Wudang now home to 84 high-tech companies

A photo shows Wudang district in Guiyang. [Photo/ddcpc.cn]

Wudang district in Guiyang, the capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, is currently home to 84 high-tech companies, according to the district's latest statistics.

Wudang has been promoting the high-tech industry's development, carrying out basic industrial research and accelerating the transformation of sci-tech achievements, focusing on key sectors such as big health and big data. It aims to achieve high-quality economic development through sci-tech advancement.

Over the past year, Wudang district has further strengthened services for high-tech companies, adopting several measures to cultivate more key enterprises and improve the application process to become a high-tech company.

In 2020, a total of 44 companies submitted applications, and 32 of them will be identified as high-tech enterprises, bringing the total number of high-tech companies in the district to 84.

The district has focused on the cultivation and application of incubators, maker spaces, popular science demonstration bases and other sci-tech programs. It approved 27 projects from the provincial and municipal science and technology departments in the past year, with funding of 13.35 million yuan ($2.07 million).

It also strove to strengthen enterprises' sense of independent innovation and encouraged them to increased R&D investment, as well as build various technological innovation platforms.

In the future, Wudang will improve its collaborative innovation system, promote the concentrated development of innovative entities taking high-tech as the core, and improve high-tech companies' quality. The goal is to provide strong sci-tech support for developing the big health industry in the district.