Songshan Lake Science City officially launched with an investment of over RMB100 bln

2021-Apr-25       Source: Dongguan Today

On the morning of April 22, an event to mark the launching of Songshan Lake Science City, as the first start-up area of the comprehensive national science centre in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater B

On the morning of April 22, an event to mark the launching of Songshan Lake Science City, as the first start-up area of the comprehensive national science centre in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), was held in Dongguan.

At the event, the leaders of Guangdong Province and Dongguan City officially laid the cornerstone for the Songshan Lake Science City. Key infrastructure projects including the Greater Bay Area University (Songshan Lake Campus), the City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan), Songshan Lake Future School, and Wei'eshan Scientist Forest Park also began construction the same day.

The Greater Bay Area University (Songshan Lake Campus) began construction the same day.

The comprehensive national science centre is the primary platform for the construction of the national innovation system. In July 2020, the National Development & Reform Commission and the Ministry of Science & Technology approved Dongguan Songshan Lake Science City and Shenzhen Guangming Science City to build the pilot zones for the comprehensive national science centre in GBA. This is also the fourth comprehensive national science centre in China, marking that Songshan Lake Science City has become a new national science and technology strategy platform.

Based on the national strategic needs, the Songshan Lake Science City will make full effort in scientific research, urban facilities, and people's livelihood services to promote several major projects. Among them, there are several central science and technology infrastructures, colleges such as the City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) and the Greater Bay Area University (Songshan Lake Campus), as well as high-quality urban facilities projects such as the Science Island, Future School, Banyan Tree Hotel, and International Conference Center. The planned total investment of the projects is 117.2 billion yuan (industrial investment projects excluded), including 108.4 billion yuan during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25).

Relying on innovative high-end resources of large devices and platforms such as the spallation neutron source, the Songshan Lake Science City will strive for breakthroughs in key and core technologies in the fields of materials, information, and life science. It will focus on the seven major industries of new-generation information technology, integrated circuits, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials, new energy, artificial intelligence and biomedicine to forge the core engine of advanced manufacturing in the Greater Bay Area. It will become an innovation engine leading the Greater Bay Area to achieve high-quality development.

18 international first-class academicians and experts were appointed as consultants for the Science City during the event. Eight science and technology companies also joined hands with the Chinese Academy of Sciences units.

Editor: Will

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