The annual National Science and Technology Award Conference has recently been held in Beijing. Honored for the first time in 1999, Yiwu’s scientific and technological achievements as well as innovations have been highly appreciated once again, marking the fifth consecutive year of winning the title of “National Advanced City with Scientific and Technological Achievements”.
The examination work for “National Advanced City with Scientific and Technological Achievements” is carried out biennially. It is the most scientific and authoritative evaluation of a local city’s scientific and technological achievements by the Ministry of Science and Technology and has become a symbolic evaluation to measure the comprehensive scientific and technological strength, competitiveness and sustainable innovation ability of a city.
In recent years, Yiwu city has steadily promoted scientific and technological achievements as well as innovations and constantly improved the role of science and technology in supporting and guiding economic and social development with remarkable scientific and technological achievements. At present, the city has established a technological innovation system with enterprises as the main body, scientific research academies as the support, market as the mechanism, and the government as the lead, which has combined production, learning and research. The government has established scientific and technological strategic partnerships with Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Shanghai Yangpu district.
Winning the title of “National Advanced City with Scientific and Technological Achievements” for five years in a row represents full confirmation of the city’s scientific and technological achievements and that the city is leading the way in the province and even in the whole country in terms of scientific and technological work.