On January 24, more than 100 science and technology parks and incubator innovation bases in the Yangtze River Economic Belt organized more than 800 enterprises to participate in the UAE-Qatar Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Seminar hosted by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology and undertaken by Jiangsu Tus-Innovation Research Institute. Mr. Muhannad Alnaqbi, Consul General of the UAE Consulate General in Shanghai, delivered a speech at the event, and the main leaders of the Sharjah Science and Technology Park of the UAE and the Qatar Investment Promotion Agency introduced the market environment and innovation policies of the two countries in detail at the exchange meeting. This event kicked off the curtain of TusHoldings' 2024 "100 Cities, 1000 Enterprises, 10,000 Interactions" series of activities, which will promote nearly 10,000 technology enterprises on the Tus-Tech Innovation Service Platform to go overseas and explore and build the "Belt and Road".
▲ The meeting site
Chi Yu, Deputy Director of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, said in his speech, "In the future, Jiangsu Province will continue to give full play to its own advantages, vigorously develop the digital economy, promote industrial innovation, and continuously strengthen exchanges and mutually beneficial cooperation with Belt and Road countries and partners, including the United Arab Emirates and Qatar." Tang Hao, general manager of Jiangsu Tus-Innovation Research Institute, said when presiding over the event that the event discussed the new opportunities and challenges of cooperation between China, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, and looked forward to how Chinese enterprises should respond to challenges and seize opportunities in the process of "going to sea", and hoped that all parties would work together to help Jiangsu enterprises go to the world stage.
▲ Speeches at the meeting
Yongzhong Software, a participating company, is a professional supplier of office software products and digital information services for government and enterprises in China. Tan Hui, general manager of Yongzhong Software, said that the application scenarios of the "Belt and Road" countries have strong complementarity with their own enterprises, and the Gulf countries have gradually begun to pay attention to information security issues, which is very broad for the development of "The Belt and Road" countries for Chinese software companies. Through this event, Chinese science and technology enterprises had in-depth exchanges with political and business people from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, and became interested in opening up emerging markets in the Middle East. This "Cloud Dialogue" provides strong support for future cooperation between all parties, and is conducive to further deepening cooperation between China and Belt and Road countries in infrastructure construction, information technology, new energy and other fields.
▲ Xiantu intelligent self-driving sweeper landed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
As a pioneer in science and technology innovation services along the Belt and Road Initiative, TusHoldings has built a global network of innovation bases, providing a market-oriented ecological platform for Chinese enterprises to go overseas. At the beginning of 2023, the Saudi Arabian science and technology innovation delegation visited TusHoldings several times and signed a memorandum of cooperation, and the two sides will build an ecosystem of innovation exchanges and cooperation between China and Saudi Arabia through in-depth cooperation in the fields of parks, funds and emerging industries, and actively promote the upgrading of bilateral cities and the development of science and technology. In October of that year, with the help of the global innovation network, Xiantu Intelligence, an incubation investment company, successfully landed its self-developed self-driving sweeper V3 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, adding a new territory to its overseas business. Xiantu Intelligent is one of the first companies in China to set up a Robotaxi fleet, and was the first to obtain the Shanghai autonomous driving test license, and has since begun to commercialize it in the field of urban road sanitation and cleaning. At present, Xiantu intelligent self-driving sweeper has been put into more than 20 countries and cities around the world, with a cumulative real operating mileage of more than one million kilometers.
It is worth noting that, as the world's largest scientific and technological innovation service platform, TusHoldings operates a network of more than 300 innovation bases composed of science and technology parks and incubators around the world. At present, there are more than 20,000 science and technology enterprises in service, including more than 100 listed companies and more than 400 specialized and special new enterprises. On the Belt and Road Initiative, the TusHoldings innovation base network covers more than 90 cities and regions, and has established close cooperative relations with more than 200 universities and institutes. To promote cooperation between China and science and technology enterprises in countries and regions along the "Belt and Road", it is necessary to establish continuous and frequent communication and exchanges. In 2024, TusHoldings will hold a series of exchange activities for science and technology enterprises in 100 cities and regions at home and abroad, boost more than 1,000 Chinese science and technology enterprises and more than 10,000 science and technology personnel, establish in-depth and extensive communication and exchanges with countries and regions along the "Belt and Road", and take substantive cooperation steps.