American youth enter Shanghai Entrepreneurship Park: This place is very suitable for young people
"I am deeply impressed by the rapid development and good planning of Shanghai's science and technology. This area not only has the artificial intelligence industry, but also many companies such as Microsoft and Intel. The content is very rich." The "Big Zero Bay" technology innovation policy in Minhang District In the exhibition hall of the source functional area, Shiloh Biller stopped from time to time and carefully read the introduction on the display board. He is a software engineer at Microsoft Corporation in the United States and is very interested in technology-related content.
This is the first time for Shiloh to visit China. Out of his interest in China, he signed up for the "Bridge to the Future" U.S.-China Youth Exchange Program and came to Shanghai with more than 20 U.S. youth representatives, including college students, corporate technical youth, university professors and young entrepreneurs.
On the morning of June 11, the visiting delegation arrived at the "Big Zero Bay" scientific and technological innovation source functional area. The first stop is Huayi Vanchuang·New Institute, which was originally the factory area of Greater China Chint Rubber Factory. After renovation and renovation, the old factory building has a richer environment and functions, becoming a special science and innovation park in the "Great Zero Bay" .
"Not only is the environment here good, but the facilities are also complete, which is very suitable for young people." Shilo was born in 1999. His job is to do full-stack development for the employee satisfaction survey product VivaGlint to promote the integration of this product with other internal architectures. Integration between parts. This time he and several friends signed up for the visit. In their opinion, "It is rare to have such an opportunity to understand China's technological development and urban governance. I will share it with people around me after returning to China and encourage them to come too." China hopes to see more in-depth exchanges between China and the United States in many aspects."
After the visit, Chinese and American youths conducted exchanges on youth innovation and entrepreneurship. Zachary, a post-90s doctoral student at the University of California, came to Shanghai for the first time. As a researcher in the medical and health field, he looks forward to cooperating with Chinese researchers and conducting joint research in the future. “Everyone has been paying attention to China these years. We are conducting various medical research and hope to have the opportunity to communicate with Chinese practitioners.”
As an entrepreneur, Michael Figes' company has done many incubation projects. He is very interested in China's entrepreneurial parks and wants to know how to provide resources for enterprises and how to help small and medium-sized enterprises find more opportunities.
Shanghai Zizhu High-tech Industrial Development Zone is a high-tech industrial development zone with the private economy as its main operating entity. Zhu Wenjie, strategic cooperation manager of the park’s entrepreneurial incubator, shared: When they incubate companies, they will have dedicated personnel to follow them at different stages of development. meet different needs and provide customized resource links. "For example, when a company starts up, it may need space resources and technical experts; when it reaches the expansion stage, it needs capital financing. We will help connect investors or apply for subsidies for technological innovation, as well as bank loans for technological finance, etc. We focus on the entire life cycle of enterprises. We will provide certain support in terms of talents, policies, publicity and other aspects for our development.”
After communicating with the entrepreneurial youth, Michael Selden was very excited. "I learned about the ideas of young entrepreneurs in Shanghai, which also inspired my entrepreneurship and management." Michael Selden worked in Shanghai for a year and is now the CEO and co-founder of Finless Foods. He looks forward to more opportunities to visit and understand China in the future.
After their visit to Zero Bay, they took the high-speed train to Beijing and continued to participate in the "China-U.S. Youth Friendly Meetings" series of Sino-U.S. youth exchange activities.
