The largest metaverse professional exhibition in the country is held in Kunshan | Professional | Universe
Recently, the largest metaverse professional exhibition in China, the Kunshan Metaverse International Equipment Exhibition, opened, showcasing advanced metaverse equipment, cutting-edge metaverse technology, and trendy metaverse applications, promoting the integration of production, research, demand, and sales. At the opening ceremony, the TOP50 list of China's metaverse and the China Metaverse Equipment Development Index were released. The former selected 50 leading domestic enterprises around terminal devices, software platforms, solutions, etc., continuously attracting key domestic and foreign metaverse enterprises to be listed and landing.
The metaverse is indeed very compatible with Kunshan, which has consistently ranked first among the top 100 counties in China. On November 8th last year, Kunshan released the "Kunshan Metaverse Industry Innovation and Development Action Plan" in Shanghai, demonstrating its ambition to become the first county in the domestic metaverse industry. The plan proposes that by 2025, the scale of the metaverse related industries in Kunshan will reach 100 billion yuan, and more than 15 typical application scenario projects will be completed. It will cultivate more than 5 leading enterprises with international competitiveness, more than 100 "specialized, refined, and new" small and medium-sized enterprises in the metaverse, establish a metaverse industry innovation research institute that radiates across the country, accelerate the construction of a metaverse industry agglomeration highland, technology innovation highland, industry application demonstration highland, and policy pilot highland.
The ecological foundation of Kunshan's metaverse industry is sound today. As the first county-level city in China with a GDP exceeding 500 billion yuan, it has two leading industries with a GDP of over 100 billion yuan, namely electronic information and equipment manufacturing; At the same time, Kunshan insists on treating the metaverse industry as an important track for transformation, upgrading, and innovative development, constructing and operating metaverse characteristic professional innovation parks with high standards, accelerating the construction of a billion dollar metaverse industry cluster, leading enterprises such as May Day Vision and Liangfengtai, as well as projects such as Microsoft Industrial Metaverse Application Center and HPE International Digital Innovation Valley, have settled in Kunshan.
At the same time, Kunshan, located in the Yangtze River Delta region, has a strong manufacturing foundation and innovative vitality, which can provide a solid foundation for the development of the metaverse. Looking at Jiangsu, it has outstanding advantages in Internet economy, big data, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet and other aspects. In 2022, Jiangsu's software and information technology service industry will achieve business income of more than one trillion yuan. With Nanjing, Suzhou and Wuxi as the representatives, Jiangsu has the largest number of software cities in China. At the same time, research conducted by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology shows that most of the virtual reality equipment related accessories in the country are produced in Jiangsu. The development of the metaverse equipment manufacturing industry chain can not only open up new market opportunities in Jiangsu's manufacturing industry, but also significantly improve the efficiency of digital development in the manufacturing industry. It will take the lead in forming the entire metaverse industry category covering chip manufacturing, optical display, content creation, etc. in Jiangsu Province.
At present, Jiangsu has clearly proposed to seize the key track of the digital economy, focus on developing future industries such as the metaverse, and strive to build the "first province of digital and real integration". The Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology will also strengthen top-level design, promote industrial agglomeration, drive innovation, and enhance scene development, support Suzhou and Kunshan to take the lead in trial, promote the construction of metaverse industry innovation clusters and pilot zones, and accelerate the innovative development of metaverse industry.