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Gathering in the central plains, creating the future. On the morning of July 28, 2022, Microsoft's "Cloud and Mobile Technology Incubation Program"-Central Plains Longzihu Digital Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation and Cultivation Center was officially launched in the Wisdom Island Building of Longzihu, Zhengdong New District, Zhengzhou City.

Mu Ruitao, executive vice president of Henan Digital Economy Industry Innovation Research Institute and chief technology officer of Henan Digital Micro-Technology Co., Ltd., presided over the launching ceremony. Pan Kaiming, deputy mayor of Zhengzhou Municipal Government and member of the party group, Li Meixiang, director of Industry Division III of Henan Provincial Department of Commerce, Tian Qunxi, vice president of Microsoft Greater China and general manager of Microsoft (China) Public Division, TongFu.kabu, member of the Party Working Committee of Zhengdong New District and executive deputy director of Zhengzhou Zhongyuan Science and Technology City Management Committee, Zheng Lizhong, second-level researcher of Zhengzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Ren Xiang, Executive Dean of Henan Digital Economy Industry Innovation Research Institute, Chairman of Henan Digital Micro-technology Co., Ltd., Zeng Xianjie, Vice President of Henan Digital Economy Industry Innovation Research Institute and Deputy Director of Longzihu Digital Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation Cultivation Center in Central Plains, pressed the start button together.

Pan Kaiming said in his speech that Zhengzhou is vigorously building a new ecology of digital economy development, striving to build a national first-class big data industry center, a digital emerging industry development cluster area and a national digital economy industry development pioneer area. He emphasized that the start of the cultivation center is an important step for Zhengzhou and Microsoft (China) to cooperate with each other in digital economy industry, and it is of great significance for optimizing the environment for innovation and entrepreneurship, incubating outstanding scientific and technological enterprises, accelerating the layout of digital industry and seizing the commanding heights of development.

Zhao Kai emphasized that Zhengdong New District is the core area of National Big Data Comprehensive Experimental Zone, Zheng Luoxin National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone, an important bearing area of China (Henan) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the core functional area of financial agglomeration in Central Plains Economic Zone and Henan Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Experimental Zone. It is a model for promoting new urbanization in China, and has become a hot spot for all kinds of high-quality enterprises and projects to invest and start businesses. Microsoft is an internationally renowned IT leader, with rich industry experience and leading technical advantages. With the blessing of Microsoft technology, this cooperation not only brings image enhancement to the development of digital economy in Central Plains, but also strongly promotes the positive effect of project attraction and quality improvement in Zhengdong New District. The landing of Longzihu Digital Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation and Cultivation Center in Central Plains will accelerate the digital development process of Zhengdong New District and fully boost the pace of digital Henan construction.

Tian Qunxi expressed his warm congratulations on the start-up and operation of Longzihu Digital Economy Innovation and Cultivation Center in Central Plains. He said that as the first global leading technology enterprise to take root in the Chinese market, Microsoft has always been optimistic about China's development prospects, rooted in China, and made progress hand in hand. At the same time, positive efforts have been made in product and technology localization, and most cloud and SaaS services such as Microsoft cloud, artificial intelligence and big data products, mixed reality, low-code platform and productivity products have been deployed and run in China, and operation, data localization and service localization have been realized. We have always attached great importance to the market opportunities, industrial cooperation and talent system training of Microsoft Zhengzhou. Microsoft is looking forward to more opportunities to give full play to the advantages of global digital technology and digital talents, gather innovative ecological energy, and help Zhengzhou to flourish in the digital age in digital talent training, digital ecological cultivation and advanced technology introduction.

In his speech, Ren Xiang pointed out that Longzihu Digital Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation Training Center in Central Plains cooperates with top talents in many industries. On the one hand, it is committed to incubating high-tech enterprises in digital fields such as big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and mixed reality, on the other hand, it helps our large-scale enterprises to carry out digital transformation and upgrading. Besides, the establishment of the cultivation center will not only bring Microsoft's advanced technology to the central region, but also introduce the enterprises, talents, tutors and services in Microsoft's ecology to Zhengzhou, and bring the world-famous innovation cup of Microsoft to Zhengzhou, so as to grasp the development direction of the future industry. In the future, the cultivation center will thoroughly implement the national, provincial, municipal and district innovation-driven development strategy, accelerate the industrial transformation and upgrading in the field of talent cultivation in Henan, accelerate the formation of a new engine of economic development, comprehensively explore new empowerment, and strive to boost the new situation of innovation and entrepreneurship in the central region.

The event started with an innovative big coffee show, inviting Li Erchao, chief technical strategy consultant of Microsoft (China) Government Division, and Teng Yuanbin, cloud solution architect of Microsoft (China), to share the themes of Microsoft Innovation Empowerment-Giving Science and Technology Innovation and Microsoft Empowerment Enterprise Innovation in the Native Era of Cloud respectively. China Power Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd., Henan Chenbang Information Technology Co., Ltd., Henan Operation Center of Shaanxi Semiconductor Pilot Center and Henan Huajidian Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou Yunfeng Computer Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Chengqiancheng Internet Education Technology Co., Ltd. and Henan Leping Technology Co., Ltd. signed the contract as the first batch of cooperative and settled enterprises. Students from five universities, including Zhengzhou University and Henan University of Technology, participated in the empowerment ceremony as representatives of digital talents.

Microsoft's "Cloud and Mobile Technology Incubation Program"-Central Plains Longzihu Digital Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation and Cultivation Center is a dual-innovation cultivation institution supported by Microsoft and set up by Zhengdong New District Management Committee. It is the first member of Microsoft's "Cloud and Mobile Technology Incubation Program" in Central Plains. It is committed to discovering, cultivating and supporting outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship teams in digital economy frontier areas such as digital transformation of traditional industries, offshore business, meta-universe, advanced manufacturing, etc., and exploring and cultivating excellent digital economy for Henan.

The main leaders of provincial departments, Zhengdong New District Management Committee, Microsoft (China) leaders, digital micro-technology leaders, entrepreneurs' representatives, university representatives and media friends attended the launching ceremony.

Tian Qunxi expressed his warm congratulations on the start-up and operation of Longzihu Digital Economy Innovation and Cultivation Center in Central Plains. He said that as the first global leading technology enterprise to take root in the Chinese market, Microsoft has always been optimistic about China's development prospects, rooted in China, and made progress hand in hand. At the same time, positive efforts have been made in product and technology localization, and most cloud and SaaS services such as Microsoft cloud, artificial intelligence and big data products, mixed reality, low-code platform and productivity products have been deployed and run in China, and operation, data localization and service localization have been realized. We have always attached great importance to the market opportunities, industrial cooperation and talent system training of Microsoft Zhengzhou. Microsoft is looking forward to more opportunities to give full play to the advantages of global digital technology and digital talents, gather innovative ecological energy, and help Zhengzhou to flourish in the digital age in digital talent training, digital ecological cultivation and advanced technology introduction.