Simultaneous Launch of “Hong Kong-Beijing Sci-Tech Achievement Transformation Innovation Ecosystem” to Build a New Hub for Hong Kong-Beijing Innovation and Technology Collaboration
Hong KongMay 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The “Hong Kong ASTRI-Beijing Achievement Transformation Center,” a collaboration between the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) and the Hong Kong-Beijing Science and Technology Research Institute, was officially inaugurated on May 11 at the Ziguang Science and Technology Park in Tongzhou, Beijing. Simultaneously, the “Hong Kong-Beijing Sci-Tech Achievement Transformation Innovation Ecosystem” was launched. This inauguration marks a key pragmatic measure to deepen the “integration of advanced manufacturing and modern services,” unlock the circulation of domestic and international innovation resources, and cultivate new productive forces, signaling a new phase of full-chain, industrialized, and normalized Hong Kong-Beijing innovation and technology collaboration.
Anchoring the Strategic Direction of “Integration of Advanced Manufacturing and Modern Services” to Build a Core Platform for Bidirectional Sci-Tech Transformation Between Beijing and Hong Kong
The Hong Kong ASTRI-Beijing Achievement Transformation Center focuses on deeply connecting industrial needs with technological innovation, fully leveraging the differentiated resource advantages of the two cities to create a sci-tech innovation hub pattern that “links Beijing and Hong Kong, connecting the world.”
Li Xianxia, Standing Committee Member of the Tongzhou District Committee and Executive Deputy District Mayor, stated in his address that as the capital’s subsidiary center, Tongzhou District has always embraced high-end sci-tech innovation resources and gathered high-quality talent teams with an open mind, providing solid support and a first-class ecosystem for the establishment and deep development of various research platforms and innovation institutions. This unveiling marks a new starting point for cutting-edge research forces to take root in the fertile soil of the subsidiary center and empower regional innovation development, inevitably accumulating new momentum and opening a new chapter for local sci-tech innovation development and the on-site transformation of scientific achievements.
Promoting the Industrialization of Technology and the Technologization of Industry
Professor Engineer Li Huiguang, Chairman of the Board of ASTRI, stated that the “Hong Kong ASTRI-Beijing Achievement Transformation Center” is dedicated to promoting the transformation of key core technology achievements. It serves as an important platform for enhancing sci-tech innovation cooperation between Beijing and Hong Kong, realizing a complete service chain “from R&D innovation, pilot-scale testing, and incubation to industrial implementation,” accelerating the transition of more scientific achievements from the laboratory to market applications, and injecting new impetus into regional high-quality development.
He said: “Beijing possesses strong technological strength and industrial clusters, and is also a gathering place for central and state-owned enterprises. Hong Kong, on the other hand, has the unique advantage of ‘backing the motherland and connecting the world’ under the ‘one country, two systems’ framework. With their complementary strengths, we can promote the industrialization of technology and the technologization of industry. At the same time, it will help scientific achievements ‘go global’ to explore international markets, contributing to the nation’s development of new productive forces.”
Dr. Yu Xun, Chairman of the Hong Kong-Beijing Science and Technology Research Institute, stated in his address: “The mission of the Hong Kong-Beijing Institute is to fully leverage Hong Kong’s unique advantage of backing the motherland and connecting the world, comprehensively relying on Beijing’s strategic depth and industrial carrying capacity as an international sci-tech innovation center, to bridge the entire chain from basic research, technology transformation, to industrial application, and help the nation build a globally competitive sci-tech innovation system.”
Innovation Ecosystem Launched Simultaneously, Building a New Sci-Tech Innovation Paradigm Driven by Scenarios and Demand Pre-positioning
At the same event, the “Hong Kong-Beijing Sci-Tech Achievement Transformation Innovation Ecosystem” was officially launched. Centered on “demand-driven, collaborative transformation,” this ecosystem breaks the traditional “research first, application later” model of scientific achievement transformation. It emphasizes organizing innovation resources guided by scenarios, leveraging the advantages of central and state-owned enterprises in industry scenarios and resources, pre-positioning real market demands and industrial pain points throughout the entire R&D process, and fostering a virtuous cycle of “technology empowering industry, industry feeding innovation.”
Since its establishment in the capital’s subsidiary center, the Hong Kong-Beijing Science and Technology Research Institute has consistently focused on the national strategic deployment of “expanding capacity and improving quality,” continuously deepening collaboration between government, enterprises, universities, and research institutions. Its cooperation ecosystem now covers national strategic emerging industries such as aerospace technology, information and communication, energy and chemicals, advanced manufacturing, green and low-carbon, and financial technology, forming a new pattern of sci-tech innovation development featuring multi-actor participation, full-chain integration, and cross-domain synergy.
Concentrated Showcase of Cutting-Edge Achievements, Panoramic Display of Beijing-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Results
Simultaneously, the “Hong Kong ASTRI-Beijing Achievement Transformation Center Exhibition Hall” was officially opened to the public, showcasing benchmark results of sci-tech innovation integration between the two places. A batch of innovative achievements from ASTRI, targeting future industries and real-world application scenarios, were centrally displayed, including AI solutions, smart communication technologies, advanced chips, optical communication and system control, nano-innovation technology, and advanced materials. Concurrently, the Hong Kong-Beijing Institute’s layout and achievements in connecting international innovation resources, serving the capital’s industrial upgrading, and promoting collaborative innovation between central and state-owned enterprises and research institutions, focusing on key scenario directions such as “aerospace, land, sea, city, factory, park, digital, finance, energy, safety, health, medicine, and people,” were also systematically presented.
Rooted in the Capital’s Strategic Layout, Continuously Deepening Beijing-Hong Kong Sci-Tech Collaboration
In the future, the Hong Kong-Beijing Science and Technology Research Institute and the Hong Kong ASTRI-Beijing Achievement Transformation Center will continue to be rooted in the construction needs of Beijing as an international sci-tech innovation center, anchoring the direction of “integration of advanced manufacturing and modern services” and the development of new productive forces. By empowering industrial upgrading through technology services and driving technological innovation through industrial demands, they will inject sustained innovation momentum into the capital’s high-quality development and the nation’s modern industrial system construction.