A company focusing on processing corn has enjoyed extraordinary commercial success, shifting its business to the healthcare foods sector after making a technological breakthrough.
Of eight comprehensive innovation pilot areas nationwide, Chengdu in Sichuan province has become the largest contributor to China's latest move to deepen reforms. The State Council decided in September to promote 13 piloted reform measures across the country, five of them from Chengdu.
Chengdu is building out its international innovation and communication platforms, and is integrating into the global innovation system, according to local officials.
As a national central city, Chengdu in Sichuan province is building a modern industrial system that aims to become internationally competitive and play a leading role in regional development.
Leading academics from abroad - among them from Australia and South Korea - joined local distinguished scholars and government officials in a call to establish a medical school at Southern University of Science and Technology.
The Southern University of Science and Technology, or SUSTech, a public university in Shenzhen, was launched in 2011 as an experiment for China's higher education reform, and it has since made a world of difference.
It has been our observation that SUSTech has made remarkable progress over such a short period of time. This means the university is on the right track, and moving forward in its vision for 2020.
A new high-speed bullet train that started service in late September - linking Beijing and Shanghai and running at a maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour - was a watershed moment for the country, as well as a province at the heart of a host of change.
China's northeastern city of Changchun saw its first freight train depart for the German port of Hamburg last Friday.
As China is moving its industry up the global value chain, Jilin province, a traditional industrial center in Northeast China, has made marked progress in technological innovation, brand building and overseas expansion.
Jilin province's environmental campaign has given the Momoge National Nature Reserve - which is among the wetlands of international importance, especially as a waterfowl habitat - a new lease on life.
Innovation-driven projects are seeing a major boom in Sichuan province these days, in the wake of an array of reforms related to the ownership of scientific achievements and their commercialization, local officials said.
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