Upstairs, scientific researchers are debugging a new generation of brain-computer interface equipment; downstairs, with the assistance of such equipment, autistic patients are undergoing rehabilitation treatment in a rehabilitation institution. In the "Western Brain Valley" of the Egret Bay Science and Technology Ecological Park in Chengdu, Sichuan, "zero distance" between R&D and application has become the norm.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “To integrate technological innovation and industrial innovation, we must build platforms, improve systems and mechanisms, strengthen the main role of enterprises in innovation, and make the innovation chain and industrial chain seamlessly connected.”
Following the direction guided by the General Secretary, Chengdu takes "building circles and strong links" as the starting point to promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and accelerate the high-quality development of key industries. In 2025, the added value of Chengdu's industrial enterprises above designated size will increase by 7.0% year-on-year.
In the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan", Chengdu made scientific plans and systematically proposed a development strategy of "innovation-driven, open-led leadership, integration of science and industry, and strengthening counties and active districts", and supported by the high-quality development of key industrial chains to comprehensively enhance the development level of the modern industrial system.
Heading towards the “new”
Support in-depth breakthroughs in original innovation with a high-energy innovation platform
In Tianfu Xinglong Lake Laboratory, scientific researchers are focusing on photoelectric systems to carry out research. "In the first year, we will closely follow the national strategy and industrial needs and strive to achieve more original results." said Zhou Penghao, head of the laboratory.
Not far away, in the MIG laboratory of Chengdu Kechuang Ecological Island, engineer Xu Yujie and his team are conducting detailed debugging of high-end testing equipment. As a shared scientific research platform with market-oriented operations, it provides enterprises with full-chain solutions from R&D to mass production by integrating instruments, talents and technology.
With Xinglong Lake as its starting point, the Western (Chengdu) Science City is accelerating its development. Currently, Chengdu has gathered 1 national laboratory, 5 national innovation centers, 10 large scientific installations, and 4 Tianfu laboratories. These high-level innovation platforms provide strong support for Chengdu to promote original innovation and achieve in-depth breakthroughs. Chengdu is also constantly establishing and improving systematic mechanisms, striving to promote the innovation chain of "university research and development-enterprise transformation-scenario implementation". Among them, universities will give full play to their advantages in scientific research and talents, enterprises will assume the role of technology industrialization, and the government will build platforms and provide real application scenarios.
The pace of scientific and technological innovation in national key laboratories is strong. The National Key Laboratory of Geological Hazard Prevention and Geological Environmental Protection of Chengdu University of Technology has developed an intelligent prediction model that can quickly predict the spatial probability of global earthquake-induced landslides. The calculation time is shortened to less than 1 minute, achieving near-real-time prediction of earthquake-induced seismic hazards.
Advance according to "system"
Transform the fertile soil by watering the achievements with the flowing water of reform
From "bookshelf" to "shelf", Chengdu Science and Technology Innovation Ecological Island is accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. In the park, unmanned security inspection vehicles equipped with colorful polyurethane tires patrol quietly. This new material is a treasure unearthed by the achievement transformation team in the “School-Enterprise Double Entry·Prospecting for Minerals and Treasures” activity. Shengdegao (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd. joined hands with a shared travel company to implement the first batch of new material tire testing. The average trouble-free operating mileage increased by 42% and the algorithm iteration cycle was shortened by 50%.
This is not an isolated case. Chengdu launched the "Science and Technology Innovation Tianfu·Smart City" activity to build a high-frequency docking bridge between scientific and technological achievements and industrial needs. So far, this series of events has been held for more than 300 times, and a total of 11,000 technology-based companies, nearly 3,100 corporate needs, and more than 4,200 scientific and technological achievements have been collided here, and nearly 400 projects have been signed and implemented.
Institutional innovation is the fundamental guarantee for scientific and technological innovation. Chengdu regularly promotes the work of "entering thousands of enterprises, solving problems, optimizing the environment, and promoting development", establishes a private economic development promotion center, and optimizes the business brand of "responding to needs and not disturbing anything". In 2025, a total of 3,881 corporate complaints will be responded to.
"We hope to rely on the advantages of Chengdu's biomedicine to create major application scenarios and promote the transformation of high-precision quantum technology achievements." On February 6, at the face-to-face "Advanced Solution and Promotion" – a special event for enterprises in the communications and quantum technology industry chain, Chengdu Zhongwei Daxin Technology Co., Ltd. focused on industrial transformation problems and discussed demands.
"Next, Chengdu will focus on creating major 'quantum+' application scenarios and provide a testing ground for quantum technology." Zhao Chungan, director of the Chengdu Economic and Information Bureau, responded on the spot.
This year, Chengdu promotes "use first and pay later" for scientific and technological achievements, and pilots "invest first and then share" financial funds, and "breaks the ice" for the transformation of achievements with a more flexible system design.
Strong "chain" breakthrough
Promote the development of new productive forces through key industrial chains
Industrial innovation is the foothold of scientific and technological innovation.
Chengdu adheres to the principle of "industry creates questions and science and technology answers questions", activates new momentum for the integration of science and industry, strengthens chain breakthroughs, gathers chains into groups, and accelerates the construction of a modern industrial system.
Currently, Chengdu has built two trillion-yuan industrial clusters in electronic information and equipment manufacturing, as well as 13 hundred-billion-yuan industrial chains including artificial intelligence, software and information services, and intelligent connected cars. In 2025, the revenue of 10 industrial chains including integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, low-altitude economy, communications and quantum technology will achieve double-digit growth.
In Chengdu, highlight benchmark products are constantly emerging——
At the end of 2025, the first product of BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.'s 8.6th-generation AMOLED production line was lit. The production line's designed production capacity reaches 32,000 glass substrates per month. With the release of new production line capacity, related products are expected to occupy more than 20% of the global market and more than 50% of the national market.
In the field of innovative drugs, new products developed by Ruijian Yilian Pharmaceutical Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. bring new hope to rare diseases. At present, the scale of Chengdu's medical and health industry has exceeded 400 billion yuan, 20 national-level specialized and new "little giant" enterprises have been cultivated, and high-energy innovation platforms such as the National Precision Medicine Industry Innovation Center have been established.
He Xun, vice chairman of the Chengdu Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, said that the manufacturing industry will implement the action of "increasing variety, improving quality, and creating brands", focusing on creating more benchmark products in the fields of artificial intelligence, driverless driving, low-altitude economy, and digital cultural creation.
"People's Daily" (Page 01, March 15, 2026)
