Beijing Fangdi Economic Development Research Institute and Zhongguancun Innovation and Development Research Institute released the Zhongguancun Index 2022 in Beijing on the 21st. The Zhongguancun Index, which has been released for 11 consecutive years, has always been known as the "barometer" of the development of China's high-tech zones and high-tech industries. The latest Zhongguancun Index's main indicators have steadily improved, especially the innovation leading index and the mass entrepreneurship and innovation ecological index. Behind it, Zhongguancun enterprises are more prominent as the main body of innovation, and the research and development expenses of enterprises will increase from less than 100 billion yuan in 2012 to 460.02 billion yuan in 2021; The proportion of research and development expenses in total revenue increased from 3.9% to 5.5%. The research results show that as Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongguancun Demonstration Zone") focuses on original innovation and tackling key core technologies, a batch of leading original achievements have emerged, and the scientific and technological innovation level has been significantly improved. In 2021, the innovation leading index of Zhongguancun will be 45.7 higher than that of the previous year, and the innovation and entrepreneurship ecological index will be 64 higher than that of the previous year, among which the achievement transformation and incubation index will grow strongly. In the past year, the construction of a number of strategic scientific and technological forces, such as national laboratories and new research and development institutions, has been accelerated, and all three national laboratories have been put into operation; Nine new research and development institutions, including the Beijing Institute of Quantum Information Science, the Beijing Brain Science and Brain like Research Center, and the Beijing Yanqi Lake Applied Mathematics Research Institute, have expanded the prospective layout of frontier fields and key technologies. At present, Zhongguancun's financing and innovation pattern is accelerating to take shape. Centering on the fields of intelligent manufacturing, artificial intelligence, hydrogen energy, etc., various research institutions in Zhongguancun have set up innovative consortia to build a tackling model of integration of government, industry, university, research and application. Among them, the leading enterprises of science and technology in Zhongguancun Demonstration Zone took the lead to form the first 3C intelligent manufacturing consortium in China with 20 innovation entities, including 12 upstream and downstream enterprises, 8 colleges and universities. It will break through the core technologies such as the assembly of soft parts in the field, form an independent intellectual property rights and technology system, and fill the gaps in the fields of "platform+module" intelligent core equipment of the domestic 3C industry intelligent production line. Zhongguancun Enterprises, together with upstream and downstream enterprises, Tsinghua University and other colleges and universities, set up an all hydrogen energy consortium to open up the upstream and downstream of the hydrogen energy industry chain and build the first full stack solution supplier of fuel cell commercial vehicles in China. Zhongguancun Enterprises, together with the Intelligent Industry Research Institute of Tsinghua University, released the world's first open-source vehicle road collaboration data set, providing decision-making support at three levels: front integration, feature level integration and rear integration for automatic driving, and increasing the safety of automatic driving. In the past year, Zhongguancun Demonstration Zone also focused on building an international platform for scientific and technological innovation exchange and cooperation, strengthening international contacts, and expanding international resource docking channels. The Zhongguancun Forum was held at a high level, attracting nearly 400 foreign guests from more than 40 countries and regions around the world, and further enhancing the global influence of the Zhongguancun Demonstration Zone. With the continuous improvement of the ability to gather global high-end resources, the number of returned overseas students and foreign employees in Zhongguancun Demonstration Zone will reach 66000 in 2021, up 2.6% year on year. In 2021, the actual foreign investment in Zhongguancun Demonstration Zone will reach 44.2 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of more than four times. (Outlook New Times)