Since the beginning of reform and opening up, Beijing has taken the lead in implementing improvements to science and technology by taking Zhongguancun and the construction of a science and technology innovation center as the starting point.

In 1988, China's first high-tech zone, the Beijing New Technology Industry Development Pilot Zone (the predecessor of Zhongguancun Science Park), was established. 

Since then, Zhongguancun has been the starting point for technological innovation, the source of original innovation, and the main position of independent innovation.

On the main platform, Beijing is making every effort to build "three science cities and one hi-tech area", forging the Zhongguancun Science City, Huairou Sicence City, the Beijing Future Science Park and the Beijing Economic and Technological Area into an original innovation source and world-leading technological innovation highland.

The continuous progress of reform has shaped Beijing's good environment. Beijing has ranked first in China's business environment assessment for two consecutive years. 

The World Bank's "Global Business Environment Report 2020" shows that Beijing's business environment ranks 28th in the world and contributes to the significant increase in China’s business environment ranking.

In addition, Beijing is also striving to create an environment more suitable for talent innovation and development, and to attract more top talents and teams for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Currently, 40 percent of academicians and hundreds of thousands of scientists and engineers from the “two academies” have gathered in Beijing, climbing the technological peak of independent innovation; 10,000 foreign talents and more than 20,000 overseas returnees have also arrived to pursue their dreams.

By 2020, Beijing had won about 30 percent of the national science and technology awards, and the number of its invention patents per 10,000 people is 10 times the national average. 

In 2020, the city's technology contract transaction volume reached 631.32 billion yuan ($97.6 billion), twice that of 2014, ranking first in the country. 

In the past five years, the transaction volume of technology export contracts to Tianjin and Hebei has doubled, and is now 2.53 times that of 2014.

The "Global Science and Technology Innovation Center Index 2020" jointly issued by Springer Nature and Tsinghua University shows that Beijing ranks fifth among the global science and technology innovation centers, and the "Global Innovation Index 2020" released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that Beijing ranks fourth for global science and technology clusters and has become a science and technology innovation center with global influence.