"Meeting in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: 36Kr WISE 2024 Specialized and Innovative Forum"

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"Meeting in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: 36Kr WISE 2024 Specialized and Innovative Forum"

May 31, rendezvous in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, rendezvous in Longhua, Shenzhen, the 36Kr WISE New Direction·2024 Niche-Specialty-New Trends Forum is about to begin.

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The Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative (Specialty) Trends Forum 2024 is set to be held grandly on May 31st in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Longhua, Shenzhen. This widely recognized concept of industrial development has become a hot topic for SMEs growth. This year's government work report once again highlighted the support for the "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" direction for SMEs, continuing its focus from previous years.

SMEs, as the engines of innovation and stable cornerstone for social employment, have a crucial direction for development. Against this backdrop, industry leaders believe that SMEs should follow the "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" path of development, which serves as the core driving force to strengthen industrial chains and enhance manufacturing levels. Over the past decade or so, the concept of "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" has seen substantial development, now with 124,000 companies being nurtured, including 12,000 "little giant" companies, a number that exceeds the expectations of the 14th Five-Year Plan.

"Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" companies, with their specialization, precision, distinctive, and innovative characteristics, have become indispensable key nodes in the industrial and supply chains. They are not only the promoters of new productivity but also the doers in the national strategies to "fill the gaps," "forge strengths," and "infill the blanks." Currently, "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" companies are moving towards high-end, intelligent, and green development of the manufacturing industry, representing new industries, new business forms, and new models.

Regarding the next steps for "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" companies, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Jin Zhuanglong has articulated a clear direction, continuing the "two unswerving" policies, namely, balancing service with management and aid with development. The upcoming work will focus on improving the quality of enterprises, optimizing the development environment, enhancing service capability, and promoting resource integration.

Of particular note, government departments will introduce relevant policies to continuously improve the quality and market recognition of "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" SMEs, ensuring the authenticity and practicality of their development path. From a fiscal perspective, Vice Minister of Finance Wang Dongwei has also indicated that a new round of financial support policies will be implemented to guide SMEs to deeply participate in and enhance the core link of the industrial chain.

In the journey of specialized refinement and innovation, the growth in "quantity" continues steadily, and there is also greater emphasis on the improvement and optimization of "quality." In other words, the standards for nurturing "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" companies in 2024 will be more detailed, setting higher demands for companies' specialization, uniqueness, innovation, and industry needs. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has begun organizing the cultivation of the sixth batch of "little giant" companies in the Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative category, and has launched the review process for the third batch.

In 2023, China's manufacturing market burst forth with new vitality. According to the latest data, 3,793 companies were recognized in the fifth batch of "little giant" companies by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. However, the competition was exceptionally fierce; despite about 17,000 companies applying, only about 22.3% were approved, setting the lowest approval rate in history. This signifies that "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" has entered a new era.

Currently, aiming for high-quality development, it's more important to focus on the long-term cultivation of enterprises: not only selecting the "good seedlings" but nurturing the "young saplings" to grow into "towering trees." However, many "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" enterprises still face several challenges: bottlenecks in key technologies, difficult paths from technological innovation to commercialization, long payback periods on investments, limited financing channels, insufficient talent reserves, etc., casting a shadow on enterprise development.

To help enterprises seize the opportunities of the era and overcome the difficulties of the growth stage, a forum supported by government agencies and industry organizations is about to take place. This conference, named "WISE New Directions · Specialty Trends Forum 2024," organized by the relevant departments of Longhua District, Shenzhen, and co-hosted by 36Kr and Shenzhen Shenghui City, will be grandly held in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. With the theme "Building a Basic Service Ecosystem, Linking Industry and Investment Trends," it is scheduled to invite government officials, investors, industry experts, corporate representatives, and leaders to discuss issues such as policy interpretation, capital support, artificial intelligence innovation and development, and ecological construction, revealing the direction of high-quality development for "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" in the winds of this era and capturing the future of enterprises.

Additionally, 36Kr, the organizer of the forum, will leverage its in-depth understanding of enterprise services and fully utilize its new economic service platform to provide "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" companies with closer links and empowerment. By establishing comprehensive coordination of industrial chains, supply chains, innovation chains, capital chains, and talent chains, enterprises can receive all-round development assistance in a specialized scenario.

As for Shenzhen Shenghui City, a key project supporting this process, it is the proud creation of Shenghui Group. It is a large-scale, sci-tech city community that integrates urban development, industrial upgrading, scientific research innovation, and balanced life. Based on Shenghui Group's decade of experience in urban renewal, the project achieves perfect integration in multiple aspects such as industry, academia, research, commerce, and living, aimed at building a comprehensive urban-industrial life circle for enterprise growth acceleration.

In this golden age of industrial development, we look forward to the participation of more colleagues. Gathering the forces of policy, capital, and industry trends, a continuous sustainable development path will be built for "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative" enterprises, covering the whole chain, full range, throughout the process, and across the entire cycle. It's time to witness the power of this era together—we will meet on May 31st in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen Longhua, to partake in the grand event and explore new opportunities for "Specialized, Fined, Peculiar, and Innovative"development.