Zhejiang Esports Town Consolidates "New" Forces to Build a New Class Entrepreneurship Park
Shaoxing, September 17th (Xinhua) - "Being selected as an esports referee for the Hangzhou Asian Games is an opportunity that is rare and rare, and I feel very honored and looking forward to it." Zheng Chao, the vice president of the New Association of Shangyu District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, who was selected as an esports referee for the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games, couldn't conceal his excitement.
Although he is born in the 1990s, Zheng Chao already holds many titles, such as General Manager of a startup company, National Senior Software Engineer, and National First Class Esports Judge. And the "eYou Town" in Shangyu District is his "cradle of growth".
In the development boom of characteristic towns in Zhejiang Province, Shangyu "e-tourism town" was successfully accepted and named in September 2019. It focuses on digital cultural and creative industries represented by games, animation, film and television, and Internet technology, and has now entered the construction and development of version 2.0.
In recent years, the town has actively carried out training activities related to esports referees, such as national level one and level two esports level referee grading training, Zhejiang Province esports referee training, etc., and a large number of excellent esports referees, including Zheng Chao, have emerged. At the same time, as new members of society, they can be seen in everything from union competitions to officiating at Asian Games events.
In order to gather the strength of new social strata, the town actively creates an innovative and entrepreneurial atmosphere, creates a new "new tribe" of social strata in Shangyu District, and explores new models of united front work.
"I have been in Shangyu for almost three years, and my biggest feeling is that the business environment here is so good!" Three years ago, being attracted by the business environment and cultural heritage of Shangyu, Lei Yifan, a new class person, "brought his family" and drove 18 hours from Beijing to Shangyu with his cat and dog.
After officially settling in the "e-tourism town" in Shangyu, Lei Yifan led a team to deeply cultivate the cultural industry and established the Xiuhe Media Group. Over the past three years, this media company, which involves fields such as film and television, animation, and artist management, has continuously gathered excellent directors, screenwriters, producers, actors, and related film and television resources, becoming a leading enterprise in the "e-game town".
"We have also attracted many excellent professionals in post production, creative and other fields, injecting vitality into the development of the enterprise, and adding more than 130 job opportunities to Shangyu," said Lei Yifan.
In order to continuously optimize the business environment, "eGame Town" has made efforts from multiple aspects, such as collaborating with Zhejiang Construction Vocational and Technical College to jointly build an eGame College, providing students for digital cultural and creative enterprises point-to-point; The online direct reporting system and talent subsidy system created have been launched, making policy implementation easy. Since 2023, policy implementation has reached 57.72 million yuan; Establish the Zhejiang Provincial Online Game Pre approval Sub Center, undertake the construction and operation of the Zhejiang Provincial Online Game Service Management Platform; The "Gazelle Plan" has been officially launched to help enterprises grow in production, operation, technological innovation, and other aspects
In addition to the "hard environment", the town also actively creates a "soft environment". For example, various activities such as launching "zero yuan occupancy" youth apartments, Saturday themed youth entrepreneurship markets, and highlighting digital industries, youth advancement, national trend play, and shared prosperity between mountains and seas.
Nowadays, there are 185 high-quality digital cultural and creative enterprises settled in the town, attracting more than 3000 new social strata. The town has 524 patents and 186 valid invention patents, providing the "new" force with the "driving force" for the development of the town.
