technology industry, improve the traditional industries, and boost Chenzhou’s transformation development. It is one of the significant targets of Chenzhou economy transformation development to establish the national high-tech zone, and one of the key engines for Chenzhou’s scientific development. Chenzhou municipal party committee and Chenzhou government would provide more preferable supports like capitals, policies, lands, ect. to promote Chenzhou high-tech zone’s development and would learn more experience from other areas to upgrade the development ideas.

 

Xiang sincerely hope the experts and leaders can keep their supports as usual on the improvement of Chenzhou high-tech zones. He said Chenzhou would promote its transformation development with the improvement of the establishment work and would follow the experts’ views and recommendations to carry out the reform of establishment work and upgrade the level of establishing.

 

Some Hunan provincial leaders and Chenzhou municipal leaders presented at the conference.