Scientific and technological innovation has become the first driving force, and strategic emerging industries in Anhui Province have accounted for more than 40% of the industry.

CCTV News:The State Council Information Office held a press conference yesterday (13th) to introduce the situation of promoting high-quality development in central provinces. At the press conference, the relevant person in charge of Anhui Province revealed that the output value of strategic emerging industries accounted for 40.3% of the industrial output value above designated size.

Anhui regards scientific and technological innovation as the first driving force, and takes the province’s efforts to speed up the construction of a strength system for scientific and technological innovation. The proportion of local financial science and technology funding in local fiscal expenditure reaches 4.95%. A number of national strategic science and technology platforms have been approved and completed, and a number of major original achievements have emerged. The output value of strategic emerging industries has increased to 40.3% in the industry, providing a steady stream of surging power for the province’s economic and social development.

Deng Xiangyang, Executive Vice Governor of Anhui Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee:Speed up tackling the "unique skills", not only get rid of the "stuck neck" hand, but also forge the "killer" technology, focus on key common technologies and leading technologies such as quantum information, thermonuclear fusion, advanced light source and steady strong magnetic field, strive to break through a number of green and low-carbon key core technologies, and strive to create an influential source of scientific and technological innovation.

In the next step, Anhui will systematically promote comprehensive innovation and reform experiments, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial development, build major emerging industry agglomeration and development bases, major emerging industry projects and emerging industry projects in a cascade manner, and vigorously cultivate five world-class strategic emerging industry clusters of new displays, integrated circuits, new energy vehicles and intelligent networked vehicles, artificial intelligence and smart home appliances.