(Correspondents of this newspaper: Hu Yi, Yu Xi).Ten years of wind and rain, ten years of sonorous progress.
On February 2, the Optics Valley Qingtong Annual Meeting and the 10th Anniversary of Qingtong were held at the Optics Valley Science and Technology Convention and Exhibition Center.
The annual meeting is guided by the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology and the Wuhan Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, hosted by the Management Committee of Wuhan East Lake High-tech Development Zone, and undertaken by Wuhan Optics Valley Coffee Venture Capital. Hu Weiwei, Director of the Achievement Transformation and Regional Innovation Division of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Liu Bin, Director of Wuhan Science and Technology Innovation Service Center, and Zhu Zhihua, Deputy Director of Wuhan Enterprise Science and Technology Innovation Service Center, attended the event. Zhong Fuping, director of the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau of the Management Committee of East Lake High-tech Zone, attended the event and delivered a speech.
Zhong Fuping, director of the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau of the Management Committee of East Lake High-tech Zone.
Looking back at 2013, Wuhan took the lead in launching the "Qingtong Plan" in the country to encourage millions of college students and young people to innovate and start businesses, and played the strongest voice of large-scale youth entrepreneurship in China.
As of the end of 2023, Optics Valley Qingtonghui has held more than 130 sessions, with more than 1,300 roadshow projects, nearly 1,500 participating investment institutions, 300,000 observers, and a cumulative project financing of more than 20 billion yuan.
Ten years is a milestone and a new beginning.
At the annual meeting, the 2023 Optics Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Report was released, the East Lake High-tech Zone Innovation Block Map was released, more than 500 entrepreneurs from science and technology parks, universities and enterprises shared and exchanged, more than 30 enterprises in the fields of optoelectronic information and life and health held on-site roadshows, and the Optics Valley Qingtong Ten Year Achievement Exhibition, enterprises signed contracts with investment institutions, and the journey of innovation and entrepreneurship set sail again.
Looking for Qingtong to build a bridge for youth entrepreneurship.
A lidar the size of a stationery box is mounted on a drone, which can patrol the line according to a fixed line and continuously transmit real-time 3D data.
Wuhan Luojia Yiyun Optoelectronics Technology *** Project Roadshow.
At the scene, Wuhan Luojia Yiyun Optoelectronics Technology conducted a project roadshow on the company's "domestic surveying and mapping-grade lidar" technology. Based on the company's team's years of technical precipitation in the field of laser ranging, it has taken the lead in overcoming the core technologies of laser scanners such as ultra-high frequency waveform sampling technology, digital full-waveform real-time processing technology, cross-cycle ambiguity distance solving technology, and laser beam high-precision pointing synchronization technology, and realized the localization of lidar system.
Many investors are optimistic about the project and have handed olive branches. Xiong Ye, an alumnus of Wuhan University and a partner of Zhongnan Venture Capital, said: The optoelectronic information industry is a new generation of emerging industries with high "gold content", "new content" and "green content", and there is a lot of room for development.
Watch roadshows and look for projects. Optics Valley Qingtonghui has built a bridge between universities and society, entrepreneurial projects and capital, matched the marriage of entrepreneurs, investors and entrepreneurs, and become a strong magnetic field for exchange, learning and investment.
Since its inception, Optics Valley Qingtonghui has held more than 50 special sessions on scientific and technological innovation, such as hard-core technology, new energy and new materials, carbon peak and carbon neutrality, focusing on the two leading industries of optical core screen terminal network, life and health, digital economy such as 5G artificial intelligence, and future industries such as brain science and blockchain.
Walking into more than 20 colleges and universities such as Wuhan University, Huake and Wuhan Institute of Technology, Qingtonghui seeds have been sown in Xiangyang, Yichang, Huangshi and other places in the province, covering 12 cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The Qingtonghui model has spread to Chengdu, Hefei, Xi'an and other innovation highlands outside the province, influencing millions of young entrepreneurs. Representatives of nearly 1,000 investment institutions came to the scene of Qingtonghui in Optics Valley, bringing wonderful and practical dry goods sharing to entrepreneurs, imparting entrepreneurial experience, and encouraging and stimulating the entrepreneurial enthusiasm of Optics Valley people.
Qi Qingtong allows talents to take root.
Headquartered in Wuhan, Qina New Energy Co., Ltd. is an innovative high-tech enterprise integrating R&D, production and sales of energy storage and power battery cathode materials, focusing on the R&D and industrialization of composite sodium iron phosphate materials and their precursors. With the further maturity of the sodium-ion battery industry chain, the polyanionic cathode material products produced by the company will usher in a broad market application space in the field of energy storage and other fields.
Hu Pei, founder and chairman of Wuhan Qina New Energy Technology.
The company recently received more than 100 million yuan in financing, led by Chaoxi Capital, with the participation of old shareholders China Merchants Venture Capital, and the funds are planned to be used for the construction of 10,000 tons of mass production production line. In 2023, the company will be selected as a "Seed Unicorn Enterprise" and "Gazelle Enterprise" in Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone.
On the platform of Optics Valley Qingtonghui, a number of unicorns or quasi-unicorn enterprises such as Jimu Intelligence, Jiyi Network, and Taylor Qi, a number of national high-tech enterprises, and more than 100 "Optics Valley Gazelles" have been discovered, invested and grown rapidly, becoming industry leaders.
Nowadays, various market entities in Optics Valley are growing vigorously, the rise of the 10 billion army is accelerating, the news of corporate financing and listing is continuous, and the number of innovative and entrepreneurial enterprises is bursting out, and the number and vitality have been significantly improved. According to the data of the 2023 Optics Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Report, by the end of 2023, Optics Valley has more than 200 entrepreneurial carriers, including 28 national science and technology business incubators and 40 national maker spaces, accounting for 1 3 of the province. In the Optics Valley, well-known enterprises, as well as the characteristic industries formed by enterprise agglomeration, are the flowers of enterprises and the fruits of industries cultivated by the formal innovation ecology.
Thanks to the emergence of many high-quality enterprises, the scale of local capital such as Optics Valley Industry**, Optics Valley Venture Capital**, and Optics Valley Talents** has continued to expand, and a number of well-known institutions such as Chinese Academy of Sciences Venture Capital, Qingkong Ginkgo, Innova Angel**, and Huagai Capital have set up venture capital branches in Optics Valley, and external social capital has continued to flow in, and a virtuous cycle model of efficient docking between high-quality projects and capital has gradually taken shape.
A number of representatives of investment institutions such as SDIC Ventures, Lenovo Venture Capital, Jiangsu High-tech Investment, and TusStar Venture Capital came to the Qingtonghui event site to bring wonderful and practical comments to the entrepreneurs on the scene and impart enterprise management experience on the spot.
Zhuangqing tung promotes the project to flourish.
In 2014, when I participated in the sixth phase of the Optics Valley Qingtonghui Roadshow for the first time, Jimu was still a grassroots entrepreneurial team with 5 people renting a 10-square-meter computer room for office. As a witness and beneficiary of Qingtonghui in Optics Valley, Cheng Jianwei, founder of Wuhan Jimu Intelligent Technology and doctor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said, "Xu Xiaoping, a famous angel investor, Niu Wenwen, founder of Entrepreneur Media, and other industry celebrities shared their entrepreneurial experience and investment experience on the stage, giving me a lot of new ideas, and the company has begun to develop rapidly since then." ”
In 2016, Pole Vision received angel round financing, to 2017 A round of financing, and then to 2019 to complete more than 100 million yuan B round of financing, and by 2023, it has received six rounds of financing, which is favored by many investment institutions such as Translink Capital of the United States, Hyundai Motor Group of South Korea, and Optics Valley Talent **. Today, the company's intelligent driving solutions have supplied more than 100 models from more than 30 OEMs, contributing to the automotive industry in China and the world.
The relevant person in charge of the East Lake High-tech Zone said that Qingtonghui has directly promoted the activity of youth innovation and entrepreneurship in Optics Valley, and has continuously injected fresh blood into the economic development of Optics Valley through the new technologies and new enterprises incubated by Qingtonghui. The success of Optics Valley Qingtonghui is a vivid embodiment of Optics Valley's innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. Qingtonghui actively promotes the innovation and entrepreneurship culture of Optics Valley, and its influence and radiation have been deeply rooted in Hubei Province and abroad, promoting the growth of a large number of high-quality projects.
Professor Yan Zhenjun, chairman of the Beijing Entrepreneurship Incubation Association, has been deeply involved in entrepreneurship incubation for decades, and has a deep understanding of the trend of technological innovation and the development direction of industrial incubation. Yan Zhenjun said that Optics Valley has built a complete optoelectronic industry incubation cluster, and the future business incubation will develop in the direction of industrial incubation and intelligent incubation.
Li Ruxiong, general manager of Optics Valley Venture Coffee, said that at present, the development of business incubation in the era of hard technology shows a variety of trends, and at the same time, it also puts forward higher requirements for investment. In the future, more special series of activities will be held, focusing on the transformation chain of "source innovation, technology development, achievement transformation, and industrial agglomeration", accelerating the local transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, continuously strengthening the research and transformation and application of key core technologies, and actively building the entire upstream and downstream industry chain, so as to help Optics Valley continue to emerge innovation achievements and continue to rise in innovation competitiveness.
Today, the Optics Valley Qingtonghui, which originated in Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone of Optics Valley and has been copied to many cities in China, has gone through 10 years, which not only records the changes in Optics Valley and even China's innovation and entrepreneurship wave, but also is the starting point of a new stage of innovation and entrepreneurship in Optics Valley.
In order to better support the development of market entities, at the scene, the East Lake High-tech Zone released a map of innovation blocks, policies and measures to support scientific and technological innovation, and a platform for Hubei science and technology innovation ** chain, which is use-oriented, so that all kinds of innovation resources can be quickly connected, activate various innovation elements to produce "chemical reactions", let more scientific and technological innovation achievements be industrialized, and help Optics Valley gather more powerful scientific and technological innovation resources and create a more dynamic scientific and technological innovation ecology.