A newly-published respected international report is putting Nanjing at number 2 in a top 50 of rising science cities and regions worldwide, as related to research into achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SSGs).
Published on 25 September, the Nature Index supplement showcases how cities are supporting climate change and clean energy targets, as well as protecting oceans, coastal communities and food security.
With Beijing at number 1, clue to Nanjing's runner-up position lies in the term, "rising". The supplement ranks the degree of change in the top 50 risers' contributions to SDG research in the years between 2015 and 2020.
On a broader scale, Nanjing still performs well, ranked as number 7 on a more general list of the leading 200 science cities and metropolitan areas. Ahead of our home are Shanghai, Boston metropolitan area, Baltimore-Washington, New York metropolitan area, San Francisco Bay Area and at number 1 once again, Beijing.
Lighting and electronics expert #HELLA established the Nanjing R&D Center in China in 2011. The aim was to further promote local development activities and develop automotive lighting and electronic products that meet the specific needs of the Chinese market. Today, it is the largest R&D center of HELLA in China and currently employs almost 500 people. It is planned to increase the number of employees even further to support HELLA’s future business growth in China.
“Our strategy is: in China, for China. For ten years now, the Technical Center in Nanjing has been making a decisive contribution to this,” says Didier Keskas, who is responsible for the lighting business of HELLA in Asia/Pacific. “The establishment and continuous growth of our Nanjing Technical Center not only demonstrates HELLA’s far-reaching commitment to the Chinese market but also helps us respond to the needs of local customers more quickly and to provide them with innovative technologies.”
“China is the largest single market in the world and has become a key driver of comprehensive industry change in recent years. In order to adapt to the local development speed and to market trends such as electromobility, software, and autonomous driving, we require high-performance, local R&D centers,” says Binyi Bai, head of HELLA’s electronics business in China. “Against this background, our Technical Center in Nanjing is well equipped and provides project management, design, and development, simulation and validation. Combined with the production facilities we have in China, we provide customers with state-of-the-art products and clear added value.”
HELLA Nanjing Technical Center has comprehensive design & development capabilities in both automotive lighting and electronic products. It can provide customers with localized services across the entire development process. The development portfolio of the site includes a large number of essential product groups of the company. This includes, among other things, headlamps, rear combination lamps, interior and car body lighting as well as energy management, driver assistance systems, lighting electronics, and advanced engineering.
November 4th, Nanjing Jinyuzui Fund Block Development Center, Jianye High-tech Industrial Development Zone Management Investment Promotion No. 1 Department, Nanjing Tatge Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as CIMK), Nanjing Overseas Collaborative Innovation Center (Stuttgart, Germany) held a meeting on the development of the CIMK at Nanjing Stuttgart Joint Exhibition Ltd.
Lukas Tatge, born in Germany and graduated from Nanjing University, is the founder and CEO of CIMK. CIMK is a revelation fintech startup in Nanjing. At the meeting, Lukas shared his company's development in the past six months, including the problems encountered and the major opportunities and challenges the company will face in the future. He expressed his gratitude to Jianye High-tech Zone for its support.
It is reported that the Daily Roadshow platform adheres to the concept of "one time on stage, lifetime service". The service aims to escort the growth and development of the project after the roadshow. During the meeting, the daily roadshow specialists and Lukas discussed in depth the recent business matching and corporate financing needs of CIMK.
Minister Tao, of the Investment Promotion Section of Jianye High-tech Zone said that CIMK not only serves foreign-funded enterprises that have developed locally but also plays an important role in digging out more foreign-funded enterprises that intend to invest and settle down in Jianye District. Two parties can strengthen communication in the future and jointly scout for more high-quality projects.
The Nanjing Overseas Collaborative Innovation Center (Stuttgart, Germany) will also continue to take advantage of domestic and foreign conventions and exhibitions, track and support the development of foreign-funded enterprises that have landed, maintain Nanjing's international ecosystem, and contribute to a new Nanjing that is "a famous innovative city and a beautiful ancient capital".
On November 19th, Jianye District and Jiangsu Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau signed a cooperation framework agreement. The Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau will move to Hexi Financial City. The two sides will carry out friendly cooperation in the field of financial services, policy support, event organization, and talent exchange and will promote the high-quality development of the local financial industry.
Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Jiangsu Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau Xiong Tao, bureau leaders Ding Can, Liu Zhi, Chen Huiling, Li Jinhui, Zhu Houzhi, Jianye District Party Secretary, Director of the Municipal Hexi Management Committee, and Party Secretary Li Hui, Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, District Chang Jiang Chen and others attended the signing ceremony.
Nanjing embarked on a new journey of the "14th Five-Year Plan", based on the city's positioning and financial industry development endowment, and proposed a strategic vision of building a financial center in the eastern region.
Jianye District has now centered over 1,000 financial institutions, including 16 financial corporate headquarters, 139 licensed financial institutions above provincial-level headquarters, and nearly 1,000 various equity management investment institutions. The accumulated registered fund scale exceeds 300 billion, this creates a core agglomeration area for Nanjing to be one of the key financial centers in the eastern region of China.
On the afternoon of April 10th, a special event named Approaching NJUers and Promoting New Nanjing was held in Jianye District. Nearly 40 NJUers from Nanjing University were invited to feel the charm of Jianye, a modern international city center. The event is intended to lead them to assimilate into Nanjing better and fall in love with Jianye, becoming a bridge connecting Nanjing and the world, and the promotion ambassador of Nanjing.
Jianye is the window for the world to understand Nanjing and maintain the foremost position for Nanjing to connect with the world. In the future, Hexi·Jianye will continue to attract more foreigners including NJUers to walk into our district, and expand overseas circle of friends and create the international style.
A tourist resort and a camping tent. Mini vacations like tent camping have continued to gain popularity during the recent prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic, making it difficult to book tent camping in popular destinations, and the lawn in the parks has become the primary choice for tent camping.
Nanjing Xuanwu Lake Park is one of the most popular destinations for tent camping. At two o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, in the designated areas of Liangzhou Grand Lawn, Yingzhou Grand Lawn and Cuizhou Grand Lawn, tents had been set up one by one as tourists were immersed in the pleasure from weekend camping. Open flames, smoking, cooking, barbecue, and uncivilized behaviors such as littering are prohibited when tourists pitch tents and camp in Xuanwu Lake Park.
The park administration will prohibit the setting up of camping tents during holidays and important garden events when the number of tourists reaches the ceiling.
Tourists will inevitably step on the lawn when setting up tents on the lawn for camping. Rotation should be adopted to give the lawn a self-healing time and cycle to achieve the purpose of sustainable utilization. At the same time, public service packages for tent camping should also be planned.
May 22 marks the 29th International Day for Biological Diversity, and this year's theme is "Building a Community of Life on Earth". In recent years, Jiangsu has continuously improved its biodiversity conservation and management capacity. Nanjing released 3,000 suckerfish fry into the Yangtze River in the New Jizhou National Wetland Park in the Yangtze River.
As a national second-class protected animal, suckerfish will play a positive role in ecological restoration along the river and restore the population of suckerfish.
For the first time in history, Nantong, Wuxi and Taizhou spotted the yellow-billed egret and the yellow-breasted bunting, the first-class wildlife under national protection. In Jiangsu Dafeng Milu Deer National Nature Reserve, the staff found more than 50 eggs laid by black-billed gulls on the beach for the first time.
"The black-billed gull has very high requirements for habitat. It reflects that the environment of the milu deer reserve is getting better and better," Liu Bin, Director of the Management Office of Jiangsu Dafeng Milu Deer National Nature Reserve said. Biodiversity is an important indicator to test the quality of natural ecology. In order to make the protection evidence-based, over the past year, Jiangsu has issued a number of documents and listed for the first time the rare and endangered species, indicative species and invasive alien species.
Jiangsu has also established 20 observation stations along the Yangtze River, along the Grand Canal, along the coast and in some low-mountain and hilly areas so as to further understand the status of biodiversity in the province through scientific and technological means such as eDNA and bird AI recognition system.
With multiple measures, Jiangsu has continued to improve the quality of the ecological environment and made positive progress in biodiversity protection.
Compared with last year, the number of species in Jiangsu increased by 857 to 6,903.
Last month, the provincial party committee and government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Further Strengthening Biodiversity Conservation", calling for further enhancement of biodiversity conservation capacity and management. "The quality of biodiversity protection is actually an important indicator to measure the construction of the beautiful Jiangsu campaign. We will establish a biodiversity observation network across Jiangsu to ensure legal and regulatory management and see the effects of ecosystem improvement," Zhu Deming, Director of Natural Ecological Protection Division, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment said.
Nanjing Biopharmaceutical Industry Innovation and Transformation Center was inaugurated at the Nanjing Biopharmaceutical Innovation and Transformation Service Conference that was kicked off on Tuesday.
150 representatives of well-known universities, hospitals, scientific research and clinical trial institutions, multinational biopharmaceutical companies and about 6,000 online guests from home and abroad attended the conference to discuss the path of innovation in the life and health industry.
Nanjing Biopharmaceutical Industry Innovation and Transformation Center will connect with R&D institutions, innovative enterprises, research hospitals and clinical research service institutions through the leading PI workstation and the digital platform for clinical trials, and provide enterprises with one-stop innovation and transformation services covering the full cycle of clinical trials, including clinical trial project review and policy research consultation.
Nanjing Clinical Research Ethics Collaborative Review Platform was also launched on Tuesday. Being the first of its kind in the Yangtze River Delta, the regional ethical collaborative review digital platform will help to accelerate the efficient transformation of biomedicine enterprises.
The government of Gulou District of Nanjing also signed the "Co-construction Framework of Wutai Mountain Life and Health Center" with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Provincial People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Brain Hospital, Jiangsu Medical Association, and Nanjing Biomedical Industry Innovation and Transformation Center.
The 2022 Awarding Ceremony of Zijin Friendship Ambassador of Nanjing Urban Internationalization was held on May 28 in Nanjing. International friends living in Nanjing that have been devoted to the city’s development were awarded with the honor, including Bram Jansen, President of BASF-YPC Company Limited, Dr. Alexander G. C. Dony, President of Bosch Siemens Household Goods (BSH) Greater China, SHIN DONG WHAN, CFO of LG New Energy Solution Great China and Deputy General Manager of LG Energy Solution Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.
This ceremony was guided by the Promotion Office of Nanjing Urban Internationalization, organized by the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, the Foreign Affairs Office of Nanjing Municipal People’s Government, Gulou District People’s Government, and Jiangsu International Channel, and co-hosted by the Promotion Office of Gulou Urban Internationalization. Lin Tao, Vice Mayor of Nanjing and Director of the Promotion Office of Nanjing Urban Internationalization, attended the ceremony and presented letters of appointment to international friends.
Since 2020, the Promotion Office of Nanjing Urban Internationalization has launched a campaign to appoint the "Zijin Friendship Ambassador of Nanjing Urban Internationalization" as an effort to further deepen foreigners’ understanding of Nanjing. 36 international friends have been appointed as "Zijin Friendship Ambassador of Nanjing Urban Internationalization" so far.
Thanks to the joint efforts of many international friends who make Nanjing their home, Nanjing has gained its reputation in urban development and world influence in recent years. This event focuses on the theme of Yangtze finless porpoise protection, talking about the aquatic biodiversity of the Yangtze River and the importance of environmental protection.
Bram Jansen, President of BASF-YPC Company Limited said during the interview that sustainability is at the core of BASF-YPC. Yangtze River is one of the major natural resources and eco-systems in China, which he thinks people need to work together to take care of. Last year, BASF-YPC was the biggest pilot to trade renewable energy, which makes the company one of the most sustainable chemical companies in Nanjing. BASF-YPC will continue to upgrade its assets, apply the latest technology and improve the efficiency to have 100% green electricity in the very near future.
The city of Nanjing will help Taiwanese-funded enterprises to promote intelligent transformation and digital transformation and the cultivation of little giant enterprises, according to a symposium held Tuesday afternoon by the Municipal Office for Taiwan Affairs and the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology.
The meeting was presided over by Zhao Xiaohua, Director of the Municipal Office for Taiwan Affairs. Present at the meeting were leaders of the Municipal Taiwan Affairs Office, the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the districts where Taiwanese-funded enterprises are located and nearly 40 large-scale Taiwan-funded enterprises.
The leaders of the Small and Medium Enterprises Bureau of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and the heads of Nanjing Youbei Electric Co., Ltd. and Weituo Technology Co., Ltd. were invited to interpret policies, paths, and case sharing on intelligent transformation and digital transformation, as well as the cultivation of small giant enterprises.
The heads of Taiwanese companies said that the symposium enabled them to have a deeper understanding of the policies related to intelligent transformation, digital transformation and the cultivation of small giant enterprises, and to have a clearer understanding of the importance to the survival and development of Taiwanese enterprises.
Zhao Xiaohua hoped that Taiwanese-funded enterprises in Nanjing will seize the opportunities, accelerate the pace of transformation and upgrading, enhance intelligent transformation and digital transformation, cultivate small giant enterprises, provide power and source for Nanjing’s participation in a new round of urban competition, and make greater contributions to cross-strait cooperation.
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On July 2, the 2022 China Wuxi "Taihu Cup" International Elite Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition International Competition (Japan and South Korea) was successfully held. At the event site, three major venues in Wuxi, China, Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul , South Korea were connected simultaneously. 23 overseas talent science and technology innovation projects showed their magical powers in the cloud, and hundreds of international and domestic political, industry, academia, and economic leaders attended the event online. The event presented a gluttonous feast spanning the three major technological innovation highlands of China, Japan and South Korea and linking high-end innovation resources at home and abroad.
As Zhao Jianping, director of Wuxi Science and Technology Bureau, said in his speech, in order to further develop the city brand of "incomparable love for talents, tin wants you to come" at home and abroad, Wuxi has carefully created the "Taihu Cup" International Elite Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, which is full of We sincerely look forward to high-level talents at home and abroad to come to tin for innovation and entrepreneurship. Wuxi is a famous "highland of Japanese capital" and "highland of Korean capital". Japan and South Korea have become Wuxi's largest trading partners and one of the important investment sources. We hope to take this event as an opportunity to further deepen innovation cooperation and industrial cooperation with Japan and South Korea, and sincerely hope that overseas experts, innovative companies and entrepreneurial teams from Japan and South Korea will pay attention to Wuxi, enter Wuxi, and cultivate Wuxi.
Chayee Song , head of the International Innovation Project Department of the Seoul Financial Technology Laboratory in South Korea, proposed that China and South Korea should give full play to their respective advantages, cooperate with each other for mutual benefit, continue to deepen the in-depth cooperation in the field of scientific and technological innovation, conform to the new round of technology industry development trends, and comprehensively improve the electronic The level of scientific and technological innovation cooperation in information, digital technology, financial technology, new energy and other fields.
Argos Vision was the first to appear in these Korean projects. Dr. Ki Yeong introduced the 3D depth camera currently under development, which has successfully expanded the field of view of the 3D depth camera to 270° horizontally and vertically. 160°. The camera will be applied to intelligent robots and used as sensors for autonomous driving and human-computer interaction. In the future, it will expand the scope of use to smart factories, smart logistics, smart travel, and smart cities. Argos Vision's strong scientific research team comes from CISS, and the team is committed to building a global leader in human computer vision technology.
The second Korean project was Privé Technologies . The president, Dr. David Lee , graduated with J.D. in law from Harvard University . He expressed it vividly, Prive technologie 's LEGO approach allows clients to select and assemble unique journeys from our wide range of modular and digital solutions, this modularity and flexibility allows us to address a wide variety of use cases in wealth management through a scalable cloud-based platform , and help customers accelerate their digital efforts. Prive was named the 26th fastest growing company in Asia Pacific by the Financial Times (2020) . Headquartered in Hong Kong, we have 8 offices around the world, in Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Austria and Germany. Serving clients in more than 16 jurisdictions around the world. We currently serve more than 60 financial institutions in Asia and Europe, supporting over $50 billion through our systems . The Wuxi experts present hoped that he could do local market research as soon as possible and invited him to start a business locally in the future.
Klleon is a leading digital culture start-up company in South Korea . It adopts deep learning generation technology, develops video generation technology, and transforms the process to make video production simple and fast. The judges listened to the introduction of CEO Jin and were very interested and praised Klleon. The company's video technology is leading, and CEO Jin also told the judges that using a photo or an original sound to produce various required videos in real time is the innovation of Klleon, which the industry has not been able to achieve.
The last Korean project is by Vyobotics It was brought by Dr. Chand . He is a PhD in Robotics from the University of Sydney, Australia. The R&D team he leads is committed to developing cheaper, smaller and easier to operate robots . At present, the Korean robot market is as high as 2 billion US dollars, and the smart home market value is as high as 53 billion. In 2025, the Korean robot technology market value is expected to reach 4.4 billion. In the future, the robot market will have huge development space in both Korea and China. The series of robots developed by Vyobotics Costs from $100 to $20,000, no engineers required , no expensive sensors, 50 times cheaper than most robots on the market, more efficient, and currently holds 38 patents.
Wuxi will take the "Taihu Cup" International Competition as an opportunity to continue to deepen cooperation with South Korea, gather strength to play the value of platform link, gather more Korean entrepreneurs, industry experts, outstanding college students and other forces, and promote the integration and innovation of high-quality projects and entrepreneurial soil. ” to achieve an innovative highland with international influence based on high-quality talents and strong R&D strength .
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Welcome to 2022 Overseas Project Promotion and Exchange Forum (Germany). The main purpose is to support German overseas companies to communicate with Chinese counterparts, in order to promote German technology SMEs to develop in China, thus engaging the first steps to enter the Chinese market.
Five pitchs are included in the event:
Pitch 1: Cikoni GmbH by Dr. Farbod Nezami, Managing Partner
Pitch 2: Instawerk GmbH by Mr. Marcel Erich, CEO
Pitch 3: Syncree by Prof. Andreas Fischer, Director
Pitch 4: CIDA (Circular Industrial Design Accelerator) by Mr. Tom Feuerstein, CTO
Pitch 5: Emerge by Mr. Moritz Neumann, Founder
We are inviting companies from the following industries to join us in the matchmaking：
- New Materials
- Automotive
- Advanced Manufacturing
- 3D Printing
- Design
- Metaverse
Scan the QR code on the poster for registration and further information.