On August 1, the opening ceremony of the "Innovation Acceleration Camp in the Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone - PwC China x Huangpu Innovation Acceleration Camp Phase II" was successfully held. Li Ming, member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and Director of the Organization Department, attended the ceremony, and jointly launched the "Innovation Acceleration Camp of the Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone" with Cheng Yangyong, Deputy Director of the Organization Department of the District Committee and Director of the District Talent Work Bureau, Liang Guo, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman and General Manager of Huangpu Science and Technology Innovation Group, and Fu Jin, PwC Central China Market Leader. Dozens of representatives from start-ups, investment institutions, and industry leaders in the fields of digital technology, life and health, and science and technology innovation services gathered together to witness together.
Liang Guo, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman and General Manager of Huangpu Science and Technology Innovation Group, said that at present, Huangpu District is accelerating the construction of a "2+1" science and technology innovation industry system in the central science and technology innovation zone with digital technology and life and health as the core and science and technology service industry as the support. Under the guidance of the Office of the Leading Group for Talent Work of the Huangpu District Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Office of the Leading Group for the Construction of the Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone of Huangpu District, Huangpu Science and Technology Innovation Group has once again joined hands with PwC to upgrade and build the "Innovation Acceleration Camp of the Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone", which will be based in Huangpu, facing Shanghai and linking the world, gathering top innovation elements, improving the efficiency of science and technology innovation services, improving the ecology of science and technology innovation industry, aiming at the innovation and entrepreneurship needs of high-level talents, and cultivating the fertile soil for innovation of world-class talents. It will help create a new pattern in which high-end talent resources and high-level scientific and technological innovation complement each other, and the cultivation of high-level industries and high-quality economic development resonate at the same frequency, and build a strong engine for writing a new chapter in the linkage development of the Bund Financial Cluster and the Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone.
Wu Jiashi, PwC China Risk Control & Digital Transformation Partner, believes that technological innovation has become a core driving force for economic development and social progress, and the Innovation Accelerator is a beneficial practice for PwC China and Huangpu Science and Technology Innovation Group to share ecological resources and collaborate on open innovation. Building on the successful experience of the first phase of the Innovation Acceleration Camp, this phase of the "Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone Innovation Acceleration Camp" will further deepen the ecological docking and resource sharing between PwC China and Huangpu District, form a strong science and technology innovation service network in the Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone, continue to empower the growth of innovative enterprises, and help Huangpu District accelerate the cultivation of new quality productivity.
At the scene, the theme promotion was carried out around the investment function of Huangpu science and technology innovation. According to reports, Huangpu Science and Technology Innovation Group adheres to the "high-standing capital empowerment" and accelerates the construction of a "direct investment + fund + venture capital" science and technology investment system. At the same time, in order to fully stimulate the advantages of Huangpu's financial agglomeration and release the potential energy of multi-level investment linkage, Huangpu District initiated the establishment of platforms such as Huangpu Science and Technology Innovation Investment Alliance and Shanghai Angel Club, so as to help scientific and technological innovation break through "0 to 1", leap from "1 to 10", and jump to "10 to 100" to consolidate full-cycle capital support.
After the launching ceremony, a roadshow with the themes of digital technology, life and health and science and technology innovation services was launched. 25 innovative new forces stood out after layers of screening, and shared cutting-edge science and technology with more than 40 leading enterprises, investment institutions, professional service institutions and other industry backbones and industry experts, collided with innovative thinking, and learned from each other's development experience.
As the "heart, window and business card" of Shanghai, Huangpu District has the most abundant application scenarios for scientific and technological innovation, the most intensive innovative financial capital, the strongest atmosphere of international cooperation, and the most diverse and inclusive cultural environment, which is the best fertile ground for scientific and technological innovation and development. In the future, Huangpu District will be guided by the strategic blueprint of the Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone, and linked by the Innovation Acceleration Camp of the Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone, and continue to build resource links, development engines and science and technology innovation highlands for start-ups, growth, mature and other enterprises, so as to condense "resource nourishment", bloom "talent flowers", and bear "fruits of science and technology", so as to consolidate the strategic scientific and technological strength of Huangpu District to build an important carrying area for the construction of Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center.