After the total economic output exceeded 30 trillion yuan last year, the GDP of the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta reached 7.4 trillion yuan in the first quarter of this year, accounting for about 25% of the national total. Behind the eye-catching data is the fact that new productive forces, as new driving forces, have become a guiding indicator for comprehensive social development, and it is also a vivid reflection of the new development concept on the highland of the Yangtze River Delta. From the new exploration of cross-border data circulation to the innovative scale of the foreign trade industry, and then to the continuous emergence of cutting-edge technologies... Recently, at the 2024 Yangtze River Delta Regional Leaders Symposium held in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, many entrepreneurs and scholars lamented that since it was officially elevated to a national strategy in November 2018, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta has achieved multiple breakthroughs. Nowadays, the integration development of the Yangtze River Delta has entered the "second five years". In the new stage, institutional innovation and technological innovation closely echo each other, and the "concerto" of high-quality integration development in the Yangtze River Delta is playing louder and louder. Taking the lead in exploring cross-border data flow and building a "model room" for new quality productivity, covering fields such as intelligent connected vehicles and biopharmaceuticals, involving 11 scenarios such as cross-border production and manufacturing of intelligent connected vehicles, clinical trials and research and development of pharmaceuticals, and more than 600 fields divided into 64 data categories... Recently, the general data list and supporting operation guide for cross-border data in the Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone were officially released, which quickly attracted high attention. "Cross border data circulation is an important component of global digital economy governance, which not only helps domestic enterprises participate in international competition, but also creates a good business environment for multinational enterprises' development and development in China. It will further promote the deep integration of domestic industries into the global industrial and supply chain value chains, accelerate the upgrading of traditional industries, the growth of emerging industries, and the cultivation of future industries." Wu Qi, Executive Director of Wuxi Digital Economy Research Institute, said that the series of explorations in the Yangtze River Delta have important value. Not only cross-border data flow, but also the Yangtze River Delta is accelerating the exploration of more value from data, and promoting pioneering efforts in multiple fields. Recently, Zhuji Media Group in Zhejiang Province successfully completed the entry of educational data assets into the balance sheet, with a data asset entry amount exceeding one million yuan. This is also the first time that data assets in the education sector have been entered into the balance sheet nationwide; The number of products officially listed on the Shanghai Data Exchange in 2021 has exceeded 1700, and the total trading volume in 2023 exceeded 1.1 billion yuan. Data, invisible and intangible, is known as the "oil" of the digital economy era. Qian Xiao, Director of the Urban Digital Transformation Department of the Shanghai Data Bureau, said that as an immeasurable new production factor, data is becoming a key content in the digital economy era. Based on and driven by data, a broad and profound digital industrial revolution is accelerating in the Yangtze River Delta. Looking west from Lingang in the east, the construction of the data center cluster in the Yangtze River Delta integrated demonstration zone is in full swing. Among them, the power center building of Wujiang Computing Power Dispatch Center has completed its roof sealing, and the construction site is lined with large tower cranes, engineering machinery roars, transportation vehicles shuttle back and forth, and construction workers are busy with work; In addition, the first phase of Ukede Shanghai Qingpu Data Center has achieved application scenarios such as "promoting to the east and training to the west", "computing to the east and west", and "storing to the east and west". Recently, the domestic thousand card cluster of the intelligent computing center has also been put into operation. Shao Zhiqing, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that from cloud computing and big data to artificial intelligence and the metaverse, the importance of data and computing power has become increasingly prominent in the development of the digital economy. The construction of a national computing power hub node in the Yangtze River Delta will help build a development pattern of "coordinated and radiating computing resources across the entire region" in the Yangtze River Delta region. The data center cluster of the Yangtze River Delta Integrated Demonstration Zone is one of the eight computing power hubs of the "East West Calculation" project and an important part of the "Yangtze River Delta Digital Trunk Line". In recent years, this digital innovation development belt originating from Qingpu, Shanghai, relying on the main corridor of the G50 expressway, is blossoming in multiple places, driving regional coordinated development. Taking Huawei as an example, we have established Huawei Qingpu R&D Center and Shanghai Huawei Digital Energy Technology Co., Ltd. in Qingpu District, Shanghai; In Wujiang District, Jiangsu Province, Huawei (Wujiang) Industrial Internet Empowerment Center was established to jointly build an ICT talent island in the Yangtze River Delta Integrated Demonstration Zone with local universities; In Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province, we are working together with Minshi Group to build a benchmark for intelligent manufacturing "lighthouse factories" and build a "China Software International Yangtze River Delta New Data Application Innovation Center"... The layout of integrated high-quality development is accelerating. Since the beginning of this year, the overall foreign trade situation in the Yangtze River Delta region has been improving, with the scale of foreign trade reaching a new high and advantageous production capacity rapidly stabilizing. According to statistics from Shanghai Customs, the total import and export value of foreign trade in the Yangtze River Delta region reached 5.04 trillion yuan in the first four months of this year, reaching a historic high with a year-on-year increase of 5.6%, accounting for 36.5% of the total import and export value of the country. Among the top ten cities for exports, the Yangtze River Delta occupies 5 seats. The scale of foreign trade has reached a new high, concentrated in the numbers, which is a growth of "innovation high" and extends to social production and life, but the connotation is much richer. Behind the "innovation high" lies industrial upgrading and advantageous products as support. If it is a business habit developed by our parents over the years to make whatever orders customers come for, then joining cross-border e-commerce platforms, establishing brands, and creating popular products ourselves are the "three fires" that young entrepreneur Wu Jinsong took over. "Previously, when we received overseas orders, we basically only did one size fits all, without considering the needs of segmented markets. It wasn't until 2022 that we discovered that customers in different regions have different requirements for styles, styles, and colors." Wu Jinsong comes from Yiwu, Zhejiang. Sports protective equipment products have been in the family's business for over 20 years. Unlike the past where blind people touch elephants, through cross-border e-commerce platforms such as SHEIN, he began to understand the more flexible feedback from overseas markets and continuously adjusted product sizes and improved technological content. As a result, the company gradually achieved "easy operation", from monthly sales of tens of thousands of yuan at the beginning to monthly sales exceeding 2.8 million yuan recently. "China is far ahead in foreign trade service technology and platforms, and local governments' awareness of crisis and development is also strong." Zeng Gang, Dean of the Urban Development Research Institute of East China Normal University and Lifetime Professor of Regional Economics, said that from the perspective of export commodity structure, the Yangtze River Delta region is gradually climbing up the value chain. This is not only the result of policies such as "Silk Road e-commerce", but also the inevitable trend of regional industrial upgrading and the inevitable choice to cope with international market competition. Behind the high level of innovation, there is also a continuous stream of institutional innovation as a guarantee. In March this year, 60 containers of China Europe freight trains loaded with polypropylene plastic particles entered the Nanjing Comprehensive Bonded Zone (Longtan area). This batch of goods will be stored, sold, and distributed within the comprehensive bonded zone, marking the official implementation of the "China Europe freight train+bonded" import model, which was first launched in Jiangsu Province. Different from the traditional cargo distribution mode of China Europe Express, this mode eliminates unloading, customs clearance and other links, and directly extends China Europe Express to the Comprehensive Bonded Area, effectively reducing the pressure on corporate tax funds, and significantly reducing the costs of manual loading and unloading, bonded warehousing and other costs. Behind the innovation, there is a continuously optimized business environment as the foundation. In the foreign trade structure of the Yangtze River Delta region, private enterprises play an important role. In the first quarter, private enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta imported and exported 1.98 trillion yuan, accounting for more than half of the total foreign trade import and export value in the region. Zhejiang Quzhou caviar accounts for one-third of the global production; Danyang, Jiangsu produces over 400 million pairs of lenses annually, accounting for approximately 75% of the national and 40% of the global production; Huangqiao Ancient Town in Taixing, Jiangsu Province produces 70% of the national and 30% of the global violins... Recently, the hidden "local specialties" of the Yangtze River Delta have entered the public eye, making some previously unknown county towns important pivot points connecting the global economy and culture. In the view of Xu Pengfei, the Secretary of the Board of Directors of Sturgeon Technology, the world's largest caviar supplier, the company's ability to become a global leader is closely related to the continuous optimization of the business environment and the cultivation and growth of the private economy in the Yangtze River Delta. "We are a foreign trade oriented enterprise and often encounter problems such as unfamiliarity with foreign market laws and regulations and insufficient coordination. In response to this, the government often organizes relevant training, holds symposiums, and even on-site office work to help us contact and communicate with overseas regulatory agencies, and solve problems in the shortest possible time.". The cutting-edge R&D is accelerating to meet the breakthrough, and the "concerto" of scientific innovation is playing louder and louder. From the sequins of nail polish, to the base film of solar photovoltaic backplane, to the lithium battery diaphragm on new energy vehicles... A film with a thickness of less than half a hair is not only the focus of the international competition for new materials, but also determines the production cost and development quality of the domestic new energy industry. Recently, the first phase of the Hengli Yangtze River Delta International New Materials Industry Base, headquartered in Suzhou, Jiangsu, has fully put 12 production lines into trial production. The project produces 470000 tons of high-end functional polyester film annually. After the base is fully operational, it is expected to achieve an annual sales revenue of 20 billion yuan, which is expected to break through the bottleneck of the domestic high-end functional polyester film industry. Overcoming the bottleneck technology and accelerating the emergence of cutting-edge technologies is not only the incubation and catalysis of the increasingly mature market mechanism in the Yangtze River Delta region, but also the effect of further deepening industry university research cooperation. Attracting dozens of domestic industry enterprises to crowdfund over 14 million yuan through the crowdfunding research model, conducting large-scale wind turbine blade and wing family Reynolds number aerodynamic tests with tens of millions of levels, providing key test data support for industry common technologies; Through the "unveiling and leading" mechanism, leading enterprises are encouraged to "set questions and mark papers" to drive collaborative research and development among industry, academia, and research. This helps Shanghai Fuhong Hanlin Biotechnology Co., Ltd. connect with East China University of Science and Technology to conduct research on "key technologies for the localization of antibody drugs". At the National Technology Innovation Center in the Yangtze River Delta, joint research and development within the region is being promoted, and innovation in industry, academia, research, and application is no longer "isolated". Liu Qing, Director of the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center, said that as a comprehensive national technology innovation center approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology and jointly built by Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center has implemented more than 100 major industrialization projects in Jiangsu and Shanghai, completed 13 projects and obtained market financing through research and development. Multiple technologies and products have successfully filled domestic gaps. The industrial chain alliance plays an important role in promoting technological breakthroughs. The latest news from the recent meeting of the Yangtze River Delta Entrepreneur Alliance showed that after the previous establishment of 14 industry chain alliances, the Yangtze River Delta Entrepreneur Alliance has also established 5 industry chain alliances, involving energy storage and safety, green and low-carbon, and the automotive aftermarket. Previously, the Yangtze River Delta Superconducting Industry Chain Alliance integrated domestic superconducting technology forces, overcame technological difficulties, and achieved the world's first 35 kV superconducting cable project with a length of over 1.2 kilometers to be electrified and operated; The Yangtze River Delta Smart Retail Service Industry Chain Alliance promotes the cooperation between member enterprises and Tencent Smart Retail, byte Tiktok e-commerce, Pinduoduo e-commerce, etc., and further promotes the application of smart retail service technology in the Yangtze River Delta. Various scientific and technological innovation collaboration mechanisms are also constantly composing "concertos". Among them, the Yangtze River Delta technology resource sharing service platform has gathered 27 regional internal medicine research facilities, over 46000 large scientific instruments, and more than 3100 service institutions; More than 3000 enterprises have applied for the Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Coupon, with a total application amount of over 200 million yuan and a redemption amount of over 76 million yuan. Zeng Gang believed that the Yangtze River Delta has always been one of the highlands of China's reform and innovation. Targeting the "extreme, middle, and extreme", constantly seeking breakthroughs and innovation are the endogenous genes of this hot land. Nowadays, under various mature institutional frameworks, the Yangtze River Delta is continuously absorbing various social resources to enrich its development momentum, laying a solid foundation for local economic development and also contributing to the high-quality development of the country