The 3-Year Plan of Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai Scientific Cooperation recently announced that a new situation of Yangtze River Delta Scientific and Technological Innovation was created.

Yangtze River delta region accounts for 1/3 exporting of the high-tech products and 1/5 of the academicians of both Science Academy and Engineering Academy throughout the county. As reported from provincial science and technology department, the “Science and Technology Three Year Cooperation Initiative of Yangtze River Delta (2008-2010)” jointly composed by S&T departments of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang will soon be released, to maximize the “multiplication effect” of regional S&T innovation resources. This will make the S&T innovation from “solo” into “trio”. The goal is to build the Yangtze River Delta region into a most energetic innovative one. According to the plan, the input of regional R&D in 2010 accounts for over 2% GDP.

As for the goal made according to the plan, the number of annul accreditation every one million people in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai regions will reach 800 till 2010. The exporting of high-tech products accounts for 50% or so of the total and the contribution rate of S&T improvement will reach 50% above.

“The goal is to build the Yangtze River Delta region into a most energetic innovative one”, said a executive of provincial science and technology department who joined in the planning. The guide of cooperation among three regions is to take strengthening the regional self-reliant innovation as a main line and promote the role of regional leading, radiating, discovering and modeling.

In order to realize the shifting from “Made in Yangtze River Delta” to “Created in Yangtze River Delta”, four basic tasks, five S&T actions and 14 priory themes of the 3-Year Plan have been identified. The major content is as follows: common issues concerned by the three regions, concentration of dominant resources and technology strength, international front edge technology, key task projects on joint topics and projects modeling. Thus, the bottle-neck restrains can be tackled and a leading and modeling region of S&T development can be created. (Nanjing Daily)