Moving west along the Wenyi Road from downtown Hangzhou, you will find yourself in a science and technology corridor. Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang University Zijingang Campus, Alibaba, Naukograd, Zhijiang Laboratory, Qingshanhu Technopole, Zhejiang A&F University… This science and innovation corridor in the west of Hangzhou has become a highland of entrepreneurship and innovation and a gathering place of high-end talents in Hangzhou.
Since the end of 2016, the Zhejiang Provincial Government has made a decision to build the Hangzhou West Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, which is about 33 kilometers long and has an average width of about 6 kilometers.The innovative Wildlife corridor with a total planning area of about 224 square kilometers and an area of 8 kilometers is expected to be the “Silicon Valley of China”.
Innovation is the key to fundamentally unlocking the lock of economic growth. From the map, the shape of the Hangzhou West Science and Technology Innovation Corridor is like a key. It is this “key” that opens the door to innovation driven development in the west of Hangzhou. In the first half of this year, the Great Corridor achieved 593 added value of high-tech industries.100 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 41%.0%, high-tech industries account for 91% of the total industrial added value.0%, corporate tax 212.400 million yuan, an increase of 37%.4%, all indicators continue to be among the top in the province and the city.
A laboratory that gathers the ‘strongest’ brains
Since the official unveiling of the Zhijiang Laboratory on September 6th last year, there has been a “fixed star” in the West Hangzhou Science and Technology Innovation Corridor. A year later, this laboratory, which was then known as “born with a golden key”, had taken a solid first step and achieved many progress and results.
“At the beginning of the establishment of the laboratory, there were only three or five people. Today, we have a team of more than 300 people.” Zhu Shiqiang, director of Zhijiang Laboratory, introduced that in the past year, Zhijiang Laboratory has introduced more than a dozen chief scientists and direction leaders led by Turing Award winners, academicians at home and abroad.
The lineup of the first academic advisory committee of the laboratory is even more “heavyweight”: Lu Yongxiang, former president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, served as the director, and introduced 18 domestic academicians, as well as 12 international academicians and experts from Canada, the British Royal Academy of Engineering, Hamburg Academy of Sciences in Germany and other countries, including Professor Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University, the winner of the Turing Award. It is these “strongest brains” that together become the think tank of Zhijiang Laboratory.
Led by this group of luxurious scientists, Zhijiang Laboratory has made solid strides in scientific research projects over the past year. On September 5, supET, a national industrial Internet platform jointly created by Zhijiang Lab, Alibaba Cloud and Zhejiang Central Control, made its debut at the “2018 (Third) China Industrial Internet Conference Jiaxing Summit”.
Zhu Shiqiang stated that Zhijiang Laboratory is currently actively planning independent major scientific research projects, actively participating in national and local scientific research projects and plans, proposing major scientific installations, and constructing a batch of high-energy research and testing platforms. As of August 2018, Zhijiang Laboratory has hosted 3 national level research projects, 5 provincial level research projects, and 4 national/provincial/municipal level projects are currently under review.
At the first anniversary event of Zhijiang Laboratory this month, the first five research centers in the field of artificial intelligence at Zhijiang Laboratory were officially established. The five research centers are intelligent robot research center, artificial intelligence algorithm research center, network large space search research center, intelligent chip research center and network health Big data research center. Among them, two academicians of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Zhang Dan and Gu Jianjun, jointly lead the Intelligent Robot Research Center. Professor Jia Yan of the National University of Defense Technology, Professor Li Xiaolin of the University of Florida, Professor Xu Zhiwei of the School of Oceanography of Zhejiang University, and Professor Li Jinsong of the School of Biomedical and Instrument Sciences of Zhejiang University respectively serve as the heads of the other four centers.
A small town that realizes its entrepreneurial dream
When “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” become a high-frequency phrase on the streets and alleys of Hangzhou, people find that Hangzhou has not only become a tourist paradise due to the beauty of the Xizi scenery, but also because it is extremely rich.Innovation and vitality make it a paradise for entrepreneurship.
In the northeast corner of Hangzhou Dream Town, there is a startup incubator called “Liangcang”. Because this place has always been a granary in history, as soon as several founders came together, they took the opportunity to name the incubator “Liangcang”, hoping that “Liangcang” would become a “big granary” for batch storage of excellent startup companies.
Over the past three years, this place has truly become a granary for entrepreneurship – last year alone, “Liangcang” incubated hundreds of entrepreneurial teams, with over 60 incubating teams. So far, the financing rate of the entrepreneurial team of “Liangcang” has reached as high as 40%. What is even more commendable is that many “big cows” are gradually emerging from the “Liangcang”, continuously incubating star projects such as starting crowdfunding, bong, Shulan Technology, Quanzhi Technology, hover camera, Emqtt, Xiaoxiang Shopkeeper, E Xiuge, Ghost Foot Seven, Singularity Cloud, and Deep Knowledge Artificial Intelligence.
Some so-called mass entrepreneurship spaces are just ‘second landlords’ who have changed their names, “said Zheng Xunda, the founder partner of the incubator.” Liangcang “insists on not being a’ second landlord ‘and prioritizes services for entrepreneurs, helping them improve their abilities, polish their products, and improve their business models, continuously attracting excellent entrepreneurs to settle in.
During the weekly “Liangcang Three Person Tour” event, the incubator will invite three mentors to share and discuss topics in specific fields, helping entrepreneurs improve their products and streamline their business models. The “CEO” small dining table on Tuesdays is a time for CEOs of various projects to gather and enhance understanding, allowing for chemical reactions between incubated projects. There is also a monthly “Liangcang Open Class” that organizes successful entrepreneurs and investors to share their experiences with entrepreneurs. Each activity can attract over 500 entrepreneurs to participate. The biannual “Liangcang DEMODAY” is to help incubated enterprises connect with investment institutions, making it easy for excellent projects to obtain investment… “Let entrepreneurship no longer be lonely, make entrepreneurship simpler, and make entrepreneurship more fun.” Zheng Xunda said that Liangcang’s mission is to help the entrepreneurial team build “Tianxia Liangcang” and “Heaven Silicon Valley” together..2.5 billion yuan and successfully created a 3A level scenic spot; The AI town aims at the current “new wind” of world scientific and technological innovation, completes the preliminary preparation in the shortest time, and refreshes the “speed of Technopole”. At present, it has attracted 17 high-end research and development institutions and 293 innovation projects, including Zhijiang Laboratory, Ali Zhejiang University Frontier Technology Research Center, Baidu (Hangzhou) Innovation Center, China Uzbekistan Human Industrial Intelligence Industry Center, and its supporting facilities are increasingly improved, and it has been included in the list of provincial characteristic towns; The Nanhu Innovation Town covers major projects such as the Zhijiang Laboratory Park and Alibaba Damo Academy, and will actively explore future urban development and construction. Currently, basic work such as planning and research, land acquisition and demolition is being carried out. In addition, the construction of Wuchang Wetland Research and Venture Capital Town and Healthy Town has been orderly promoted.
Technopole with “black technology”
At the Yunqi Conference just concluded last week, a new retail AI technology service enterprise in Naukograd launched a digital intelligent retail experience hall, which refreshed users’ offline shopping experience.
At the event, the company named Singularity Cloud launched the Singularity Mirror, which became the “king of popularity” of the entire venue, attracting many exhibitors to queue up and experience. Just stand in front of the magic mirror and brush your face. Based on Singularity Cloud’s self-developed facial detection and recognition technologies, the magic mirror will measure your age and personality tags, recommend your favorite products, and give merchants red envelopes, promoting easy consumption on smart devices such as Singularity Magic Cabinet..82% of the latest results ranked fifth globally in the 1 million level facial recognition test, achieving rapid facial comparison within 200 milliseconds. In the field of facial recognition, enterprise research has been at the forefront of the world.
In the Naukograd (Haichuang Park), Singularity Cloud is one of the representatives of many Internet start-ups that stand out relying on its core technology. Established in 2011, with a planned area of 123.1 square kilometer, with a key construction area of 49.The 5 square kilometer Naukograd has now become a high-end talent gathering area, system reform pilot area and independent innovation demonstration area in Zhejiang Province, and has been listed as one of the four Naukograd in China by the Organization Department of the Central Committee and the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.
In 2017, the Naukograd continued to firmly promote the development strategy of “talent leadership, innovation driven, industry city integration”, and the annual revenue of enterprises in the core area reached 3609.500 million yuan, completed tax revenue of 220%.700 million yuan, 185 fixed assets investment completed.4.2 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 60% since its establishment.1%, 48.5% and 29%.2%, the number of registered enterprises has exceeded the 10000 mark for the first time. In the first half of this year, the revenue and tax revenue of enterprises in the core area of Naukograd reached 2032 respectively.500 million yuan and 208.900 million yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 45% respectively.9% and 32%.7%.
“The three indicators of industrial added value, service added value and high-tech added value have broken the 100 billion mark, realizing the leap forward development of the construction of the Great Corridor, and becoming the pioneer and pacesetter of the innovative development of the province.” The relevant responsible person is very proud to say that the Great Corridor of Science and Technology Innovation in the west of the city has ranked first in the comprehensive evaluation of the provincial cluster for two consecutive years.
At present, the science and innovation corridor in the west of the city is implementing the development strategy of “Made in China 2025” and “Internet plus”, highlighting the high, refined and cutting-edge industrial development direction, focusing on cultivating and introducing a number of enterprises and projects that can lay the direction of future industrial development, and forming an industrial system of “one leading integration+six key cultivation points”. We have successively signed contracts to introduce 61 industrial projects worth over 100 million yuan, including cloud computing industrial park, China Mobile industrial park, Nami Technology, Yichen Automobile, Cainiao headquarters and smart industrial park project, unicorn industrial park, etc., becoming one of the regions with the highest investment heat, the largest development intensity, and the fullest development potential in the province. In the first half of the year, two unicorn industrial parks began construction and opened, with over 40% of unicorn enterprises in Hangzhou gathering in the main corridor.
Facing the future, the Hangzhou West Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, which combines high-end talents and high-quality projects, will undoubtedly become an important pole leading the innovative development of the province.
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