Single enterprise can support up to 6.5 million yuan
60 Optics Valley companies receive "red envelopes"
Hubei Daily News (Reporter Li Mo, Correspondent Hu Xueke, Li Maoxing, Lv Shigong) On April 16, Wuhan Deyin Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and other 60 "3551 Optics Valley Talent Projects" were selected, and successively received The total amount of free funding and equity investment amounts to 90.51 million yuan, of which a single enterprise supports a maximum of 6.5 million yuan.
According to the person in charge of the East Lake High-tech Zone Finance Bureau, this is the first fund allocated by Optics Valley to attract talents to benefit enterprises and innovation and entrepreneurship after Wuhan lifted the control of the separation from Han to Hubei.
Hubei Meihe Yisi Education Technology Co., Ltd. is an Internet gazelle enterprise in the education industry, and was selected into the "3551 Optics Valley Talent Program" at the end of 2019. After resuming production on April 8th, it successfully received 1.5 million yuan in free subsidies and 5 million yuan in equity investment. It is currently the talent enterprise with the highest amount of subsidies.
Wuhan Ruijian Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. is engaged in the research and development of Parkinson's new drugs. "This fund is like a timely rain." Cai Meng, the company's co-founder, said that the company was in a difficult situation because the epidemic blocked the financing plan. After reporting the situation to the East Lake High-tech Zone Recruitment Bureau, it took only 10 days to apply for 1 million yuan in free funding and 3 million yuan in equity investment.
The relevant person in charge of the Organization Department of the East Lake High-tech Zone (Recruitment Bureau) said that as a national-level independent innovation demonstration zone, the core resource of Optics Valley is human resources. Over the past 10 years, Optics Valley has built a world-wide optical talent for gathering global talent. The funds have invested a total of 2.12 billion yuan.
In 2009, the "3551 Optics Valley Talent Program" was launched to introduce and train high-level talents engaged in scientific and technological innovation, achievement transformation, and technological entrepreneurship around the five pillar industries of optoelectronic information. Up to now, the East Lake High-tech Zone has gathered 4 Nobel Prize winners, 66 Chinese and foreign academicians, 404 national high-level talents, 198 provincial high-level talents, 1971 "3551 Optics Valley Talent Program" candidates. Of the more than 6,000 talent teams at home and abroad starting in Optics Valley, 70% of high-level talents have overseas backgrounds, and 80% have returned from first-tier cities and overseas. Optics Valley has more than 10,000 doctors and 60,000 masters.