![[CCTV Xinwen Lianbo] Celebrating 40 years of reform and opening up | Shenzhen Comprehensive Cell Bank, an innovation support platform for the health industry](/_astro/4-4-800x480.C4dffoTy_Z1qGlAe.webp)
Shenzhen is a vanguard of reform and opening up, and over many years its innovation and reform have remained at the national forefront. From a small fishing village 40 years ago to today's international metropolis, Shenzhen — with the courage to "carve out a way through" — has created a miracle in the history of world industrialization and urbanization. It has not only rapidly transformed itself, but has also played an important role as a window and demonstration in driving reform and opening up across the country, accumulating successful experience in exploring the path of socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed the need to vigorously implement an innovation-driven development strategy, accelerate the improvement of innovation mechanisms, and comprehensively advance technological innovation, enterprise innovation, product innovation, market innovation, and brand innovation, accelerating the translation of scientific and technological achievements into real productivity and pushing for the close integration of science, technology, and the economy.
The life and health industry is one of the important directions of Shenzhen's scientific development and a key area for driving the next round of industrial transformation and upgrading in our city. Seizing the opportunities of future industries, launching the life and health industry cultivation plan early, gaining the initiative in development, and creating sustainable industry competitiveness are key to achieving leapfrogging, sustained, and innovative development.
The Shenzhen Comprehensive Cell Bank, as part of Shenzhen's life and health industry infrastructure, provides a solid scientific research base and technology reserve for the development of the life and health industry. Through the new "Comprehensive Cell Bank + Regional Cell Preparation Center" cell-industry development model, it has provided cell preparation services and cell-resource preservation services on par with international standards to tens of thousands of citizens.
Cell resources of various tissue origins and types have become indispensable in today's biomedical field. The preservation of cell resources is a forward-looking endeavor that stands at the leading edge of the times. Building a Comprehensive Cell Bank to collect and preserve cell resources from multiple sources, providing disease cell lines for new drug R&D, establishing technical standards, specifications, and an information-based management system for cell-resource collection and storage, and providing fundamental support for our city's life and health industry — all of this has enormous practical and societal value.
