At 100th anniversary of Tsinghua University and also the beginning of the "re-start-up" of Foshan hi-tech zone, in order to implement the Agreement on Full and Strategic Production and Research Cooperation between the People’s Government of Guangdong Province and Tsinghua University, RITS drew a blueprint for the science and technology incubation system in Foshan high-tech zone. In August 1st 2012, the RITS Leaguer Foshan Science Park was founded in the core district of the hi-tech zone, simultaneously stepping into a new stage of its construction. The park enjoys a status of Tsinghua’s international innovation base on production and research; is supposed to introduce both domestic and overseas high-end human resources and project construction platforms. RITS will firmly rely on Tsinghua University, make the most of its previous experiences and integrate valuable resources from home and abroad. Within the park a science and technology innovation system will be established with endeavor, involving research and development, high-level training programs, venture investment and international cooperation, to shape it as a science park that highlights international cooperation in South China, It will provide technological innovation service for Foshan high-tech zone to build an Intellectual-based Golden Valley.
Leaguer Foshan Science Park has a total planning area around 430,000 square meters, with a gross direct investment of about 1.8 billion RMB. It takes less than 30mins’ drive from city centers of Guangzhou and Foshan. The park is located at the convergence of Guangzhou-Sanshui expressway and the west line of Foshan’s rounding town highway and lies in core of the Foshan hi-tech zone, within the specified region for technology enterprise headquarters and research & development centers. The whole construction plan of the park includes technology enterprise headquarters, international technique innovation centers, incubators, higher education training centers, international exchange centers, talent apartments, commercial facilities and so on.
Foshan has a solid foundation of national emerging industries and private sectors and plays a leading role in the development of strategic emerging industries in Guangdong. The “re-start-up” of Foshan hi-tech zone is based on a higher stage and a new beginning of the internationalized innovation and development. The technology innovation system of RITS programs for Foshan hi-tech zone and invests to build the Leaguer (Foshan) Science Park. It will introduce international high-level training resources and venture capital institutes from both home and abroad. It will also focus on and develop the electronic information industries through constructing public technology platform, bringing in technical innovation teams and international technology transfer. Besides, it will develop industrial chains and technical innovation service chains in fields such as new generations of mobile communications and digital televisions, internet of things, new biological materials and OME.