Jingrong Town
Jingrong Town is one of the 28 national innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration bases and one of the 3 leading maker spaces in Chengdu. It has been built on the basis of the comparative advantages of Pidu District, including its rich higher education institution resources, perfect supporting industries and abundant spacial carrier. By insisting on international standards, marketized operational mechanism and professional services, Jingrong Town sets the goal of “standing shoulder to shoulder with Optical Valley & taking Silicon Valley as the benchmark” to create the global innovation center.
Until now, Jingrong Town has created maker spaces with a covering area of 870,000 m2 and aggregated 1,700emerging industry projects such as big data, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), new materials, biological medicine and VR/AR technology. Moreover, 50 new incubators were introduced including TusPark Research Institute and Plug&Play, gathering more than 20,000 makers, bringing in 40 high-level talents including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering and experts of the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, and the group of over 100 maker’s mentors was formed. “Chengdu Floater” talent program was also promoted. Now there are 624 apartments for makers to live at any time. The program has cumulatively gathered 42 public technology service platforms, 7 innovation and entrepreneurship service platforms, 25 different funds, accumulative 1,610 new market subjects and 14 new listed companies with registered capital of RMB 5.279 billion in total. Jingrong Town strives to foster new driving forces for economic development with innovation and entrepreneurship and takes the lead to promote comprehensive management reform of intellectual property rights. Electronic information and innovation and entrepreneurship industry have made a huge progress in development, emerging industries such as big data and UAV have a strong momentum for growth, and the traditional superior industries such as food processing have realized transformation and upgrading. Jingrong Town has successively witnessed the multitudinous international competitions such as the Final Competition of 2017 China SWC Startup World Cup and more than 300 conferences, as well as the establishment of the center of Global Innovation Center. It has been granted with the titles of the first innovation and entrepreneurship base for overseas Chinese and the first national entrepreneurship demonstration park for college students and included in the first group of Chinese Characteristic Towns. In December 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) press conference made a special recommendation for Pidu District’s experiences and achievements in innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration base construction.
