The "100 Experts Development Zone Tour" of 2020 Nantong Jianghai Talent Entrepreneurship Week was held in Nantong Economic and Technological Development Area (NETDA), Nantong, Jiangsu province, Nov 6.
The event invited experts and scholars from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing University and 25 other domestic universities and scientific research institutes, hundreds of doctoral students, and 47 well-known enterprises, such as Zhongtian Science and Technology Co Ltd and Chinese travel agency Ctrip, to discuss business plans for innovation, cooperation and development.
At the opening ceremony, Tang Liang, a member of the Party working committee of NETDA, welcomed outstanding talents from home and abroad. He also expressed hope that more "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" talents would learn more about the technology and development zone.
Since the beginning of 2020, NETDA has introduced 30 science and technology entrepreneurship projects, and reached 46 industry-university-research-application cooperation projects with Zhejiang University, Nantong University and other colleges and universities in the Yangtze River Delta region, with a total cooperation amount of 24.8 million yuan ($3.78 million).
The NETDA Free Trade Zone got the original go-ahead, on Jan 3, 2013, from the State Council, for a 5.29-sq-km area, in two parts.
Suzhou-Nantong science & technology industrial park
Equipment manufacturing industrial park
Urban-rural commercial zone
Nengda central business district
New materials industrial park
Medical treatment & health industrial park
Sci-tech industrial park
Precision machinery industrial park