On August 21, representatives from dozens of enterprises, universities and research institutes attended the meeting held by the Bureau of Science, Technology and Information of Guangzhou Municipality, to learn the full spirit of General Secretary Hu Jintao's important speech during his inspection tour in Guangdong.

During the meeting, the scientific personnel blueprinted Guangzhou's transformation of economic development pattern demonstrating that it is driven by innovation. In particular it is propelled by the "dual innovations" of technologies and development patterns; pursues integration of personnel, knowledge, technologies and capitals; constructs innovation clusters; promotes globalization of resources, researches on cutting-edge technologies and the development of high-end industrial values; and fosters strategic rising industries and "high-level" industrial transformation.

It is also learnt that vigorous efforts will be put on implementing the 100 scientific innovation projects under 8 main subjects; developing a batch of major innovation platforms; cultivating and introducing a batch of personnel for establishing innovation teams; supporting a batch of innovation-oriented enterprises; implementing a batch of major scientific innovation projects featuring cooperation among enterprises, universities and research institutes; making breakthroughs in the research of key common technologies; developing a batch of strategic rising industries; upgrading the capacity of independent innovation; and promoting the construction of the mechanism of modern industrial development.