Leading national LED lighting industry player, Zhangzhou Lidexing Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., has achieved breakthroughs in key technologies such as highly reliable multi-protocol heterogeneous interconnection, generating economic benefits of 12.528 billion yuan over the past three years; global power battery giant, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), has conquered core technologies including energy storage battery systems, consistently maintaining a leading global position... The Fujian Provincial Government recently awarded the Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Prize, with 25 first-prize winning projects led or participated in by a group of industry leaders like Zhangzhou Lidexing and CATL, accounting for 83.3% of the total first prizes awarded. "These award-winning projects highlight the crucial supporting role of enterprises in the innovation chain, create substantial economic benefits, effectively boost the province's industrial upgrading, and also serve as a microcosm of Fujian's efforts to optimize the corporate innovation ecosystem," said a relevant official from the Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology. Recently, Fujian held its "first meeting of the new year" – the Provincial Conference on Optimizing the Business Environment, where the "corporate innovation ecosystem" was singled out as a key agenda item for the first time. The 2026 Fujian Provincial Government Work Report proposed supporting enterprises in establishing R&D institutions and participating in major scientific and technological攻关. Currently, Fujian is accelerating the implementation of the "Several Measures on Supporting Enterprises to Increase R&D Investment and Strengthen R&D Activities" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), aiming to further cultivate a "fertile ground" for enterprise innovation from aspects such as major scientific and technological攻关, major platform construction, credit support, and talent introduction and cultivation, allowing the momentum for innovation and creation to continually erupt and speeding up the construction of a strong private economy province.
Focusing on the "chain," the province supports leading enterprises in spearheading major scientific and technological攻关. Key industrial chain leader enterprises and leading enterprises play the role of "innovation leaders" within the industrial chain, promoting innovation level upgrades through collaborative innovation with other enterprises on the chain. The "Measures" propose supporting key industrial chain leader enterprises and leading enterprises in leading or participating in the implementation of provincial "unveiling the list and appointing the best"攻关 projects, provincial major science and technology special projects, and provincial key technological innovation攻关及产业化 projects. Enterprises that lead national major science and technology special projects and key R&D programs can receive a maximum subsidy of 10 million yuan per project. As a "chain leader" enterprise in the national-level specialized SME cluster for electronic components in Changtai District, Zhangzhou, Lidexing has deeply cultivated the IoT sector for many years, investing in and building the Lidexing IoT Technology Industrial Park, which has gathered nearly 30 core enterprises including component factories and bulk raw material suppliers, driving over 600 upstream and downstream enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and creating an electronic components industrial ecological "rainforest." Addressing the three core pain points of IoT large-scale application – "inability to interconnect, poor perception, and high cost" – Lin Youqin's team at Lidexing, with support from the Fujian Provincial Major Science and Technology Special Project, collaborated with Xiamen University, Star-net Ruijie, and other units to successfully突破 key technologies such as highly reliable multi-protocol heterogeneous interconnection and low-power multi-modal intelligent perception, building a core technology system with completely independent intellectual property rights. The project they led, "Key Technology R&D and Industrialization of Heterogeneous IoT and Intelligent Perception for Multi-Scenario Applications," won the first prize of the Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, with its成果 serving the Hangzhou Asian Games Athletes' Village and being widely applied in smart homes, control, and security fields. The company deeply participated in the formulation of the global authoritative IoT standard "Matter," contributing Chinese wisdom to promoting cross-ecological interoperability of devices and helping the company expand its business to over 60 countries and regions worldwide. A relevant official from the Major Tasks and Science & Technology Platforms Division of the Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology stated that Fujian will focus on major technical challenges urgently needed in key areas like artificial intelligence and energy materials, deeply implement new scientific research攻关 models such as "unveiling the list and appointing the best" and "horse racing," organize and implement a batch of major science and technology projects,突破 industrial "bottleneck" technical problems, and better support enterprises in "taking the lead" and "playing the leading role" in scientific and technological innovation. Currently, the province has successively突破 a number of major industrial key technologies, including the world's first automotive-grade, large-scale mass-produced sodium-ion battery and propane dehydrogenation catalysts.
Through forward-looking布局, the province aims to enhance the motivation for building major platforms. Scientific and technological innovation platforms are important carriers for advancing high-level sci-tech self-reliance and self-improvement and the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation. Addressing shortcomings such as the scarcity of large research institutes, universities, and major platforms, and insufficiently tight integration of industry, academia, and research, the "Measures" propose supporting enterprises in leading or participating in the creation of national and provincial-level scientific and technological innovation platform bases. Lead enterprises for newly approved national-level platform bases will receive a one-time reward of up to 10 million yuan. Support is also provided for enterprises to共建 joint laboratories with universities and research institutes, with eligible projects receiving up to 10 million yuan in post-subsidy. Global power battery giant, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), through continuous exploration, has achieved major technological breakthroughs in core materials and processes for energy storage battery systems. The company's project, "Key Technology and Application of 35kV High-Voltage DC Direct-Hanging Grid-Forming Energy Storage System," won the first prize of the Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. This benefited from Fujian's push for the Ningde Municipal Government to take the lead,依托 CATL in constructing the China Fujian Energy Device Science and Technology Innovation Laboratory (CATL Innovation Laboratory), gathering outstanding domestic and international teams for technical攻关. Relying on major scientific research platforms such as the National Engineering Research Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Technology and the CATL Innovation Laboratory, the company has established six R&D centers globally, with cumulative R&D investment exceeding 80 billion yuan over the past decade, building a team of over 21,000 R&D personnel, and holding a total of more than 50,000 patents and patent applications. In key links of the industrial chain such as battery materials, battery systems, and battery recycling, the company has further打通 the entire lithium battery innovation chain, realized core technological advantages and forward-looking R&D布局, and expanded applications to emerging scenarios like engineering machinery, ships, and aircraft, thereby comprehensively adapting to intense international market competition. "Building high-level sci-tech innovation platforms cultivates strategic scientific and technological力量 to厚植 new advantages," said a relevant official from the Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology. In 2025, Fujian will establish a new innovation laboratory in the marine field and the CATL Innovation Laboratory Green Supercomputing Center. The next step involves optimizing the management mechanism of provincial innovation laboratories, attracting industrial chain leader enterprises and leading enterprises to participate in the construction of innovation laboratories, strengthening collaborative攻关 on technical bottlenecks, reinforcing the dominant position of enterprises in scientific research investment, organization, and成果转化, and promoting innovation laboratories to become organizers, leaders, and implementers of industrial technology攻关.
By汇聚 resources, the province provides全链条 services to optimize the innovation ecosystem. As a major province for the private economy, Fujian is home to numerous active private enterprises. However, these enterprises also face challenges related to talent and funding shortages during the technological innovation process. How to respond? The "Measures" propose building a "Sci-Tech Finance Section"依托 the provincial pro-enterprise policy application platform, implementing an enterprise "innovation points system," simplifying the filing and risk compensation process for "Sci-Tech Loans," and implementing a "no-application, direct享受" premium subsidy for enterprise sci-tech insurance. Addressing the prevalent issue of information asymmetry between technology and finance, Fujian has innovatively built an "online + offline" factor allocation platform. On one hand, it took the lead in establishing a financing demand database for sci-tech innovation entities, incorporating high innovation points enterprises into the征集对象. On the other hand, it organizes special对接 activities like "Bank-Enterprise Hand-in-Hand Face-to-Face," acting as a matchmaker for enterprises, tech service agencies, financial institutions, etc., strengthening全链条, full-lifecycle services for sci-tech innovation, and guiding various innovation elements like government, industry, academia, research, and application to converge towards enterprises. A relevant official from the Science and Technology Resource Coordination Division of the Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology explained that through the linkage of "online + offline" platforms, the previous policy model of "flood-irrigation" is changed. Relying on the innovation points system enables "precise profiling" of enterprises, prioritizing high-points enterprises for inclusion in the sci-tech innovation relending candidate list, sci-tech project applications, and financial fund support targets, thereby promoting the free flow and efficient allocation of elements like technology, capital, and talent. Since 2025, Fujian has disbursed 7.684 billion yuan in "Sci-Tech Loans" through the construction of a dedicated financing demand database for sci-tech innovation entities. In the 2024 fiscal year, a total of 18,000 enterprises in the province enjoyed super-deduction of R&D expenses before tax exceeding 88 billion yuan, effectively reducing the innovation risk costs for enterprises and stimulating their enthusiasm and initiative for innovation. Additionally, the "Measures" also support enterprises in introducing and cultivating sci-tech talent, support enterprises in applying for national-level talent programs, and promote the "no-application, direct recognition"工作机制 for provincial-level high-level talents; it encourages and guides researchers from universities and research institutes to serve enterprises in forms such as science and technology特派员 and "science and technology vice presidents." The province is further improving its talent introduction and cultivation mechanism by implementing the "Talent Revitalizes the Chain" action and issuing a pilot scheme for expert groups for key industrial chains, initially selecting four industrial chains including bamboo and fluorine new materials for the pilot. Li Zhizhong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology, stated that in the new year, Fujian will closely follow the main line of "forging a new path in promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation," deepen the "full coverage and two enhancements" action for R&D activities in industrial enterprises above designated size, further improve the梯次 cultivation mechanism for sci-tech enterprises, build institutional mechanisms supporting comprehensive innovation and a favorable innovation ecosystem, guide and promote the convergence of more domestic and international innovation resources in Fujian, accelerate the advancement of high-level sci-tech self-reliance and self-improvement, and provide solid scientific and technological support for striving to advance the Fujian practice of Chinese modernization.
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