CHENGDU, China, Nov. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan province, has cemented its standing as a number one international innovation hub, climbing to twenty fourth place within the 2025 Global Innovation Index, as the town delivered on nationwide sci-tech ambitions in the course of the 14th Five-Year Plan interval(2021-25).
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A key nationwide technique has been to develop the Chengdu-Chongqing area into an influential sci-tech innovation hub. The Western (Chengdu) Science City has emerged as a cornerstone of this transformation, establishing a high-level innovation ecosystem comprising one nationwide laboratory, 4 nationwide innovation facilities, 10 main science infrastructures, and 4 Tianfu laboratories.
Some 96 nationwide innovation platforms — together with the National Precision Medicine Industrial Innovation Center and National Supercomputing Center — have arrange operations, alongside 27 national-level analysis establishments and 65 collaborative innovation initiatives launched with universities and analysis institutes.
Chengdu moved early to domesticate future industries, releasing implementation tips for twenty-four sectors together with humanoid robotics and versatile show know-how. The metropolis additional accelerated this push in July this 12 months with a 100 billion yuan ($14.1 billion) future trade fund focusing on hard-tech startups.
Online and offline service techniques represented by “Sci-Tech Express plus Sci-Tech Island” have streamlined the commercialization of improvements. The offline Sci-Tech Island hosts 102 service suppliers providing 104 sorts of providers, whereas the net Sci-Tech Express platform has served sci-tech enterprises greater than 200,000 instances.
From the Chengdu 2021 World University Games, the place over 170 tech merchandise enhanced venues and viewing experiences, to AI-powered rehabilitation robots now serving aged residents, innovation has develop into tangible throughout city life. The metropolis has additionally deployed an clever security monitoring community protecting underground pipelines, bridges and tunnels.
Chengdu’s innovation panorama now consists of greater than 14,500 nationwide high-tech enterprises and 354 national-level “little giant” corporations, or elite SMEs specializing in area of interest sectors, in line with the Chengdu Science and Technology Bureau.
The metropolis has established 5 nationwide innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration bases, 76 nationwide incubators and maker areas, as properly as one other 76 provincial and municipal incubators internet hosting 5,702 in-progress initiatives. Talent initiatives have helped safe the “China’s Best Talent-Attracting City” title for six consecutive years.
Policy breakthroughs in mental property rights have spurred 36 native universities and analysis institutes to finish over 2,000 achievement possession verifications, incubating 588 enterprises with practically 21 billion yuan in social funding.
SOURCE Chengdu Science and Technology Bureau
