
Headquarters reporters cruise along the maritime route, looking at the innovative development of Shenzhen’s Qianhai, Robot Valley and Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone from the Qianhai Bay area
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As the innovation highland of Shenzhen, Qianhai was a tidal flat more than a decade ago. Now it has formed 18 characteristic industry clusters such as venture capital and cross-border e-commerce, and is home to 12 unicorn companies and more than 2,000 national high-tech enterprises. Nanshan Robot Valley gathers more than 10 scientific research institutions and more than 200 related companies along a 10-kilometer road, becoming an important source of domestic humanoid robots. The Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone gathers more than 50 scientific research institutions and R&D centers, nearly 500 technology companies, and more than 15,000 scientific research talents.
When APEC entered Shenzhen, along the cruise route of maritime ships, reporters from the main station decoded the city's technological innovation from a maritime perspective, and saw how a science and technology innovation city grew out of a tidal flat, and how hard-core technology moved from here to the future.
Sailing in Shenzhen and looking at Pengcheng from the sea. Today, the reporter continued to look at Shenzhen from a maritime perspective. The live broadcast ship follows the maritime ship cruising route and sails in the waters of Qianhai Bay.
Great changes in the tidal flats, innovative highland joint growth
As the innovation highland of Shenzhen, Qianhai has a resounding slogan: “Forward, toward the sea, toward the future.” The first thing that catches the reporter's eyes is the beautiful scenery here: lying on the sea is the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Coastal Expressway; behind it, a Ferris wheel is faintly visible, called the "Light of the Bay Area", which is a coastal landmark of Shenzhen; looking to the side, the building that has not yet been topped out is the Internet park "Penguin Island" under construction; and among the high-rise buildings, there is a white building stacked one after another, which is the Qianhai Museum that opened recently, and is also a new landmark on this coastline.
It is hard to imagine that more than ten years ago this was just a tidal flat. Now it has grown into a modern new city with many high-rise buildings and has become an important innovation highland in the Greater Bay Area. At present, 18 characteristic industry clusters have been formed here, including venture capital and cross-border e-commerce, and are home to 12 unicorn companies and more than 2,000 national high-tech enterprises.
Dream-making world, an innovation stage for young people in Shuangcheng
The hand-drawn drawing of the Qianhai area next to the reporter has both the modernity of skyscrapers and the fireworks of a coastal park. One of the colorful areas is called the "Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Dream Factory", which houses the science and technology innovation platforms of many Hong Kong universities, covering various emerging industry tracks such as embodied intelligence and life and health.
In addition to having a scientific research brain, DreamWorks also has a series of special support policies to provide Hong Kong youth with one-stop support in terms of space, funds, and legal services for innovation and entrepreneurship. A young man told reporters that what impressed him most was the incubation service fee of 1 yuan per square meter per month. He can work with a bag, and his housing is subsidized. It is convenient to travel to and from Hong Kong. One word to describe it is "silky". At present, a total of 1,180 Hong Kong teams have been incubated here, and a number of scientific and technological achievements have gone from DreamWorks to the market.
Opening up the entire chain and creating an innovation engine for industry, academia, and research
Continuing to walk further from the shore, you will come to the "Robot Valley" in Nanshan. A 10-kilometer-long road, with more than 10 scientific research institutions and more than 200 related companies gathered on both sides, has opened up the entire chain of industry, academia and research, and has become an important source of domestic humanoid robots.
This dexterous hand was made by rubbing it in the "Robot Valley". It can pick up eggs in boiling water. Not only these hands, but all the parts of the humanoid robot can be collected here.
Although this sounding rocket model looks ordinary, the prototype rocket was successfully launched in Qinghai last year and can fly more than 10,000 meters high. What's even more amazing is that it was made by high school students in Shenzhen. It is also China's first weather sounding rocket independently developed by middle school students, and the core components of the rocket basically come from Shenzhen.
Although these hand-made innovations do not have fancy packaging, they show the vivid innovation vitality of Shenzhen, where fantastic ideas take root and blossom with the help of the industrial chain.
The hand-rubbing car is used as a vehicle, and the laboratory is full of imagination
The student club of Shenzhen Zhili Middle School "hand rubs" the car. The birthplace of the car is the steam laboratory. Student Liu Yingjie said that the things she kneaded with her own hands can really be made and touched, which is very interesting and gives her a sense of accomplishment.
The simplest materials, the most hard-core aircraft
Journalists were dazzled by the various robots in the laboratory. There is also a hard-core aircraft laboratory, and the "interceptor" made by hand using the simplest materials is one of its products. Student Zhu Junjie said that we should do the most efficient things at the lowest cost. There is a camera on the plane they made. After the camera recognizes another plane, it will accelerate to a speed of up to 350 kilometers per hour and intercept it by physical impact.
Large aircraft test flight, whimsical ideas take to the sky
The oversized paper airplanes are the students’ favorite creations. It took everyone seven or eight months to make it. Student Zhu Junjie said that when he challenged something that he once thought was impossible, it really felt like a dream.
System breaks the ice and the twin cities collaborate to innovate in science and technology
There is another secret code for scientific and technological innovation, which is to break the ice of the system. In the past, cross-border scientific research between Shenzhen and Hong Kong was affected by immigration procedures, tariffs, etc. Today, in the Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, a set of rules has been tailor-made: scientific research talents can cross the border conveniently, scientific research materials can be cleared tax-free and quickly, and cross-border circulation congestion points such as funds, data, and samples can be opened up. At present, there are more than 50 scientific research institutions and R&D centers, nearly 500 technology companies, and more than 15,000 scientific research talents gathered here. "Twin Cities Laboratories" have become a daily routine.
While the boat was sailing on the sea, what the reporter felt most deeply was: the rapid growth of this science and technology city is not just about the tall buildings as far as the eye can see, and more than the flash of inspiration in the laboratory, it is also about breaking down barriers to allow the free flow of talents, technology, and capital. New cities are growing on the tidal flats, and we look forward to more surprises and miracles growing here in the future.
Director system丨Shen Yong Zhang Qin
Producer丨Yue Qun
Producers丨Zhai Zhuang Li Weiwei Zhong Min
Reporters丨Li Weidai Zhang Congjing Song Wenjin He Junru Shenzhen Station
Videography | Zhang Jing, Huang Baochi, Xiong Wei, Du Leiming, Chen Qiang, Li Tongde, Chen Weikui
Editor丨Zhang Bo Zhang Hao Gan Xiaopeng Xu Jiaying Liu Yan Huang Jianlan
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Qianhai will continue to attract more Hong Kong teams to settle in, incubate more scientific and technological achievements and bring them to the market.
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Robot Valley will consolidate its position as an important source of humanoid robots in China, and the entire industry-university-research chain will be further improved.
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The Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone will attract more scientific research institutions and technology companies to settle in, and twin-city laboratories will become the norm.
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