Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau Takes Measures to Optimize Business Environment and Promote Innovation and Development of Science and Technology

In recent years, Guiyang has been making strong moves to create a science and technology innovation atmosphere, and has made big advances in technical R&D and innovation and development. We leverage emerging technologies such as big data to continuously improve the efficiency and level of government services, accelerate "Internet plus government services," and go through procedures such as enterprise registration remotely at home to ensure convenient enterprise settlement. In addition, Guiyang is giving a big boost to the building of the "data cage" project and social credit system, has established a modern governance system of "speak with data, use data to make decisions, use data for management, and innovate with data," and ensures power must always be exercised in the sunshine and enterprise credit must be transparent, so as to propel Guiyang to be built into an innovative central city in a multi-dimensional manner. The favorable science and technology innovation and business environment enabled Guiyang to be named one of the "Top 10 Chinese Cities with Best Business Environment for Enterprises" in 2018.

In recent years, Guiyang has reaped fruitful results in the construction of science and technology business environment, making its economic growth rate rank first among the provincial capital cities for six consecutive years. A favorable science and technology innovation atmosphere helps bring all kinds of entrepreneurial and innovative talents together in Guiyang, shaping Guiyang a "hotbed" for entrepreneurship and innovation. As a pacesetter to optimize the science and technology innovation and business environment and drive enterprises through innovation in Guiyang, the Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau has taken measures to strengthen the support and cultivation of the science and technology innovation industry, providing support for technical research and development and innovation in Guiyang.

Continuously optimize the policy environment. Over the years, the Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau has successively released the Measures for Building and Subsidizing Technology Business Incubators (Mass Entrepreneurship Space) in Guiyang, the Implementation Plan for Organizations of Major Science and Technology Projects in Guiyang, the Interim Management Measures for Technological Innovation Led Fund Management in Guiyang, the Management Measures for Science and Technology Planning Projects in Guiyang (Interim) and other policy documents, empowering Guiyang with policy support for technological innovation. With such a good policy environment, Guiyang has made big advances in technological innovation. For example, the incubation of excellent enterprises and projects such as the "Proposed List of 2018 Municipal-Level Technology Enterprise Incubators (Mass Entrepreneurship Space) in Guiyang" and the "2019 Proposed Planning Projects of Science and Technology in Guiyang" announced by the Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau is a microcosm of technological innovation in Guiyang City. Even, they are the fruits of science and technology in Guiyang.

Implement innovative development dividends and precisely serve and foster technology companies and projects. In order to encourage and support the development of high-tech enterprises in Guiyang, "special post-subsidy funds for science and technology" were set up in 2016. Every year from 2017 to 2020, 100 million yuan will be allocated from the departmental budget of the Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau, and 30 million yuan from the departmental budgets of the Guiyang Development and Reform Commission and the Committee of Industry and Information Technology of Guiyang Municipality each, bringing the total to 160 million yuan. These funds are used as post-subsidies for scientific research and development, the accreditation of high-tech enterprise, achievements transformation and others. As the main responsible department of this project, the Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau strictly implements project verification and fund allocation and other work so as to assist high-tech enterprises in Guiyang to successfully carry out scientific research and development activities in the next. In 2018 alone, 149 newly accredited high-tech enterprises in 2017 received a post-subsidy fund of 29.8 million yuan as planned, and 375 newly accredited high-tech enterprises got a subsidy of 105 million yuan from the Department of Science and Technology of Guizhou Province.

Beyond that, the Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau has its own model for investment in major science and technology projects such as big data technology and science and technology for people's livelihood, that is, precision services that "support any good projects." With the model, it has introduced many excellent science and technology projects, and advanced the sound development of science and technology innovation across the city, promoting the overall technological innovation capability in Guiyang.

Devote more efforts to train personnel and address the shortage of technical talents. On the one hand, the Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau strengthens its effort to cultivate scientific and technological talents, and continuously expands the qualified scientific personnel roster. Starting from 2016, the Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau has been carrying out the "Hundred Talents Program" training program for the big data industry in Guiyang, which has produced a large number of qualified scientific personnel to grow the list of technical research and development. On the other hand, the bureau actively participates in foreign exchanges and cooperation, carry out develops scientific and technological exchanges with Israel, Italy, the UK and other countries, and has reached preliminary cooperation consensuses with the Città della Scienza di Napoli, the Agency for Digital Italy, the Rome Science and Technology City, the University Hospitals Birmingham, the University of Nottingham, etc. In order to constantly create a new level of openness, it brings Guiyang's science and technology to foreign countries, while introducing foreign advanced technologies to Guizhou, thus inspiring the vitality of scientific and technological innovation in Guiyang. At the same time, the Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau establishes in-depth cooperation with domestic universities and research institutes to advance the research and development of scientific research results. The building of "The Capital Sci & Tec Resources Platform Guiyang Cooperation Station," the "Beijing Technology Market Guiyang Service Platform" and other platforms has cemented exchanges and cooperation between Beijing and Guiyang in technology, achievements, projects, talents and scientific and technological conditions, providing full chain support for scientific and technological innovation and development in Guiyang from transactions in technology to project cooperation.

The Guiyang Science and Technology Bureau has, for a long time, made outstanding contributions to the science and technology innovation and development in Guiyang through various measures such as establishing the Guiyang Science and Technology Innovation Guiding Fund, expanding the scale of science and technology ventures, and attracting domestic and foreign excellent venture capital institutions to Guiyang. This makes Guiyang a pacesetter for openness with the lowest investment cost, the best business environment, the highest service efficiency, and the most dynamic entrepreneurship and innovation. It even aligns with the requirements of "high standard requirements, high-level openness and high-quality development" for Guiyang City proposed by the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee.