STORY: China's Yangtze River Delta aims for integrated, high-quality development
SHOOTING TIME: April 11, 2024
DATELINE: May 11, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:46
LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Yangtze River Delta
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHANG MIZHI, Director of Statistical Evaluation Laboratory, Shanghai Institute for Science of Science
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIA ZHANFENG, Deputy director of Joint Conference Office of G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor

STORYLINE:

The Yangtze River Delta is one of the most vibrant, open and innovative city clusters in China. It has matured into a pacesetter of high-quality development and reaped major benefits from its integrated development, which was established six years ago as a national strategy.

The Yangtze River Delta region takes up only 4 percent of China's land area but contributes about 25 percent of national GDP.

It encompasses Shanghai Municipality, the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHANG MIZHI, Director of Statistical Evaluation Laboratory, Shanghai Institute for Science of Science
"The three provinces and one municipality in the Yangtze River Delta region are striving to construct a collaborative innovation framework with a community of innovation as its core. Within this framework, Shanghai is continuously playing a leading role, while the three provinces are also showcasing their own strengths and positive collaboration in innovation. Especially in the breakthrough of frontier technologies, the growth of our scientific and technological investment, and the enhancement of innovation, the three provinces and one municipality have already generated significant effects, driving the entire Yangtze River Delta to become a crucial driving force for China's scientific and economic development."

Several years ago, nine districts and cities in the region created the "G60 science and technology innovation corridor." This collaboration aims to provide an integrated development platform driven by scientific, technological and institutional innovation.

SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIA ZHANFENG, Deputy director of Joint Conference Office of G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor
"The G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor connects nine cities in the Yangtze River Delta. We promote the free flow of factors of science and innovation among the nine cities. This allows all of the nine cities to give full play to their strengths in raw materials, research and development, manufacturing, and application scenarios to form a chain and create a world-class, advanced industrial cluster."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Shanghai, China.
(XHTV)