On the morning of June 27th, 2022, Guan Weiya, vice president of Microsoft China, and Liu Diantao, general manager of global e-commerce of Microsoft China, visited and guided the Digital Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation Training Center in Longzihu, Central Plains. Zhang Bo, Party Secretary and Director of Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, TongFu.kabu, member of the Party Working Committee of Zhengdong New District and executive deputy director of Central Plains Science and Technology City Management Committee, accompanied the research. Ren Xiang, chairman of the platform, and Mu Ruitao, executive vice president of Henan Digital Economy Industry Innovation Research Institute of the platform digital economy sector, received and accompanied the research.
During the visit, Ren Xiang introduced that the Central Plains Longzihu Digital Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation and Cultivation Center is the "first dual-innovation institution focusing on the digital economy industry in central China" supported by Microsoft. The cultivation center was established by Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd. and Zhengzhou Zhengdong New District Management Committee, and Henan Digital Micro Technology Co., Ltd. was authorized by both parties to be responsible for the operation and management. The project is committed to incubating high-tech enterprises in digital fields such as big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and mixed reality, and providing a series of supporting services and resource docking for the incubating enterprises, so as to build a digital economy industrial cluster and entrepreneurial ecology.
Guan Weiya, vice president of Microsoft in China, said that Zhengdong New District Incubator is Microsoft's first "Cloud and Mobile Technology Incubation Program" project in central China. With this incubator as the support, Microsoft will help the leading technology to be applied to application demonstration projects such as artificial intelligence and big data in Zhengdong New District, and make substantial contributions in improving local intelligent technology innovation capability and developing mobile Internet-based information industries such as Internet of Things and blockchain. At the same time, he expects more companies to share services based on Microsoft technology in incubators and become innovative technology unicorn companies.
Zhang Bo, Party Secretary and Director of Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that under the important strategic background of "promoting the deep integration of Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and real economy" and "Top Ten Strategies" of Henan Province, Zhengdong New District is making full use of its own advantages, laying out future industries such as artificial intelligence and big data in advance, and is striving to become a strategic highland of Henan. The landing of the incubator will set up a brand-new platform for the further development of Zhengdong New District. In the future, it is hoped that the incubator can make full use of the good innovation and entrepreneurship environment of Zhengdong New District, continuously incubate outstanding technology enterprises with industry influence, and become an important force to help Zhengzhou's technological innovation.
At present, a new wave of scientific and technological innovation has swept across China, and the future has come. It is extremely urgent to build an innovative system of resource sharing, capability coordination and open cooperation. The landing of the Central Plains Longzihu Digital Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation and Cultivation Center will accelerate the pace of digital development in Zhengdong New District, provide multi-dimensional resource assistance and policy support for settled enterprises, and make greater efforts to support the landing of technologies such as cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, etc., create a more fertile environment for innovation and entrepreneurship, and help Henan digital economy industry flourish.