We will build a number of major world-class scientific and technological infrastructure

Qiu Wenjin, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, said that the national major science and technology infrastructure is an important part of the national innovation system and an important support for Shanghai to build an international science and technology innovation center. After years of development, the facility has long supported the cutting-edge basic research of the state and Shanghai, and promoted a number of major original innovation achievements in the fields of integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence.

It is understood that at present, Shanghai has built, under construction and planning to build a total of 20 national major science and technology infrastructure, of which 11 have been built, 4 are under construction, and 5 are planned for construction, with a total investment scale of about 35 billion yuan, covering photon, material, life, energy, Marine and other fields, the number of facilities, investment amount and construction progress are the national leading level.

The construction of facilities shows the characteristics of regional agglomeration

It is understood that the national major science and technology infrastructure is a large and complex scientific research system that provides extreme research means for exploring the unknown world, discovering the laws of nature, and realizing technological change, and is the material and technological basis for breaking through the scientific frontier and solving major scientific and technological issues of economic and social development and national security.

"Shanghai's national major science and technology infrastructure has shown the characteristics of regional agglomeration." At present, Shanghai Zhangjiang Science City is building the world's largest, most comprehensive and most comprehensive photon major science and technology infrastructure cluster, including all kinds of light sources, such as synchrotron radiation light source, hard X-ray free electron laser device, soft X-ray free electron laser device, super ultra-short laser experimental device, etc. It also includes various stations such as live cell imaging. "These facilities are clustered within a region of less than 2 kilometers, and after the completion of the cluster facility, it will simultaneously have the research capabilities of the three micro fields of static structure, dynamic change, and extremely high energy." At the same time, it can meet the needs of all kinds of users in cutting-edge and extensive, basic and industrial, and strongly support the cutting-edge research and technological innovation in the fields of matter, life, medicine, materials, energy, chemistry, and 'double carbon'."

According to reports, in the cluster under construction, Shanghai synchrotron radiation light source is currently the major scientific and technological infrastructure with the most users, the highest degree of openness and the most significant comprehensive results in China, and has provided services for more than 700 scientific research institutions and 63,000 enterprise scientific researchers, with an average annual average of 4,500 people, which is equivalent to similar light sources in Europe and the United States. In addition, the second phase of the light source line station has been fully completed, and the users are expected to be nearly 10,000 people this year.

In addition to the photon field, Shanghai has also planned a number of national major science and technology infrastructure for life, energy, ocean, artificial intelligence and other fields. For example, the fusion energy project is the first "14th Five-Year Plan" national major science and technology infrastructure to be started in China, and it is also the only controllable nuclear fusion research platform with multiple characteristics in China.

According to Kai Ken, Shanghai KECken will fully promote the construction of hard X-ray equipment, undersea scientific observation network, high-efficiency low-carbon gas turbine test equipment, magnetic-inertial confinement fusion energy and other projects. We will accelerate the preliminary work on projects such as far-reaching sea research facilities, thorium-based molten salt reactor research facilities, unmanned systems multi-body collaboration facilities, and the pre-research of a new generation of light sources, and strive to start work as soon as possible.

It is understood that the two major national science and technology infrastructure under construction, the high-efficiency low-carbon gas turbine test device and the National Seabed scientific observation network, have landed in the new area of Lingang. Wu Qunfeng, director of the development and reform Department of Lingang New Area Management Committee, said that at present, the high-efficiency low-carbon gas turbine experimental device has completed civil construction, some of the plants have been accepted, and entered the monomer commissioning stage, which is expected to be completed in June 2024. At the same time, the National Seabed Scientific Observation Network has completed the construction of a multi-layer observation tower in the East China Sea, which is expected to be completed in 2025.

Encourage diversified financing for facility construction

In order to further play the leading role in innovation of national major science and technology infrastructure in Shanghai, ensure the efficient construction and stable operation of facilities, and establish and improve the diversified investment mechanism of facilities, the "Several measures" respectively put forward support measures for the construction phase of facilities and the operation and use phase of facilities.

Focusing on the stage of facility construction, the "Several measures" make it clear that while setting up a Shanghai municipal user Advisory Committee and accelerating the preliminary work of facility construction, it encourages diversified financing for facility construction and supports research on key technologies and core equipment. The "Several Measures" proposed that under the premise of actively seeking financial support from the central budget, Shanghai will actively provide supporting support for projects with self-raised funds (including social capital investment) of facilities relying on units that are not less than 20% of the total investment. At the same time, support the new construction of national major science and technology infrastructure joint enterprises to organize the implementation of municipal major science and technology projects according to needs, carry out research on key technologies and core equipment, and give the maximum support of 80% in principle and the total amount of no more than 300 million yuan for qualified projects; Organize major scientific research achievements to be centrally promoted to venture capital funds and industrial funds, strengthen the incubation function of facilities, and exert spillover effects.

In the operation phase of the facility, the "Several measures" are proposed to ensure stable operation and open sharing.

We will explore ways to establish market-based mechanisms for charging facilities and subsidizing business users. Increase the subsidies for enterprise users to use facilities, encourage technology-based small and medium-sized enterprise users to reduce the cost of facility use through "science and technology innovation vouchers", and further improve the support efforts. For enterprise users not included in the scope of application of "science and technology innovation vouchers", in principle, the maximum annual subsidy is not more than 50%, and the total amount is not more than 1 million yuan.

Establish a classification evaluation and reward system for facilities. The facilities will be classified and evaluated according to the main functions and service objects, and the incentive of "reward instead of compensation" will be implemented. For the facilities that reach certain indicators, the rewards will be given in principle according to the three grades of 15 million yuan, 10 million yuan and 5 million yuan.

Support facilities to upgrade service level and conduct pre-study. Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Plan set up facilities key technology upgrading related plans, focusing on supporting facilities to carry out experimental research on new methods, optimize the upgrading device and component technology. For facilities under construction and planned facilities, Zhangjiang National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone specifically supports the development of important scientific research process equipment technology iteration and related pre-research, and promotes the inclusion of facilities in the next round of national major science and technology infrastructure planning.

The layout focuses on improving the service level

In addition, the "Several measures" also proposed to strengthen the facility support and service of the industrial capacity of Shanghai, strengthen the supporting support for the construction of user devices, and give up to 30% of the user devices in line with the regulations, a total of up to 30 million yuan of investment subsidies; Promote user devices to strengthen open services to the outside world, the operation management and open sharing of user devices by the facility support unit overall management, in principle, the user devices that receive investment subsidies from Shanghai should provide no less than 30% of the public time.

"Support the 'Living Cell Structure and Function Imaging isometric Station project' to carry out key technology research, and promote the development of user undulator beam lines, live cell imaging beam lines, biological imaging experiment stations, and molecular dynamic imaging experiment stations." Support 'Hard X-ray free electron laser device' to carry out 'Hard X-ray free electron laser key technology research and development and integration testing', etc., laying a more solid technical and talent foundation for hard line engineering construction." Bi Cong, director of the Base Division of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, introduced that for the national major science and technology infrastructure that has been built and is under construction in Shanghai, the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission and the Municipal Science and Technology Commission focus on supporting its upgrading of service levels through project layout.

At the same time, in order to actively strive for the inclusion of major science and technology infrastructure construction ideas in the overall layout of the national planning, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Shanghai Science and Technology Foundation established projects to support the pre-research of major science and technology infrastructure projects. For example, supporting the research of "comprehensive simulation test project of thorium-based molten salt reactor" and supporting far-reaching sea research have laid a solid foundation for the inclusion of relevant facilities in the "14th Five-Year Plan" of national major science and technology infrastructure.

"In the next step, the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission will work with relevant units to continue to build a group of large scientific facilities cluster, around the whole process of facility design, construction and operation, improve the sharing mechanism, optimize open services, improve the use efficiency and convenience of facilities, strengthen the support of funds and policies, and attract more social capital participation. Better help Shanghai strengthen the source of scientific and technological innovation, high-end industry leading function." Qiu Wenjin said.