By Mao Xinhui
On November 14, the 2023 (17th) Entrepreneurship Week and Global Entrepreneurship Week China Station (referred to as Entrepreneurship Week or GEW) kicked off in Yangpu. The Yangpu District Innovation Index 2.0 Report (referred to as "the Report") was released. According to the report, Yangpu's comprehensive innovation index score for 2022 was 340.0, an increase of 8.6% from the previous year (with 2013 as the base year, benchmark value 100). This demonstrates a continual strengthening of innovation elements, an improving innovation ecosystem, enhanced strategic innovation capacity, and expanding innovation brand strength and influence.
The report reveals that in 2022, Yangpu District had a total of 92 enterprise technology centers, up 12.2% year-on-year, ranking first among central urban districts. There were 10 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology enterprise incubators, including 5 national-level incubators. The number of high-tech enterprises reached 1,223, a 10.8% increase year-on-year, maintaining the top position in the central urban area.
The digital economy has become a key engine for Yangpu's economic growth. By the end of 2022, nearly 7,000 digital economy enterprises had gathered in the district, with the digital economy accounting for over 30% of the district-level fiscal revenue and over 50% of the revenue. The software and information technology service industry, led by the digital economy, has maintained double-digit growth for many years. In 2022, the revenue of above-scale software and information service enterprises increased by 13.9% year-on-year, higher than the city's average.
Yangpu's digital economy strength stems from its cluster of leading internet companies, which act as "chain leaders" in the industry. These top companies have strong aggregation power, driving the settlement of emerging enterprises and gradually perfecting and strengthening related industrial chains. Top new economy companies such as Meituan, ByteDance, Bilibili, JD Dada, Xiaohongshu, and UCloud have rooted themselves in Yangpu, fostering collective growth and laying a solid foundation for the development of the digital economy industry.
In the future, Yangpu will further activate innovation as the "primary driver", optimize the innovation environment in all dimensions, and create a "tropical rainforest-style" innovation ecosystem.