Sanmenxia’s Capability for Scientific and Technological Innovation Continues to Grow
On August 27th, the reporter learned from the city’s science and technology department that in recent years, Sanmenxia has always placed scientific and technological innovation at the logical starting point of high-quality development and the core of modernization construction. Our city continues to deepen the “top priority strategy”, cultivate dynamic innovation entities, and strengthen the role of enterprises as the main drivers of innovation, injecting momentum into high-quality economic and social development.
The scale of innovation entities continues to expand. There are nine gazelle technological enterprises, 164 high-tech enterprises, and 289 registered small and medium-sized technological enterprises in Sanmenxia. Our city ranked first in the province for the completion rate of small and medium-sized technological enterprise cultivation in 2023. Moreover, the average evaluation score for technological enterprises was 78.55 points, ranking sixth in the province, making Sanmenxia the only prefecture-level city in the province to be in the top tier for both key indicators.
Breakthroughs have been made in tackling key technologies. Over the past three years, our city has successfully applied for 29 provincial scientific and technological projects, securing 8.6-million-yuan funding. A total of 17.22-million-yuan municipal fiscal funds have been invested. 16 major municipal scientific and technological projects, 171 key scientific and technological projects, and 107 soft science projects have been implemented.
Industrial research and development has been fully covered. As of the end of 2023, 452 out of 543 enterprises have filed R&D activities in Sanmenxia, with a coverage rate of 83.24%. There have been 418 enterprises with R&D expenses, R&D institutions, R&D personnel, and industry-academia-research cooperation, with a coverage rate of 76.98%. For this work, Sanmenxia has ranked first in the province for two consecutive times and received 3-million-yuan funding for rewards and subsidies.
Comprehensively promote the construction of the science and technology service complex. On the basis of exploring building a regular precise service mechanism that covers the entire life cycle and innovation needs of enterprises, we fully promote the science and technology service complex and further improve the service mechanism of collecting, coordinating, and transferring innovation demands. In the first half of this year, over 1,200 innovation demands were collected at the provincial, municipal, and county levels, ranking fourth in the province. The completion rates of innovation demands at the provincial, municipal, and county levels reached 72.1%, 90.8%, and 76.7%, respectively.
The difficulties enterprises face in financing have been effectively resolved. We continue to promote the “technology loan”, improve business implementation plans, and make performance evaluation methods. The number of cooperating banks has increased from one to 12, and the credit line for enterprises has been raised from 5 million yuan to 20 million yuan. The registered amount of the “technology loan” has exceeded 400 million yuan, and the 10-million-yuan fiscal fund has achieved an amplification effect of 40 times from the original planned 10 times.
The innovation and entrepreneurship competition is in full swing. The Sanmenxia Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition has been held for six consecutive years, with a total of 1,031 projects (teams) participating, 62 projects entering the provincial competition, 22 projects shortlisted for the national competition, and 6 projects winning the excellence award in the national competition. Among them, a total of 247 enterprises (teams) registered in 2023, ranking among the top in the province in terms of the participating number, and were awarded 1.2 million yuan in the provincial competition.