Shanghai Hongqiao International Central Business District will fully promote the construction of the Yangtze River Delta manufacturing industry research and development aggregation area.

Kong Fu'an, Secretary of the Party Group and Executive Deputy Director of the Shanghai Hongqiao International Central Business District Management Committee, stated at a press conference held by the Shanghai municipal government on March 23 that the Shanghai Hongqiao International Central Business District relies on unique location and resource advantages to strengthen the position of enterprises as the main innovators, forming a virtuous cycle of "scientific and technological innovation empowering industries and industries contributing to scientific and technological innovation". It has formed three types of replicable and scalable typical models of integrated development of scientific and technological innovation industries, providing vivid practical cases for nurturing and developing new high-quality productivity. Kong Fu'an said that next, the Shanghai Hongqiao International Central Business District will focus on nurturing new high-quality productivity, vigorously promote the construction of the R&D agglomeration area for manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta, deepen cooperation and linkage with the manufacturing industry bases in the Yangtze River Delta, stimulate the vitality of enterprise innovation, improve the policy support system for scientific and technological innovation, continuously optimize spatial carriers and innovation ecology, comprehensively enhance the level of integration of science and technology with industry development, and better serve national strategies and regional coordinated development.