Sunan National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone (NIIDZ)

Approved in 2013, plans for the Sunan National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone were outlined at a conference on 7 May 2014.

The demonstrator will focus on five main policy areas:

1. Promote indigenous innovation
   
   1. Establish technology innovation market guidance mechanism
   2. Exert decisive action of markets in innovation resource distribution
   3. Strengthen dominant position of industrial technological innovation
   4. Further strengthen industry-university-government cooperative innovation
   5. Implement intellectual property strategy and brand strategy
2. Promote industrial reform and improvement
   1. Complete industrial development plan
   2. Make use of Suzhou New District's trailblazer effect
   3. Emphasize industrial concentration and agglomeration
   4. Strive to build distinctive features
   5. Modern industrial systems of dislocation development
3. Build a talent highland
   1. Attract top talent
   2. Support talent innovation ventures
   3. Strengthen institutional mechanisms for developing talent
   4. Stimulate various kinds of innovative and creative vigor in talent
4. Deepen open cooperation
   1. Strengthen international technology exchange and industrial cooperation
   2. Actively integrate global innovation system
   3. Actively attract foreign research institutions
   4. Continuously raise international technological and economic competitiveness
5. Promote sustainable development
   1. Strengthen construction of ecological civilization
   2. Break resource and environmental bottlenecks
   3. Raise levels of conservation and intensive use of resources
   4. Accelerate construction of green industry chains and cyclic resource use chains

Notes:
Sunan refers to the part of Jiangsu Province (pop. 79.2 million) south of the Yangtze River between Suzhou and Nanjing. The name 'Sunan' is derived from SUzhou and NANjing, the cities at the east and west ends of this corridor, which has the highest per capita GDP in the Chinese province with the highest per capita GDP (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangsu). Sunan covers 280,000 sq km and has a population of 33 million (2012, http://www.baike.com/wiki/%E8%8B%8F%E5%8D%97).

Main source:
Xinhua Daily, 国家联合调研组调研苏南国家自主创新示范区建设, 2014-5-12, http://xh.xhby.net/newxh/html/2014-05/12/content_1005961.htm (accessed 2014-5-12, alternate link: http://js.xhby.net/system/2014/05/12/020944037.shtml )

Related links:

• National Development and Reform Commission, http://en.ndrc.gov.cn/
• Ministry of Education, http://www.moe.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/moe/moe_2795/index.html
• Jiangsu Center of International Technology Transfer, Agreement Signed Between Jiangsu Province and MIT, 2013-11-14, http://en.jittc.org/News/viewone/2923 (accessed 2014-5-12)
• Sunan Modernization Demonstrator Project, 苏南现代化建设示范区规划,  http://baike.baidu.com/view/10530503.htm (accessed 2014-5-13)
• Changshu New & Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, 江蘇省常熟高新技術産業開発区,  http://www.china-csdz.com/japan/about.php (accessed 2014-5-13)
• ｢中国における特色ある開発区の実態調査｣,日本中小企業向け中国華東３省市 日本中小企業向け中国華東３省市, （上海市、浙江省、江蘇省）における開発区調査 （上海市、浙江省、江蘇省）における開発区調査,  http://www.smrj.go.jp/keiei/dbps_data/_material_/b_0_keiei/kokusai/pdf/h17_china-development.pdf (accessed 2014-5-14)
• Suzhou New District, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou_New_District (accessed 2014-5-15)
• Soren Kaplan, Ph.D. and Robert E. Johnston, "Dislocations - Drivers of Industrial Evolution and Corporate Growth, http://www.innovation-point.com/dislocations.htm (accessed 2014-5-15)
• Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Haifeng Qian, "Creative China? The University, Human Capital and the Creative Class in Chinese Regional Development", October 2008, http://www.creativeclass.com/rfcgdb/articles/creative%20china.pdf (accessed 2014-5-15)
• Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, 経済産業省が取り組む「フロンティア人材」創出について, http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/jinzai/frontier-jinzai/ (accessed 2014-5-15)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization, "A greener footprint for industry," 2009,  http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/spc/news-nov09/UNIDO_GreenIndustryConceptEbook.pdf (accessed 2014-5-16)
• Family Alliance for Development and Cooperation, "Achieving Sustainable Development Through Industrial Ecology," (undated), http://www.fadeco.org/achieving-sustainable-development-through-industrial-ecology.html (accessed 2014-5-16)

Named persons:
Li Xuéyǒng, Governor of Jiangsu Province, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Xueyong,  http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/shizheng/252/9667/9684/13551481.html (accessed 2014-5-12)

Cáo Jiànlín, Vice Minister and Member of the CPC Leading Group, MOST,  http://www.most.gov.cn/eng/organization/leadership/200810/t20081016_64340.htm (accessed 2014-5-12)

Li Yúnfēng, Vice Governor, Jiangsu Province,  http://www.js.gov.cn/JSGOVEN08/windowsofjiangsu/ViceGovernorliyunfeng/  (accessed 2014-5-12)

Zhāng Jìnghuá, Jiangsu Provincial Secretariat Director

Xú Nánpíng, the Director General of Department of Science and Technology, Jiangsu Province