Ruian city chases innovation-driven growth

Ruian – a county-level city administered by Wenzhou in East China's Zhejiang province – has focused on the development of science and innovation platforms, companies, top-quality employees and the optimization of science and innovation ecosystems to achieve common prosperity for its people.

It has striven to build and form three national enterprise technical centers, five industrial innovation and service complexes and 10 public science innovation platform matrixes in recent years – to ensure that scientific research results are effectively aligned with and applied to industries.

This new scientific innovation park for the intelligent vehicles industry is located in Rui'an. [Photo/share.rabtv.cn]

The number of high-tech enterprises and provincial science and technology medium and small-sized companies now exceeds 500 and 1,500, respectively.

From January to June this year, 70 percent of major planned innovative projects were completed. During the period, the added value of the new and high-tech industry increased by 29.5 percent, R&D spending by industrial enterprises of a designated size increased by 44 percent and investment in the new and high-tech industry increased by 55.3 percent.

It is understood that the city will continue to make efforts to build an innovation consortium, an intellectual property alliance and a generic technology platform. It will also aim to reduce the costs of company scientific and technological innovation, as well as build a scientific and technological innovations enterprise cluster.

Ruian has also implemented a number of recruitment policies involving attractive bonuses, among other things. The city has introduced 11,000 graduates and 24 doctors this year.

An opening ceremony of talent attraction policies is held in Ruian city. [Photo/share.rabtv.cn]