This year marksthe 20thanniversary of the establishment of Songshan Lake Industrial Development Zone, and the year when the construction of Songshan Lake Science City is started. Songshan Lake, born at the moment when Dongguan was trying to break its inherent development pattern,has nowbecome the most distinctive city name card ofDongguan.
Standing at the new starting point of theShuangwan city, which meansDongguan has become a city with "trillion GDP andtens ofmillions of people," Songshan Lake has been placed with new expectations.
Recently, Xiao Yafei, secretary of the Dongguan PartyCommittee and directorof the standing committee of the Municipal People's Congress, pointed out when he was investigating and surveying in Songshan Lake, that Songshan Lake is a major platform for Dongguan to participate in the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao GreaterBay Area, and a powerful engine to highlight the characteristics of "scientific and technological innovation + advanced manufacturing" ofDongguan. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the Songshan Lake Science City, such as accelerating the assembly of large scientific devices, accelerating the settlingof a number of high-level universities and new-type research and development institutions, accelerating the momentum of enterprise innovation, and so on, systematically planning and grasping the implementation, building the Songshan Lake better with the
Exploring the New Possibility of Urban Development
A special meeting was held inSongshanLake Materials Laboratory. One partyof the meeting was composed of 24 well-known key enterprises in Dongguan, such asSYTECH,LensTechnology, Huabei Electronics, SunlordElectronics,Mentech Optical & Magnetic andATL, and the other party included several innovative sample factory teams fromthe Materials Laboratory, covering many frontier fields such as precision instruments, new lithium batteries, flexible batteries, amorphous alloys and porous ceramics.
Entrepreneurs and scientists made in-depth matchmaking with regard to technology research and development and industry market demand. It has established a fast channel forthe marketization of high-quality scientific research and innovation achievements, making a vivid epitome of Dongguan’s features,scientific and technological innovation + advanced manufacturing.
At the beginning of the new century, themanufacturing industry in Dongguan is expandingrapidly, making Dongguan a major manufacturing citywith world influence. There was even a situation that the world would be out of stock if Dongguan stopped the supply. In such an upsurge of development, Dongguan municipal party committee and government noticed the hidden worries behind the prosperity, which was a low-quality, extensive growth wouldinevitably be difficult to sustain. Looking forward,how to make Dongguan more stableand go further?
China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS)
At the intersection of three towns in the hinterland of Dongguan, Songshan Lake became the answer to this question. 2021marks the 20thanniversaryof Songshan Lake.In 20 years, Songshan Lake, previously a reservoir surrounded with litchi trees, has become a state-level high-tech zone and a leading start-up zone of the comprehensivenationalsciencecenterin the Greater Bay Area (GBA), realizing atriple jump. The first step in 20 years ago successfullyexploreda very forward-looking new approach to developmentfor Dongguan.
"Science and technologyreflect the same color of the blue sky, new city and industry develop mutually in these times". The development conceptof Songshan Lakein last 20 yearscan be used tointerpret the Songshan Lake Development Path. Among them, the two pillars of science and technology and industry echo thecity’scharacteristics of "Scientific and TechnologicalInnovation + Advanced Manufacturing" in Dongguan.
Providing All Conditions for the New Innovation Height of Science and Technology in Dongguan
Innovation is not only the origin of Songshan Lake, but also a new starting point for Songshan Lake to move towards high-quality development.Under the lofty mountains on the south bank of Songshan Lake, pioneers,with experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences as the main force,have been working hard for more than ten yearsand eventuallybuilt thepulse-type China Spallation Neutron Source, the fourth in the worldand the firstin China.
The TargetStationHallof China Spallation Neutron Sourcewith A Multi-physicalSpectrometer in the Middle
This is a well deserved nationalmajor project, which makes Dongguan's innovation and development capable to connect the world at such a high level for the first time.
By June, 2021,more than 2000people has registered asusers of CSNS. Over 500 problemsfrom many universities, scientific research institutes and enterprises around the worldhave been solved with important achievements through CSNS, covering many application fields such as new hydrogen storage materials, lithium electronic batteries, new superconducting materials, high-strength steel and solar cell thin films.
Phase I of Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory IsUnderConstruction
Close to the CSNS, phase I of Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory is under construction. In just three years, the Materials Laboratory has discovered a new path aiming at the transfer and transformation of cutting-edge scientific and technological hotspots and excellent scientific and technological achievements. Not long ago, some of the lunar soil brought back from the lunar surface through China's aerospace lunar exploration project was obtained by academician Wang Weihua, director of the Materials Laboratory. Dongguan’s Science and innovation is refreshing new heights from many aspects.
A large number of scientists represented by academician Zhao Zhongxian and academician Chen Hesheng have fulfilled their original intention of serving the country with science and technology and promoted the self-reliance and self-improvement through science and technology in China.
Providing innovative conditions for the prosperity of innovation development. Combining its own advantages in scientific and technological innovation and industrial development foundation, Songshan Lake strives to build a modern industrial system. A new generation of emerging industries such as information technology, integrated circuits, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials, new energy, artificial intelligence and bio-medicine have sprung up, gathering a large number of leading high-tech enterprises such as Huawei, SYTECH, EAST and HEC.
Songshan Lake International Innovation Entrepreneurship Community
A large number of new research and development institutions, such as Guangdong Intelligent Robotics Institute, Songshan Lake TECHX Institute, Dongguan Optoelectronics Research Institute of Peking University, have become intermediate bridges connecting technology and industry. NARWAL, Xiaotun Intelligence and other high-tech enterprises were incubated here. Songshan Lake International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Community is accelerating its growth as a new benchmark for innovation and entrepreneurship in GBA.
With scientific and technological innovation as the source of water for industrial development, advanced manufacturing as the ground for technical achievements, the successful exploration of science and technology and industrial integration innovation in Songshan Lake provides more new ideas for the future development of Dongguan.
Promote High-quality Development as A Core Engine with Fixed Direction
Songshan Lake has been shouldering its responsibilities in last 20years, achieving several leaps from a litchi-surrounded reservoir to the first start-up area of the comprehensivenationalsciencecenterin the GBA. At the same time, it has also realized the heroic ambition of building another Dongguan.
According to the latest statistics, the total number of permanent residents in Dongguan in 2020 has exceeded 10 million. This year, Dongguan has made full efforts to sprint and strive to cross the trillion yuan GDP mark. At the new starting point of the"Shuangwan" city, facing multiple challenges such as limited urban development space and weak traditional growth, a new change is urgently needed.
Dongguan, stepping once again on the journey of exploration, will reply on Songshan Lake naturally.
An Aerial View of Songshan Lake
The construction of Songshan Lake Science City, shouldering the multiple missions of the state, province and city, has been accelerated in April this year. Greater Bay Area University (Songshan Lake Campus), City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) and other new quality organizations are investing more in Songshan Lake. Land preparation within Songshan Lake Science City has been fully started, and the prototype of a core innovation zone has emerged.
With the improvement of facilities, the system and mechanism is also upgraded. Recently, Songshan Lake once again aimed at the construction of all factor and whole chain innovation ecology, and launched the "1+n" science and technology policies. Accurate policies in many aspects such as source innovation, technological innovation and enterprise cultivation has been implemented, fully reflecting the systematic deployment of Songshan Lake for the new stage of development.
It is not difficult to predict that Dongguan, standing at the new starting point of the "Shuangwan" city, will focus on the construction of Songshan Lake Science City. By gathering the strength of the city and joining hands with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other first-class innovation resources, it will make a good start for the 14thfive year plan. Eventually, the innovation and development of Dongguan will be continuously improved. Songshan Lake will also fix its direction in the new journey of high-quality development in Dongguan, making it the true core engine for the high-quality development of Dongguan. The innovation strength in Dongguan will radiate the GBA and even affect the world.