Development support policies for 7 preferential industries, 3 commonality policies to promote industrial development

Innovative research and development institution: up to 100 million yuan of operational subsidy by installment (including 20 million yuan of settlement award, 30 million yuan of research facility development, 20 million yuan of operational subsidy, and 30 million yuan of research finding transformation); up to 40 yuan per square meter per month for the self-used rented office space for 5 years; a one-off subsidy of 800 yuan per square meter for the purchase of self-use office space; a subsidy equaling to 30percent of the actual investment for a joint laboratory or a joint R&D center; 80,000 yuan of research grand for a doctoral researcher, and 50,000 yuan for a postgraduate researcher; a cash prize equaling to 5percent of the science and technology service business; a one-off subsidy equaling to 50percent of the received investment amount from a social venture capital fund; 150,000 yuan of funding support for the hosting of an international or national conference or forum; public service platform supporting fund with an amount equaling to 100percent, 70percent and 50percent of the support grants offered by Chinese central government, Guangzhou provincial government and Guangzhou municipal government.

Science and technology financing: up to 30 million yuan of subsidy, with proportion of share holding below 20percent, for the duration no more than 8 years, withdrawal by the break-even principle from the Nansha venture capital guiding fund (with its phrase-one amount exceeding 500 million yuan), towards high-growth high-tech enterprises that are set up by innovative and leading talents; a cash prize equaling to 5percent of the actual investment amount for an innovation and entrepreneurship project in Nansha; up to 5 million yuan by installment to a back-up enterprise ready to be listed; up to 20 million yuan of shared credit-risk loan for 2 year for each high-tech enterprise from a partnership bank from Nansha's science and technology credit risk pool; 100percent subsidy to the loan interest amount that has exceeded the benchmark interest rate for a a high-tech SME seeking loan from a commercial bank.

Research finding transformation: patent application fee subsidy of 1,000 yuan per item in China, with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan being included; 8,000 yuan per item for a patent application being authorized for a domestic invention; 1,000 yuan for a utility model patent, 500 yuan for a design patent, 12,000 yuan for PCT patent, 40,000 yuan for a patent for an invention in the US, Japan and the EU; and 10,000 yuan for a patent for an invention in any other country; 2,000 yuan of subsidy for each patent for 5 times to a first-time patent applicant; 30,000 yuan of subsidy to a frequent patent applicant for every 30 patent applications; up to 150,000 yuan of subsidy to a patent applicant who has won outstanding patent award in the provincial or municipal level competition; a one-off subsidy of 150,000 yuan to an enterprise that has passed the certification from the Rules of Enterprise IPR Management; 300,000 yuan of funding support each year to a patent-right protection and assistance agency; 200,000 yuan of subsidy to a professional intellectual property service institution whose annual business revenue exceeding 2 million yuan; up to 500,000 yuan of subsidy to a core invention patent applicant, whose technology has materialized as a high-tech product in the next 3 years; one-off subsidy of 1 million yuan to a military technology being transformed for civilian use.

III Advanced manufacturing and building industry

Settlement award: 5 to 10 million yuan of settlement award for a foreign-funded advanced manufacturing enterprise with paid-in registered capital exceeding 10 million USD; 5 to 12 million yuan of settlement award for a domestic advanced manufacturing enterprise with paid-in registered capital exceeding 50 million yuan; 5 to 10 million yuan of subsidy to a building enterprise that has succeeded obtaining first-grade or top-grade qualification.