The well-known complex at No.733 Dongfeng Road, namely the “home” of Yangcheng Evening News, will become a treasured land in the central urban area of Guangzhou for promoting concentration of mobile Internet businesses and public business starting. On March 25, Yangcheng Evening News Group and Tencent, a leader of the Internet industry, signed a contract for cooperation in construction of Tencent Entrepreneurship (Guangzhou) Base in this complex to build a mobile-Internet-themed high-tech incubation platform that provides one-stop services for people who start their own businesses.

 

It was learnt that, the base will make integration of a great number of resources, including Tencent’s open platform (open.qq.com), application platform (myapp.com), cloud platform (qcloud.com) and advertisement platform (e.qq.com), to provide support for network flow, multi-platform capacity open-up, cashability cultivation, sharing of business starting cost, knowledge training and investment with actual resources.

 

Wang Huanqing, deputy secretary of CPC Yuexiu District Committee and district mayor of Yuexiu District, attended the signing ceremony. He said the base to be established in Yuexiu has great significance in activating the vitality of the central urban area of Guangzhou for business starting and industrial development and exploring new mode for transformation and upgrading of building economy in this area. He hoped that the operation of the base will accelerate the concentration of entrepreneurship teams in the mobile Internet sector and lead to a new upsurge of industrial development through science and technology innovation as well as service innovation.

 

Hou Xiaonan, deputy general manager of Tencent’s open platform and application platform, attended the signing ceremony. He said that, by 2015, the open platform of Tencent has been in operation for four years. Four years ago, Tencent aimed to set up a “new Tencent” through the development of the platform. Today, the market value of the partners of the platform has reached RMB200 billion. At the same time of opening network flow for all the users, the platform also promotes a fast development of a number of SMEs. So far, ten companies have been listed in the USA and Hong Kong through back-door listing. It was predicted that more than 20 companies will have annual revenue of more than RMB100 million this year.

 

Hou said that Tencent provides both on-line and off-line services for the new entrepreneurs. The on-line services are provided through the official websites of Tencent, while the off-line services are provided through the entrepreneurship bases established in different places throughout the country. These bases integrate the high-level government support and the abundant on-line resources of Tencent for the entrepreneurs in the Internet sector to have a brand-new experience.

 

Source: Nanfang Daily, March 26, 2015