2016 Beijing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week opens in E-Town

The 2016 National Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week opened in the Beijing Economic-development area on Oct 12. The theme of the event was "developing new economy, training new skills”. As the "1+2+N" week’s venue, E-Town itself was themed on "connecting Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei province, wonderful entrepreneurship", with a special focus on industrial innovation. E-Town launched 26 events on industrial innovation, parks, platforms, enterprises, talents, and skills to promote international communication, entrepreneurship competition, innovation and entrepreneurship. In addition, there were training classes, forums and road shows and investment meetings. More than 100 investment organizations and 10,000 entrepreneurs were in attendance.

The deputy director of Beijing Economic-Development Area management committee Yuan Lihong gives a speech.

The 2016 National Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week E-Town venue emphasized innovative achievements of high-tech industries in an entrepreneurship environment. Leaders from the Beijing Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, and Zhongguancun Park as well as candidates from the iCAN International Undergraduate Business Competition and entrepreneurs attended the opening ceremony.

The venue had three key concepts: internationalization, industrial innovation and entrepreneurship, all set in the context of the developing Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area. As for internationalization, the week launched American and European venues, using the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Road show Center for live communication. E-Town also invited overseas innovation and entrepreneurship groups to China to promote face-to-face communication between Chinese and overseas entrepreneurs.

To emphasize the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei context, Beijing E-Town signed cooperative contracts with the Hebei and Tianjin governments and held park and open road show events to promote collaborative innovation among the three regions. To celebrate industrial innovation and entrepreneurship, E-Town held road show competitions in electronic information, biopharmaceuticals, intelligent manufacturing, industrial Internet and other leading industries to stimulate industrial vitality and achieve new economic development and new skill training.

The opening ceremony of the 2016 National Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week E-Town venue.

At the opening ceremony, the exciting, comfortable and free environment of E-Town was on full display.

The Beijing E-Town International Conference Center is E-Town’s main venue, and is the result of the town’s transformation and upgrading. It was an old factory in the past, but now it is an international technological conference center of 80 thousand square meters and outstanding facilities. The final competition of the iCAN international undergraduate business competition will be held there, as will the World Robot Conference welcoming international intelligent manufacturing scientists, laboratories and leading enterprises in that field.

E-Town will open 13 venues in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei road show center and 12 industrial parks, incubators and E-Startups to create an innovative environment that combines entrepreneurship events, parks, businesses and talent recruitment.

Beijing E-Town is the center of technological innovation and the main force of the real economy. It actively implements the concept of "excelling, building high grade, precision technology, and serving the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area", and in the future will complete technological innovation service systems housed in designated centers.

Beijing E-Town is the only national economic-development area in Beijing. More than 15 thousand enterprises are located there, including 120 projects by 80 top 500 global enterprises. The town has 555 national hi-tech enterprises, and 190 important national laboratories and research organizations shaping the four leading industries of electronic information, biopharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and automobiles. The town’s resources are also fostering the four new industries of hi-end services, cultural creation, energy conservation and environmental protection, and airport layout. In 2015, the total output value of E-Town was 101.8 billion RMB, an increase of nine percent over 2014. Its industrial output value was 251 billion RMB. More than 100 investment organizations, technological innovation funds valued at 300 billion RMB, and 1,248 inventions and 251 patents for every 10 thousand people -- all these features confirm E-Town as a leading national economic development area.

In the future, Beijing E-Town will implement the Beijing accelerated national technological innovation project, improve the combination of industries with innovation and entrepreneurship to build integrated circuits, new displays, biopharmaceuticals, intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet innovation center to guarantee its continuation as a site for high quality precise technology.