/PRNewswire/ — Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, has cemented its place as a leading global innovation hub, climbing to No. 24 in the Global Innovation Index 2025 as the city achieved national science and technology goals during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025).
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An important national strategy is to make the Chengdu-Chongqing region an influential center for scientific and technological innovation. The Western (Chengdu) Science City has become an important part of this change, building a high-level innovation ecosystem that includes a national laboratory, four national innovation centers, ten major scientific infrastructures and four Tianfu laboratories.
Around 96 national innovation platforms – including the National Innovation Center for Precision Medicine and the National Supercomputing Center – have started their work, as well as 27 national research institutions and 65 joint innovation projects with universities and research institutes.
Chengdu has made early efforts to promote emerging industries and issued implementation guidelines for 24 sectors, including humanoid robotics and flexible display technology. The city ramped things up in July this year by launching a 100 billion yuan ($14.1 billion) emerging industries fund targeting hard-tech startups.
The online and offline service systems represented by “Sci-Tech Express plus Sci-Tech Island” have simplified the commercialization of innovations. The offline platform Sci-Tech Island has 102 service providers offering 104 different services, while the online platform Sci-Tech Express has served science and technology companies over 200,000 times.
From the 2021 World University Games in Chengdu, where over 170Tech products have improved venues and spectator experiences, to AI-driven rehabilitation robots now helping the elderly, innovation has truly become noticeable in city life. The city has also set up a smart security monitoring network for underground pipelines, bridges and tunnels.
According to Chengdu’s Science and Technology Department, the city’s innovation landscape now includes more than 14,500 national high-tech companies and 354 national “small giants,” small and medium-sized enterprises that specialize in niche areas.
The city has established five national innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration centers, 76 national incubators and makerspaces, and another 76 provincial and municipal incubators with 5,702 ongoing projects. Talent initiatives have helped the city earn the title of “China’s Most Attractive City for Talent” for six consecutive years.
Policy breakthroughs in intellectual property rights have led 36 local universities and research institutes to establish more than 2,000 ownership certificates and establish 588 enterprises with nearly 21 billion yuan in social investment.
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