Recently, the "National Innovative Cities Innovation Capacity Evaluation Report 2023" was released.
In the list of the top 100 cities with innovative capabilities in the country, Wuhu ranks fourth in the country in innovation governance, second only to Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing.
Why is Wuhu’s innovative governance capability stronger than that of first-tier cities?
National innovative cities refer to cities with strong independent innovation capabilities, outstanding technological support and leadership, high levels of sustainable economic and social development, and significant regional radiation and leadership.
Since 2019, the Ministry of Science and Technology has evaluated and ranked national innovative cities every year and launched the "National Innovative Cities Innovation Capacity Evaluation Report". The
report has constructed an urban innovation capability evaluation index system that includes 5 dimensions and 30 specific indicators.
"National Innovative Cities Innovation Capacity Evaluation Report" can be regarded as the country's official assessment of the innovation capabilities of each city.
is different from previous years. This year, the four municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Chongqing were included in the evaluation for the first time. The total number of cities increased from 97 to 101.
This means that competition between cities is becoming more intense.
Positive Solution noticed that in the list, in addition to first-tier cities and strong second-tier cities such as Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Wuhan, there was one city that performed very prominently.
This is Wuhu City, Anhui Province.
Wuhu is the second largest city in Anhui Province, with a GDP of 450.2 billion yuan in 2022. It ranks 63rd among the top 100 cities in the country and is in the middle reaches.
Top 100 GDP Cities in 2022 Chart: Times Data Source: Local Bureau of Statistics Swipe up and down to view
Compared with GDP, Wuhu ranks very high in innovation.
Overall, in the 2023 National Innovation Cities Innovation Capability Index ranking, Wuhu’s innovation capability index is 58.43, ranking 29th.
If the newly added municipalities this year are excluded, Wuhu ranks 26th, one more place higher than the previous year.
Wuhu ranks 30th in the list of the top 100 cities with innovative capabilities in the country (including non-innovative cities), one place higher than the previous year.
National list of top 100 cities with innovative capabilities (including non-innovative cities)
It is worth mentioning that in the subdivided index of innovation governance, Wuhu scored 75.87, ranking fourth in the country.
Innovation governance score and ranking
This is an amazing result, ranking higher than the first-tier cities Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
Wuhu why? The ranking of
is based on the "hard indicators" of innovation.
These "hard indicators" mainly include the intensity of R&D investment in the whole society, the number of R&D personnel among 10,000 employed people, the number of high-level scientific and technological talents, the number of high-tech enterprises, the number of invention patents owned by 10,000 people, and national-level technology business incubators.
The high concentration of innovative resources is a distinctive feature of innovative cities.
In Anhui Province, Wuhu's innovation resource concentration is second only to the provincial capital Hefei -
has more than 50 national-level innovation platforms and 532 scientific research institutions at or above the provincial level.
The number of national high-tech enterprises and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises has exceeded 2,000 respectively. , 3000
27 new national-level specialized and special new "little giant" enterprises were added, accounting for 21%
of the province's new R&D institutions, accounting for 25% of the province's approved high-level new R&D and industrial innovation institutes respectively. Accounting for 36% and 22% of the province.
Anhui's top 100 high-tech enterprises and "Top 100 R&D" enterprises both account for 20% of the province.
Wuhu Jiuzi Plaza
The overall social R&D investment intensity refers to the total social R&D investment in a certain region accounting for the current production The proportion of the total value reflects the importance that the local government attaches to science and innovation. It is also an important internationally used indicator to measure the scale and level of independent innovation investment in a country or region. Wuhu is very prominent in this indicator of
, with the R&D investment intensity of the whole society reaching 3.48%, ranking first in the province.
’s massive investment has brought fruitful innovation results to Wuhu.
As of November 2023, Wuhu has a total of 24,350 valid invention patents and a total of 141,858 registered trademarks, ranking second in the province. The number of valid invention patents per 10,000 people has ranked first in the province for 12 consecutive years.
Technological innovation is inseparable from talent introduction and education.
Faced with the "war for people" in first- and second-tier cities, Wuhu has also done its best.
Throughout 2020, there were only 16,000 new college graduates joining Wuhu, and in the first 11 months of 2023, this number has exceeded 85,000.
After several years of hard work, Wuhu’s talent work has achieved remarkable results.
Positive Solution noted that in the evaluation of innovation governance, one indicator is "urban innovation and entrepreneurship ecological environment".
The Bay Valley Science and Technology Park in Wuhu Jiangbei New District under construction
In terms of ecological construction, Wuhu uses innovation to drive high-quality development, introduces a construction plan for the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, builds a large science and technology market, carries out normalized system of industry-university-research cooperation, and implements Transform scientific and technological achievements into the "Ten Hundreds and Thousands" action, build innovative parks with a total area of more than 3 million square meters such as Bay Valley Science and Technology Park and Mengxi Science and Technology Innovation Corridor from a high starting point, establish and improve the policy support system for innovative city construction, and provide support for all types of innovations The main body takes root, grows and injects "source living water".
Since last year, Wuhu has implemented 300 municipal science and technology projects, built 80 municipal entrepreneurship incubation bases, and has more than 2,000 incubating companies.
In my country's urban landscape, Wuhu's "presence" in innovation is much stronger than GDP.
Cities breed industries, and industries drive cities. As an industrial financial self-media,
believes that technological innovation needs to be implemented through industry.
Based on this logic, the innovative elements of the city still need to drive urban development through empowering industries.
In fact, Wuhu is following the development path of "industry + scientific innovation".
On November 29 last year, Wuhu City held a press conference to build an industrial innovation center and promote the construction of a provincial sub-central city, clearly focusing on the implementation of eight major projects, practicing four major safeguard measures, striving to build an industrial innovation center, and accelerating the promotion of provincial sub-central cities. Central city construction. The
Industrial Innovation Center focuses on "industry + science and technology" to promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and achieve the dual improvement of industry and technology.
This is consistent with the "Several Opinions on Supporting Wuhu City to Accelerate the Construction of a Provincial Sub-Central City" proposed by Anhui Province to "promote the construction and operation of Anhui Innovation Center". The two centers of
are positioned to provide all-round, all-factor precision services to promote outstanding talents to "take root", promote innovative projects to "flower and bear fruit", and make innovative industries bigger and stronger.
Anhui Innovation Center located in Wuhu National High-tech Zone
It is worth mentioning that Wuhu does not limit its development to the province, but actively integrates into the national strategy of Yangtze River Delta integration.
The Yangtze River Delta is the region with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness and the strongest innovation ability in my country.
As the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has become a national strategy, strengthening cross-regional collaboration in technological innovation and industrial innovation has become an inevitable requirement.
It is against this background that the Yangtze River Delta g60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor was launched and was included in the outline of the national "14th Five-Year Plan" development plan.
The Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor includes Songjiang District of Shanghai, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Hangzhou City, Huzhou City, Jiaxing City, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, and Anhui Province along the G60 National Highway and the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou and Shanghe-Hangzhou High-speed Railways. 9 cities (districts) including Hefei City, Wuhu City, and Xuancheng City.
Yangtze River Delta g60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Version 3.0 overall spatial layout plan
Yangtze River Delta g60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor aims to promote the free flow and integration of science and technology innovation elements, which has created new development opportunities for Wuhu.
With the help of the g60 science and technology innovation corridor, Wuhu can connect with Shanghai, the global science and technology innovation center, and enjoy the huge radiation and driving effect hidden in the national financial, trade, shipping and economic center.
To this end, Wuhu launched the (Shanghai) Industrial Innovation Center in 2020. This is the first "technological innovation enclave" built in Shanghai by a city in Anhui Province.
On November 8 last year, the second phase of the Wuhu Industrial Innovation Center project of the Yangtze River Delta g60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor started in Songjiang, Shanghai, and is expected to be completed and put into use in about one year.
Yangtze River Delta g60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Wuhu Industrial Innovation Center Phase II Rendering
This project will be committed to creating "incubation in Shanghai, industrialization in Wuhu; R&D in Shanghai, production in Wuhu; front office in Shanghai, back office in Wuhu" Local collaborative innovation model.
This year, the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou high-speed railway is expected to be completed and operational by the end of the year.
There will be a second high-speed rail channel from Wuhu to Shanghai, and the journey will be shortened from the current 3 hours to about 1.5 hours. The
space has become closer, and the cooperation between the two places in industry, academia and research will be closer.
If the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor is compared to a river, then the free-flowing innovation elements can "nourish" the cities along the coast, but they can also "sweep away" the city's innovation elements.
In the process of integration of science and technology in the Yangtze River Delta, urban cooperation is the main theme, and competition is inevitable.
The challenges facing Wuhu are:
First, the economy is not large.
Among the eight cities except Shanghai, Wuhu's GDP is only higher than Xuancheng and Huzhou, and far lower than Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Hefei.
Although big does not mean strong, a large economy means that it can provide richer "soil" for innovative elements and be more attractive to innovative elements.
Second, the industry overlap is high.
The nine cities (districts) in the Yangtze River Delta g60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor have high industrial similarities, and most of them are centered around intelligent manufacturing, electronic appliances, automobiles and other industries.
The convergence of industrial layout has led to the possibility of industrial "scrabble" and direct competition between cities.
From the perspective of the positive solution, Wuhu should give full play to its advantages and strengthen its characteristics.
's advantages include the automobile industry, which is Wuhu's number one industry.
In 2022, Wuhu's vehicle output will reach 1.111 million units, total vehicle sales will rank first in the province, and the output value of the automobile and parts industry will exceed 200 billion yuan.
Chery Automobile Co., Ltd.
Although Hefei in the province is catching up strongly, Wuhu's automobile industry has obvious advantages compared with other cities such as Hangzhou and Suzhou.
The Yangtze River Delta is one of the regions with the most complete automobile industry chain in my country.
As a regional highland for automobile manufacturing, Wuhu can use the Yangtze River Delta industrial chain to improve the automobile development ecology and create an internationally competitive new energy automobile industry cluster.
features such as the data center industry, which is an emerging industry in Wuhu.
In 2022, Wuhu was successfully selected as one of the 8 computing power hub nodes and 10 data center clusters of the "Eastern Digital and Western Computing" national project.
undertakes "national tasks", which is an advantage that other cities do not have.
Wuhu data center cluster is one of the two major clusters in the Yangtze River Delta hub and the only data cluster in the six central provinces. Wuhu has received support from "national teams" such as China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Tower, and has also attracted Huawei, Sugon, etc. A group of leading companies invested.
Wuhu Data Center Cluster’s first tens-billion-level project—Wuhu Starborne Liquid-cooled Big Data Center Phase I
Currently, Wuhu Cluster has signed 12 data center projects with a total investment of approximately 255.1 billion yuan.
Computing power in the new era, just like water power in the agricultural civilization era and electricity in the industrial civilization era, is the key productivity in the digital economy era. The
data center cluster may become the biggest dividend, biggest outlet, and biggest increment in promoting the high-quality development of Wuhu.
Pearl of the Yangtze River, a famous innovative city.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wuhu pulp and dyeing industry was famous far and wide, and was as famous as Songjiang cotton textile industry, Suhang silk weaving industry, Qianshan paper making industry and Jingdezhen porcelain making industry.
During the reform and opening up period, Wuhu Nian Guangjiu dared to be the first to establish "Fool Guazi", which became the first business card of the individual and private economy in the country.
In the new millennium, Wuhu Chery Automobile has gone abroad and ranked first in the export of Chinese brand passenger cars for 21 consecutive years.
The spirit of “dare to venture, dare to try, dare to be the first” has long been integrated into the urban blood of Wuhu.
In recent years, the homophone of "wuhoo takes off" has become a hot word on the Internet.
Wuhu is responding to the public’s expectations for “Wuhu Takeoff” with innovation and hard work.
