The city of Hangzhou has developed a large ecosystem to promote entrepreneurship and attract international talents. We have identified and visited the most important Innovation and Developing centers that incubate and accelerate projects in the area of science and technology to present it to you.
HITEIP (杭州国际人才创业创新园)
Hangzhou International Talents Entrepreneurship and Innovation Park (HITEIP), is located in Gongshu district and was officially established in July 2017 as the first international talents entrepreneurship and innovation park in China. The park is aimed to become a remarkable platform gathering High-Level international talents and promote technology exchange and cooperation.
Industry Orientation – 产业定位
Taking digital economy as a core, the park focuses on frontier industries such as: life&health, information technology, artificial intelligence, big data and new materials. Meanwhile has been committed to introducing high-profile teams of multinationalities with their own business plans and technologies, nurturing and incubating startup programs in the vanguard of technology and founding and developing high tech enterprises, to build the international first-class gathering place for digital economy enterprises and international talents.
Projects – 人才项目
Since its establishment, HITEIP has introduced a number of model projects from multiple countries including Germany, USA, UK, Canada and Austria among others:
- The east china headquarters of the China-Germany Health Care Group (click here for more information)
- China-Germany bio-based new materials research and development center
- Virchow Laboratories joint medical center (click here for more information)
- Polylactic acid (the environment-friendly plastic) research center
- Life Print video printing project
- Modo visualized information management system
Activities – 会议
- 2019 Hangzhou Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for Overseas Talents (2019 杭州市海外高层次人才创新创业大赛) click here for more information and click here to access a video of the event.
- 2019 Hangzhou International Human Resources Exchanges and Cooperation Conference (2019杭州国际人才交流与项目合作大会盛大开幕)
- Internet plus services empower new economy, share talents, gather potential for a new future (互联网+服务赋能新经济共享人才聚势新未来)
International Talents Club – 杭州国际人才俱乐部
In June 2019 the International Talents Club was established to promote a platform for cooperation and support among members with professional and everyday matters.
Policy Support – 政策支持
A new government support policy has been introduced for startups in Gongshu district. All dimensional policies are provided to foreign international talents who are listed in Canal Elite, including startup funding, office support, entrepreneurial services, financial support, housing, children education, transportation and insurance coverage.
Depending on the Category of the startup (A-B-C-D) founding can range from 1 millon to 15 millon RMB.
Address No. 171 Xiangyuan Road, Gongshu District, Hangzhou
地址:杭州市拱墅区祥园路171号 (click here to access location)
Contact 86-0571-86610031
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HITEIP (杭州国际人才创业创新园 -西湖园区)
The park is located in Zijingang Science and Technology City and is considered the “new Silicon Valley”. The city enjoys a number of innovation and entrepreneurship platforms, university resources as well as government grants and incentives. Acting as the primary manufacturing and incubating base of high tech industries such as AI, Big Data and Bio-Medicine, it is well positioned for international talents to see their projects come to fruition. At present a large number of famous enterprises have gathered around the park such as: Huadian Electric Power Research Institute, Dian Diagnostics, Zhejiang Zheda Insigna Group, Youngsun Intelligent Equipment, etc.
Xihu district jointly builds the park with the committee of Zhejiang University National Science Park who has international resources and scientific research advantages.
With a total area of 48,000 square meters, the park consist of
- 4 centers
- 2 bases
- 1 community
which form a perfect ecosystem for the international entrepreneurs in Hangzhou.
Four Centers
- International Talents Service Center
This center provides agency services like policy consultation, project declaration, entreprise establishment and work permit.
- International Talents Exchange Center
This center organizes various international exchange activities and encourage networking among entrepreneurs.
- International Talents Exhibition Center
In this center, events such as roadshow, theme salons, entrepreneurship competitions and forums are held.
- Trading Center for Scientific and Technological Achievements
This center is settled in Zhejiang Intellectual Property (IP) Exchange Center, promoting transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
Two bases
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Base:
This base provides full range of entrepreneurial training
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation Practice Base:
This base provides free shared-office area
One International Talents Community
with apartments building within the park, providing international talents with short-term and long-term rental services. Additionally, services such as catering, office matching, entertainment, business negotiation rooms will be available within the community.
Company Support Policy
Depending on the Category of the startup (A-B-C-D) founding can range from 5 to 10 million, 3 million, 1 million y 0,5 millon RMB respectively.
地址:杭州市西湖区浙大森林客厅e1楼 (click here to access location)
Zhejiang Hangzhou Future Sci-Tech City (浙江杭州未来科技成)
Zhejiang Hangzhou Sci-Tech City (Haichuang Park) is the innovation and venture platform for oversea high-level talents, established specially by Hangzhou and Zhejiang government in order to profoundly implement the national talents strategy, improve our scientific and technological innovation ability, and accelerate the economic transformation. It is featured with abundant technological resources, vibrant regulations and system, convenient and high quality public service, and active entrepreneurship and innovative activities.
- Dream Town (梦想小镇)
- China (Hangzhou) AI Town (中国杭州人工智能小镇)
- 5G Industrial Park (5G创新园)
- Zhejiang Overseas High-Level Talents Innovation Park (浙江海外高层次人才创新园)
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Dream Town (梦想小镇)
In order to follow the trend of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” and the development opportunity of “Internet plus”, in August 2014, the provincial and municipal government explicitly planned to build the dream town of 3 square kilometers in the future technology city.
With “innovation, entrepreneurship, and the creator” as the theme, with the implementation of the “talent leading, innovation-driven, city and industry integration ” development ideas, comprehensive improvement of characteristic cultural connotation, innovative and entrepreneurial service level and leisure travel environment, we forge the dream town to be a science, education, culture, leisure and tourism destination with a set of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Research, learning and communication, and also the leisure, sightseeing and cultural experience.
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Dream Town Hackerspace (众创空间)
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China (Hangzhou) AI Town (中国杭州人工智能小镇)
The first phase of the main construction has been completed in May 2017 and covers a building area of 310,000 square meters, which will be occupied by artificial intelligence incubation platform, major scientific research projects, talent apartment and other business supporting facilities. The construction area of the second phase of the pilot area of the town is 170,000 square meters, and the project of artificial intelligence industry is planned to be introduced.
1. Talent is the first resource for the development of a small town. Adhering to the development concept of “first ecology, then life, then production”, they give priority to the creation of high-quality living environment, the innovation of talent system and the development of human resources.
2. Innovation-driven, focusing on promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in the field of artificial intelligence, we will continue to promote innovation in systems, management and science and technology. We will continue to improve the environment for entrepreneurship and innovation and accelerate the concentration of high-end innovation elements such as talent, technology and capital.
3. Adhere to the whole chain integration. Overall consideration is given to the construction of the whole support system from innovative ideas to commercialization and industrialization of products
4. Openness and sharing to explore new platforms, forms and applications of crowd innovation, crowd sourcing, crowd support and crowd funding, actively integrate into the global innovation network, absorb global innovation resources, and promote the cross-border flow of talents, technology, capital, information and other innovation elements.
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5G Industrial Park (5G创新园)
In order to attract more high-quality 5G projects to enter China (Hangzhou) 5G innovation park, the future science and technology city has started the collection and review activities for the global “domestic top and international first-class” 5G industrial chain related projects.
5G industrial chain related project contains upgrades, middle network construction, the base station upstream downstream products and terminal product application scenarios such as industry, promote the base station antenna, small micro base station, communication network equipment, system integration and application service, hd video, AR/VR, unmanned aerial vehicles, car networking, logistics, intelligence community, wisdom medical industries such as the ground in the park.
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Zhejiang Overseas High-Level Talents Innovation Park (浙江海外高层次人才创新园)
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Zhejiang Lab (浙江实验室)
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Cloud Town (云栖小镇)
El parque contiene el proyecto Hangzhou City Brain
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Global Startup Hub (国家创客港)
Starting a business is by no means easy, let alone in a foreign country. The GSH is endeavored to provide a smooth & efficient landing experience:
• Soft landing service
• Acceleration program
• Free state of art co-working space
• Free suites for qualified candidates
地址:中国杭州文一西路998号海创园 (click here to access location)
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