The city of Nanjing in east China’s Jiangsu province has accelerated the construction and development of new quality productive forces through new practices and new endeavors, according to a press conference held Thursday by the provincial information office.

In the past decade, Nanjing has recorded a two-fold growth in its regional gross domestic product, ranking among the top ten in China. The city registers over 10000 high-tech enterprises, and its global ranking of scientific research cities has risen to the sixth place.

According to the requirements for developing new quality productive forces, Nanjing has adapted to local conditions by fully exploring its own advantages, and leading industrial innovation with technological innovation.

“Nanjing will promote major innovation platforms such as the Purple Mountain Laboratories to achieve more original and disruptive results, accelerate the pre-research and cultivation of large scientific devices such as atomic limit micromanufacturing, gene and cell biomimetics, build a matrix of about 30 Chinese key laboratories, build a comprehensive system for transforming scientific and technological achievements, and apply more scientific and technological innovation achievements to specific industries and industrial chains,”said Chen Zhichang, Deputy Secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee and Mayor.

In accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy, Nanjing will lead the revitalization and upgrading of four pillar industries, including petrochemicals and steel, create a trillion-yuan software and information service industry cluster, expand China’s leading advantage in the smart grid industry, promote the development and growth of new energy vehicles, biopharmaceuticals, integrated circuits, and aerospace so as to seize the new generation of artificial intelligence, third-generation semiconductors and other future industries, promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and promote the development of green energy and new energy storage.

Nanjing will also comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, accelerate the construction of national science and technology innovation financial reform pilot zones and intellectual property protection demonstration zones, amplify the advantages of “free trade pilot zones+service industry expansion and opening up”, play a good role as a national level new and hi-tech zone and aviation economic demonstration zone, accelerate the gathering of advanced and high-quality resource elements, and strive to make new productive forces the most distinctive symbol of high-quality development in Nanjing.