Oh Se-hoon, who went to China’s Silicon Valley, where Xiaomi and Baidu were born, “I was struck by a flash of light”

2024-08-05 05:20:52

Oh Se-hoon inspects Beijing Zhongguancun Entrepreneurship Street
The Robot Innovation Center has a walking and running human-sized robot.

The appearance of the ‘Zhongguancun (中關村)’ startup street in the northwest of Beijing, China on the 31st of last month (local time). Startup support centers centered around universities in the area are located on both sides of a 220m distance. Beijing = Reporter Jeon Hye-jin [email protected]

“In the early 1990s, it was a book street selling books, but now it is China’s representative startup cluster that supports students’ startups in cooperation with surrounding universities.”

On the 31st of last month (local time), a 220m section of the Zhongguancun Startup Street in northwestern Beijing, China, was lined with startup support centers centered around local universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University. Zhongguancun Startup Street, established in June 2014 and now in its 10th year, is China’s first innovative startup cluster with a total area of ​​45,000 m2. Currently, there are about 50 startup support service organizations, and about 3,000 incubation programs are in progress. Many of China’s representative global companies, such as Baidu, Lenovo, Tencent, and Xiaomi, were born here.

An official from the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) China Center, who guided startups, explained, “China’s R&D investment is concentrated in a few universities, such as Peking University and Tsinghua University,” and “The scale is greater than that of Korea’s top 10 universities and has reached the level of Harvard University in the United States.” He emphasized, “The era of Korea nurturing China experts is over, and it has become an era where it must nurture Chinese industry experts for each important industry.”

Then, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said, “I am so excited,” and added, “I will actively support the advancement of Seoul startups into China while collaborating with China.” Mayor Oh and the Seoul city delegation visited Zhongguancun Startup Street that day and toured major startup support facilities to discuss ways to create a startup ecosystem for domestic startups and strategies for fostering them. They also checked out the Chinese government’s startup incubation system.

A Seoul city official explained, “Beijing is ranked 8th in the global startup ecosystem, and Seoul is ranked 9th,” and “It is meaningful to examine private and public policies to support startups in Zhongguang Village, where global startups are concentrated.”

On the 31st of last month (local time), a student is working on a laptop in front of the Beijing University Entrepreneurship Training Center, a representative entrepreneurship support center in Zhongguancun. Beijing = Reporter Jeon Hye-jin [email protected]

The representative startup support center of Zhongguancun Startup Street, the ‘Beijing University Startup Training Camp’, which I visited that day, is a 5,000㎡ space with one floor above ground and two floors underground. Residents can use all the facilities necessary for startups, such as lecture rooms, youth exchange spaces, startup research labs, exhibition halls, and laboratories. Outside the center, research labs and startups related to future technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) fill Zhongguancun Street.

“We set foot in Zhongguancun in 2017,” said an official from Achu Science and Technology, an AI technology company that started out at Tsinghua University’s AI Research Institute. “Because Zhongguancun provides a great environment for working with talented people, the company has moved four times within Zhongguancun and has still established itself here.”

On the 31st of last month (local time), Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon visited the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center and watched a walking demonstration by the human-sized robot ‘Tiangong’. Provided by Seoul Metropolitan Government

Meanwhile, the Seoul City delegation also visited the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center before inspecting Zhongguancun Startup Street. They looked at the 164cm tall, 43kg human-sized robot “Tiangong,” as well as ultra-light robot arms and robots capable of expressing facial expressions, and exchanged opinions on ways to develop the robot industry in both countries.

In July of last year, Seoul City announced the ‘Seoul Robot Industry Promotion Comprehensive Plan’ to leap forward as a global robot city. A Seoul City official said, “We are currently promoting various projects such as robot technology development, verification support, and opening a robot artificial intelligence science museum, and we plan to create a ‘Suseo Robot Cluster’ where robot companies and support facilities are concentrated to attract cutting-edge robot companies.”

Beijing = Reporter Jeon Hye-jin [email protected]

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