Shanghai Government, Chinese Cabinet Team Up to Push Science and Technology Innovation Center
Dou Shicong
DATE:  Aug 29 2017
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
Shanghai Government, Chinese Cabinet Team Up to Push Science and Technology Innovation Center Shanghai Government, Chinese Cabinet Team Up to Push Science and Technology Innovation Center

(Yicai Global) Aug. 29 -- China's State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, run by the country's cabinet, the State Council, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai's municipal government to set up major projects for central state-owned enterprises in the city and help it build an influential science and technology innovation center.

There are currently six central-owned enterprises with headquarters in Shanghai, with 3,158 subsidiaries. The firms combined operating income made up almost a quarter of the city's CNY2-trillion (USD300-billion) gross domestic product last year, state-owned news agency Xinhua reported today.

The pair also introduced three supporting documents and signed 20 science and technology and emerging industry projects, including the development of a science and technology park at Wusongkou, submarine cable works and a nuclear innovation center involving smart manufacturing, biomedicine, new energy, marine engineering and other fields.

The Shanghai science and technology innovation center is an open platform, said Han Zheng, secretary of Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communisty Party of China said, adding that the central-owned enterprises' participation in the construction of the innovation center will accelerate its ability to make scientific and technological achievements.

Follow Yicai Global on
Keywords:   State-Owned Assets Supervision And Administration Commission,Shanghai,Central-Owned Enterprises