ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, a platform co-founded by Zhejiang University and Hangzhou City in China’s new era, aims at deepening the strategic cooperation between a well-developed city and a top university. Endeavoring to be a world-class center leading future top sci-tech innovations, research missions and large-scale sci-tech infrastructures, the Center hopes to create a number of world-class basic discipline groups, an array of research infrastructures, a galaxy of scientists and innovation teams, a range of universal technology achievements of impact, innovative industrial clusters with world competitiveness, as well as a sound mechanism conducive to basic research, applied research and industrial development.