Nansha aims to host Greater Bay Area's national science center

A mobilization meeting on pushing forward the development of Nansha into a comprehensive national science center in the Greater Bay Area is held on April 8. [Photo by Liu Wei/gznsnews.com.cn]

Nansha Science City is set to be the site of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's global scientific innovation center, as well as the main location of a comprehensive national science center, officials announced during a mobilization meeting held on April 8.

Under the joint management of Guangzhou city and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nansha Science City covers a total planned area of 99 square kilometers. Five projects started construction in CAS's Mingzhu Science Park in November 2020.

Preparation work such as funding attraction, land use applications and project filing have been completed for three major scientific infrastructure projects. These include a dynamic wide scope hypersonic wind tunnel and some multi-scale autonomous observation facilities for extreme ocean dynamic processes. Pre-research for these projects started in August 2020.

The Nansha government has been working with CAS and the Guangzhou government since November 2018 to build the South Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou). Its ambition is to deepen the innovative and coordinated development of the Greater Bay Area and to turn the laboratory into a national-level core research base for marine science and a major technology platform.

The laboratory now has 47 high-caliber scientific research teams in marine science led by 17 teams of academicians from CAS and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.