The tide is surging, and Rongwan is win-win
On April 25, the "2024 Wuxi Liangxi-Greater Bay Area Industrial Innovation Cooperation Conference" was held in Shenzhen. At the scene, 4 investment promotion bases were inaugurated, 9 investment partners and 15 industrial development consultants formed a strategic alliance, and 72 projects reached cooperation. A series of intensive actions sent a new signal that Liangxi should accelerate its integration into the scientific and technological innovation system and deepen the development of regional collaborative innovation.
More than 180 guests attended the meeting, including academicians and experts, representatives of Hong Kong and Macao business circles, representatives of associations and institutions, fund capital, and leading enterprises. Gehan Amaratunga, Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, President of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Institute of Advanced Technology, Chief Scientist of Jianke Yunzhi, Chen Ruizhi, Academician of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Professor of Wuhan University, Lu Yang, Tenured Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Hong Kong and Academician of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, Professor of Peking University, Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Academician of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence of the United States, Expert Member of the United Nations World Academy of Digital Technology, Li Hui, Chief Information Scientist of the International Academician Science and Technology Innovation Center, and Zhang Caifang, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Member of the China Affairs Committee of the Oxford International Federation of Postdoctoral Fellows, Expert (Chairman) of the China Expert Committee on Specialization, Specialization and New Sciences, and Chairman of the Global Think Tank Expert Committee of the International Federation of Robotics, attended the scene. Meng Jianmin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief architect of Shenzhen Architectural Design and Research Institute, and Fan Bangkui, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, sent congratulatory messages to the conference.
Zhu Gang, Secretary of the District Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Wuxi Liangxi Science and Technology City Administration, Feng Juxian, Deputy Director of the Cooperation and Exchange Office of Jiangsu Provincial Office in Shenzhen (Guangzhou), Member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and Executive Deputy District Mayor, Miao Jianping, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Deputy Director of Wuxi Liangxi Science and Technology City Administration, and relevant leaders of Liangxi District, Wuxi Liangxi Science and Technology City Administration and Liangxi Science and Technology City Development Group attended the event.
Wang Zhao, a representative of the company, said in his speech that Liangxi has the basic conditions, location advantages and market opportunities for the development of low-altitude economic industries, and hopes to bring the innovative industry of urban air mobility to Liangxi. EHang, Wuxi Municipal Transportation Bureau, Liangxi District Government, and Liangxi Science and Technology City have joined hands to launch a new cooperation model to jointly build EHang's eVTOL low-altitude economic industrial base and operation headquarters project.
At the same time, the province's first unmanned autonomous aerial vehicle manned low-altitude route was laid out, short-distance sightseeing and tourism routes were opened around Taihu Square, Canal Art Park and other places, and the first batch of low-altitude economic demonstration scenarios and integrated development IP of culture, business, sports and tourism were built.
In his speech, Lu Yang said that he was a student from Wuxi, Jiangnan, and he was amazed by the speed of Wuxi's rapid rise. As the core block of Wuxi, Liangxi District has made remarkable achievements in the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation of emerging industries. As a highlight and strategic focus of Wuxi's urban development, Liangxi Science and Technology City is a new engine for the city's scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading.
It is believed that through the bridge built by this conference, Liangxi District and Liangxi Science and Technology City will be able to fully absorb the advanced concepts and successful experiences of Shenzhen and the entire Greater Bay Area in scientific and technological innovation, industrial upgrading, ecological construction, etc., further stimulate the vitality of the region, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and accelerate the construction of strategic emerging industrial clusters with international competitiveness, making them an important position for the development of new quality productivity.
In his speech, Zhu Gang extended a warm welcome to all the guests and expressed his heartfelt thanks to friends from all walks of life who have long cared about and supported the development of Liangxi and Liangxi Science and Technology City.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is one of the regions with the highest degree of openness and the strongest economic vitality in the mainland, and it is also a leader in leading global technological change and industrial innovation. Liangxi Science and Technology City, a dynamic hub spanning three districts, integrating industry and city, and symbiosis of data and reality, is accelerating its rise.
We have built a "Digital City" in an all-round way, launched Huawei's Artificial Intelligence Computing Center and Baidu's Intelligent Cloud Qianfan Large Model Innovation Center, and built advantages in "data, computing power, and algorithms", and 11 industrial ecosystems, including aerospace industry, artificial intelligence, robotics, and low-altitude economy, have rapidly gained momentum.
We have made precise efforts to "City of Science and Technology", implemented the multiplication of science and technology enterprises, science and technology innovation platforms, and scientific and technological talents, deepened the cooperation between government, industry, academia and research, landed 8 high-level science and technology innovation platforms and 8 science and technology innovation enclaves at home and abroad, and built three public platforms of intelligent computing power, optoelectronic chips, and satellite experiments, with a total scale of more than 60 billion yuan.
We have carefully built the "City of the Future", built six characteristic parks such as the low-altitude economic industrial park and the robot industrial park, and accelerated the construction of key projects such as the Central Landscape Park, the National Fitness Center, and the International Convention and Exhibition Center. The conference will draw a new story of "Shuangwan" cooperation, create a new highland for the integrated development of "science, industry, city and humanities", and make Liangxi Science and Technology City an important window for "the world to see Wuxi".
The integration of the Yangtze River Delta and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are both major national strategies personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping. I hope that all friends from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao will work closely with us to share the mission, and work together to be the builders and witnesses of the mutual promotion and common prosperity of the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area. Liang Xi is eagerly looking forward to everyone's arrival!
Mr Cui Tianyou, a representative of Hong Kong and Macao, said in his speech that the strong alliance between Wuxi Liangxi District, Wuxi Liangxi Science and Technology City and the Greater Bay Area will undoubtedly open a new era of industrial collaborative innovation between Taihu Bay and the Greater Bay Area. We are willing to give full play to Macao's unique advantages as an international free port, act as a bridge and link, promote the cross-border transfer and application of scientific and technological achievements between the two places, promote the establishment of a normalized scientific and technological innovation cooperation mechanism, and actively promote in-depth cooperation between the two places in the fields of biotechnology, artificial intelligence, information technology, high-end manufacturing, etc., and jointly create a number of internationally competitive industry-university-research cooperation demonstration projects.
Zhang Juncai, the representative of the fund, said in his speech that the Liangxi Science and Technology Innovation Fund has completed direct investment in 27 high-quality sub-funds and outstanding enterprises, covering nearly 20 top investment institutions in China, and has built a GP investment alliance and industrial ecosystem in Liangxi.
The conference established the Liangxi Science and Technology City Digital Economy Industry Fund of Funds to build a digital economy ecosystem in an all-round way. As the manager of the FOF, Sinoexpo Capital will give full play to the compound advantages of the FOF's capital leverage + talent leverage + industrial leverage + resource leverage, help Liangxi and Liangxi Science and Technology City and Wuxi City to build a new highland of national digital economy, and jointly meet the tide of the digital economy.
At the event, many top experts and scholars at home and abroad, including 5 academicians, business giants and heads of financial institutions, jointly launched the "River Tide Surging Rongwan Win-Win" industrial innovation cooperation ceremony, which symbolizes the close cooperation between Shenxi and Shenxi to create a better future, and witnessed the industrial innovation of Shenxi and Shenxi entering a new historical stage.
Crossing the mountains and seas to "fly" into the Bay Area
From "Canal Bay" to "Greater Bay Area", Wuxi Liangxi has opened up cross-regional resource channels with the "Science and Technology Innovation Collaboration Center" and opened a new model of investment promotion.
At the scene, the Shenxi Collaborative Innovation Center and Science and Technology Innovation Talent Incubation Base, Liangxi & Liangxi Science and Technology City-Kuntin Singapore Collaborative Innovation Base, Liangxi & Liangxi Science and Technology City-Xizhou International Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Center, and Liangxi & Liangxi Science and Technology City-Macau Jiangsu Union Friendship Association Innovation Base were unveiled at the conference, marking a solid step forward in the improvement of scientific research and innovation capabilities, high-level talent training and global high-quality resource linkage.
In the future, Liangxi District and Liangxi Science and Technology City will open up cross-regional resource channels with the "Science and Technology Innovation Collaboration Center" and open a new model of investment promotion, and at the same time, continue to deepen the construction of overseas investment bases, and leverage the overall improvement of industrial energy level through the attraction and allocation of international high-quality resources.
Liangxi District and Liangxi Science and Technology City invited academicians, experts and industry leaders as high-quality investment partners and industrial development consultants, and 9 investment partners and 15 industrial development consultants were hired on site to jointly build a strategic alliance of high-quality factor agglomeration and optimization of development ecology, and jointly provide professional think tank support for the industrial upgrading and development strategies of Shenxi and Shenxi, and help build an internationally competitive industrial cluster and scientific and technological innovation highland.
The project gathers thousands of sails
The Greater Bay Area is a "bridgehead" for enterprises to go international, and similarly, to build a "window for the world to see Wuxi", it is also necessary for leading enterprises to become bigger, stronger and better, and give full play to their core engine function and radiation driving role in the high-quality development of the industry.
A total of 72 projects reached cooperation at this conference, with a total investment of about 27 billion yuan. Among them, there are 52 leading industrial projects with a total investment of more than 8 billion yuan, covering key areas such as low-altitude economy, artificial intelligence, and robotics, demonstrating the potential and vitality of cooperation between Shenxi and Shenxi in the field of industrial collaboration. Among them, 10 platform projects, such as the Low-altitude Economy and Digital City Industrial Technology Research Center and the Gugao Innovation Center, will establish good cooperation with the low-altitude economy and robotics associations in the Greater Bay Area and the relevant research institutes of urban and transportation planning and design, so as to help the industrial ecology of Liangxi Science and Technology City flourish.
Wuxi Liangxi and Wuxi Liangxi Science and Technology City will also cooperate in technical exchanges, resource docking, talent training, project incubation and other aspects through nine associations and institutions, including the Tourism and Real Estate Research Center of China (Shenzhen) Comprehensive Development Research Institute, Shenzhen Medical Device Industry Association, Shenzhen Intelligent Sensing Industry Association, Shenzhen Satellite Internet of Things Industry Association, and Shenzhen Intelligent Equipment Industry Association, which will link high-quality elements, optimize the development ecology, gather the advantages of all parties, and jointly promote the development of digital economy, high-end manufacturing and other fields.
Promoting the high-quality coordinated development of Wuxi Liangxi and the Greater Bay Area is inseparable from the injection of financial forces, and the development opportunities of the Greater Bay Area will also benefit relevant financial institutions. A total of 11 fund projects were signed at the conference, with a total contract amount of about 18.5 billion yuan, and established cooperation with many well-known domestic fund capitals such as GGV Capital, China Merchants Zhiyuan Capital, Lloyds Capital, Fosun Chuangfu, SAIF Investment, Midea Capital, etc., and the industrial investment direction covers digital economy, artificial intelligence, robotics and other fields, which has effectively promoted the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and the real economy.
At the scene, the Liangxi Science and Technology City 10 billion digital economy industry fund was officially launched, and the Liangxi District People's Government signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement with Sunshine Life Insurance Co., Ltd. to further give full play to the brand and platform advantages of the strategic fund and promote regional scientific and technological innovation and industrial development.
At the meeting, the Wuxi-Huawei Advanced Seminar on Artificial Intelligence was officially opened, laying a solid foundation for the development strategy of government-enterprise collaboration and development and the development of artificial intelligence technology.
Academician Li Hui, Academician Zhang Caifang, Yang Yuxing, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Shenzhen Urban Transportation Planning and Design Research Center Co., Ltd., Chen Zhenjie, CEO of Extreme Vision Technology Co., Ltd., and many other experts gave keynote speeches on their respective research fields such as blockchain, AI medical care, low-altitude economy, and computing algorithms, showing the blueprint outlook and cutting-edge insights of "Streams and Tides Surge and Rongwan Win-win".
Rush into the "bay" to the future together
During this trip to the Bay Area, a series of project attraction and cooperation signing are highly consistent with the development direction of Liangxi District and Liangxi Science and Technology City. Taking this conference as an opportunity, the opening and cooperation of Liangxi District, Liangxi Science and Technology City and the Greater Bay Area will reach a higher level, take the fast lane of new quality productivity, create more interest convergence points, cooperation growth points, and win-win new highlights, play the "strongest voice" of investment promotion, and draw the most beautiful "spring endeavor map" in the integration and exchange and signing cooperation.
More than 1,400 kilometers, it has never been able to stop the strong enthusiasm for innovation and cooperation and two-way running. From the "Pearl of Taihu Lake in the Yangtze River Delta" to the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", Liangxi and Liangxi Science and Technology City have been attracting business, talent, intelligence and investment. "Creek and Bay" blend together, and work together to create a new "spring story".
Source: Wuxi Liangxi Science and Technology City