China expands creation of national innovative City pilot 16 cities selected

China News agency, Beijing, January 13 (Xinhua) The Chinese authorities decided to expand the pilot category of the national innovative city since 2008, when the southern city of Shenzhen "tried first".　　16 cities, such as Dalian, were selected for the pilot list. Building an innovative country has been China's national policy for years. According to official assumptions, China will enter the ranks of innovative countries in the 2020.　　The National Development and Reform Commission said today that China's innovative country construction has entered a crucial stage, the need to give full play to the city, especially the innovation-oriented city, the guidance, demonstration and driving role, the formation of a group of innovative urban agglomerations, the first breakthrough to limit the bottleneck of innovation and development. Statistics show that at present, China's 287-tier cities, although concentrated only 20% eight of the population, but has 98% of the national institutions of higher learning and scientific research resources, 63% of the economic total.　　These cities play an important role in the process of building an innovative country in China. In addition to Dalian, the official deployment of the pilot cities also include Qingdao, Xiamen, Shenyang, Xi ' An, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Jinan, Hefei, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Suzhou, Wuxi and Yantai.　　These cities are mainly located in the economically more developed eastern coastal areas of China.　　The leaders of the national Development and Reform Commission said that the choice of the pilot cities not only fully considered the key links and outstanding problems of restricting the construction of innovative country, but also fully considered the overall development strategy and the city's innovative foundation. Officials said that the pilot city will increase the capacity of independent innovation infrastructure investment, promote science and technology, education, talent and other projects to tilt to the pilot city, and vigorously promote the pilot city industrial structure optimization upgrade, fundamentally change the way of development.