The Action Plan on Building Qingdao into an Important Innovation Center in the East Chinese Coastal Areas was issued last week. According to this plan, by the end of 2020, Qingdao will basically set up the framework system of the important innovation center in east Chinese coastal areas, both the quantity and quality of innovation elements will enjoy the leading position in China, the market-allocated innovation resources will play the increasingly decisive role, the ecological conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship will improve comprehensively, a batch of scientific and technological achievements with the high-end international level will emerge, a batch of innovation-based enterprises and industrial clusters with remarkable influence at home and abroad will be established and Qingdao will play an increasingly driving role as an important central city in China. The per capita labor productivity will reach 0.228 million yuan, the total number of talents will exceed 2 million and the output value of emerging industries of strategic importance will exceed 700 billion yuan.

    Consequently, Qingdao will carry out 10 actions including scientific and technological innovation action, industrial innovation center, industrial and commercial mode innovation action, open innovation action, cultural innovation action, financial innovation action, quality and brand innovation action, civil-military integration innovation action, system and mechanism innovation action and administration, and service innovation action. 10 scientific and technological innovation centers will be set up in the respective field of ocean, national high-speed train technology, rubber material and equipment, intelligent manufacturing, virtual reality, scientific instruments and apparatus, new materials, life health, information technology of a new generation and new energy vehicles.

    Qingdao will forge 10 scientific and technological innovation service platforms including research and development innovation service platform, new-type incubation service platform, national marine technology transfer platform, intellectual property service platform, investing and fundraising service platform, inspection and detection service platform, basic scientific and technological resource service platform, public science and technology think tank service platform, digital science popularization internet service platform and technology service platform for industrial clusters.

    Meanwhile, Qingdao will endeavor to implement 10 scientific and technological innovation projects including the innovation resources clustering project, science and technology-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises cultivation project, innovative talents introduction and cultivation project, mass entrepreneurship space construction project, demonstration projects of science and technology benefiting the mass, the project of combining science and technology with finance, technological transfer promotion project, civil-military science and technology innovation project, scientific and technological big-data project and the project of using intellectual property rights to invigorate the city.