The 2024 Huadu Technology and Financial Docking Meeting for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Companies was successfully held on October 12, in Guangzhou Dingsheng Valley Industrial Park to implement in a deep-going way the innovation-driven development strategy, strengthen the position of enterprises as the principal force of scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the movement of innovation elements towards enterprises, promote deep integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain, facilitate key core technology research, realize the commercialization of innovation achievements, and help the high-quality development of innovation and entrepreneurial enterprises in Huadu. Leaders of Guangdong Fintech Promotion Association, Huadu District Government and relevant departments, expert teams from scientific research institutes, intellectual property experts, representatives of investment institutions, and representatives of enterprises attended the event.

The event was designed to help Huadu's technology and innovation companies to have access to innovation achievements, make good use of science and technology financial policies, and strengthen their docking ability in investment and financing. It is a move of great significance for enterprises to internalize innovation strategy, enhance technological innovation oriented thinking, optimize business model, and promote new type development of enterprises; for Huadu District to carry out tiered cultivation of fintech and technological innovation, guide and promote the commercialization of the innovation achievements of scientific research institutes in the enterprises, enhance the ability and atmosphere of Huadu District in scientific research, and help scientific research institutes land in Huadu; and to promote the development of regional research elements and platforms.

Guangdong Fintech Promotion Association will strengthen its coupling and coordination with Huadu District to jointly explore the thinking mode and paths of innovation featuring deep integration of technology, finance and industry, promote the application of collaborative work network, and irrigate the industrial upgrading and high-quality social and economic development of Huadu District with the fresh water of finance.

Relevant leaders of Huadu District explained that in recent years, Huadu District had implemented the strategy of leading lead industrial transformation and upgrading with technological innovation, encouraged and promoted high-quality development, and continuously improved the supporting systems for innovation and entrepreneurship to create a good ecological environment for innovation. Empowered by the atmosphere of technological innovation, Huadu District achieved, in last year's innovation and entrepreneurship competition, the highest records in terms of number of enterprises participating and awards won, which are impossible without the strong support of all sectors of society. The Docking Meeting is a positive step forward to explore the integrated fintech model featuring the combination of "industrial research + commercialization of achievement + investment by funds", to improve the development of science and technology enterprises, to empower the service system and to enhance the atmosphere of innovation and entrepreneurship in our district. It is hoped that representatives of all enterprises can continue to improve their skills in business plan writing and speech, try to achieve better results in this year's competition, actively strive to introduce financial, technological innovation, commercialization of achievements and other resources to help enterprise solve such problems of talents, funds, and market demand, and progress in innovate in science and technology.

At the docking meeting, Wang Congwei, Director of the Investment and Property Rights Management Department at Guangdong Institute of Corrosion Science and Technology Innovation, gave the participants an introduction about the establishment background, development of the Institute and its progress in commercialization of achievement. As a high-level innovation research body of Guangdong, the Institute has successively become a leading unit of projects under the National Key R&D Program and a supporting unit of projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China. It has built a number of national, provincial and ministerial platforms, including the National Engineering Research Center for Corrosion Control (Guangdong), the CAS Corrosion Control Laboratory (Guangdong), and the Guangdong Corrosion Control Technology Research Center. The Institute is looking forward to establishing more in-depth cooperation and collaboration, which may be implemented in various forms, including establishing institute branch.

During the roadshow section, technology and innovation companies had their shares of 7-minute roadshow; and experts from Guangdong Technology Financial Group, Zhongtian Fortune, and other investment institutions asked them questions and communicated with them on technological sophistication, product characteristics and performance, core barriers of enterprises, development prospects, and market planning, among other issues.

On that day, representatives of participating enterprises had precise communication and docking with their counterparts from research institutes, banks and investment institutions, bearing in mind to empower technology enterprises with fintech, they aimed to pool together advantageous resources and align them with the needs of enterprises, so as to better promote the transfer and commercialization of innovation and entrepreneurship achievements.