Xinhua News Agency: 

Mr. Zhang mentioned Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park earlier, and we have noticed that since its opening in May last year, Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park has attracted widespread attention. What were the considerations in building the park? And what role will Tiankai Park play in Tianjin's development of sci-tech innovation in the future? Thank you.

Zhang Gong: 

Thank you for your interest in Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park. I'll answer this question. Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park gets its name from a combination of Tianjin University and Nankai University, and the name suggests "Tian Gong Kai Wu," an ancient book about technologies in the Ming Dynasty. We hope this platform can lead to greater sci-tech innovation and cultivate more leading figures in innovation and entrepreneurship, nurturing a mutually beneficial relationship between the city and universities, innovation and entrepreneurship. The construction of Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park is in line with the needs of the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the increasingly evident integration of Beijing and Tianjin, and closer collaboration in sci-tech innovation. It is an important measure in cultivating Tianjin's own innovation capacity, stimulating its technological innovation vitality and continuously promoting the development of Tianjin's new quality productive forces.

As Mr. Liu just mentioned, since opening in May last year, Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park has registered more than 1,500 technology-based innovative enterprises and introduced 225 technology financial and service institutions. In fields such as new energy, new materials, synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, precision measurement and brain-machine engineering, a vibrant innovation scene has been preliminarily formed.

Next, we will focus on building Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park into an influential source of innovation, a highland for regional technology achievement transformation, and an ecosystem of sci-tech innovation services. We will focus on policy services, technology services and professional services, develop and optimize the park, and continuously promote its quality development.

We will work on improving policies and support mechanisms in line with the rules for developing science and technology parks and market-oriented operations, focusing on stimulating the vitality of various types of personnel and institutions engaged in sci-tech innovation. We will introduce more targeted upgraded support policies for Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park to better nurture and attract innovative achievements, talents and investment.

We will work on cultivating a strong technology service system and creating a favorable innovation ecosystem. We will first nurture and leverage the roles of funds such as the Haihe Industry Fund, Tianjin University Jiuanhaitang Fund and Nankai Xinkaihu Fund, vigorously introducing market-oriented technology service industries such as technology and business verification, pilot testing, inspection and testing, and knowledge services to facilitate achievement transformation.

We will work on optimizing government services and further strengthening supporting services and policy coordination for sci-tech and talents. Talent-driven development is of great concern, especially against the backdrop of increasingly close integration in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. We will introduce an upgraded version of the "Haihe Talent" policy and promote the construction of a smart park service platform, launching more efficient service scenarios to continuously expand the application scenarios of technological innovation achievements in Tianjin.

We will work on promoting comprehensive opening-up and cooperation in Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park, strengthen cooperation with Zhongguancun and other advanced domestic science and technology innovation parks, and explore extensive cooperation with international technology service companies.

We will coordinate the implementation of the "one core, two wings and multiple points" plan for Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park. Currently, the overall planned area of the park is 80 square kilometers. We will orderly enhance the core area's functions in innovation driving services and expand the achievement transformation and basic supporting functions of the extended area, continuously improving the market-oriented operation and management mechanism.

Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park is a newly established science and technology innovation park. We hope that everyone will continue to care for and support its development. With everyone's help, the park will surely thrive and become a fertile ground for innovation and entrepreneurship. Thank you.