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According to Wang, MOST will fully support the institutionalized and standardized operation of national laboratories in Beijing, and cultivate more leading innovative enterprises and world class research institutes. MOST will also support Beijing to optimally utilize national strategic sci -tech strength, reinforce the introduction and cultivation of strategic sci-tech talent, and build a talent pool of high-level personnel.
A new round of pilot reforms will be solidly implemented in Zhongguancun National Innovation Demonstration Zone to perfect the top-level design of a world -leading sci -tech park, noted Wang.
Cai Qi, Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, stressed that Beijing should prepare diligently for the 2022 Zhongguancun Forum in order to gain more practical achievements, as the forum is a national platform for international sci-tech exchange and cooperation.
He also emphasized that the city will support enterprises to jointly establish distinctive research institutes and interdisciplinary laboratories with universities and venture capitals in Beijing.
A fund for disruptive technology innovation was jointly set up by MOST, the Beijing municipality and Xinxi Foundation in 2020, which is the first of its kind. With a scale of 100 million RMB for the first phase, the fund aims to invest in revolutionary and disruptive technological innovation projects in the stage of applied basic research and commercialization in Beijing.
Prior to this, Beijing initiated the Beijing Science & Technology Innovation Fund (BSIF) in 2018, with a total scale of 30 billion RMB, focusing on the highly sophisticated tech fields that meet Beijing's strategic development.
Jiang Xingquan, chairman of BSIF, said that BSIF will investigate the inadequate support of domestic long-term capital to sci-tech innovation, learn from overseas successful cases, and offer suggestions to corresponding ministries, thus contributing to the establishment of the international sci-tech innovation center in Beijing.