) Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology stated in Lanzhou on June 7 that the Lanbai Autonomous Zone is a strategic platform deployed by the country to implement innovation-driven development in underdeveloped areas in the west. The "One Road" initiative creates strategic support for opening up a new highland to the west, and shoulders the strategic task assigned to Gansu by the state to stimulate innovative vitality through deepening reforms.

On the same day, the Lanzhou Baiyin National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone Construction Promotion Meeting was held in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province. Li Meng, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, read out the State Council's "On Approving the Construction of National Independent Innovation in Lanzhou and Baiyin High-tech Industrial Development Zone" Approval of the Demonstration Area”.

Lin Duo, Secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, said that the state’s approval of the construction of the Lanzhou Baiyin National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone is another golden sign of “national” status that Gansu has obtained. We must build the self-created area into a scientific and technological system reform pilot area, a support area for industrial quality improvement, a talent resource gathering area, a pioneer area for east-west cooperative development, and a leading area for ecological civilization construction.

Relying on the construction of Lanzhou High-tech Zone and Baiyin High-tech Zone, Lanbai Innovation Zone has basically formed a four-in-one industrial incubation chain of "Maker Space + Incubator + Accelerator + Industrial Park". Technology-based enterprises have reached 4,674, including 29 key enterprises in strategic emerging industries. Technology and finance are deeply integrated, and 11 venture capital sub-funds with a total scale of 5 billion yuan have been established.

The meeting here revealed that Gansu regards the construction of self-created zones as the "top leader" project, and clarifies that Lanzhou and Baiyin are the responsible entities, with reasonable allocation, breaking through institutional barriers, and forming distinctive and dislocated development. , a vivid situation of collaborative innovation.