Nanjing Jiangbei New Area on Monday launched a "source place plan" at 2019 
Nanjing Tech Week, to provide support to the source for innovative development 
with favorable policy, market and innovation environment.

Luo Qun, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Jiangbei New Area, 
said the "source place plan" is aiming at building a gilded signboard for the 
new area, facilitating upgrading of the new ecosystem on the existing 
fundamentals and building an innovation center with great driving force.

Through comprehensive planning, efforts will be made to promote efficient 
circulation of value chain, dynamic reform of innovation mechanisms, 
breakthroughs in major projects, accelerated innovation achievement 
transformations and overlapping release of the source planning effect.

Since the Jiangbei New Area was approved to establish as a national new area in 
2015, it has participated in 49 contracted projects of 49 new-type research and 
development institutions of Nanjing, gathered over 500 high-tech companies, 
brought in 1,402 talents including 126 national-level experts.

Moreover, it has established deep connections with world's renowned 
universities and research institutions, such as the University of Cambridge, 
King's College London, Harvard University, the University of Oxford, New York 
University, etc., and joined 150 overseas projects, with 20 projects settled in 
the new area.

According to the 2019 Innovation Vitality Index of Nanjing Jiangbei New Area 
released at the event, the comprehensive innovation vitality index of the new 
area showed a strong growth trend from 2014 to 2018. In 2018, the innovation 
industry organizing index increased significantly with an annual growth of 
42.85 percent; the innovation performance index showed larger increase than 
last year at 23.48 percent; the innovation resource potential index and 
innovation cluster index maintained steady growth.

At the launch ceremony of the plan, Jiangbei New Area also released Nanjing 
Jiangbei New Area Smart City 2025 Plan and Nanjing Jiangbei New Area University 
Innovation Cluster Plan, and unveiled Nanjing International Intellectual 
Property Financial Innovation Center and the Yangtze River Delta Region 
scientific big data project.

Nie Yongjun, Deputy Director of Science and Technology Bureau of Jiangbei New 
Area, said that the new area will stress issues such as allocation of factors, 
optimization of mechanisms, integrated development and balance relationships 
between innovation input and transformation, government guidance and 
marketization, as well as the speed and the depth of reform.

Source: Management Committee of Nanjing Jiangbei New Area