Not long ago, Yang Xu, a "new sea-breaker", wrote a summary of the second anniversary of his start-up in Hainan Free Trade Port, which received a lot of likes on the Internet platform.
He said in the article: "After coming from the trade port for two years, the most frequently asked question about Hainan is: Can it be successful this time? The answer I gave is almost the same as two years ago: there must be someone who can succeed, but not too much. Quick." In the past two years, he has witnessed the changes in Hainan Province's entrepreneurial policy.
Yang Xu claimed to be "the first group of post-90s youths who responded to the call of the state to come to Hainan to participate in the construction of the free trade port".
"Most of the people around me have gone back in the past two years, and it's really hard to make money - just describe the objective situation, don't wave the flag, don't be pessimistic," he said.
Because he is optimistic about the future of Hainan Free Trade Port, Yang Xu, who graduated from Hainan Normal University in 2016 with a major in international trade, quit his job in Shanghai in June 2020 and returned to Haikou City, where he used to go to university, with 10,000 yuan of entrepreneurial capital. .
The reason why I call myself a "new sea-breaker" is naturally relative to the 100,000 talents who came to Hainan when Hainan was established as a province and a special zone in 1988.
Yang Xu said that at that time, the East Lake Triangle in Haikou City was bustling with young people who came to Hainan from the mainland to seek opportunities. They called themselves "sea-breakers".
After coming to Hainan to start a business, Yang Xu has successively created 3 WeChat groups of "New Seabreakers", with nearly 1,500 people joining the group, all of whom are young people from all over the country who want to start a business in Hainan.
Yang Xu said that among these people, there were only more than 200 people who actually visited Hainan, and there were even a handful of people who finally registered enterprises in Hainan and started their businesses.
Therefore, starting a business in Hainan is not so easy, and most people give up voluntarily after considering the risks.
In the "Taihe Small and Micro Enterprise Entrepreneurship and Innovation Haikou Hotel Base" by the East Lake in Haikou City, there is a small office with a monthly rent of 3,000 yuan on the 9th floor, and Yang Xu rented two rooms.
Yang Xu, who takes corporate "consulting services" as his entrepreneurial content, has been working hard to find opportunities for Hainan Free Trade Port.
In the two years since he came to Hainan, the "Sitian Consulting Service Co., Ltd." he founded raised 1 million yuan in venture capital and started some businesses with an expenditure of more than 400,000 yuan.
Yang Xu said that there must be opportunities for Hainan Free Trade Port.
A professor from the Haishi Free Trade Port Research Center once shared a project done by a company, mainly for a county-level city in Hainan, because the county urgently needs records of the free trade port, and it is impossible to assign special publicity personnel to do it. This matter, so the company's project positioning is very accurate, and the team of more than a dozen people does this thing well, and the benefits are also good.
Yang Xu suggested that you should do a good job of market research before coming to Hainan to start a business. "Don't think that Hainan's market is short of everything, that is a misunderstanding. After you really enter this industry, you will find that the competition is equally fierce."
In the two years of starting his own business in Hainan, Yang Xu has received a lot of encouragement, received help from many people, and at the same time was thrown a lot of cold water.
He sometimes feels very difficult, but to a certain extent, there will always be one or two phone calls to let him see hope.
Yang Xu said that in order for Hainan Free Trade Port to become a new highland for youth entrepreneurship, it is not enough to have some subsidy policies. It is more important to change the role of the government and shape the business environment.
Hainan Province also understands this and is slowly making changes.
According to a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily, two years after the release of the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port" in June 2020, Hainan Province, from the provincial level to the directly affiliated departments, has issued a series of related policies to promote youth to come to Hainan for employment and entrepreneurship. policy.
These policies include subsidized loans for small and micro enterprises up to 3 million yuan, personal entrepreneurship loans up to 300,000 yuan, incentive subsidies for recruiting college graduates, subsidies for public welfare job fairs, subsidies for entrepreneurial training, employment skills Training subsidies, social insurance subsidies, job-seeking and entrepreneurial subsidies, talent leasing and housing subsidies, etc.
For the above series of subsidy policies, Yang Xu believes that it will help young entrepreneurs to some extent, but the company he registered has not applied.
Yang Xu said that these subsidies are not the core attraction of his own business in Hainan. In addition, applying for these subsidies is time-consuming and laborious, and it is not so helpful for his own business.
Yang Xu said that whether starting a business in Hainan or elsewhere, the first consideration is the direction of the business and the ability to take risks.
Shen Danyang, Executive Vice Governor of Hainan Province, specifically responded to the media and social concerns at the press conference on the theme of "Ten Years of China, Hainan" held on July 11. The core is exactly what entrepreneurs like Yang Xu are concerned about. business environment issues.
Shen Danyang said that in recent years, Hainan Province has taken the lead in exploring and implementing measures such as "integration of multiple regulations" and simplified approval by promoting the reform of "delegating power, delegating power, delegating power and improving services", and the business environment has been continuously improved.
Shen Danyang introduced three changes in Hainan's business environment: First, the government has become more efficient in handling affairs. The online handling rate of government affairs in Hainan has exceeded 90%, and the approval process and time limit for the reserved approval items have been reduced. 70%, the approval time for construction projects has been shortened by about 50% compared with two years ago; second, the supply of factors is faster, and systems such as "machine management planning" and "land supermarket" have been established, and "Qiongke Loan" has been launched. A series of distinctive financial services such as "Haizhidai" and "Baby Yingbao"; thirdly, the ability to guarantee the rule of law has become stronger, and the Hainan Free Trade Port has issued regulations on optimizing the business environment, as well as fair competition, social credit, and intellectual property protection. Waiting for a batch of regulations.
According to Shen Xiaoming, secretary of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee, at the press conference, since 2018, the number of new market entities in Hainan Province has increased by an average of 40% annually;
Xu Mingzhen is the secretary general of the Haikou Rural Youth Enrichment Leaders Association and the principal of Hainan Zhongsheng Vocational Training School.
In Xu Mingzhen's view, the entrepreneurial dreams of young people in the new era should also conform to the requirements of the times, enlighten entrepreneurial awareness, regard entrepreneurship as a phased goal, and keep moving towards the goal.
Xu Mingzhen, who has provided training for entrepreneurial youth for a long time, has been thinking deeply and systematically about how the Hainan Free Trade Port can become a new highland for youth entrepreneurship.
He believes that skills are very important for youth entrepreneurship, and training is needed to improve entrepreneurial skills.
The government, associations and other institutions should combine the current situation of entrepreneurship development in Hainan Free Trade Port to extensively carry out entrepreneurship training, e-commerce training, cross-border e-commerce training, and Internet marketer training. The needs of young people in the trade port for entrepreneurial knowledge and skills have cultivated new entrepreneurial talents needed by the free trade port.
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Ren Mingchao Source: China Youth Daily