As of the end of 2022, Shanghai is home to 64 colleges and universities, 158 national level R&D institu.tions and 531Foreign lnvested R&D Centers. There were 178 academicians of the Chinese Academy oSciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) registered in Shanghai. Shanghai hasissued more than 378 thousand work permits for foreigners, of which approximately 71 thousancwere high-end foreign talents (Category A), accounting for 19% of the total. Shanghai ranks first in thecountry in the number of foreign talents and high-end talents

In 2022, Shanghai scientists have published 120 papers in the three major journals "Science", "Nature'and "Cell" accounting for 28.8% of the national total. Shanghai was also awarded 48 State Scienceand Technology Awards for the year of 2020, accounting for 17.5% of the whole country, more thar15% of the total for the 5th consecutive year and more than 10% of the total for the 19th consecutivevear. lt was the first time for Shanghai to be awarded first prizes in all three maior awards, which are theNational Natural Science Award, National Award for Technological lnvention, and National Award forScience and Technology Progress.

in 2022, the manufacturing sector of strategic emerging industries have achieved a total output valueof 1,740.686 billion RMB, an increase of 5.8% over the previous vear. Among them, the output valueof new energy vehicles sector has substantially increased by 56.9%.

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Total output ofthemanufacturingsector of strategicemergingindustrie1,740.686billion RMB

Strength Ranking of Shanghai Science and Technologylnnovation in 2022

Collectively, the global influence of Shanghai's International Science and Technolognnovation Center 1TIC) continues to rise and it has been ranked among the world.leading innovation cities.In the global "Best Technology Clusters" ranking, according to theWorld lntellectual Property Organization's latest Global Innovation Index report, Shanghai ancSuzhou, which are combined as one cluster for the first time, is ranked the 6th (in 2021Shanghai is ranked 8th as a cluster alone). Shanghai has been ranked in the top 10 for thethird yearin arow.

Main Science& Technology lndicators of Shanghaiin 2022

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Major Scientific and Technological Achievements in Recent Years

In recent years, Shanghai has made important contributions to several major national originalscientific and technological achievements, including China's deep-sea manned submersibleiaolong. Chinese Space Station. Five-hundreg-meter Aperture Spherical radio telescope iFASTDark Matter Particle Explorer Wukong,Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (GUESS) and China'sfirst domestically produced aircraft C919.

Participated in the release of the world's first " Black Hole" photo

The first monkeys cloned by somatic cell nuclear tran sfer

Eukaryotic cell with a single-chromosome were first created

The superintense ultrafast laser facility has realized to amplify laser output of 10 PaWatt, and of which its peak power of the pulse set a world record

China's domestically produced aircraft C919

china s deep-sea manned subm ersible fiaolong

Chinese Space Station

Five-hundred-meter perture Spherical radiotelescope(FAST)