Jiahuifang, Xi'an High-tech Zone, brings together many forces to create the most dynamic mass creation block

On October 19, the 2021 National Mass Entrepreneurship Innovation Activity Week was officially launched, and the launching ceremony of the venue in Shaanxi Province and Xi'an City was successfully held in Jiahuifang, High-tech Zone. In September 2017, Xi'an Entrepreneurship Coffee Block officially opened its doors; in 2018, 2020 and 2021, it was the home of Shaanxi Province and Xi'an Double Creation Week, and hosted the main venue activities three times in four years, which is enough to prove that Jiahuifang has become the most dynamic crowd-creation gathering area and a new landmark for innovation and entrepreneurship in Xi'an.

All the way to open up, forge ahead, Xi'an High-tech Zone with a global vision and pattern to build Jiahuifang, innovation and entrepreneurship, scientific and technological intelligence, fashion life, high-end talents, venture capital, incubation institutions and other types of resources to accelerate the convergence, Jiahuifang's "international vitality of the third space" strategic positioning is becoming clearer, "science and technology + business + life" concept in practice more and more prominent features, in the national entrepreneurial circle to show a banner of Xi'an.

A blessed land for entrepreneurs

The seeds of dreams become fruitful

The area where Jiahuifang is located is the starting area of Xi'an High-tech Zone and the earliest industrial built-up area of the high-tech zone. Time flies, more than ten years have passed, the buildings in the area have been eroded by the years, the urban facilities have gradually aged, and it has transformed from the old city into a new business card of Xi'an Shuangchuang, and Jiahuifang has taken three major steps.

The first step is space transformation and resource convergence, under the guidance of Xi'an High-tech Zone, Jiahuifang will renovate the old factory area and start the construction of "Xi'an Zhongchuang Demonstration Block". It brings together a number of high-quality incubation service institutions, integrates many cultural life experiences, and forms the basic structure, function and prototype of the innovation block.

In 2017, Jiahuifang took the second step, entered the stage of supporting facilities improvement and system construction, and vigorously upgraded the infrastructure and pipe network in the region, and in September 2017, Xi'an Entrepreneurial Coffee Block was officially opened on the basis of Xi'an Zhongchuang Demonstration Block. Subsequently, in 2018, Xi'an High-tech Zone launched the Xi'an Entrepreneurial Coffee Block Version 2.0 - Jiahuifang, which further improved the supporting functions and upgraded the form of the innovative block by optimizing the supporting environment and introducing well-known mass creation service institutions.

Since the beginning of 2019, Jiahuifang has fully entered the stage of "energy fusion and ecological transition", with the positioning of "the third space of international vitality", and all kinds of dual-creation elements aggregated in space have formed organic connections based on innovative networks, and fusion effects and multiplier effects have occurred, achieving a breakthrough from "building" to "block", realizing a breakthrough from "closed loop" to "open", and realizing the transition from chain system to rainforest ecology.

Today, Jiahuifang has gathered 43 incubation institutions, including 2 national-level filing maker spaces, 8 provincial-level maker spaces, and 5 municipal maker spaces; in terms of incubation results, nearly 3,000 registered enterprises in the region, more than 150 high-tech enterprises, nearly 300 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, 34 young eagle enterprises, 15 gazelle enterprises, more than 1,200 intellectual property rights in incubation enterprises, more than 60 transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and nearly 1 billion yuan of investment and financing for incubated enterprises. The operating income exceeds 1 billion yuan. At the same time, a total of 156 returnee entrepreneurial enterprises were introduced to settle in Jiahuifang, gathering 390 "5 types of talents in Xi'an", and promoting the employment of nearly 10,000 people.

At the same time, Jiahuifang's people-oriented block construction model has achieved initial results, and the concept of "science and technology + business + life" has become more and more prominent, forming a good situation of organic synergy of the three major formats with innovation and entrepreneurship as the core and commercial formats and cultural creativity as the support. A total of more than 200 distinctive, small and beautiful, fashionable coffee, tide drinks, restaurants and bars and other commercial formats have been introduced, and the Himalayan Sound of Everything, Music and Bait Vinyl Museum, Fruit Core Theater, Fan Deng Bookstore and other cultural and creative formats have been introduced. Let entrepreneurs deeply integrate life and entrepreneurship together, become a blessed place for regional innovation and entrepreneurship, and also become a punch card resort for trendy young people and foreign tourists to come to Xi'an.

The kernel of Jiahuifang

Sincere service to create a first-class environment

Xi'an Xi'an XJTLU Incubator ("1896 Maker Space") is a maker gathering place built by Xi'an Jiaotong University 1896 Science and Technology Double Innovation Base in Xi'an High-tech Zone, which integrates functions such as co-working, maker coffee, entrepreneurial practice, college students' employment internship, entrepreneurial training, and activity roadshow.

Founded in July 2017, the company is located on the 4th floor of Haigui Building, High-tech Zone, Xi'an City, with an area of 988.1㎡. At present, XJTLU Maker Hub Incubator (hereinafter referred to as "Maker Hub") has set up independent office areas, co-working areas, shared meeting rooms, negotiation and exchange areas, reading spaces, coffee and water bars and other hardware facilities, providing a low-cost office environment for geeks, individual entrepreneurs, start-up teams and enterprises.

Li Xueling, Director of Incubator Operations, said: "We entered Jiahuifang in September 2017 and witnessed the changes of the block and grew together with the block. "As an incubator relying on Jiaotong University, MakerHub gives full play to the brand advantages, personnel advantages and technical advantages of Jiaotong University to carry out its business with sound and color.

According to Li Xueling, since its operation in September 2017, MakerHui has incubated nearly 160 start-ups, with an average of 45 start-ups incubated every year, and 60% of jiaotong university-related enterprises. The settled incubation enterprises mainly come from new materials, information technology, intelligent hardware, enterprise services and other fields.

The reason why such outstanding results can be achieved, in addition to the strength and brand appeal of Jiaotong University, the environment and atmosphere of Jiahuifang are also a powerful plus. Li Xueling said, "The high-tech zone is the soil for the growth of hard science and technology enterprises, and the industrial chain, resources, costs and policies have obvious advantages. The entrepreneurial atmosphere of Jiahuifang is the most concentrated in the western region, and the good atmosphere brings strong popularity, and every time we hold an event, the venue is full and full. At the same time, Jiahuifang's service awareness is particularly good, especially understanding our needs, but there are corresponding solutions to provide a strong boost, so that our enterprise service personnel can expand their fists and feet and serve the enterprise in depth. ”

Also in September 2017, the incubation results of 3W COFFICE Xi'an High-tech Innovation Space (hereinafter referred to as 3W Coffee), which entered Jiahuifang, were equally outstanding. According to Zhai Rui, general manager of 3W Coffee, 3W Coffee has successfully held 185 innovation and entrepreneurship activities, 1.5 million + activities exposed, served more than 20,000 entrepreneurs, and provided 160+ investment institutions for 800+ enterprises; from 2018 to 2021, 50 million yuan of financing was obtained for 7 enterprises. There are 282 incubation enterprises, 406 intellectual property rights, 11 national high-tech enterprises for the first time, 37 state-level science and technology SMEs for the first time, 3 enterprises on the regulations, 68 service institutions for incubation enterprises, and 47 entrepreneurial mentors.

Explore the integration of industry and city

Comprehensively improve optimization to achieve a new leap

Achievements belong to the past, innovation creates the future. Jiahuifang's self-renewal and self-innovation will never stop, and it proposes to deploy around "one feature, two major supports, three embeddings, and six paths" to create a micro-ecosystem with scientific and technological innovation as the core. That is, focusing on the theme of hard science and technology, focusing on the "one feature" of hard technology, taking innovation clusters and urban supporting facilities as "two major supports", "three embeddings" of universities, enterprises and urban areas, by improving the quality and abundance of elements, promoting the upgrading of double-creation services, creating a dynamic empowerment ecology, exploring the "six paths" of hard technology and double-creation mode, creating a diversified aggregation space, and expanding the output demonstration of the model, jiahuifang will comprehensively sound the charge of Jiahuifang to the future.

The institutions in the workshop also experienced the pace of progress of Jiahuifang from all aspects, took the initiative to accelerate the rhythm and resonated with the development of Jiahuifang, and at the same time looked for their own directions according to their own characteristics. Li Xueling said, "With the presence of a number of international incubation institutions such as HAX and Liancai Workshop, the internationalization and inclusiveness of Jiahuifang have become more and more obvious, and we will strive to be the pioneer and vanguard, explore new development paths with Jiahuifang, and jointly move towards greater development space." ”

3W Coffee and the Enterprise University of the Entrepreneurship Park jointly established the Xi'an High-tech Enterprise University Hall And Hard Technology Enterprise "Seedling Incubation Camp", which provides services from the bottom construction of the enterprise to the gradient cultivation service for enterprises in the seed stage to the gazelle stage, and after one year of operation, it has established a good reputation among entrepreneurs.

"In order to welcome this double creation week, we will merge the 8th, 9th and 10th phases of the BIBS camp into one event, as one of the series of activities of the double creation week, specially invited senior experts in the industry to bring fission marketing, private domain building, product innovation and other wonderful sharing, I believe it will definitely make entrepreneurs refreshed and fruitful." Zhai Rui said.

(China Daily Shaanxi Reporter Station)

Source: China Daily