(ECNS) -- East China’s Jiangsu Province is home to more than 61,000 high-tech enterprises, Liu Bo, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, said Monday at a media briefing in Changzhou.
The province also has 94,000 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises in a national registry and 117 companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market, said Liu.
According to the official, Jiangsu’s total research and development spending grew by more than 10% annually on average during the 2021–2025 period. In 2025, high-tech industries accounted for 52.1% of the output of industrial enterprises above a designated size, while exports of high-tech products topped 1 trillion yuan ($148 billion) for a fifth consecutive year.
Jiangsu has paired 18 high-tech development zones with 37 universities to accelerate research and commercialization, he said. The partnerships have carried out 779 projects with total investment of more than 1.74 billion yuan ($257 million) and jointly built 113 industrial innovation platforms, Liu added.
(By Intern Yang Hongran, Zhang Dongfang)
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