A total of 182 projects involving 
investment<https://en.imsilkroad.com/investment/index.html> of 136.3 billion 
yuan, were signed at the 3rd Development Conference and 2021 Jiangyin Symposium 
on Economic and Trade<https://en.imsilkroad.com/trade/index.html> Cooperation 
held on last Saturday in Jiangyin city, east China's Jiangsu province.

Contracted projects during the conference cover fields such as new energy, 
integrated circuits, high-end equipment, biomedicine, intelligent manufacturing 
and etc. Of the total projects, 36 were foreign-invested ones with a total 
investment<https://en.imsilkroad.com/investment/index.html> of 9.1 billion US 
dollars, which injected strong momentum of innovation and development in 
Jiangyin's strategic emerging industries.

Besides, Jiangyin signed a total of 16 funds of various types, with a total 
scale of 58.8 billion yuan. Among them, the five-billion Jiangyin Xiake 
Emerging Industry Development Fund was jointly initiated and established by 
Jiangyin governments at all levels, Heilan Group and other investment entities. 
It will explore mixed ownership of capital management and advance the digital 
and intelligent transformation of manufacturing industry.

Currently, around its three hundred billion-level industries advantages 
including high-end textiles and garments, new petrochemical materials, and new 
metal materials, Jiangyin has actively promoted the growth of strategic 
emerging industries and take the lead in deploying future industries including 
5G communications, intelligent manufacturing and cultural tourism.

This year, Jiangyin has set up a 200 million yuan talent science and technology 
innovation fund, which is used to support strategic emerging fields development.

Jiangyin owns 3 national-level technology business incubators, 1 technology 
business accelerator, and 6 mass innovation spaces. It is accelerating 
construction of Sunan National Innovation Park and the Yangtze River Delta 
(Jiangyin) Digital Innovation Port.

Specifically, Jiangyin High-tech Industrial Development Zone, as the core area 
of Sunan National Innovation Park, is also China's second national high-tech 
zone located in a county-level city.

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SOURCE  Xinhua Silk Road

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