“Double Bay Integration Creates a Future” 2024 Wuxi-Hong Kong Innovation Cooperation and Development Exchange Conference was held in Hong Kong

The water of Taihu Lake is rippling with blue waves, and the tides in the Great Bay are endless. On April 24, the “Double Bay Integration to Create the Future” 2024 Wuxi-Hong Kong Innovation Cooperation and Development Exchange Conference was held in Hong Kong. Representatives of high-level talents such as well-known experts, scholars, and rural sages in the Greater Bay Area, heads of key well-known enterprises and institutions, representatives of talent, technology, and financial institutions, and heads of key and well-known enterprises and institutions in Wuxi gathered in Xiangjiang to draw the “Double Bay Integration” “The grand blueprint opens a new chapter of “the perfect combination”.

Wuxi, located in the geometric center of the Yangtze River Delta, has active economic development and profound cultural heritage. In 2023, the total GDP will be 1.55 trillion yuan, and the per capita GDP will reach 206,300 yuan. It has ranked first among large and medium-sized cities in the country for four consecutive years. It has 6 industrial clusters with a scale of over 200 billion yuan and 124 A-share listed companies, ranking eighth in the country. , including 24 companies listed on the Hong Kong stock market. A large number of celebrities such as Jiang Nanxiang, Qian Zhongshu, and Xu Beihong emerged. There are 111 academicians from Wuxi and the two academies working in Wuxi, giving birth to “strugglers”Number,“Shenwei Taihu Light” and many other important weapons of great powers. In February 2023, Wuxi Municipal Party Committee Secretary Du Xiaogang led a team to carry out the “Double Bay Integration·Create the Future” series of activities in the Greater Bay Area. A total of 85 signed projects with a total amount of more than 156 billion yuan were signed, writing a new chapter for the integration of Wuxi and the Greater Bay Area. A new chapter in development.

The “perfect combination” of Taihu Pearl and Oriental Pearl

Gao Fei, member of the Standing Committee of the Wuxi Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, extended a sincere invitation to people from all walks of life in Hong Kong in his speech, and looked forward to Hong Kong people from all walks of life writing more “spring stories” in Wuxi. Gao Fei said that since last year, Wuxi and Hong Kong have successfully joined hands in technological innovation, financial cooperation, cultural exchanges, etc., and Hong Kong has become Wuxi’s largest source of overseas investment, destination for overseas investment, and main location for overseas listings. In Wuxi, you can enjoy the Jiangnan style of “small bridges and flowing water and people living in it”, you can feel the development enthusiasm of “a century-old industrial and commercial city”, you can appreciate the cultural accumulation of “the hometown of professors and academicians”, and you can taste the tin style “full of warmth and water” Life. Wuxi will continue to provide policy support that “can do things, can achieve things”, entrepreneurial services that “do nothing difficult, do it with care”, and a living environment that “those who are near are happy and those who are far away” will create the best environment for everyone to display their ambitions and achieve their dreams in Wuxi. Good conditions.

Tang Yingnian, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, and Chairman of the China-Hong Kong Friendship Association, is originally from Wuxi. He has returned to Jiangsu and Wuxi many times with fellow citizens and friends from Hong Kong to express family ties and discuss cooperation. , seek development, promote commercial development, industrial development, technological innovation and humanistic work in Hong Kong and Jiangsu, and build a new bridge for scientific and technological innovation collaboration and industrial empowerment between Xigang and Hong Kong.

Tang Yingnian said in his speech that Wuxi is the birthplace of township enterprises and has explored the “Southern Jiangsu Model” that has attracted much attention. Entering a new era, Wuxi is comprehensively promoting the new practice of Chinese-style modern Wuxi, actively promoting the construction of a highland of industrial technological innovation and a highland of vitality and openness, and striving to create a new era of industrial and commercial city and lake ecology with strong international and domestic competitiveness and influence. Famous cities, Jiangnan cultural cities and regional hubs gather famous cities. We hope that more Hong Kong companies and talents can seize development opportunities, enter Wuxi, join hands with Wuxi, and create more sparks of cooperation with Wuxi.

Hong Kong is rich in scientific and technological innovation resources and has a large number of internationally renowned universities and research institutes. Wuxi has a solid industrial foundation and the accumulation of new industries, new models and new drivers. This provides a basis for in-depth cooperation between the two places in promoting the financing integration of scientific and technological innovation resources, strengthening industry-university-research cooperation in universities and colleges, promoting talent training, and the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. . Li Wenrong, Executive Vice President of City University of Hong Kong, said in his speech that the two cities of Hong Kong and Wuxi are closely related and closely related. The Nanomaterials Industry Technology Innovation Center jointly built by City University of Hong Kong and Wuxi has completed the process of construction demonstration and implementation project selection. City University of Hong Kong also plans to establish an innovation research institute in Wuxi for the transformation of professional talent achievements to strengthen cooperation between the two parties.

Wuxi is the birthplace of modern industry and commerce in China. It is currently accelerating the creation of strategic emerging industry clusters with international competitiveness, actively deploying and building future industries, and strives to use the innovative vitality of “the first stop for returnees” and the development stage of “the first choice for mass entrepreneurship and innovation” , the excellent ecology of “creating the best city” will attract more innovative achievements to take root and sprout in this fertile soil for innovation and entrepreneurship. Tao Bo, Director of the Wuxi Science and Technology Bureau, introduced Wuxi’s innovation and entrepreneurship environment and said that Wuxi will provide comprehensive support in various aspects such as the cultivation of innovative enterprises, the construction of innovation carrier platforms, key technology research, and innovative talent fields, and will continue to build a fertile soil for innovation and entrepreneurship. .

Finance is the core of the modern economy and the blood of the national economy. In order to further promote the interconnection of innovative resources in the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area, and allow financial “living water” to flow between the splendid Xiangjiang River and the vast Taihu Lake, at the exchange meeting, Wei Qun, commercial director of Yahui Investment, and Zhang Hongjun, deputy secretary of the Financial Working Committee of the Wuxi Municipal Party Committee, jointly Signed the contract for Yahui Jinze QFLP project.

Cherish talents and attract wisdom, build a first-class talent attraction magnetic field

Young people gather together because of the city, and the city thrives because of the young people. Wuxi has always placed talent-led development in an important strategic position, vigorously promoted the strategy of strengthening the city with talents in the new era, gathered talents from all over the world, and made every effort to create a domestic first-class and internationally competitive talent development highland. Wuxi’s latest Hong Kong and Macao youth talent introduction policy was announced at the exchange meeting. Wan Ning, deputy director of the Youth Affairs Department of the Liaison Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Hong Kong, Yu Renchang, deputy director of the Wuxi Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, and He Yuji, founding chairman of the Jiangsu-Hong Kong Youth Exchange Promotion Association , Shao Xiaorong, head of the Wuxi base of Jiangsu-Hong Kong Youth Exchange Promotion Association, jointly launched the “INTERN Jiangsu” provincial internship program for Hong Kong college students. Lin Maosong, deputy director of the Organization Department of the Wuxi Municipal Party Committee and director of the Party Building Office, Zhang Lin, member of the Standing Committee of the Wuxi Xishan District Party Committee and director of the Organization Department, Liu Xudong, vice chairman and director of the Hong Kong Talents and Professionals Association, and Peng Yanbao, chairman of Hong Kong Xizhou International, joined hands for Wuxi The Municipal Double Recruitment and Double Introduction Workstation (Hong Kong) and the Yangtze River Delta (Wuxi) International Talent Port Hub Station (Hong Kong) were unveiled.

In recent years, Wuxi has introduced a series of talent attraction policies and has been rated as the “Best Talent Attraction City” in the country for five consecutive years. In particular, Jiangsu Province took the lead in introducing “several measures” to promote the employment and entrepreneurship of young talents from Hong Kong and Macao, and launched the first innovation and entrepreneurship base for young people from Hong Kong and Macao, so that Hong Kong talents can live comfortably, work securely and develop smoothly in Wuxi, and gather strong talent support for new productive forces. . Wuxi will help Hong Kong’s young talents pursue their dreams and pursue their dreams with the greatest sincerity!

At the 2024 Wuxi-Hong Kong Special Talent Exchange Meeting held simultaneously in the morning, 46 key technology companies in Wuxi came to the scene with 360 high-quality positions, using the form of “direct recruitment from the boss” for recruitment. The positions covered big data management, intelligent science and technology, For majors such as integrated circuits, computers, machinery, electronic information, biomedicine, polymer materials, civil engineering, economics and finance, the maximum annual salary exceeds 1 million yuan. In addition to “Direct Recruitment from the Boss”, the event also opened a “Director’s Live Broadcast”, which included Wuxi human resources and social security related people from “two cities and six districts” such as Jiangyin, Yixing, Liangxi, Xishan, Huishan, Binhu, Xinwu, and Economic Development Zone. The person in charge was invited to the live broadcast room to bring the most intuitive and convenient real-time interactive experience to university students in Hong Kong.

Take careful care and create the best stage for development

In order to further deepen the docking cooperation between Wuxi and Hong Kong, the 2024 Wuxi-Hong Kong Innovation Cooperation Symposium was held simultaneously at the exchange meeting in the morning. People from Hong Kong’s science and technology, industry and Wuxi Xiangxian in Hong Kong put forward their opinions on the cooperation between the two places to Wuxi. suggestion. Gao Fei said that Wuxi will focus on expanding the “industrial circle” to create a win-win situation, build a “talent circle” for mutual promotion and mutual advancement, and create a rich and mellow “family circle” to identify the “needs of the country” and “Hong Kong needs”. At the intersection of “Towards” and “Wuxi Director”, we will firmly promote the construction of the Yangtze River Delta-Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao (Wuxi) Science and Technology Innovation Industry Integrated Development Zone, and embrace the beauty of mutual prosperity and win-win between the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area while connecting and serving Hong Kong. tomorrow.

The exchange meeting simultaneously held the 2024 Wuxi-Hong Kong Industry-Academic-Research Cooperation Forum, and 14 projects from universities such as the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Hong Kong Science Park were announced on-site, covering biomedicine, electronic information, new energy, New materials, future industries and other advantageous industries and frontier areas that Wuxi focuses on development. Tao Bo, Director of the Wuxi Science and Technology Bureau, launched five policy gift packages for innovative and entrepreneurial talents, technology enterprises, new R&D institutions and technological R&D at the symposium. He welcomed more Hong Kong scientific research results to gather in Wuxi and realize the transformation of the results.

In order to help Hong Kong start-ups and comprehensively deepen the in-depth integrated development of industry, science and technology, finance and other fields between Wuxi and Hong Kong, the exchange meeting simultaneously held the 2024 Wuxi-Hong Kong Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project Roadshow and Investment Matchmaking Conference and the “Venture Capital Wuxi” 151 activities. The Huaganglong Biotechnology Co., Ltd. project of the Department of Biomedicine of the City University of Hong Kong, the COMPASS HEALTH project of the Institute of Data Science and the School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, the metabolomics-driven precision medicine project of the University of Hong Kong, and the enterprise-level cross-platform communication of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Excellent projects such as the AI ​​assistant project were put on stage for roadshows. Many representatives from venture capital institutions commented and interacted with project representatives on site, forming in-depth exchanges among talents, projects, and capital, fully releasing capital dividends, and assisting the development of Hong Kong’s scientific and technological innovation talents.

In addition, a Wuxi intangible cultural heritage and talent cultural and creative exhibition was specially set up next to the venue, displaying a large number of intangible cultural heritage products and techniques with strong Wuxi characteristics, such as Huishan clay figurines, Yixing purple sand, Liuqing bamboo carvings, and Wuxi fine embroidery, as well as elaborately crafted works by Wuxi Talented cultural and creative products. Wuxi also combines Wuxi talent IP with local intangible cultural heritage to create cultural and creative gifts. Talent work brand IP Afu Axi also went to Hong Kong with “colleagues” to show Wuxi’s rich and vivid cultural charm to all walks of life in Hong Kong. Close the distance between Hong Kong talents and Wuxi.

The most beautiful April day in the world. The 108-kilometer-long beautiful Wuxi Lake shoreline on the north shore of Taihu Lake is like a pair of open arms, welcoming friends from Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and even all over the world. This spring, we expect more economic waves to flow between the two bays, and more development vitality to surge between the two places.

Xinhua Daily·Intersection reporter Xiao Lei Cao Yang