Wang Chengjiang, mayor of Nanjing Qixia District People's Government and director of Xianlin University Town Management Committee, said in his speech that Qixia District is an important scientific research center and shipping logistics center in China, and an important advanced manufacturing base in East China.
In recent years, Qixia has been full of innovation vitality, with further integration of industry, academia and research, and good development of technological innovation and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, with an annual technical contract turnover of over 9 billion yuan. At the same time, Qixia District has a strong open atmosphere, with more than 600 foreign-invested enterprises settled in the district, including more than 110 investment projects of the world's top 500 companies, and more than 4,100 foreigners working and studying in Qixia.
Wang Chengjiang pointed out that Qixia focuses on developing new quality productivity, and its fit with the UK's advantages in scientific research has been significantly improved. The UK has world-renowned universities such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, and Imperial College London, as well as many top research institutions and high-tech enterprises. It is a veritable innovation highland. Qixia needs to learn and draw on the UK's advanced experience in scientific and technological innovation, transformation of achievements, industry-university-research cooperation, as well as in industrial incubation and enterprise acceleration.The UK has global leading advantages in aerospace, energy, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, information and communications industries, etc. Qixia is highly compatible with the UK's advantageous industries, and the two sides have broad space and potential for cooperation. We are willing to strengthen cooperation and complement each other with British companies to create a mutually beneficial industrial chain and supply chain.
