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Focusing on the key aspects of developing new forms of productive capacity, Zhejiang Daishan Economic Development Zone relies on technological innovation as its main driving force. It concentrates on critical areas such as the transformation of research results, industrial upgrading, and the attraction of talent. By establishing a comprehensive innovation support system, promoting industrial advancement, and improving the innovation ecosystem, the zone continuously generates new momentum for development, thus achieving improved quality and efficiency in economic growth. Activating the “source of vitality” for new-quality productivity: The competition in the realm of new-quality productivity ultimately boils down to a competition among talents and innovative entities. Starting from the entire process of attracting, cultivating, retaining, and utilizing talent, the Daishan Economic Development Zone promotes the deep integration of the industrial chain, innovation chain, and talent chain, thereby creating a positive cycle in which industry attracts talent, and talent drives industrial development. The Daishan Economic Development Zone focuses on aligning the talent strategy with the industrial chain. In response to the development needs of key industries such as green petrochemicals and new materials, it has refined the model of \"companies identifying challenges, the government providing support, platforms addressing these challenges, workshops conducting tests, and the market providing evaluations.\" It established the Daishan High-Performance Synthetic Materials Innovation Center, and has actively partnered with universities and research institutions such as Peking University, the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Ningbo Institute of Materials Science to carry out joint research projects and work together on overcoming key technical challenges. It also attracts innovative talents through flexible recruitment methods. The Daishan Economic Development Zone emphasizes the central role of enterprises in innovation, supporting them in taking the lead in establishing various innovation platforms. It actively fosters a collaborative innovation ecosystem that combines enterprises, platforms, universities and research institutions, as well as upstream and downstream industrial chains. This approach has enabled companies such as Runhe Catalyst and Chenguang Motor to set up enterprise research institutes at the municipal level or above, and it has also helped many other companies to be included in programs for structured development. As a result, a favorable environment for integrated innovation among large, medium, and small enterprises, as well as for coordinated development of upstream and downstream industrial chains, has been created. To overcome the \"last mile\" in the transformation of research results, Daishan Economic Development Zone focuses on that critical stage in which scientific and technological achievements move from the laboratory to the production line. It works to remove institutional and systemic barriers, strengthen the supply of necessary resources, and establish a support system that covers the entire innovation cycle. In response to the development needs of strategic emerging industries such as green petrochemicals and new materials, Daishan Economic Development Zone has built and efficiently operated the Daishan New Materials Research and Testing Base of the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to high standards. It has explored the implementation of innovative financial support mechanisms such as \"pilot-scale production loans\" in order to effectively bridge the gap between research and development and industrialization. As a result, 12 pilot-scale projects, including those related to high-performance polyimides and polycarbosilanes, have been introduced, and industrialization projects for scientific and technological achievements such as bio-based HMF on a ten-thousand-ton scale have been realized. The Daishan Economic Development Zone actively builds high-level public service platforms, and advances with high standards the development of public technology service platforms such as the Daishan Branch of the New Materials Testing and Evaluation Platform and the Key Laboratory for Inspection and Testing Technologies of Large-scale Petrochemical Facilities. It strives to create an open, shared R&D ecosystem with comprehensive functions, thereby enabling enterprises to get started quickly and make rapid iterations. In addition, the Daishan Economic Development Zone makes use of the leverage effect of funds by establishing innovation funds to channel private capital toward early-stage scientific and technological achievements, thereby supporting the transition of such achievements from ideas to actual products. To date, it has provided targeted support for projects such as Tangneng Technology and Shibei'er. To drive the \"renewal and upgrading\" of traditional industries, Daishan Economic Development Zone relies on its industrial foundation and available resources to enhance industrial competitiveness through high-end development, empower industries with intelligent technologies to create new advantages, and guide them in a sustainable direction via green practices, thereby facilitating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Focusing on key industries such as green petrochemicals and new materials, Daishan Economic Development Zone has implemented a \"chain leader system\" for industrial chains, developed maps of these chains, and strategically attracted a number of \"chain-leading\" enterprises as well as key supporting projects, thereby gradually gathering innovative companies such as Runhe Catalysis and Tangneng Technology. Runhe’s catalytic chromium-based fixed-bed propane dehydrogenation catalyst has seen its first domestic industrial application; all its technical parameters have surpassed international leading levels, breaking through those key technical barriers ； Tangneng Technology was the first to achieve a technological breakthrough in establishing production lines capable of manufacturing bio-based HMF on a thousand-ton scale; the high-purity HMF products it produces have received unanimous praise from customers both at home and abroad. In addition, the Daishan Economic Development Zone encourages enterprises to make use of technologies such as the industrial Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence to support the digital transformation of their production processes, thereby improving production efficiency and product quality. A number of intelligent workshops, such as the Chenguang Motor Intelligent Workshop, have been established, and the coverage rate of digital transformation among enterprises of a certain size in the zone exceeds 90% ； Advance the circular transformation of industrial parks, strengthen planning and management, improve supporting infrastructure, carry out special environmental protection initiatives, encourage enterprises to adopt clean production technologies, and continuously reduce industrial emissions.