[Explanation] On September 13, the Returnee Town (Hangzhou Digital Medicine) jointly built by the European and American Students Association and Hangzhou City was officially unveiled. This is one of the first three returnee towns to be unveiled in the country, and will be built into a bio-economy in Zhejiang Province. It is a benchmark area for the integration and development of the digital economy.
In his speech, Deputy Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Liu Xin expressed that he hoped to use the opening of the Overseas Returnee Town of the European and American Alumni Association as a new platform and a new opportunity to attract more overseas talents to return to Hangzhou to innovate and start businesses, and to promote the "two A first", the country will contribute more to the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.
[Concurrent] Deputy Secretary of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Liu Xin
We also hope to take advantage of this meeting to allow returnees to come to Hangzhou like a tide, and to contribute our wisdom and strength to our motherland.
We also hope that everyone will work together to create the glory of our history for our economic development and the take-off of science and technology. Finally, we hope that our returnee town can become an important innovative landmark in Hangzhou and the European and American Alumni Association in boosting the development of the motherland.
[Explanation] It is understood that the European and American Alumni Association plans to build 10 returnee towns in China in 5 years, build a strategic emerging industry cluster, returnee talent innovation and entrepreneurship base, help local industrial upgrading, and promote the high-quality development of the national economy.
Cao Weixing, vice president of the European and American Students Association, believes that the European and American Students Association Returnee Town (Hangzhou Digital Medicine) will become a benchmark area for gathering global returnees, helping the integrated development of Zhejiang's bio-economy and digital economy, and an industrial highland in the field of digital medicine.
[Concurrent] Cao Weixing, Vice President of the European and American Students Association
It is believed that after the start of the operation of the Overseas Returnee Town (Hangzhou Digital Medicine), the European and American Alumni Association will further exert the strengths of the vast number of overseas students in the digital medicine industry chain at home and abroad. The town gathers more than 50,000 talents from Shanghai, and each town actively produces a number of industrial unicorns, invisible champions and listed companies, and each town will form a leading information chain and industry chain. Therefore, we have reason to believe that the returnee town of the European and American Alumni Association (Hangzhou Digital Medicine) will surely become a benchmark area for gathering global returnees, helping the integrated development of Zhejiang’s bio-economy and digital economy, and an industrial highland in the field of digital medicine.
[Explanation] Returnee Town (Hangzhou Digital Medicine) will focus on promoting the in-depth integration and application of information technology and synthetic biology, genomics, microbiology and other life science fields, and cultivate and incubate biological digital services such as biological foundries and genetic data platforms. The platform will introduce digital application companies such as AI+medical equipment research and development, AI+aided diagnosis, strengthen the development of BT+IT integration, and strive to introduce a group of leading digital medicine enterprises with international and domestic industry influence through 10 years of construction, and the scale of the digital medicine industry will break through. 50 billion yuan.
[Concurrent] Shi Yigong, Vice President of the European and American Alumni Association
(Returnee talents) We must give full play to high-end innovation and leadership. Whether it is doing business, education, teaching, or scientific research, I want to play innovation and leadership in China. At the same time, because it is a returnee with a distinctive word, it must be patriotic. Dedication, because I think that since the founding of New China, the returnees from generation to generation have actually deduced the story of patriotism and dedication. At a time when China is in need of technological self-reliance and self-improvement, the returnees must take over the baton, that is, the new returnees, and then Further interpretation of the story of patriotic dedication.
[Concurrent] Wang Pijun, Secretary of the Party Group and Secretary-General of the European and American Alumni Association
(Returnee town) is an innovation in various aspects. First, it is China's innovation in innovation, technology industry, and integration of industries and cities. I think this is one. The second is innovation in concepts, management, and models.
[Explanation] It is reported that with the returnee town (Hangzhou Digital Medicine) as the link, Hangzhou will strengthen the close cooperation with the European and American Alumni Association, and link various districts and counties to jointly build the Hangzhou Digital Medicine Innovation Corridor.
In the future, it will become a benchmark area for the integrated development of bio-economy and digital economy in Zhejiang Province, a new platform for the gathering of innovative talents across the country and the world, a new landmark for the leading digital pharmaceutical industry, and a new highland for the gathering of world-class digital pharmaceutical industry intelligence.
Reporter Shen Yishan reported from Hangzhou
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]