China upgrades Xiong’an high-tech zone to national level
China’s State Council has approved upgrading the Xiong’an high-tech industrial development zone to a national-level high-tech industrial development zone, according to a statement released Friday.
As part of the Xiong’an New Area in north China’s Hebei Province, the upgraded zone should promote deeper integration of sci-tech innovation with industrial innovation, and attract high-end innovation resources from home and abroad, the statement said.
It called on the zone to actively carry out research and development cooperation on major sci-tech projects, accelerate breakthroughs in key core technologies in priority areas, and speed up the efficient transformation and application of sci-tech achievements.
The statement also urged efforts to strengthen leading industries, make forward-looking plans for emerging sectors, deepen institutional reform, and advance high-level opening up.
In April 2017, China decided to establish the Xiong’an New Area as part of a strategy to promote the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
