How can the fifth-generation port empower the distinctive development of international shipping centers? How can research universities play the role of "anchor institutions" as the source of innovation and contribute to the construction of Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center?

On December 7, a seminar on accelerating the construction of the "Five Centers" in Shanghai during the 15th Five-Year Plan was held in Shanghai. This seminar was guided by the Office of the Leading Group for Accelerating the Construction of the "Five Centers" in Shanghai City and co-sponsored by the Shanghai City Development and Reform Research Institute and the Shanghai Headquarters of China Economic Information Society.

Zhang Zhongwei, deputy director of the Shanghai City Development and Reform Commission and president of the Municipal Development and Reform Research Institute, said in his speech that the construction of the "five centers" faces new requirements of "strengthening links, strengthening policy sources, strengthening linkage, and strengthening driving.""Strengthen links"It is necessary to respond to challenges such as "decoupling and breaking links" with high openness and high marketability, deeply connect the world, and strengthen global resource allocation functions."Strengthen policy sources"It is necessary to proactively respond to new trends in global scientific and technological innovation competition and strengthen innovation source capabilities in global industrial chains, value chains, and innovation chains."Strengthen linkage"It is necessary not only to strengthen the functional linkage of the "five centers" to form a "functional aggregate" that supports each other, develops in conjunction, and grasps fingers into a fist, but also to strengthen institutional linkage to meet the new needs for the development of new quality productive forces."Strengthen driving"It is necessary to base itself on the overall situation of the region and strengthen its radiating and leading role in the development of the Yangtze River Delta region.

During the keynote speech session, Peng Wensheng, chief economist of CICC and president of CICC Research Institute, believed that to resolve the vertical "stuck neck" problem and horizontal decentralization pressure, the key to Shanghai is to give full play to the agglomeration effect and diffusion effect brought by the advantages of scale., promote scientific and technological innovation and industrial integration, and strengthen the attraction of global talents and technological finance and other factors. Relying on the construction of Shanghai International Financial Center, we will promote China-EU green industry cooperation and empower the development of the real economy.

Photo of the seminar site Photo by journalist Ju Wentao

Zhang Yong, deputy general manager of China Ocean Shipping Group, said in his keynote speech that Shanghai should take the construction of the fifth-generation international shipping hub port as the starting point, take the development of high-end shipping service industry as a breakthrough, and promote the distinctive development of international shipping centers from three dimensions: talent, data and ecology. so-calledThe fifth generation portIt is a key infrastructure and a cross-regional economic geographical hub of systemic importance marked by digital intelligence and green and low-carbon, supported by new quality productivity, and supported by free trade ports (zones). The most prominent feature is to use the port as the core hub to build an end-to-end "shipping + port + logistics" three-dimensional interconnection network and a new port, shipping and trade integrated ecosystem.

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Zheng Degao, vice president of China Urban Planning and Design Institute, believes that cities around the world are reshaping their development goals in contradictory situations. The current supply chain is facing a balance between efficiency and resilience, resource reorganization and innovation empowerment, and globalization and regionalization. In this context, Shanghai needs to actively respond to global trends and integrate and improve "innovation power, manufacturing strength, logistics capacity, service capabilities, and control of chain owners"Five core competenciesFocus on cultivating chain owners, activating innovation power and improving manufacturing strength, logistics transportation capacity, and service capabilities, and accelerate the construction of a resilient supply chain central city.

Jiang Ge, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of Shanghai University of Science and Technology, gave an example in his keynote speech, taking the successful establishment of "the world's most innovative square mile" by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Kendall Square as a typical case, reflecting the "anchoring +" effect of universities and institutions in the rise of science and technology innovation zones. The Rh？ne-Alpes region, a city in southeastern France, is known as the "Silicon Valley of Europe". It is precisely because it has many high-level universities and higher education institutions and gathers world-class large scientific installations, forming a rare "large scientific installation cluster", bringing a steady stream of scientific research talents and innovative thinking to the city, and creating the urban brand of the "City of Science and Technology". He said: "The constituent elements of a science and technology innovation center should include research universities, large scientific facilities, research hospitals, scientific research institutions, high-tech enterprises, venture capital funds, active start-up high-tech enterprises, incubators, talents and factory-based production capacity. Finally, the scientific and technological achievements of the laboratory must encourage patent conversion and achieve a closed-loop in the industry. Therefore, all elements in each link are indispensable." He said that research universities represented by the above HKUST should give full play to the source of innovation.Role of "anchor mechanism", Contribute to the construction of Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center.

At the event site, the Shanghai City Development and Reform Research Institute took the lead, joining forces with Shanghai City Economic Information Center, Shanghai City Economic and Information Development Research Center, Shanghai City Financial Stability Development Research Center, Shanghai City Business Development Research Center, Shanghai WTO Affairs Consulting Center, Shanghai Shipping Exchange, Shanghai City Transportation Development Research Center, Shanghai City Institute of Sciences, etc.Eight think tanks signed a research cooperation agreement on the construction of a "Five Centers" think tank consortium, advocate jointly building a new open research think tank. At the same time, Shanghai City Development and Reform Research Institute has joined forces with Shanghai Headquarters of China Economic Information Society, China Ocean Shipping Group Research and Consulting Center/Technology Center, China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd., Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co., Ltd., Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, Shanghai National Accounting Institute, etc.6 units signed strategic cooperation agreements, strengthen in-depth cooperation in think tank research, platform construction, resource sharing, and talent training.