Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Number of high-tech firms in OVC ranks 4th in country

Updated: 2018-01-05 




Torch High Technology Industry Development Center, owned by the Ministry of Science and Technology, recently published a list of identified high-tech companies in 2017.



A total of 721 companies in East Lake High-tech Development Zone (Optics Valley of China), Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province, were on the list, representing a year-on-year growth of 48.97 percent.


The number also accounts for 31.68 percent and 56.33 percent of high-tech companies identified in Hubei province and Wuhan city, respectively.


Until now, 1,851 companies in Optics Valley of China have been identified as high-tech companies, ranking fourth among the country’s high-tech zones, following Beijing's Zhongguancun Science Park, Shanghai's Zhangjiang High-tech Park, and Shenzhen High-tech Zone.


The newly-identified high-tech companies in the zone are mainly in fields such as electronic information technology, new materials, the high-tech service industry, biology, and medical technology, and 48.03 percent of the companies are in the field of electronic information technology.


Most of the newly-identified companies in the zone are small and medium-sized enterprises, which have realized the transformation of 6,044 scientific and technological achievements over the past three years.
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Optics Valley of China [Photo provided to China Daily]

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