SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marked a new step in collaborative China-U.S. discussions, as leaders from the Guangzhou municipal government held two panels in the San Francisco Bay Area to discuss the emerging innovation revolution in Guangzhou, China, and the opportunities this movement holds for businesses and economies in both countries.
Leading officials, business executives, entrepreneurs, innovators and media from San Francisco and Silicon Valley and Guangzhou gathered for interactive dialogues on the increasingly indigenous innovation taking place across the fields of artificial intelligence, social media, bio-science, fintech, virtual reality, auto tech, economic sharing platforms, intelligent equipment, robots and mobile technology in Guangzhou--and how businesses, entrepreneurs and talent can capitalize on these trends to realize new levels of development and growth across borders.
The Re-Invention of Southern China
Guangzhou is China's third-largest city and is the most important trade center and open portal hub in the country. For 60 years, this historic and culturally rich southern Chinese city has held the renowned Canton Fair, attracting nearly 200,000 enterprise representatives from all over the world to the semi-annual trade event. But today Guangzhou is rapidly become a city of the future, advancing and modernizing in ways that hold vast implications for an increasingly digitized and globalizing economy. The new Guangzhou is a world city that pushes integration, innovation and cohesive development to help foster breakthroughs in the fields of information technology, artificial intelligence and the next generation of Internet+. In 2016, 13 of China's 50 Most Innovative Companies ranked by Fast Company were based in Guangzhou.
Guangzhou Fast Facts
Guangzhou: The New Leader in Innovation
The increasingly high-tech hub hosts pioneering cross-industry technology innovators, including, among many others:
"Guangzhou stands at the forefront of China's opening up and development, and technological innovation is one of the three core pillars driving us forward as a progressive city and leading business center in China. Across the fields of biomedicine, artificial intelligence, speech and image recognition, robots, smart equipment, virtual reality and beyond, driven enterprises are setting up shop within the borders of our burgeoning innovation hub so that we can support them in their growth and development," said Cai Chaolin, Standing Member of CPC Guangzhou Committee and Director of 2017 Guangzhou Fortune Global Fortune Executive Committee. "Today's discussions in the Bay Area bring together leaders from a great hub of innovation in the west, and those from one of most flourishing cradles of modernization among the oriental cities so that we can share learnings, find new synergies and uncover what's next for businesses, leaders, talent and beyond."
The city is rapidly becoming an international hub of modernization and hotspot for entrepreneurship and in recent years has implemented a series of policies to foster sci-tech and industry innovation. The region's increasingly favorable policy and business environment, internationalization, marketization and legalization have attracted a large number of leading international talents, ambitious young entrepreneurs and local and multinational enterprises.
Guangzhou also features a premier sci-tech corridor that comprises 11 cluster sections primed to foster continued growth and expansion for businesses and industries. The Pazhou Internet Innovation Cluster alone is estimated to cover three million square meters within the next three to five years, with revenue production and job creation projected to reach $15.49 billion and 80,000 jobs, respectively.
High-Tech Growth
A New Policy and Financial Landscape and Benefiting Enterprises
Guangzhou's recent and pioneering "1+9" Innovation policy was designed to support enterprises over their entire life cycle, and the Guangzhou government has also developed funds and subsidies for those companies that establish in, grow and support the local innovation economy. The region's new technological system reform has already begun to improve corporate innovation capacity, the application and commercialization of technological achievement, construction of sci-tech innovation platforms, talent acquisition and financing.
Plus landmark growth in the local financial and venture capital sectors are further advancing Guangzhou into a burgeoning center for innovation investment in China. Along with a new transparent government approach that has received wide acclaim, these moves have created an even more favorable environment for entrepreneurship in the region, reinvigorated sci-tech and high-tech advancements and bolstered business growth within Guangzhou.
A Precursor of What's to Come
The local panels in California come ahead of the Fortune Global Forum being held in Guangzhou in December. The international forum later this year will create a valuable opportunity for world leaders and CEOs of the world's largest multinational companies to discuss openness and innovation in the global economy, and the key issues facing multinational companies during this pivotal time in China and around the world.
The San Francisco events serve as early precursors to the Fortune Global Forum, giving participants the chance to engage early on with select business and government leaders from China, and help outline some of the key international topics to be discussed during this world-renowned event and the highly anticipated Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference International 2017.
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