Hangzhou Yuhang strives to build a leading area for the national “innovation and entrepreneurship” demonstration city
Published on: June 24, 2019
On June 13th, the 2019 National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week was launched in Yuhang, Hangzhou. In the main venue, Dream Town, scenes from science fiction films are becoming a reality, and their creators are entrepreneurs active in Yuhang. The “main force” ranked first in the net inflow of talents nationwide has formed a “strong force” for entrepreneurship and innovation. The mobilization meeting for the “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” demonstration city leading area announced the establishment of “Yuhang Innovation and Entrepreneurship Day”, making June 13th a festival for makers and “innovation and entrepreneurship” enterprises every year. The slogan of building a national “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” demonstration city leading area was also confidently proclaimed. The five major industrial platforms of Chengcheng, Liangzhu New City, and Qianjiang Economic Development Zone have signed the “Global Innovation” target task book, and Yuhang will be laid out from top to bottom to build the entire area into a large incubator.
Not only that, Yuhang will also make efforts throughout the region to build major scientific research institutions such as the Zhijiang Laboratory, Alibaba Dharma Institute, and Zhejiang University High Gravity Large Science Facility.
This year, Yuhang aims to create 30 incubation carriers of various types and add 1.75 million square meters of physical space for innovation and entrepreneurship.
By 2021, Yuhang will add 5.8 million square meters of various innovative and entrepreneurial spaces, 40 maker spaces above the city level, 25 city level enterprise incubators, 5 various industrial innovation service complexes, 39000 new small and micro enterprises, and over 650 new national high-tech enterprises; More than 1600 overseas high-level talents and over 90000 college graduates will be added, and 13650 sets of talent housing will be constructed (leased); The scale of venture capital funds has reached 2.8 billion yuan, and the scale of angel investment guidance funds has reached 800 million yuan; More than 44350 new patent applications and 23500 patent authorizations have been added, and the proportion of research and development expenditure in the whole society equivalent to the total GDP of the region has reached 4.0%.
(Source: Zhejiang Online – Qianjiang Evening News)