These specialized and innovative "little giants" gather in the Tianfu Software Park Industrial Cluster

On September 2, the Beijing Stock Exchange was established. The China Securities Regulatory Commission stated that the Beijing Stock Exchange will focus on the development needs of "specialized, sophisticated, special and innovative" small and medium-sized enterprises and gradually develop into a main battlefield for serving innovative small and medium-sized enterprises. For a time, "specialized, sophisticated, special and innovative" became a hot word on the Internet.

Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the "Notice on the List of the Third Batch of Specialized, Specialized and New Small Giant Enterprises". Together with the two lists announced previously, as of now, there are 40 "small giant" enterprises in Chengdu Hi-tech Zone. After in-depth research and interviews, the reporter found that the "small giants" list, such as JmGO Technology, Zhongke Daqi, Kedao Xinguo, Zhiyuanhui, Houpu Co., Ltd., Jiuzhou Difei, Chengdu Zhongke Chuangda and other companies all come from the same land of innovation and entrepreneurship - the industrial park community with Tianfu Software Park as the core. This is an industrial cluster area operated and managed by Chengdu Tianfu Software Park Co., Ltd., including Tianfu Software Park, AI Innovation Center, Gazelle Valley Digital Cultural and Creative Park (Tianfu Changdao), China-Europe Center, International Talent City, etc. At present, it has become an important carrier for the innovation and development of the new generation of information technology industry in western China, the core cluster area of ​​innovation and entrepreneurship in the west, and an important base for Chengdu Hi-tech Zone to build an international innovation and entrepreneurship center.

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There is a "symbiotic effect" in the biological concept, which refers to the phenomenon that different kinds of organisms live together. Today, this concept has been extended to many fields such as sociology and economics. The emergence of specialized and innovative "little giants" in various professional parks in the Tianfu Software Park Industrial Cluster seems to confirm the role of this concept in the industrial ecology. Therefore, we believe that exploring the deep-seated reasons for the symbiotic effect of the gathering of "little giant" enterprises will have positive significance for the development of enterprises and dual innovation carriers.

Revealed:

"Treasure" small giant enterprises in the industrial cluster of Tianfu Software Park

The so-called "little giant" enterprises, according to the definition of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, refer to the vanguard among "specialized, specialized and innovative" small and medium-sized enterprises that focus on niche markets, have strong innovation capabilities, high market share, master key core technologies, and have excellent quality and efficiency.

Some of the "little giant" enterprises gathered in these parks are already well-known listed companies, while others are relatively low-key, but each "little giant" is an absolute leader in its own field.

Among them, some of the listed "little giant" enterprises have grown up in this area, while others were attracted by the excellent business environment here and settled here.

Founded in 2013 in Tianfu Software Park, XGIMI Technology is a high-tech company focusing on smart projection and laser TV. During its growth, it received a lot of support from Chengdu City and the High-tech Zone, and officially landed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board in March this year. In the current era of technological progress on the supply side and consumption upgrades on the demand side, the consumer-grade smart projector market has become the core track of new consumption. As the leader in the track, XGIMI Technology is continuously optimistic about its rapid rise by the capital market.

Houpu Co., Ltd. is also a listed company. After its establishment in 2005, it started with the research and development, design, production, sales and service of mechanical and electrical equipment software, hardware and information integration supervision system integration for the clean energy industry filling stations. In 2011, the company settled in Tianfu Software Park, and later gradually expanded and extended in the clean energy filling equipment industry chain, becoming a supplier of overall solutions for clean energy equipment. It was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Growth Enterprise Market in 2015. Since its development, Houpu Co., Ltd. has become the largest clean energy filling equipment company in China.

Chengdu Jiuzhou Difei Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2004. It is a subsidiary of the listed company Sichuan Jiuzhou. It specializes in the research of RF microwave receivers/transmitters, radar systems, drone control systems, radio monitoring and detection, and interference suppression systems. Since its establishment, the company has successively won the titles of high-tech enterprise, national intellectual property advantage enterprise, national specialized and new small giant enterprise, etc. It has also established a provincial enterprise technology center, expert workstation, and approved the establishment of a postdoctoral innovation practice base, which provides a strong platform support for the company's technical research. At present, Jiuzhou Difei has obtained 41 invention patents, 284 utility model patents, and 39 software copyrights, ranking among the best in the microwave and radio frequency industry in Chengdu.

In fact, those specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises in the Tianfu Software Park industrial cluster that have not yet been listed also have high growth potential.

As a subsidiary of Thundersoft, a world-leading intelligent operating system product and technology provider, Chengdu Thundersoft has been committed to providing excellent intelligent operating system products, technologies and solutions since its establishment in 2012. Based on intelligent terminal operating systems and focusing on key artificial intelligence technologies, they help and accelerate productization and technological innovation in the fields of smart phones, smart Internet of Things, smart connected cars, and smart industries. At present, Chengdu Thundersoft has just settled in the AI ​​Innovation Center in the Tianfu Software Park Industrial Cluster and is expanding and building its western headquarters.

Zhongke Daqi has been based in the domestic smart cultural and tourism industry for 17 years, and its products have been widely used in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 28 provinces, and more than 100 cities. In addition to being the first in China to propose and build the "Cultural and Tourism Industry Operating System", which has greatly improved the efficiency of digital transformation of cultural and tourism enterprises and institutions, Zhongke Daqi has also participated in the compilation of 7 national standards and a number of local standards in the field of cultural and tourism intelligence. As a national high-tech enterprise integrating "consulting planning, technology research and development, construction implementation, and operation and maintenance", Zhongke Daqi has become a leading supplier and service provider in the domestic "smart cultural and tourism" industry and a leading enterprise in the domestic smart cultural and tourism industry.

Zhiyuanhui is a company that empowers urban public transportation through artificial intelligence, big data and Internet of Things technologies. Its "Yuanguang" AI smart transportation management and passenger service system integrates smart transportation management and services, mobile payment and ride finance technology, contactless smart security inspection and protection, smart epidemic prevention and temperature measurement, etc., which comprehensively improves the holographic perception, real-time analysis, scientific decision-making and precise execution capabilities of subway operations. This system has greatly helped to create a "smart subway" with intelligent business linkage and intelligent resource adaptation. As of 2021, the system has been applied to many cities such as Chengdu, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Harbin, and Taiyuan.

Kedao Xinguo is committed to the design and manufacture of highly integrated secure mobile payment chips. It settled in Tianfu Software Park in 2011 and established its headquarters and R&D center here. At present, the company is one of the first batch of key support objects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "Little Giants" for specialization, specialization and innovation, a demonstration of technology transfer and transformation, and one of the top 100 technological innovation enterprises. It is a national major strategic project research and development unit, and the only national high-tech enterprise in the western region with international operators, IoT high-security GSMA SAS, international financial high-security VISA, Mastercard, and UnionPay security certification qualifications.

Narration:

How to become a small giant enterprise and what are the expectations?

It is understood that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will cultivate and incubate 1 million innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, cultivate 100,000 provincial-level specialized and new enterprises, 10,000 specialized and new "little giants" enterprises, and 1,000 single champion enterprises.

How to become a small giant enterprise? In interviews with Houpu Co., Ltd., Thundersoft, Kedao Xinguo and other companies, the reporter learned that the heavy investment in scientific and technological innovation and the determination to break through the "bottleneck" technology may be the key to stimulating the endogenous motivation of enterprises.

According to reports, Houpu Co., Ltd. has always adhered to the innovative development idea of ​​"technology-led, innovation-driven", and has established a research and development team of more than 300 people covering 9 professional research directions, obtained 435 authorized patents, 106 invention patents, 2 international invention patents, more than 110 software copyrights, and has participated in 32 national, local, industry, and group standards and specifications. In the past three years, the company's average annual R&D investment has exceeded 35 million yuan, the average annual R&D intensity is about 8.24%, and the average annual number of invention patents is 21.

In terms of LNG applications, Houpu Co., Ltd. pioneered the domestic box-type LNG filling station equipment and the LNG box-type unattended filling equipment exported to Europe. Its pontoon-type LNG filling station is at the leading level in China. In terms of hydrogen energy applications, the company pioneered the domestic box-type hydrogen filling station equipment, achieved the first domestic 70MPa infrared communication hydrogenation technology breakthrough, obtained a number of independent intellectual property rights such as hydrogenation machines, hydrogenation guns, flow meters, etc., took the lead in breaking the international monopoly and realizing mass production and sales. It is currently the only listed company in China that has EPC general contracting from clean energy filling station site engineering design, equipment research and development integration, to on-site installation services, operations, etc. At the same time, Houpu Co., Ltd. also uses emerging technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and machine vision to make energy equipment more intelligent, and use scientific and technological power to help achieve the "dual carbon" goals as soon as possible.

Chengdu Thundersoft's R&D investment has exceeded 15% of its sales revenue in the past three years, and it has obtained 22 authorized invention patents and 104 software copyrights. The company has close cooperative relations with global leading companies in the smart terminal industry chain, including chip, component, terminal, software and Internet manufacturers and operators, and has unique vertical integration advantages.

As a world-leading provider of operating system products and technologies, Thundersoft has been conducting research and development around core technologies such as operating systems, edge computing and artificial intelligence, and has been deeply involved in areas such as intelligent vision and intelligent voice. It has not only independently developed many artificial intelligence applications such as object recognition, defect detection, and face recognition, but also launched the most cutting-edge artificial intelligence development kits to developers and manufacturers. At the same time, it has joined forces with industry-university-research partners to build the world's largest intelligent vision platform. Through the dual engines of "operating system" + "artificial intelligence", it has helped the rapid development of the intelligent industry and is committed to becoming an enabler of the entire industry.

Take the example of intelligent connected cars: In recent years, Thundersoft has made great efforts in this sector. At present, after 9 generations of evolution, its intelligent cockpit products have formed the first intelligent cockpit basic platform in China. The virtual cockpit based on Qualcomm 820A has achieved the first mass production in the world. The core technology covers BSP, operating system kernel, driver, framework, protocol stack, multimedia, application, tool and security technology, etc. It can provide an operating system with comprehensive technical coverage from hardware, software, application to cloud. "There are very few technology companies that can do this at home and abroad."

Kedao Xinguo has also invested a lot in technological innovation. It has a technical and product development team composed of many industry-leading professors, doctors and industry experts in the field of personal digital application ICs from Korea and Fudan University. It currently has more than ten invention patents and more than thirty applications. The company has broken the global monopoly of NXP, the world's leading integrated circuit company, by developing its own domestically produced secure mobile payment NFC chips to replace imports. Based on the national secret security technology, it provides national secret multi-core high-integration IC hardware or smart terminal products with independent intellectual property rights such as NFC/UWB/SSD as the core, which are widely used in identity recognition, secure mobile payment and national secret information storage.

In June this year, Kedao Xinguo, as the only new manufacturer, successfully entered the China Mobile Group's centralized procurement project of 111.4 million 5G super SIM products. This procurement is the first tender for the operator's super SIM. As the only selected company in the western region, Kedao Xinguo competed with many listed companies and state-owned enterprises, demonstrating its core competitive advantages in the fields of national security mobile payment and one card with multiple applications.

When talking about what aspects of small giants they expect to receive more nurturing and support, the three companies all mentioned "policies" and "funds". Houpu Co., Ltd. expects the country to increase financial and tax support and enjoy certain reductions and exemptions in value-added tax. At the same time, they also expect to receive more nurturing and support in R&D investment, independent innovation, and industrialization research. Thundersoft proposed that in addition to policy and financial support, it hopes to provide more support in scenario applications.

Zhu Linlin, chairman of Kedao Xinguo, said that the relevant cultivation and support for hardware production enterprises that are more focused on the real economy should be more precise. For example, more financial support should be provided in terms of equipment upgrades and technical breakthroughs. "Because 99% of major projects now use the company's own money, they lack the courage to make technological breakthroughs." Zhu Linlin called for the development of specialized and new enterprises, and we should look at how deep they are in a certain field. "In the past, the 'bucket theory' said to look at the shortcomings, but I think now we should talk about the long board. Whoever can make a long board the longest actually has the strongest vitality."

Symbiosis:

Taking root in fertile soil, "little giants" emerge in clusters in the Tianfu Software Park industrial cluster

Excellent people always appear in groups, and excellent enterprises are no exception. In addition to their own efforts, the development of enterprises is also affected by the external environment.

Recently, Chengdu Hi-tech Zone was selected as the seventh in the top 100 high-quality development parks in 2021 and the first in the park business environment. It is precisely rooted in the excellent industrial soil of Chengdu Hi-tech Zone that Tianfu Software Park has formed a good industrial ecosystem after 16 years of development and extended it to several other industrial parks. So far, several pillar industries such as application software, communication technology, IC design, big data, cloud computing, mobile Internet, digital cultural creation, and shared service centers have been formed within the scope of the Tianfu Software Park industrial cluster. It has become an important choice for the strategic layout of well-known domestic and foreign high-tech and new economy companies in China and a nationally renowned innovation landmark.

Some of the specialized and innovative "little giants" such as JmGO Technology, Zhongke Daqi, Kedao Xinguo, Zhiyuanhui, Houpu Co., Ltd., Jiuzhou Difei, and Thundersoft have been rooted in these parks for many years, while others are new here. Their current situation of gathering together also reflects and witnesses the process of industrial agglomeration in this area to a certain extent. Today, the industrial cluster area of ​​Tianfu Software Park has gradually gathered to form a diversified "tropical rainforest-style" industrial system covering multi-dimensional industry fields and multi-level enterprise types, forming a good soil for further promoting industrial cultivation and promoting industrial integration.

While closely grasping the gathering of industrial ecology, Chengdu Tianfu Software Park Co., Ltd., as the operator, focuses on the key needs of enterprises to build an industrial service and cultivation system when managing and operating Tianfu Software Park, AI Innovation Center, Gazelle Valley Digital Cultural and Creative Park (Tianfu Changdao), China-Europe Center, International Talent City and other industrial parks. At present, a diversified service system covering talents, government affairs, finance, brands, public technology, overseas expansion, and industrial social networking has been established. At the same time, within this framework, a "5C" cultivation plan covering funds, circles, markets, entrepreneurial guidance, entrepreneurial partners and other aspects has been established for entrepreneurial enterprises. By establishing a tiered industrial cultivation model of "entrepreneurship nursery-incubator-accelerator-industrial park", the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises is promoted and regional industrial prosperity is promoted.

Doing a good job in industrial agglomeration, industrial services and cultivation is a necessary condition for the good development of the park, and achieving "industrial integration" is an important form of high-quality development of the park. In recent years, Chengdu Tianfu Software Park Co., Ltd. has put forward the core operating concept of "building a platform and making connections" on the basis of continuing to do a good job in industrial agglomeration and industrial cultivation, as well as the development idea of ​​upgrading from park managers and service providers to resource integrators and industrial innovation catalysts, and using resource links and resource integration as a starting point to help the coordinated development of park enterprises. At the same time, in order to cope with the current problem of the absence of industrial software in my country's science and technology field, key technology innovation support platforms such as the Industrial Software Collaborative Research and Experience Promotion Center and the collaborative government-built new R&D institutions have begun to be built here.

In the future, the Tianfu Software Park Industrial Cluster will be based on the needs of the national innovation and development strategy, further integrate industrial resources, create an industrial ecosystem, and promote industrial innovation, so as to contribute to building a strong country in science and technology and achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.

Perhaps, as Zhu Linlin, chairman of Kedao Xinguo, summed up her impression of Tianfu Software Park with four keywords: young, simple, hardworking, and miracles. In just 16 years, the young Tianfu Software Park has brought together batches of young talents, who have achieved one miracle after another through hard work in a simple environment. "This is a place where you can plant seeds and grow fruits," said Zhu Linlin. Among the fruits, of course, there are "little giants".