Following settlement of the CISCO’s smart city project, Guangzhou has introduced a “golden phoenix” again at Summer Davos held in Tianjin. Liwan district government and Microsoft (China) Co. Ltd. held the strategic cooperation memorandum signing ceremony, witnessed by Ralph Haupter, Microsoft Senior Vice President, Chairman and CEO of Greater China, and Wen Guohui, mayor of Guangzhou on the afternoon of June 26. Microsoft Cloud and Mobile Technology Incubation Plan -Guangzhou Cloud and Mobile Application Incubation Platform officially settles in Guangzhou.

 

The Microsoft cloud project will center on Internet + Innovation, with operation partners recognized by both parties as support, “cloud computing”, “big data” and Internet Plus based products and services as the core of cooperation, to provide the agreeable environment for the innovation and entrepreneurship and support to the new enterprises. The project is planned to locate in Liby Center in Baiertan, Liwan District, with an area measuring about 2,000 square meters. “Relying on the professional operation team, we will choose outstanding teams across China and the whole globe as well half a year to incubate in Guangzhou and accommodate the new projects to the planned industries of Liwan,” said a director of the Investment Promotion Center of Liwan District.

 

Microsoft will cooperate with technology enterprises in Liwan District to explore the possibilities of applying “Internet + innovation + big data application” technology in the smart manufacturing, 3D print, trade and logistics and other fields, and Guangzhou’s Belt and Road strategic hub framework, and gradually establish the cooperation mechanism of talent fostering, training and certification and look into the possibilities of cooperating in the fields of intelligent terminal manufacturing, the Internet of Things and smart city.

 

“The cooperation is a remarkable milestone and the project puts emphasis on talent fostering and high technology”.

 

Ralph Haupter expected to foster more software companies in Guangzhou and help local enterprises develop by means of developing solutions. “We have customized solutions for different industries and many partners across the globe, and hope we can introduce them to Guangzhou”.

 

Liwan District has the 18 registered city-level technology enterprise incubators and public makers, including one state-level incubator and two state-level public makers, incubating 589 enterprises. The district has 35 innovation and startup carriers in total, with a total area of more than 1.1 million square meters. Recently Liwan District will structure an “smart manufacturing industrial park” integrating headquarters operation, R&D and testing, financial settlement (the third-party payment) and supporting living facilities and try to increase five state-level and provincial-level new type R&D institutions in the following five years and build a smart manufacturing platform.

 

Source: Translated from Invest Guangzhou, June 28, 2016