On the morning of October 13, Zhou Guohui, Director of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and his entourage conducted special research on scientific and technological innovation in Hangzhou’s West Lake District and Yuhang District, and held discussions with maker representatives in Dream Town to listen to opinions and suggestions. Zhou Guohui stressed that it is necessary to seize the historical opportunity of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, further optimize the environment, improve services, and better realize the innovation and entrepreneurship dreams of young people.
In West Lake District, accompanied by Zhang Guojing, chairman of West Lake Group, Zhou Guohui and his entourage experienced the test drive of new energy pure electric vehicles produced by West Lake Digital Source Company, inspected the company’s photovoltaic power storage equipment, intelligent charging piles, new energy electric vehicles and charging facility data application center, etc., and listened to the relevant reports of the enterprise leaders. Zhou Guohui fully affirmed the measures of Westlake Electronics Group to accelerate its strategic transformation, take the initiative to seize the opportunity of new technology and industrial revolution, and vigorously develop new energy electric vehicles. Zhou Guohui pointed out that the current support of the national and provincial party committees and governments for new energy vehicles is unprecedented, and he hopes that enterprises will seize the rare opportunity, better play the role of industrial first-mover advantage and the core support of key enterprise research institutes, further increase investment in research and development, accelerate business model innovation, increase market development efforts, and strive to seize a new high ground for the development of the new energy vehicle industry.
In Yuhang District, Zhou Guohui and his entourage inspected the Holley Group Exhibition Center, Runwan Maker Center, and the Dream Town Yuansu World Patent Database. Zhu Zhenwei, member of the Standing Committee of the Yuhang District Party Committee and deputy mayor of Yuhang District, Zhao Xikai, deputy director of the Management Committee of the Future Science and Technology City, and the heads of Buy Good Car, Car Ant, Copper Dispenser, 59store, Wanxi Accelerator, and Hangzhou News Seventh Space attended the meeting. After listening to everyone’s speeches, Zhou Guohui fully affirmed the rapid construction speed of the dream town, the rapid gathering of makers, the rapid growth of the settled entrepreneurial entities, and the great influence in the country, and required to seize the important opportunities of the construction of the Hangzhou Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone and the Hangzhou West Innovation Corridor, further enhance development confidence, give full play to the characteristics and advantages of the dream town, and rise a new upsurge of mass entrepreneurship and innovation; Seriously summarize the experience of the construction and development of the dream town, analyze the existing problems, accelerate the improvement of supporting facilities, optimize the environment, improve services, and strive to build a paradise for public creation in accordance with the requirements of “livability, work and tourism”; Further innovate the management system of the town, use the Internet and modern community concepts to promote the co-construction, sharing and co-governance of makers, and improve the management level; It is necessary to further promote the agglomeration and integration of financial capital, talents and innovative resources, give full play to the role of the dream town construction fund, effectively create a better environment, and let young people better realize their dreams of innovation and entrepreneurship.
It is reported that the dream town set sail in August last year under the background of the province and city planning to lay out characteristic towns and vigorously cultivate the information economy.The planned area of the core area is 3 square kilometers. Over the past year, in accordance with the development idea of “government guidance, enterprise subjects, gradual integration and gradual use”, Dream Town has followed the development wave of “Internet +” and seized the opportunity of the era of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation”, and has gathered more than 4,000 Internet entrepreneurs and more than 380 entrepreneurial projects, of which 43 projects have raised more than one million yuan. At the same time, Dream Town has also attracted 89 venture capital financial institutions with a management capital of 31.9 billion yuan.