On May 26, it was announced that the Singapore and South Korea nodes of the Chengdu-Chongqing "Belt and Road" International Technology Transfer Center have been officially launched. This marks another expansion of the center's global innovation cooperation network following the inauguration of its Finland node in April. The total number of the center's overseas nodes has now increased to three.
The newly operational Singapore node is a joint initiative established by the Sichuan Technology Transfer Center, Tianfu International Technology Transfer Center, and Singapore's Aurigin Investment Group. The South Korea node was jointly built by the Sichuan Technology Transfer Center, Guanggu Chuang Coffee, and the Seoul Economic Promotion Agency of South Korea. Both nodes have established physical facilities—located at Singapore's One-North tech park and the M+ Campus in Seoul's Startup Hub, respectively—and are staffed with local professional technology transfer teams.
These nodes will focus on facilitating connections with various innovation resources in Singapore and South Korea, incubating startup projects, enabling cross-border technology transactions, supporting corporate international expansion, and jointly developing technology transfer service ecosystems. They aim to provide comprehensive, two-way technology transfer and commercialization services for Chinese, Singaporean, and South Korean innovation entities.
The physical launch of the Singapore and South Korea nodes signifies the formal extension of the Chengdu-Chongqing international technology transfer network deeper into Southeast Asia and East Asia. Relevant officials from the provincial science and technology department stated that the Chengdu-Chongqing "Belt and Road" International Technology Transfer Center will continue to enhance its platform functions. Using these nodes as links, the center plans to gradually build a global innovation cooperation ecosystem, attract more high-quality international innovation resources to Sichuan, and strive to become a key bridge for deepening international scientific and technological cooperation and a core hub for cross-border technology transactions in the region.