Lingang New Area releases "1+4" industrial policy to build a world-class cutting-edge industrial cluster

Two months after the inauguration of the Lingang New Area, the Lingang New Area Management Committee issued a number of policies to promote industrial development and a number of support measures for the concentrated development of four key industries: integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and aerospace (referred to as the "1+4" industrial policy), focusing on enhancing scientific and technological innovation and industrial integration capabilities, improving the overall regional industrial level, creating a world-class cutting-edge industrial cluster with key core technologies as the breakthrough point, and accelerating the establishment of an open industrial system with international market competitiveness.

Local officials said that among the several measures on integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and aerospace released this time, the Lingang New Area focused on the core links of the industrial chain, the pain points faced by enterprises, and the current "domestic gaps" and "bottleneck" technologies, and designed and formulated policies with the promotion of industrial development and scientific and technological innovation as the core.

The Lingang New Area will support units and projects in areas including integrated circuit design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, equipment and materials, electronic design automation (EDA), and supporting services.

We will focus on supporting integrated circuit companies with significant influence at home and abroad to set up R&D centers and invest in industrialization projects in the new area, and support multinational companies in the integrated circuit industry to set up offshore R&D centers and manufacturing centers. At the same time, we will regularly collect product demands in the integrated circuit field, select high-quality projects, and offer rewards to global task-taking teams, using the greatest support and methods to help integrated circuit companies and scientific research institutions grow and develop in Lingang.

Specifically, the 10 measures include supporting the priority layout of major projects, supporting the research and development of core technologies and products, supporting the large-scale development of enterprises, supporting the purchase and research and development of EDA software, supporting IP purchase, supporting testing and verification, supporting tape-out, supporting promotion and application, and supporting productive electricity use.

According to Chen Jie, full-time deputy director of the Lingang New Area Management Committee, the policies released this time have three main characteristics: wide coverage, high precision, and strong support.