Yesterday, the national county and city science and technology work experience exchange meeting was held in Xinchang. Representatives from 43 counties and cities from 15 provinces (cities, districts) across the country gathered in Xinchang to exchange and discuss county and city science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship. Li Meng, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Yuan Jiajun, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor, attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Municipal leaders Yu Zhihong and Yang Wenxiao attended the meeting.

At the exchange meeting, Xinchang County reported on the practical experience of innovation-driven development. Driven by innovation, Xinchang County has developed from a relatively lagging county in economic and social development to one of the top 100 counties in the country in 11 years; it took 8 years to realize the leap from a key polluted county to a national ecological county. Xinchang County has also been successively rated as the National New-type Industrialization Demonstration Base and the National Scientific and Technological Progress Demonstration County, and has been ranked among the top ten in the comprehensive evaluation of Zhejiang Province's industrially strong counties for three consecutive years. In December last year, Xinchang County was officially approved by the Zhejiang Provincial Government as the only county-level comprehensive scientific and technological system reform pilot county in the province.

According to the data, in 2014, the main science and technology indicators of Xinchang County ranked the forefront of Zhejiang Province: the output value rate of new products was 50.89%, ranking first in the province; research and experimental development expenditures accounted for 4.09% of GDP, ranking second in the province; science and technology investment The comprehensive evaluation ranks second in the province.

The experience of innovation-driven development in Xinchang County has attracted widespread attention both inside and outside the province. The provincial government issued a research report on Xinchang’s innovation-driven development practice for reference by relevant departments throughout the province. “Only scientific and technological innovation can realize the sustainable development of Xinchang.” The relevant person in charge of Xinchang County stated that Xinchang is a typical mountainous county with insufficient location advantages and limited resource endowments. The scientific development concept of "no comparison of size, more innovation, no comparison of quantity than quality", will make every effort to promote scientific and technological innovation and achieve rapid economic and social development.

"Xinchang is a typical representative and role model for implementing the innovation-driven strategy." Li Meng said that the reason why the on-site exchange meeting was held in Xinchang was because of the reproducibility and spreadability of the "Xinchang experience".

The meeting emphasized that counties and cities across the country should implement the innovation-driven development strategy at the core of the overall development of counties and cities, vigorously promote enterprise technological innovation, and strive to make new progress in leading industrial transformation and upgrading; accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and focus on county advantages The development of characteristic industries provides new kinetic energy; improve the scientific and technological service system, and focus on exploring new models in improving professional service capabilities; create a good ecological environment, and focus on accumulating new experience in the promotion of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation"; strengthen the construction of scientific and technological teams, and focus on New results have been achieved in improving the level of grassroots technology management.

Participants also visited and inspected companies such as "Xinhecheng", "Rifa Precision Machinery", "Sanhua Holdings" and other companies, and investigated Xinchang's scientific and technological innovation work.