High-tech Zone (Binjiang) strives to build the first town of financial technology in China.
Release date: November 6, 2018
The reporter learned from the Development and Reform Bureau of High-tech Zone (Binjiang) yesterday that as a national independent innovation demonstration zone, High-tech Zone (Binjiang) quickly responded to the call of “Hangzhou to become the first city of national digital economy”, fully supported the financial services and innovation of Qiantang River financial harbor, empowered the industry with digital power, and made efforts to build a financial technology town into the first town of national financial technology.
It is reported that the town is located in the center of high-tech zone (Binjiang), with Binsheng Road in the north, Times Avenue in the east, Dongxin Avenue in the west and South Ring Road in the south. The planned land area is about 4..4 square kilometers. When completed, it will form a development pattern of “One Heart, One Belt, Two Points and Three Districts”. “One Heart” takes the financial technology industry center as the development core of the town, “One Belt” takes Jiangnan Avenue as the axis to create a production-city integration development zone, “Two Points” as the town public service node and technology and finance service node, and the three districts are the town core area, industrial incubation cluster area and industrial development potential area.
In the future, the financial technology town will cultivate an industrial ecosystem covering business incubation, enterprise growth, industrial agglomeration and cross-border integration, promote the deep integration of network information technology and finance, attract high-end elements such as technology, talents and capital to gather and integrate, support financial technology enterprises to innovate and start businesses, guide the development of new financial technologies, new products, new services and new models, and form an integrated development model integrating new technologies, new finance and new industries.
“To build a financial technology town, focus on technology.” Jiang Li, deputy director of the Development and Reform Bureau of the High-tech Zone (Binjiang), said that the comprehensive advantages of technology, talents, capital and environment in the High-tech Zone (Binjiang) are obvious, and dozens of emerging financial service enterprises such as Alibaba, Netease, Hangzhou Huawei, Xinhua III, Hang Seng Electronics, Xinyada, Netsheng business treasure, Lianlian Yintong, Yunpeng Intelligent and Chuanshanjia have gathered, covering payment and clearing, peer-to-peer lending. “The future development of the town will focus on four aspects, namely, breaking through key technologies of financial technology, providing leading products of financial technology, expanding innovative services of financial technology, and building financial technology industrial clusters.”
“To make industrial clusters strong” is the consistent development concept of High-tech Zone (Binjiang). Zhan Min, Party Secretary of High-tech Zone (Binjiang), said, “Let finance do better.” At present, the High-tech Zone (Binjiang) has set a “small goal”, that is, by 2020, the accumulated investment in fixed assets will be more than 3 billion yuan in three years, and the business scale of financial technology will exceed 20 billion yuan, making it a technology source, service export place and innovation leading area for Hangzhou to build an international financial technology center; By 2025, the business scale of financial technology will exceed 50 billion yuan, making it the world’s leading financial technology innovation and entrepreneurship cluster.
(Source: Hangzhou Daily)