ICV Tanks, a world-renowned scientific and technological consulting organization, recently released the "Global Future Industry Development Index 2022", ranking the global future industries comprehensively and systematically. Among them, Beijing ranks second in the world in the comprehensive ranking of "City of the Future" and ranks first in the index of scientific research facilities. In addition, around the evaluation of scientific research strength, among the top five indicators of scientific research institutions, Beijing, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Shanghai occupy three seats, among which Beijing ranks first in the indicators of scientific research facilities.
The report combines the two dimensions of scientific research strength and innovative enterprises to select the top 20 "cities of the future". There are five "Future Cities" in China, namely, Beijing, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shanghai, Hefei and Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou. In the ranking of innovative enterprises, the number of innovative leading enterprises, the number of unicorn enterprises and the number of annual patents in the field of "future industries" are quantitative indicators, and Beijing is also outstanding, ranking in the top five among the three indicators, especially the number of innovative leading enterprises.
Characteristics of future cities
"Future industry" is an industry that has a great impact on human production and life and plays a leading role in the whole social economy. It is forward-looking and subversive. With reference to relevant standards and definitions, ICV defines the annual "future industry" in 2022 as six major fields, namely: quantum information, green energy, robotics, hyperspace, advanced communication and biotechnology.
When analyzing the latest trend of the future industry, the index thinks that the future industry will become a new track for competition among big countries, and the technological development of major countries in the world is changing with each passing day, which will promote the future industry to gradually move towards application prospects. The epidemic situation in COVID-19 and the prominent digital divide have objectively accelerated the pace of industrial cultivation in the future. Looking forward to the future, future industries will not deviate from the direction of intelligence, sustainable development and life science, and countries will also introduce more powerful future industrial policies to promote the accelerated development of related industries.