This company, established in 2015, is a unicorn company with a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars.
There are many companies in the Yinxing Science and Technology Park, such as Carbon Cloud Intelligence. 'Yinxing Group Chairman Ye Weixiong said with great pride. The local entrepreneur who resigned from the public service in Shenzhen in 1988 now owns more than 100 corporate assets. 100 million yuan.
The company's story is also the city's footprint.
When the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone was established in 1980, the GDP was 270 million yuan. At that time, the total economic output of Hong Kong was equivalent to 600 Shenzhen. In 2017, the GDP of the city was 2.24 trillion yuan, which was 8,000 times more than 38 years ago. It exceeded Singapore and Hong Kong.
From a horseshoe factory and a farm machinery factory before the reform and opening up to today's more than 1.8 million companies and tens of thousands of high-tech enterprises, the iterative update of the corporate landscape is Shenzhen's transformation from a small fishing village that has never been known to the world. The inexhaustible motive force of the innovation capital.
Market economy gave them room for growth
Standing on the Shenzhen Bay Venture Square, you can see Tencent, Baidu Building, and the surrounding industrial parks, building space, and incubators that have become landmarks. Young entrepreneurial teams dream here.
At the beginning of the construction of the city, like universities and research institutes, Shenzhen’s corporate resources are also 'poor and poor.' Why can a group of high-tech companies with international influence be born in less than 40 years? 'Shenzhen took the lead in constructing enterprises as the main body. Market-oriented, deep integration of industry, universities, and research institutes in the technological innovation system. 'Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee Secretary Wang Weizhong made a brief statement.
According to statistics, from the 17th century to the 1970s, more than 80% of the 160 major innovations that have changed human lives by international authoritative experts have been completed by enterprises. Enterprises have natural innovative genes. Therefore, in 2006, The "Outline of the National Medium- and Long-Term Scientific and Technological Development Plan (2006-2020)" issued proposes to build a technological innovation system that combines enterprises, research institutes and research institutes.
As Wang Weizhong said, Shenzhen’s exploration started earlier.
Rewinding the shots to Shekou, which was the beginning of the reform and opening up, will find that Shenzhen's companies are 'congenitally deficient', but the loose market economy has given them a huge space for rapid growth.
China’s reform and opening up began in Shekou. The core of the exploration in Shekou Industrial Zone is to break the planned economy and give enterprises full autonomy. The implementation of the quota over-production incentive system breaks the cadre’s “big pot of rice” and the project contract is based on bids... Shekou Industrial Zone touches the stone. Cross the river.
5. Soon, aspiring people rushed to Shekou to start a business.
Ma Mingzhe, a worker from the Bajiao Hydropower Plant in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, came and began planning to establish China’s first joint-stock insurance company, Ping An;
Ren Zhengfei, who was demobilized to the industry, came and founded Huawei in 1987;
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The fate of these people and the business landscape of China are about to change.
Shekou's practice makes the company become the main body of the market, so that the pursuit of efficiency and wealth become glorious things.
Shekou is the epitome of Shenzhen. Shenzhen, which grew up in an absurdity, has less of the shackles of the planned economy and has breathed the air of a market economy from the very beginning. Here, the company is free to grow. And this is also the city itself. To survive and develop the foundation.
Firms struggling in the market must survive with innovation. For companies in Shenzhen, besides sense of mission and conscious awareness, innovation is more of an instinctive response that comes from market competition. It is a bloody way out.
Nowadays, Huawei, the world-famous brand, first started with Hong Xiao’s small analog switch 'Hongyan' and quickly developed into Hong Kong's best agent in the Mainland. From then on, Ren Zhengfei saw the huge market for China’s telecom equipment industry. Potential, not willing to do simple agent processing, but instead led the company to do independent simulation development through 'reverse engineering'.
Many companies established in early Shenzhen have similar experiences. Driven by this group of enterprises, independent innovation has gradually become a characteristic of Shenzhen enterprises.
Valuable '4 90%'
Shenzhen managers carefully care for the company's freedom, explore the government's strategy of focusing on policies, and the innovative development model with companies as the main body.
'Shenzhen provides various fund support projects for R&D of high-tech companies, builds talent exchange platforms, promotes the exchange and connection of companies and talents, regularly collects business needs, and efficiently and quickly connects, effectively solves corporate problems. ' Shenzhou Yunhai Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. Kong Lingtao of Marketing Planning Center told the reporter of Science and Technology Daily.
In the process of promoting 'Double Innovation' in recent years, Shenzhen has also accelerated the improvement of a multi-level financial service system, vigorously promoted the effective docking of scientific and technological resources and capital, cracked down on financing difficulties, and financed expensive 'cocktail' problems.
In addition to the 'nanny-style' service during the innovation and entrepreneurship process, the Shenzhen government's more important task is to lay out strategic emerging and frontier industries starting from the city's overall development plan, and guide the company to the forefront of technology and industry.
'Carbon Cloud Intelligence has been strongly supported by all levels of government since its inception.' Li Jian, director of the carbon cloud smart laboratory, told the Science and Technology Daily reporter that the digital life industry development proposed by the company was included in the 2017 Shenzhen Municipal Government's work report. Its Shenzhen Digital Life Research Institute is also listed in Shenzhen as one of the “Top Ten Basic Research Institutions.” The Shenzhen government also strongly supports Carbon Cloud Intelligence in the deep development of the headquarters economy and the “Digital Life” industry in the country and the world. Development.
Deploying emerging industries, cultivating leading enterprises, and driving an industrial chain and a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, Shenzhen's innovation has entered a virtuous circle. As a result, Shenzhen has a well-known '9 90%', that is, 90% of R&D personnel. Institutions, scientific research investment, patent production concentrated in enterprises.
Enterprise Matrix Leads Innovation
'4 90%' has given rise to Shenzhen's innovative cascade of large, medium, small and micro-enterprises.
At present, Shenzhen has seven Fortune 500 companies, second only to Beijing and Shanghai. A group of innovative leading enterprises with international competitiveness have risen rapidly. Tencent has become one of the world's largest Internet companies; BYD has become the world's largest new energy automobile company.
At the same time, Dajiang, Roytech and other rising stars have become the new card for Shenzhen's innovation. They have the world's thinnest color flexible display; UAVs account for 80% of the world's market share, and robots' output value increases by 6 times in 1 year. The company that has become a 'hidden champion' but has never seen it, is the backbone of Shenzhen's 'leadership innovation' that has followed the trend, absorbed the 'following innovation' of digestion, and has grown from zero to one.
If these industry 'leaders' have already formed a spectacular 'geese array' in Shenzhen, and are 'powerful' forces, then in Wang Weizhong's view, 'overwhelming' SMEs are the driving force for the city's continued growth. .
According to authoritative statistics as of mid-October, 2017, there are 382 domestic and foreign listed companies in Shenzhen, of which 188 are listed on the Small and Medium Enterprise Board and the Growth Enterprise Market. For the 11th consecutive year, they rank first in domestic large and medium-sized cities. Shenzhen's SMEs have become listed. The main force.
A large and high-quality enterprise group has allowed Shenzhen to continuously climb up the global innovation chain and value chain. In 2017, Shenzhen had PCT international patents of 20,400 pieces, accounting for 43.1% of the country, ranking first in cities nationwide for 14 consecutive years. World Intellectual Property Organization and other institutions The “Global Innovation Index 2017 Report” released shows that in the global hot spots innovation cluster, Shenzhen ranks second, second only to Tokyo, leading Silicon Valley.
More importantly, Shenzhen is becoming a source of innovation for the country and even the world. From BYD's electric double-decker bus Mercedes-Benz in London to the world’s northernmost LTE site opened on the Chinese mainland by the Arctic Ocean, Shenzhen’s “Going Out” product. And services are increasingly affecting the world, and Shenzhen also uses companies as a carrier to gather global innovation elements, become a hub for global innovation networks, and lead the world in innovation.