B[By 2030, the country’s gross marine product will exceed 13 trillion yuan] On September 22, the State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences with the theme of "Starting the 15th Five-Year Plan" to introduce the situation of promoting the safe, efficient and sustainable use of natural resources. The relevant person in charge said that the new marine productivity has broad prospects and will strengthen the development, utilization and protection of the ocean and promote the high-quality development of the ocean economy. It is expected that by 2030, the country's gross marine product will exceed 13 trillion yuan, and the radiation driving capacity and development and opening level of the northern, eastern, and southern marine economic circles will be further improved. In addition, it is expected that by 2030, the added value of China's marine biopharmaceutical industry will exceed 130 billion yuan, an increase of 30% from 2025; offshore wind power installed capacity will double to 100 million kilowatts. B[National Natural Science Foundation of China Yangtze River Delta Basic Research Joint Fund Major Special Project Launched] On September 12, at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Pujiang Innovation Forum held in Shanghai, a major special project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Yangtze River Delta Basic Research Joint Fund was officially launched. This is an important measure after the expansion of the Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center to the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) International Science and Technology Innovation Center. It is understood that the major projects of the joint fund will be oriented to the major strategic needs of the Yangtze River Delta region, support application-oriented basic research, strengthen "industry-proposed questions, science and technology answer questions", and explore a collaborative mechanism of "unified funding, joint question-proposing, joint management, and joint answers to the same questions" among three provinces and one city. The major joint fund projects will give full play to the guiding role of the National Natural Science Foundation, integrate the Yangtze River Delta's superior resources, support cross-regional superior scientific research forces to jointly carry out basic research oriented to industrial needs, provide basic support for key core technology research in key industrial fields, and accelerate the cultivation and development of new productive forces. B[Promoting the high-quality development of the embodied intelligence industry, the Yangtze River Delta G60 cities released a co-construction initiative] On September 4, the launching ceremony of the 2026 Zhejiang Province “Quality Month” event and the 9th Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Quality Standards Conference were held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. It was learned from the conference that in order to gather consensus between the upstream and downstream of the industry chain, build a quality standard co-governance pattern for industry-university-research-application collaboration, and promote the high-quality development of the embodied intelligence industry, the "Yangtze River Delta G60 Cities Embodied Intelligence Industry Quality Standard Collaborative Construction Initiative" and the "2025 Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Quality Standard Evaluation Index System Research Report" and other results were released at the meeting. The "Yangtze River Delta G60 Cities Embodied Intelligent Industry Quality Standards Collaborative Construction Initiative" proposes: adhere to quality first and build a solid foundation for industrial development; jointly build a standard system and open up industrial collaboration interfaces; collaborate on data governance and consolidate the intelligent training base, etc. Among them, in terms of adhering to quality first, we focus on the co-construction of standards systems, encourage enterprises to actively participate in the formulation of national standards and industry standards, and further promote the collaborative implementation of standards in basic general, core technologies, components, complete machine systems, industry applications and other fields. (CCTV News)
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