Shanghai Municipal Party Secretary Chen Jining: Pudong should focus on building a highland for independent innovation and continue to strengthen the innovation engine.

Chen Jining, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, pointed out that at the new starting point, Pudong must effectively enhance its sense of mission, responsibility, and urgency as a pioneer and a national forerunner. Pudong must work hard and seize the moment, focusing on building a new highland of independent innovation and continuously strengthening the innovation engine. It is necessary to strengthen basic research and original innovation, enhance the construction of strategic scientific and technological forces, support high-risk, high-value basic research, support leading science and technology enterprises in implementing major scientific and technological tasks, and promote the opening and sharing of major scientific and technological infrastructure. It is important to strengthen the cultivation of cutting-edge and disruptive technologies, focus on the three leading industries to tackle key core technologies, actively serve the cross-regional cooperation in scientific and technological innovation of the Yangtze River Delta. Continuously optimize the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, focus on the construction of the Zhangjiang International Science City, optimize and improve spatial layout, promote the scaled and intensive development of industrial parks, enhance the concentration of innovation elements and the coherence of enterprises, and strengthen the completeness and synergy of the industrial chain. Better promote end-to-end innovation and accelerate the full chain, accelerate the cultivation of world-class enterprises.