Original title: The 27th National Invention Exhibition · "Belt and Road" and BRICS Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition Opens in Shijiazhuang

Worker's Daily - reporter Jiang Han of China Industrial Network

The three-day 27th National Invention Exhibition · "Belt and Road" and BRICS Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition opened in Shijiazhuang. With the theme of "innovation chain and industrial chain coexist, talent and city co prosperity", the conference will set up exhibition areas themed with new quality productivity, unicorn enterprises and innovative craftsmen, military technology, scientific research achievements of colleges and universities, new energy vehicles, youth invention and innovation, and focus on displaying China's outstanding scientific and technological achievements and professional skills. More than 700 enterprises and scientific research institutions from more than 60 cities across the country and 1587 innovation projects actively participated in the exhibition.

This exhibition is hosted by the Chinese Invention Association and the Chinese Council of the BRICS Industry and Commerce Council, undertaken by the Shijiazhuang Municipal People's Government, and supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the China Association for Science and Technology, the All China Federation of Trade Unions, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the International Federation of Inventors' Associations.

Yu Huarong, secretary of the Party Committee of the China Association for Inventions, said that this invention exhibition held in Shijiazhuang will help the high-quality development of new quality productivity in Hebei and Shijiazhuang, and help the coordinated development of Beijing Tianjin Hebei integration. It is hoped that the numerous cutting-edge innovation projects and outstanding scientific research talents in various fields brought about by this exhibition will be organically combined with Shijiazhuang's five hundred billion industrial clusters and strategic emerging industries that focus on support, complement each other, produce "chemical reactions", and help the local industry upgrade and high-quality development.

Ma Yujun, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Shijiazhuang Municipal Committee and Mayor of Shijiazhuang, said at the opening ceremony that Shijiazhuang has always fully implemented the new development concept, vigorously implemented the innovation driven development strategy, firmly grasped the primary task of high-quality development and the strategic task of building a new development pattern, and worked hard to break a new path in promoting innovation driven development, For two consecutive years, it has been awarded the "China's Best Talent Introduction City of the Year", 23 national honors including 2023 Dynamic City and Top 100 Cities of Advanced Manufacturing Industry, and has been successfully selected as one of the top 100 livable cities in China. Next, Shijiazhuang will accelerate the promotion of high-level scientific and technological innovation, strengthen key core technology research, promote the transformation of technological achievements, and strive to build a Shijiazhuang with excellent innovation environment, perfect innovation mechanism, and abundant innovation motivation.

It is reported that Shijiazhuang is accelerating its transformation and growth, and vigorously promoting the construction of key urban renewal projects such as "6+2+2". The urban framework is gradually opened, the functional carrier is constantly improved, and the happiness index is constantly rising; Anchor five hundred billion level industrial clusters, build a modern industrial system, take the lead in breaking through the hundred billion level in biomedicine and the new generation of electronic information industry, and start a new journey to create more new quality productivity and accelerate the climb to higher levels.

Zhao Dachun, vice governor of Hebei Provincial Government, said that Hebei has deeply implemented the innovation driven development strategy, insisted on taking scientific and technological innovation as the core element of developing new quality productivity, and worked hard to transform the "key variable" of scientific and technological innovation into the "maximum increment" of high-quality development. We will focus on the implementation of the strategic emerging industry integration cluster development action, focus on supporting nine industrial clusters, including biomedicine, electronic information, and new energy vehicles, and focus on cultivating eight industrial clusters, including new materials, safety emergency equipment, and modern Chinese medicine, so as to promote the development of strategic emerging industries from agglomeration to cluster, and let emerging industries run out of "acceleration". At the same time, relying on the advantages of computing power, we will vigorously develop advanced computing, artificial intelligence and other future industries, and speed up the layout of aerospace information, green hydrogen energy and other industries, so that future industries can take root and thrive as soon as possible. In the future, Hebei Province will make greater efforts to create a first-class innovation ecology, a high-level and high-quality innovation carrier, so that inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs have more use and a larger development platform.

During the exhibition, the 2024 "Belt and Road" and BRICS Skills Development and Technology Innovation Competition was also held, with 35 teams from South Africa, Thailand, Myanmar and China and more than 170 people participating in the design, implementation and management of new power systems, drone installation and application and other project activities.

Unicorn enterprises, as the representatives of China's new economy, have become an important force leading industrial reform with their unique innovation ability and business model. This year's Unicorn Forum was held in the special session of the Invention Exhibition, aiming to further stimulate the development of unicorn enterprises and new quality productivity, and promote the high-quality development of China's economy. Representatives of innovative enterprises and institutions such as Unicorn Enterprise Innovation Branch of China Invention Association, Beijing Invisible Unicorn Information Technology Institute, Galaxy Aerospace Technology, Xiaoshang District Network Technology, Jingying Tea Ecology, Xixin Technology, Entrepreneurial Bole, Chuanguhui, International LMI, and Unocal Foundation attended the event.