Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Base of "China's Most Livable City" -- Suzhou High-tech Zone

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Base of "China's Most Livable City" -- Suzhou High-tech Zone

Regional Overview

Suzhou livable business, known"heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below".Suzhou is one of the most livable cities in China, in August 2018, the British Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released the "Global Livable City Index Report", and Suzhou ranked first in mainland China. Suzhou is one of China's economic powerhouse. In 2018, GDP ranked seventh in the country and first in Jiangsu.

Suzhou High-tech Zone is located on the west side of the ancient city of Suzhou, with the ancient city in the east and Taihu Lake in the west. It is known as "the city in the true mountain and water garden, and the new paradise of science and technology and humanity. Water transport conditions are excellent, railway transportation is well developed,regional transportation is very convenient, it is 90 kilometers away from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, 130 kilometers away from Pudong International Airport, 100 kilometers away from Shanghai Port, 90 kilometers away from Zhangjiagang Port, 70 kilometers away from Taicang Port and 60 kilometers away from Changshu Port. Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, 312 National Highway, Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and Ring Expressway all pass through Suzhou High-tech Zone.

Suzhou High-tech Zone was approved in 1992the first batch of national high-tech development zones, with an area of 223 square kilometers, has a registered population of 451900 by the end of 2020. Since its development and construction, Suzhou High-tech Zone has grown from scratch and from small to large. It has not only become an important growth pole of Suzhou's economy, a demonstration zone for independent innovation and a city-wide high-tech industrial base, but also an organic part of Suzhou's modern city and the most prosperous One of the financial and business districts.

basic policy

Suzhou High-tech Zone implemented legal management earlier in the national development zones, formulated more than 100 normative documents, and reduced the types of fees to 10one of the development zones with the least types of fees and the lowest amount in the country.. Suzhou New District is a high-tech industrial development zone approved by the State Council,implement and enjoy the preferential policies granted by the state, including taxation, import and export business, capital credit, priority arrangement of fixed asset investment and simplification of overseas business, technical personnel to go abroad procedures. In terms of taxation, the income tax of enterprises in the high-tech industrial development zone can be "two exemptions and six halves" from the year of production, and the tax rate of 10-15% will be levied after the expiration of the reduction period. In addition, within the scope permitted by national policies, Suzhou New District will handle some projects that have a special impact on regional development on a case-by-case basis and give special policy preferences.

Suzhou High-tech Zonehas a series of support systems for the development of enterprises.:Small Business, there are two state-level incubators, which offer rent reductions and tax rebates to start-ups, as well as incubation funds.Large and medium-sized enterprises, every year to coach enterprises to carry out the evaluation of international high-tech enterprises and declare the support fund of science and technology system;individual, if they are awarded the leading talents in Jiangsu Province and Suzhou City, the high-tech zone will give a certain proportion of financial support. In addition,Medical equipment, new energy and service outsourcing industry, the high-tech zone will also give preferential policies depending on the project.

industry positioning

At present, Suzhou High-tech Zone has formed a new generation of integrated circuit chip design, manufacturing and applicationInformation Technology Industry, intelligent manufacturing-basedhigh-end manufacturing, mainly medical equipmentBig Health Industry, represented by new energy vehiclesNew energy industry, focusing on big data, cloud computing and industrial internetBig Data Industryof the five emerging industrial clusters, and formed a computer, communications products, auto parts and other characteristics of the industrial chain.

of Suzhou High-tech Zoneleading industry is electronic information and equipment manufacturing,emerging industries are new energy, biomedicine and service outsourcing (BPO). Among them, the industrial chain layout of the two leading industries of electronic information and equipment manufacturing in Suzhou High-tech Zone is relatively complete. Ruizhong, Lexuan, TPV, Jiashiga, TPV, Mingshuo, Guoju, Tongshuo, Guanglian, A large number of enterprises such as Newway Machinery, Wandu and Yafandi are the leaders in the industry. Large enterprises in new materials and new energy include: Artes, Meien Superconductor, Tepp Wind Energy, GCL, and leading enterprises in the pharmaceutical industry include: Pfizer, Sinochem, Lei Yunshang, Changjia, etc.

New District Results

Suzhou High-tech Zone has introduced all kinds of high-tech talents, developed all kinds of scientific and technological projects, and has introduced and cultivated thousands of scientific and technological enterprises, many of which have been successfully listed on the market.

High-tech Zone will hold an investment promotion meeting on the integration of Suzhou High-tech Zone into the Yangtze River Delta in 2020. Twenty-two major projects with a total investment of 38.2 billion yuan have been signed and settled in Suzhou High-tech Zone, including Suzhou Zhongri Innovation Valley, Beidou 5G & AIOT Application Testing Service Industry Community, Urban Complex, Baidu VR (Suzhou) Enabling Center, 5G Edge Computing Service Project, Vascular Intervention Device Research and Development and Manufacturing Center, Japan's High-end Manufacturing Regional Headquarters, etc.

In addition, Suzhou High-tech Zone has also signed strategic cooperation agreements with cooperative institutions such as DTZ, Jones Lang LaSalle, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, and Mizuho Bank.

 

development direction

Suzhou High-tech Zone Inspirational Building"Entrepreneur Paradise, Innovator Paradise", leading high-quality development with innovation.

with this goal, Suzhou High-tech Zone will encourage itself during the 14th Five-Year Plan period:

-brings together innovative resources. The high tech Zone plans to introduce a number of large institutes, cultivate a number of emerging industries, and encourage enterprises to jointly build key laboratories, engineering research centers, enterprise technology centers and other innovation carriers, so as to build a Sino foreign joint technological innovation platform. Accelerate the gathering of high-end talent.

-Output innovation results. Carry forward the advantages of high-tech zones, continue to focus on medical devices, integrated circuits, high-end equipment manufacturing and other fields, and systematically deploy a number of scientific and technological research and development projects to solve key technical problems facing industrial development.

-Perfect innovation ecology. Optimize the layout of innovation space, actively participate in the construction of the Shanghai-Nanjing Industrial Innovation Belt, and jointly build the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community.

-Cultivate Pilot Industrial Cluster. Create a new landmark of the medical device industry, build the medical device industry as the "No. 1 industry", play the role of the medical device industry development company, and promote localized applications. Support the research and development of innovative medical device products and original new drugs, and strengthen the cultivation and reserve of achievement transformation projects.

-Promote the development of emerging industries. The digital economy has been fully promoted and the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy has been promoted. Deepen the collaborative application of digital technology in the fields of people's livelihood services, transportation and logistics, ecological and environmental protection, and increase the application of 5G integration.

-upgrading traditional industries. Accelerate the intelligent transformation of traditional industries and implement intelligent transformation and digital transformation. Build a "5G plus industrial Internet" integration application pilot area, develop cross-border e-commerce, and promote the deep integration of cultural tourism.

-raise the level of opening up to the outside world. Fully integrate into the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, strengthen the joint development with comprehensive national science centers such as Zhangjiang and Hefei, and build a scientific and technological innovation community in the Yangtze River Delta.