Not long ago, Hangzhou Metro Line 7 (Jiangnan Section) was officially opened. This purple underground “artery” is connected to Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport at one end and the core of Hangzhou’s river-hugging development such as Olympic Sports at the other. Its operation indicates that Xiaoshan has opened a new channel for the seamless flow of resource elements with the core area of Hangzhou.
On this “main artery”, a station called “Star Station” is particularly eye-catching.
Six years ago, it was still a “star village”, and there was not even a single bus around; Six years later, the “Star Village” withdrew from the historical stage, and the “Star Station” appeared together with Xiaoshan Information Port Town (hereinafter referred to as the Information Port Town), which has 3 subway lines and 17 bus lines.
Transportation has always been a cross-section of regional economic and social development, and the same is true of the information port town.
She was young. Since the completion of the first phase, this 6-year-old entrepreneurial paradise has been called the “youngest town” in Xiaoshan. Saying that she is young is not about the length of time she has been established, but about the more than 30,000 entrepreneurs here, and the average age of the makers is only 26.4 years old.
She’s surging. In just 6 years, she has become the first provincial-level characteristic town in Xiaoshan District, and has introduced and cultivated 5 unicorn enterprises, 16 listed companies, 65 enterprises with a valuation of over 100 million yuan, and 85 national high-tech enterprises, with an average annual growth rate of 249% in tax revenue, and more than 30,000 makers eagerly call the information port town “Xiaoshan Silicon Valley”.
Government-led, professionally operated
Industrial clusters burst out in parallel
The development of the digital economy has been followed in China, especially in Hangzhou. However, for a large and strong manufacturing area like Xiaoshan, the digital economy cannot copy the development experience of other places, and must combine its own industrial base and development stage, adapt measures to local conditions, and then carry out a late-mover first-come, first-come, first-come.
And this heavy responsibility fell on the first pioneers such as the information port town. At that time, the information port town had not yet been established, and Han Menglong, as the first “mayor”, in order to explore the entrepreneurial and innovative path with regional characteristics, carried a backpack and ran all over the excellent science and technology parks in the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. At the end of the three-month inspection, he proposed the town construction model of “government-led, enterprise-professional operation”, with “Internet +” and “artificial intelligence +” as the characteristic industrial positioning, and the goal is to build the information port town into a new engine driven by scientific and technological innovation and a demonstration area for the deep integration of industrialization and industrialization. “Facts have proved that this tone has laid the foundation for the current development trend of the information port town.” Han Menglong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Information Port Town, said: “During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Zhejiang and Hangzhou will build a comprehensive national science center and a regional innovation highland, and the government’s overall layout in the industry is very important, but flexible and fast marketization methods are also indispensable, which is exactly what the Information Port Town has been exploring in the past few years.” ”
The departure and return of WeDoctor, a famous digital health enterprise, has verified the correctness of the path selection of the information port town.
Back in 2009, WeDoctor’s predecessor, Register.com, left Xiaoshan out of demand for Internet talents. When the first phase of the information port town was completed, it sent a signal to the outside world that Xiaoshan would lay out the digital economy and enhance Xiaoshan’s attractiveness to the Internet industry. WeDoctor, who has a deep affection for Xiaoshan, did not hesitate, and the whole team returned to Xiaoshan and became the first batch of enterprises to settle in the information port town.
Over the past six years, WeDoctor’s thriving growth has been highly consistent with the trajectory of the vigorous development of the information port town. While the information port town has grown into the first provincial-level characteristic town in Xiaoshan, WeDoctor has grown from a company with a team of less than 100 people and a valuation of less than US$100 million to an Internet medical unicorn with more than 3,000 employees, a valuation of over US$10 billion, and an IPO preparation. From the initial one-story office space to the planned 146-acre international digital health center, the development speed is remarkable.
In the memories of Liao Jieyuan, the founder of WeDoctor,.Han Menglong often eats and chats with entrepreneurs including him in the canteen of the park, explores the needs of enterprises, goes out early and returns late every day, almost all year round, “The service awareness, service attitude and service concept of government leaders have been implemented throughout and have not changed.” ”
After the government-led selection of the track, the attraction projects should take the initiative, and the service enterprises should be more professional and down-to-earth, which is the development experience explored by Xiaoshan from the return and growth of WeDoctor. In just 6 years, the information port town has undergone a transformation from “0” to “1” to infinity, and the digital industry has shown a trend of cluster development.
Today, China’s Smart Health Valley, led by WeDoctor Group, has gathered more than 200 high-quality projects: Ascletis, a biotechnology company, Jianpei Technology, which uses digital imaging technology to help with new crown pneumonia screening during the epidemic, Midland Medical, the largest third-party nucleic acid testing agency in Xiaoshan District, Dolby Healthcare, which uses DOBI intelligent breast screening and graded diagnosis and treatment system to declare war on breast cancer, the number one “killer” of Chinese women, and Yunhu Technology, a one-stop primary medical testing service entity platform, etc.
In May 2017, iFLYTEK signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government. In the face of the various needs of iFLYTEK, the Xiaoshan District Government and the Information Port Town responded quickly at all levels, handled all matters in one stop, and worked together to promote the implementation of the project. It is also the high-quality service and the broad prospects of Xiaoshan’s artificial intelligence development that allow Xiaoshan to win advantages in the fierce competition, build nests and attract phoenixes, and open a new chapter in the development of Xiaoshan’s artificial intelligence industry.
·In November 2020, the Information Port was awarded the only national torch new-generation artificial intelligence characteristic industrial base in Hangzhou, further promoting the gathering of high-end resources.
In the past 6 years, these leading enterprises and high-quality projects have driven industrial agglomeration, laid the industrial cluster development model of one “smart port” and X “smart valley” in the information port town, and formed industrial clusters with distinctive characteristics such as China Smart Health Valley led by WeDoctor Group, Chinese Artificial Intelligence Valley led by iFLYTEK, China Smart Transportation Valley led by novelty points, and China Integrated Circuit Design Valley led by Hualan Micro, which further strengthened, supplemented and expanded the chain by attracting enterprises with enterprises, forming a “head enterprise + unicorn +”. Start-ups” are a high-quality ecology for the development of the whole industry chain.
The Bay Area Race Breaks the Old and Creates the New, and the digital dream continues to incubate
Standing in the Yangtze River Delta, guarding Hangzhou Bay. A simple cross vividly describes the unique geographical location advantages of the information port town.
The Bay Area has different development models in different spaces and periods, and the only thing that remains the same is that no matter when and where,.All of them show the characteristics of innovation leadership, high degree of openness, and agglomeration development. As the pioneer of innovation and development in Xiaoshan, the mission of Information Port Town is to take the lead in the race of the Bay Area, and to incubate the dream of catching up with and surpassing the digital economy.
At the beginning of its establishment, the positioning of the information port town was to become the cradle of the development of the emerging economy. In the year of opening, the park successfully applied for the Hangzhou municipal science and technology business incubator, and the following year successfully became a provincial science and technology business incubator, and in 2016, it reached the top of the national science and technology business incubator, and then was rated as a national science and technology business incubator excellent (Class A) for 4 consecutive years, becoming one of the only three platforms in Zhejiang.
As the vice chairman of Zhejiang Science and Technology Business Incubator Association, Han Menglong is well aware of the importance of innovation incubation in the Internet era, and insists on creating a science and technology entrepreneurship incubation chain model of “Maker Space (Entrepreneurship Nursery)-Incubator-Accelerator”. With continuous efforts, the Information Port has actively introduced 12 well-known entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship platforms such as the Bay Area Incubator, Microsoft Cloud, NetEase Joint Innovation Center, and Alibaba Cloud Innovation Center, and successfully cultivated 3 national-level maker spaces, 3 provincial-level maker spaces, and 2 municipal-level science and technology business incubators, gradually forming a park-within-a-park model driven by the National Science and Technology Business Incubator of the Information Port, providing a cradle for the growth of small and micro enterprises.
With the convergence of resources from all parties, the information port town takes advantage of the space and resources of each platform to collaboratively incubate high-quality projects and attract high-end talents. According to statistics, one-third of the 65 projects with a valuation of over 100 million yuan in the town are introduced by various innovation platforms, and nearly half of the more than 4,700 talents with master’s degree or above in the town come from the talent teams introduced by various innovation platforms.
The Bay Area incubator is one of the best. In 2018, the Bay Area incubator signed a contract to settle down, relying on the advantages of strong capital and high-quality services, it attracted many listed companies, unicorns, quasi-unicorn projects, as well as outstanding returnees from the world’s top 500 companies and well-known universities in the first year of its establishment, and successfully completed the “triple jump” of municipal, provincial and national maker spaces within three years.
However, with the continuous influx of innovative projects, the existing space of the information port town has not been able to keep up with the speed of development, and the information port town is actively seeking new solutions, aiming at the old factories in the surrounding area, these stock factories have unlimited potential, as long as they are used properly, they will glow with infinite vitality.
In fact, many innovation carriers, such as the start-up block of the Hangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University Phase 5, the Bay Area Digital Park Phase 8, and the Hangzhou Integrated Circuit Design Industrial Park Phase 9, are all born out of existing factories.
In May 2020, the Bay Area Digital Park, jointly built by the Bay Area Incubator and the Management Committee of Xiaoshan Economic and Technological Development Zone, was officially opened, achieving a space removal rate of 95% in just half a year, and more than 30 projects were signed, including 4 quasi-unicorn enterprises, becoming Xiaoshan’s stock.Upgraded demonstration model.
When the scaffolding is gradually removed, this innovative and energetic “dream country” jumps into view, and the white flake curtain wall is like a dove of peace waving its wings, waiting to send an olive branch to the dreaming makers. From abandoned factories to modern creative spaces, from traditional industries to digital economies leading the future, this reborn building has witnessed the development of the city and engraved the trajectory of industrial innovation.
On September 12, 2020, the School of Micro-Nano Electronics of Zhejiang University crossed the river from the Yuquan Campus and moved to the Hangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University in the fifth phase of the Information Port. Since then, front-end talent training and back-end industrialization experiments have been seamlessly connected in the same park.
There is no doubt that the Hangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University is a new existence, which is not only a new university campus, but also an open science and technology park, and a special zone for excellence in innovation. Some people say that it is “four dislikes”, because there is no definite precedent to be found, and there is no object to “trace”. However, innovation is a process of constantly breaking the “path dependence” and achieving self-breakthroughs, which is true for Zhejiang University, and even more so for Hangzhou and Xiaoshan District.
It is no coincidence that the Hangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University has settled in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou. On the one hand, Hangzhou’s development strategy of supporting the river needs to find a strong development engine along the Qiantang River. On the other hand, Xiaoshan’s strong manufacturing foundation will also provide rich R&D application scenarios for the Hangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University.
This kind of innovation, agglomeration and spillover effect is gradually amplified with the expansion of the information port. In the past 6 years, the layout and planning of the first to eleventh phases of the information port town, one by one innovative modern buildings have risen from the ground, one by one the waste factories have turned around gorgeously, the characteristic industries of the information port have been continuously gathered, and the innovation effect has been continuously released, only in 2020, the new operation innovation space has reached 530,000 square meters throughout the year, and the industry has continued to promote the development of the industry in this land.
In the next three years, the information port town will be built with an innovation platform and headquarters building of more than 3 million square meters, and the curtain of the “innovation hub” of the Qiantang River International Innovation Belt has been quietly opened.
Innovation Park, Entrepreneurial Home, Intimate Service, Accurate Problem Solving
It is necessary not only to attract talents, but also to retain talents, build nests to attract phoenixes, and build a broad stage for development.
Walking into the Party and Mass Service Center of Information Port Town, you will see a specially set up innovative service hall, where the streamlined and fast service window is rolled out in one stop, and more than 30 services such as qualification declaration, talent identification, legal counsel, community service, and industrial and commercial registration are docked and handled at one time, accurately anchoring the development needs of enterprises, constantly refreshing the entrepreneurial experience, and making the service truly sink to the grassroots level.
In the face of the downward pressure of the global economy, in April 2020, the Management Committee of the Information Port Joint Development Zone and the Bay Area were incubated.Upgraded demonstration model.
When the scaffolding is gradually removed, this innovative and energetic “dream country” jumps into view, and the white flake curtain wall is like a dove of peace waving its wings, waiting to send an olive branch to the dreaming makers. From abandoned factories to modern creative spaces, from traditional industries to digital economies leading the future, this reborn building has witnessed the development of the city and engraved the trajectory of industrial innovation.
On September 12, 2020, the School of Micro-Nano Electronics of Zhejiang University crossed the river from the Yuquan Campus and moved to the Hangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University in the fifth phase of the Information Port. Since then, front-end talent training and back-end industrialization experiments have been seamlessly connected in the same park.
There is no doubt that the Hangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University is a new existence, which is not only a new university campus, but also an open science and technology park, and a special zone for excellence in innovation. Some people say that it is “four dislikes”, because there is no definite precedent to be found, and there is no object to “trace”. However, innovation is a process of constantly breaking the “path dependence” and achieving self-breakthroughs, which is true for Zhejiang University, and even more so for Hangzhou and Xiaoshan District.
It is no coincidence that the Hangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University has settled in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou. On the one hand, Hangzhou’s development strategy of supporting the river needs to find a strong development engine along the Qiantang River. On the other hand, Xiaoshan’s strong manufacturing foundation will also provide rich R&D application scenarios for the Hangzhou International Science and Technology Innovation Center of Zhejiang University.
This kind of innovation, agglomeration and spillover effect is gradually amplified with the expansion of the information port. In the past 6 years, the layout and planning of the first to eleventh phases of the information port town, one by one innovative modern buildings have risen from the ground, one by one the waste factories have turned around gorgeously, the characteristic industries of the information port have been continuously gathered, and the innovation effect has been continuously released, only in 2020, the new operation innovation space has reached 530,000 square meters throughout the year, and the industry has continued to promote the development of the industry in this land.
In the next three years, the information port town will be built with an innovation platform and headquarters building of more than 3 million square meters, and the curtain of the “innovation hub” of the Qiantang River International Innovation Belt has been quietly opened.
Innovation Park, Entrepreneurial Home, Intimate Service, Accurate Problem Solving
It is necessary not only to attract talents, but also to retain talents, build nests to attract phoenixes, and build a broad stage for development.
Walking into the Party and Mass Service Center of Information Port Town, you will see a specially set up innovative service hall, where the streamlined and fast service window is rolled out in one stop, and more than 30 services such as qualification declaration, talent identification, legal counsel, community service, and industrial and commercial registration are docked and handled at one time, accurately anchoring the development needs of enterprises, constantly refreshing the entrepreneurial experience, and making the service truly sink to the grassroots level.
In the face of the downward pressure of the global economy, in April 2020, the Management Committee of the Information Port Joint Development Zone and the Bay Area were incubated.Small and micro enterprises will be deducted when purchasing six types of services: finance, accounting, legal affairs, science and technology declaration, intellectual property rights, and cloud traffic, so as to enhance the enthusiasm of innovation and entrepreneurship in Xiaoshan.……
At the same time, in the extraordinary year of 2020, with the reform concept of “one run at most” as the guiding ideology, based on the advantages of the town’s information technology and digital resource gathering, the information port gave full play to the advantages of the “five clouds” model, namely cloud services, cloud investment, cloud recruitment, cloud platform, and cloud classroom, combined with the offline “strong layout”, to help the town’s enterprises fight the epidemic and promote development.
“Warm people and warm hearts, in the face of our needs, the information port will respond quickly at all levels and complete all matters in one stop.” This is the heartfelt emotion of a small-town enterprise. The continuous innovation of brand services not only allows the entrepreneurs of the information port to embrace the “sea of stars” cordially, and the pace of entrepreneurial development is more calm and confident, but also allows the digital economy to have a “Dinghai Shen Needle”, with stronger development potential and anti-risk ability, in the tide of entrepreneurship and innovation.
The integration of three productions is different and wonderful
Build and share a quality life
In September last year, the 2020 Hangzhou Cultural Tourism Summit · New Economy Conference Destination Industry Fair were held in Hangzhou. At the meeting, the “Ten Scenic Spots of Hangzhou Digital Economy Tourism” made its debut. The “Ten Scenic Spots of Hangzhou’s Digital Economy Tourism” is comparable to the well-known “Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake”, highlighting the unique excitement of Hangzhou’s innovative and dynamic city, including the information port town.
From the successful creation of a national 3A-level tourist attraction to becoming one of the first batch of “Ten Scenic Spots of Hangzhou Digital Economy Tourism”, the information port town not only has beautiful natural scenery and complete entrepreneurial life facilities, but also has very advantageous digital economy tourism resources, creating a future community-based entrepreneurial ecology of ecology, production and life, so that “town residents” can share the quality of life and let the visiting travelers return happily.
What is not known is that 6 years ago, this was still a barren land, at that time, in order to solve the problem of where to go for the children of entrepreneurs in the park after school, Han Menglong combined Xinhua Bookstore with milk tea shop, and then set up a “Little Migratory Bird Base” here to arrange volunteers to take care of it, so that employees can work with peace of mind; In order to solve the problem of commuting transportation for employees, Han Menglong and his team ran the bus company over and over again, and introduced the first micro-bus line in the district at that time.
Now here, people can take the Singularity 5G automatic micro-bus, experience unmanned driving on the public road, and also visit the WeDoctor intelligent infirmary and iFLYTEK artificial intelligence exhibition hall, experience cutting-edge applications such as “Internet + medical”, “artificial intelligence +” and “5G+”, and have a wonderful interaction with black technology.
One young visitor said: “For a city, the digital economy is not only the embodiment of development, but also the display of business cards. In the information port, I can truly experience the development of the new economy and the improvement of infrastructure driven by technological breakthroughs, which bring us convenience in life. “Needless to say, when the digital economy is in sync with tourist attractions.……
At the same time, in the extraordinary year of 2020, with the reform concept of “one run at most” as the guiding ideology, based on the advantages of the town’s information technology and digital resource gathering, the information port gave full play to the advantages of the “five clouds” model, namely cloud services, cloud investment, cloud recruitment, cloud platform, and cloud classroom, combined with the offline “strong layout”, to help the town’s enterprises fight the epidemic and promote development.
“Warm people and warm hearts, in the face of our needs, the information port will respond quickly at all levels and complete all matters in one stop.” This is the heartfelt emotion of a small-town enterprise. The continuous innovation of brand services not only allows the entrepreneurs of the information port to embrace the “sea of stars” cordially, and the pace of entrepreneurial development is more calm and confident, but also allows the digital economy to have a “Dinghai Shen Needle”, with stronger development potential and anti-risk ability, in the tide of entrepreneurship and innovation.
The integration of three productions is different and wonderful
Build and share a quality life
In September last year, the 2020 Hangzhou Cultural Tourism Summit · New Economy Conference Destination Industry Fair were held in Hangzhou. At the meeting, the “Ten Scenic Spots of Hangzhou Digital Economy Tourism” made its debut. The “Ten Scenic Spots of Hangzhou’s Digital Economy Tourism” is comparable to the well-known “Ten Scenic Spots of West Lake”, highlighting the unique excitement of Hangzhou’s innovative and dynamic city, including the information port town.
From the successful creation of a national 3A-level tourist attraction to becoming one of the first batch of “Ten Scenic Spots of Hangzhou Digital Economy Tourism”, the information port town not only has beautiful natural scenery and complete entrepreneurial life facilities, but also has very advantageous digital economy tourism resources, creating a future community-based entrepreneurial ecology of ecology, production and life, so that “town residents” can share the quality of life and let the visiting travelers return happily.
What is not known is that 6 years ago, this was still a barren land, at that time, in order to solve the problem of where to go for the children of entrepreneurs in the park after school, Han Menglong combined Xinhua Bookstore with milk tea shop, and then set up a “Little Migratory Bird Base” here to arrange volunteers to take care of it, so that employees can work with peace of mind; In order to solve the problem of commuting transportation for employees, Han Menglong and his team ran the bus company over and over again, and introduced the first micro-bus line in the district at that time.
Now here, people can take the Singularity 5G automatic micro-bus, experience unmanned driving on the public road, and also visit the WeDoctor intelligent infirmary and iFLYTEK artificial intelligence exhibition hall, experience cutting-edge applications such as “Internet + medical”, “artificial intelligence +” and “5G+”, and have a wonderful interaction with black technology.
One young visitor said: “For a city, the digital economy is not only the embodiment of development, but also the display of business cards. In the information port, I can truly experience the development of the new economy and the improvement of infrastructure driven by technological breakthroughs, which bring us convenience in life. “Needless to say, when the digital economy is in sync with tourist attractions.Within 04 square kilometers, various “hard facilities” and “soft services” such as medical education, public transportation, leisure and entertainment are carried out simultaneously to create a “future community-style” characteristic town, so that a better life is within reach.
As the pioneer, witness and witness of the construction of characteristic towns in Zhejiang Province, in the hearts of the builders of Information Port Town, it is not only a blessed land for entrepreneurship, but also a happy land for life. “It is a high-quality development path that belongs to a characteristic town to build an organic whole with distinctive industrial characteristics, beautiful ecological environment, and superimposed multiple functions in a limited space where industry, city, people and culture are intertwined.”
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)