In 2022, the transaction volume of technology contracts exceeded 80 billion yuan, ranking the first in the province.
The financial investment in science and technology was 23.11 billion yuan. The annual output value of new & high-tech industries was 2287.46 billion yuan with a 4.7% growth from last year, accounting for 52.4% of the total of industries above designated size.
2022 witnesses 9 new national-level manufacturing individual champions and 122 national specialization and new "little giant" enterprises，exceeding one quarter of the province. 10 enterprises were recognized as unicorn companies in Jiangsu and 185 as unicorn cultivation companies in Suzhou, making the total of 299 in an accumulative manner. 801 enterprises were titled gazelle enterprises, 5,531 were newly recognized as new & hightech enterprises. The number of new & high-tech enterprises within the validity period was 13,473, leaping to 4th place for the first time in the nation. The number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises surpassed 20,000 for the first time, reaching 22,300. The construction work of "one district and two centers" is in progress. More is done to improve the layout of a batch of significant innovation platforms. To date, 225 R&D institutions have been approved at national and provincial levels. Suzhou Taihu Photonics Center was set up as well as 13 innovation consortiums including high-power semiconductor laser. The National Advanced Technological Transformation Center in the Yangtze River Delta and the National Advanced Functional Fiber Innovation Center were launched to fully enhance the industrialization of original and leading scientific and technological achievements. The "Deep-time Digital Earth(DDE)" international big science program have been launched.
"Loan for Tech SME" has achieved the complete coverage within the whole city. "Tech SMEs Loan Pass" solved loans of 11.987 billion yuan for 2540 enterprises throughout 2022, up 42.5% over the previous year.
Zhangjiagang, Changshu and Kunshan passed the inspection for the first batch of national innovative county (city).
