Credit: Ti Gong
Caption: Zizhu High-tech Park
Yangtze Delta R&D cluster zone opens
The Yangtze River Delta Manufacturing R&D Cluster Zone was launched final month on the Minhang Investment Promotion Conference.
This cluster zone is an revolutionary approach to combine scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation within the Yangtze River Delta.
It makes use of Hongqiao International Central Business District and Minhang District strengths in scientific and technological innovation, expertise focus and industrial improvement to develop an R&D-driven economic system.
In the Hongqiao Central Business District (Minhang), it goals to create a Yangtze River Delta hub for scientific and technological innovation and a brand new mannequin of cross-regional industrial collaboration.
Xinzhuang Town, Jiangchuan Road Subdistrict and Nanhongqiao Group offered regional traits, industrial assets and enterprise assist providers.
Aerospace, biopharmaceuticals and superior power tools and inexperienced low-carbon applied sciences have pushed district progress.
Minhang is positioning itself for progress in brain-computer interfaces and low-altitude economies. The district’s land assets bureau deliberate its spatial format from 2026 to 2030 to advance high-quality land improvement in 10 main industrial zones, together with Minhang, Xinzhuang and Zizhu.
Estée Lauder launches China Fulfillment Center
Estée Lauder Companies unveiled its China Fulfillment Center in Xinzhuang Industrial Park in Minhang District in late March. The facility is without doubt one of the first within the magnificence trade to make use of a “dual-warehouse linkage” mannequin to combine customs-supervised and home stock.
This facility, one of many firm’s most automated omnichannel success facilities, powers its provide chain in China for all gross sales channels, together with e-commerce platforms and offline retail shops, offering built-in logistics providers for the corporate’s whole model portfolio.
Stéphane de La Faverie, President and CEO of Estée Lauder Companies, stated they’re optimizing their regional footprint to ship magnificence merchandise sooner, extra reliably and effectively by enhancing their digital and clever provide chains and investing in infrastructure.
With automated storage, goods-to-person choosing and high-speed sorting, it permits round the clock “lights-out” operations. It processes over 400,000 orders day by day. An AI-powered, end-to-end provide chain administration platform optimizes omnichannel success, practically doubling one-day supply protection by 2021.
“Our new China Fulfillment Center is not just about expanding capacity; it is about building a smarter, more resilient and more synchronized value chain that can support our ongoing growth,” stated Roberto Canevari, government vice chairman, chief worth chain officer of Estée Lauder Companies.
The firm’s Open Innovation Center was additionally unveiled. It will collaborate with native universities, analysis establishments and medical organizations to attach regional innovation assets and work with native start-ups and rising expertise firms.
AI software program requirements established
China’s clever economic system and industrial improvement have been mentioned on the Grand neoBay’s first Embodied Artificial Intelligence Technology Ecosystem Conference in late March by authorities officers, trade leaders and researchers. The occasion established humanoid robotics AI {hardware} and software program requirements to enhance provide chain coordination and trade unification.
The Global Embodied AI Ecosystem Co-Build Plan goals to take away obstacles to collaboration and assist the trade standardize.
Shanghai-based high-tech firm Mscape partnered with practically 20 robotics firms, together with Unitree, Fourier and iFlytek, for a full-chain ecosystem for expertise improvement, product deployment, situation testing and business operations.
Twin meets discuss up sci-tech assist
NEOTECH 2026 and the Grand neoBay Innovation and Technology Ecosystem Conference was held final month in Minhang District to advertise trade change and multi-tiered capital assist for science and expertise enterprises all through their life cycle.
Ten excellent revolutionary firms and 10 expertise innovators have been named to the 2025 Grand neoBay High-Quality Science and Technology Innovation Enterprises & Entrepreneurs Influence List.
Nearly 120 representatives from authorities departments, expertise and innovation enterprises, universities and analysis institutes, monetary establishments and skilled service platforms attended the immersive and interactive occasion.
Participants mentioned methods to foster new-quality productive forces, high-quality regional technological innovation and improvement and start-up progress.
Meanwhile, eight sub-funds of the Grand neoBay Science and Technology Innovation Source Fund have been launched.
They goal biopharmaceuticals, synthetic intelligence, superior manufacturing, future power and mind science absolutely aligning with the area’s key industrial improvement priorities.