Taixing city in East China's Jiangsu province has in recent years brought in 18 academicians successively, who have contributed greatly to the city's innovative development, according to official statistics.
The city has acted to identify the connection points and breakthroughs between industries and academicians, thereby achieving the two-way integration of industrial innovation and regional development.
Zhang Kun, Taixing's Party secretary, said the reason why Taixing had gained the favor of so many academicians lay in its special industrial characteristics, rich applications scenarios and strong support capabilities.
For example, the Taixing Economic Development Zone, has formed a chlor alkali and olefin industry chain with a scale of nearly 100 billion yuan ($14.06 billion).
That's made it the preferred industrial park to many for the development of the fine chemicals and new material industries.
The chain development of the Taixing EDZ attracted an innovative company project led by Li Yadong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor at Tsinghua University to settle there.
The company mainly produces a new type of OLED organic light-emitting semiconductor materials – able to break the existing monopoly held by foreign countries and to promote the combined development of upstream and downstream enterprises in the OLED display industry.
In addition, Taixing has also issued management measures to allocate funds to major local industrial technology innovation projects, as well as provided patience and room for trial and error for technological innovation.
An early evening view of the Taixing Economic Development Zone. [Photo/Taixing Economic Development Zone via WeChat txjjkfq]