Dongguan is a national innovative city in China and its R&D hit 4.1%, reaching the level of developed countries.

Songshan Lake Science City is the science and technology business card of Dongguan, and it has jointly built the GBA Comprehensive National Science Center with Shenzhen Guangming Science City, which is the fourth national science center in China.It has stunning views and China’s spallation neutron source, attosecond laser, and other large scientific equipment, among which the spallation neutron source is the fourth in the world and the only one in China, providing a strong research platform for China’s basic research and high-tech research in material science, life science, resources and environment, new energy, and other aspects.

At present, Dongguan has built the “four innovation systems” of source innovation, technological innovation, achievement transformation, and enterprise cultivation. At the top of the system, it has major scientific devices such as spallation neutron sources and advanced attosecond lasers as mentioned before. In the middle, it has 35 new research and development institutions, 1,839 engineering technology research centers and key laboratories, and 8 colleges and universities, bringing together a large number of scientific research talents. At the bottom, there are 170 specialized and sophisticated “little giant” enterprises, and over 10,000 national high-tech enterprises. 

Deploying in Dongguan, enterprises can not only combine Dongguan’s innovation foundation to better carry out scientific research in high-end intelligent equipment, new materials, new energy, biotechnology, and other aspects, but also rely on Dongguan’s perfect industrial chains and strong supporting production capacity, quickly realizing the industrialization of scientific and technological innovation results.