The Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center Work Promotion Meeting was held in Shanghai.

The work promotion meeting for the construction of the Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center in collaboration with the central and local governments in 2025 was held in Shanghai today. Chen Jining, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, and Yin Hejun, Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Gong Zheng, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, presided over the meeting. Chen Jining pointed out that it is necessary to focus on key tasks, strengthen collaboration, and continuously deepen breakthroughs. By focusing on high-risk, high-value basic research, continuously deepening institutional and mechanism reforms in practice, better harnessing the value-driven and strategic traction role of basic research pilot zones, promoting the organic integration and joint advancement of high-level talents and high-risk, high-value projects, strengthening core technology breakthroughs, focusing on the key areas of integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence, and building a mechanism for the full-process and full-chain cultivation of future industries, Shanghai aims to enhance the strategic agility of the layout of frontier science and technology through mechanisms. Deepen the reform of the integrated development of education, science and technology talents, better serve national strategies and scientific and technological development. Accelerate the improvement of the science and technology financial system, vigorously develop market-oriented, high-level, high-energy venture capital funds, and better meet the high-risk, long-term financing needs of technology enterprises. It is hoped that the central and relevant departments of the country will entrust Shanghai with more reform tasks in the field of scientific and technological innovation, challenging tasks of overcoming difficulties, and exploration tasks in frontier areas. Shanghai will make every effort to promote the implementation of various tasks and jointly work to build the Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center.