CHENGDU, China, July 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Chengdu Hi-tech
Zone signed a cooperation
agreement with Amazon Web Services (Beijing) Co., Ltd. ("AWS") on July
10. The joint innovation center project undertaken by both
of them will be carried out in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone.
AWS introduced cloud computing
services in 2006, AWS has always
served as a cloud service platform widely applied around the world over the past 13 years. AWS
provides over 165 full-featured services to customers, which
contain computing, storage,
databases, networking, analysis, robotics, machine learning and
artificial intelligence, Internet of things, mobile, security,
hybrid cloud, virtual reality and augmented reality, media, and
application services, deployment and management, through 21
geographic areas in U.S. Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, South
Korea, Singapore,
Sweden and the U.K. as well as 66
available zones (AZ).
Located in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone, China-European Center and AI
Innovation Center, and the
China Chengdu-Amazon AWS Joint Innovation Center plan to establish an accelerator, incubator, international
maker space and talent base, will attract global leading
enterprises, start-ups and industrial talents of the fields of AI,
biological medicine and financial technology to settle in one of the world's leading cloud computing
areas to promote the industrial
innovation and economic upgrade in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone and Western China and further perfect the cloud ecology and artificial intelligence
industry in Western China.
Cloud computing is one of the most important
infrastructures of the new economy and the establishment of AWS in
Chengdu Hi-tech Zone is of great significance in promoting the
cloud computing industrial development of Chengdu Hi-tech Zone
and the
western regions of China, accelerating the
innovation and senior talent cultivation as well as driving
technical upgrading of local enterprises.
The Chengdu-Amazon AWS Joint Innovation Center also held an
enterprise forum named "Cloud Innovation of Amazon" that afternoon
in the Business &
Innovation Centre for China-Europe Cooperation (CCEC).
Representatives of AWS China gave
speeches including AWS Helps Start-ups Grow at the forum.
More than 100 enterprise representatives from Chengdu Hi-tech Zone
gathered together to witness the launch of the Joint Innovation
Center, discuss how to drive enterprise development through
innovation, make innovation a part of the enterprise, perfect the regional
technological ecology development and promote industrial innovation
and economic upgrading.
As the first national independent innovation demonstration zone
in Western China, Chengdu Hi-tech
Zone collected many well-known cloud service providers. In 2018
the GDP of Chengdu Hi-tech
Zone reached RMB 187.778 billion,
with the year-on-year growth of 9.6%.
It attracted 28,000 new
enterprises and is in the second
place amid all hi-tech zones in China, only after Beijing Zhongguancun
Technology Park. Its total export-import volume surpassed RMB 300
billion for the first time and Chengdu Hi-tech Comprehensive
Bonded Zone surpassed all other comprehensive bonded zones
throughout the country and leaped to first in the total
export-import volume. In addition, 93 incubators and maker spaces
were established with the total
area exceeding 4,300,000m2.
Chengdu Hi-tech Zone launched the enterprise gradient
cultivation plan this year, published the list of first
batch gradient cultivation
enterprises and incubation carriers
which are 420 and 52 in number respectively and cashed the support
funds of RMB 65.16 million. Other
cultivation policies would be executed one-by-one as planned this year. After that,
the support funds for enterprises would be expected to exceed
RMB 200 million.
Chengdu Hi-tech Zone will support the Joint Innovation Center
Project in the fields of industry, technology, talents and training
by creating an international business environment to attract
various middle and high-end talents.
The Joint Innovation Center will incubate 500 domestic and overseas
start-ups and complete upgrade acceleration of 120 enterprises
within 5 years, which include cultivating 20-30 gazelle companies
as well as 2-3 unicorn or quasi-unicorn companies, to assist the
establishment of a high-quality
development demonstration zone and world-class hi-tech park in
Chengdu Hi-tech Zone.
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