Nancai Dialogue · Dongfangzhu opened a new article 丨 Interview with Shang Hai Long, General Manager of Shangtang Technology Hong Kong Company: Shang Tang "catch up with a good time" Hong Kong Chuangke entered the harvest season

The 21st Century Business Herald reporter Julina Hong Kong reported that in 2014, Tang Xiaoou, a professor of the Department of Information Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a number of scholars and graduate students, founded Shangtang Technology in Hong Kong Science Park in Baishiko, Hong Kong.

In just a few years, Shangtang Technology has developed into an artificial intelligence (AI) company with the largest amount of financing and the highest valuation in the world. It is also the first unicorn company to successfully incubate in the Hong Kong Science Park.

Entering Shangtang Technology is located in the office of the Hong Kong Science Park Beach Building, and the latest AI "Black Technology" products can be seen everywhere. Gesture recognition, posture recognition, autonomous driving system ... One by one, novel products show the convenience and intelligent life scene brought by artificial intelligence.

"(AI) It is everywhere as electricity, but it is empowering everywhere. In the future, everyone may not think artificial intelligence is very mysterious. It is with us and we will be with us for 24 hours. This is artificial intelligence. This is artificial intelligence. Now it has entered an empirical evidence of thousands of households and thousands of industries, "Shang Hailong, general manager of Shangtang Technology Hong Kong Corporation, laughed.

In fact, the success of Shangtang Technology is precisely a microcosm of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government's vigorously promoting the development of the founding of the founding of the founding. In Shang Hai Long's view, since the return of the motherland, after 25 years of accumulation and precipitation in Hong Kong's science and technology industry, it has finally reached the "harvest season".

"Catch up for a good time"

21st Century: The success of Shang Tang is also vigorously promoting the background of the development of science and technology development with the SAR government during this period?

Shang Hailong: Our birth and development happened to vigorously promote the development of the creation industry and the prosperity of the Ecological Ecosystem of Chuangke.

In the 25 years since the return of Hong Kong to the motherland, Hong Kong's Chuangke has undergone changes in the three stages of the first 10 years, 10 years, and the past 5 years.

In the past 10 years, Mr. Dong Jianhua, then the first chief executive, set up a science and technology park, which is the place where Shangtang was born. At that time, the science and technology parks and digital ports established by the SAR Government at that time promoted Hong Kong universities to start in -depth basic scientific research and research, so since then, 5 well -known universities in Hong Kong have gradually entered the ranks of global competitive research universities. Moreover, rankings have continued to rise, and the results of basic scientific research have continued to emerge, which laid a very solid foundation for Hong Kong's attention to Chuangke. Therefore, we said that Hong Kong's creation was not prosperous at once, tracing back to the source, and laid some seeds more than 20 years ago.

Of course, because of some policy adjustments in the middle period, it was silent for a while. At the end of 2015, the Chuang Science and Technology Bureau was established, which once again accelerated the prosperity of the Hong Kong science and technology ecology. After the establishment of the Innovation Science and Technology Bureau, the government attaches more importance to the contribution of innovation technology to the economy, and attaches more importance to major propositions for innovation technology to lead the economic transition.

In the past 5 years, the government has launched more than 150 billion Hong Kong dollars in science and technology and innovation. Whether in infrastructure construction, in the basic scientific research of support laboratories, and the attraction and use of talents and talents, they all reflect the right. The attention of the science and technology industry.

It is 7 years since the establishment of Shangtang, which is exactly the way to accelerate the prosperity of Hong Kong's prosperity in Hong Kong. Shangtang now has more than 5,000 personnel, 70%of them are basic scientific research talents. From this perspective, Shang Tang has caught up with a good time. With the deep original scientific research strength, Shang Tang grew from a startup to a unicorn in 7 years, and then to a 100 billion market value listed company. There are also the support of the local creation atmosphere and the continuous prosperity of the ecology of Hong Kong.

21st century: The support of this SAR government to promote science and technology innovation can be said to be unprecedented. What kind of foundation does this have to play in Hong Kong's science and technology innovation in the future? Will there be more unicorn like Shang Tang in the future?

Shang Hailong: The 5th Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has invested a lot of resources in the field of innovation, and has done a very important cornerstone role for Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation. From some intuitive data, in 2016, there were more than 1,000 science and technology innovation enterprises in Hong Kong. Until now, there are more than 4,000 science and technology enterprises, which have been tripled. At the same time, the science and technology practitioners have also doubled. Now there are three or four. Vanke's creative personnel have gradually increased; there are more than a dozen unicorn beasts. Before 2016, this was difficult to imagine. This is precisely the high attention of the SAR government, the efficient work after the establishment of the Innovation Science and Technology Bureau, and the achievements of the government's promotion in resources and the environment.

It was more than 20 years ago that the SAR government attached great importance to the basic scientific research of the university and gave basic investment in science and technology innovation platforms such as Hong Kong Science and Technology Park and digital port, so that we have reached a harvest season today.

Therefore, the resources we invest today, including the attraction of talents, and a series of policies, can have a positive impact on the transition of Hong Kong's economy or the future technology transformation of Hong Kong in the future of Hong Kong.

Make good use of the benefits of "two systems" and integrate into the "one country".

In the 21st century: What unique advantages did "one country, two systems" bring to Hong Kong science and entrepreneurship?

Shang Hailong: "One country, two systems" is the most unique advantage of Hong Kong. This is also a creation of no ancients. Through this initiative, it not only solves the historical problems of the state's restoration of sovereignty in Hong Kong, but also gives an institutional guarantee for Hong Kong's future prosperity and development.

First of all, in the context of "one country", Hong Kong enjoys many unique advantages. For example, we have encountered some global countercurrents at present, where is the biggest market? Of course, it is in the mainland of the motherland. The mainland of the motherland is the world's largest single market. Hong Kong grasps the context of the "one country" and allows Hong Kong's director to integrate into the needs of the country. With the advantages of the mainland market, it will definitely be able to industrialize, commercialize, and commercialize Hong Kong science and technology Deepen development in the future. Secondly, the "two systems" largely represent the intersection of Chinese and Western culture, and it represents the collision of Chinese and Western thoughts. Such a place is extremely active and very valuable to Chuangke. Chuangke is to look at a problem with a multi -perspective. A variety of attempts to solve a difficulty. This is an endless driving force for Chuangke development.

At the same time, Hong Kong's low -tax systems can attract many outstanding talents to gather here. The consequences of the innovation environment are continuously prosperous. At the same time, the number of types of innovation companies continues to attract a large number of talents. There are more talents and funds, and it is an international financial center. Hong Kong gathered a variety of elements needed for the prosperity of Chuangke -funds, talents and corresponding industries, especially in the industry. Hong Kong's good use of the "two systems" integration into the "one country" is able to promote the rapid and stable prosperity of Chuangke.

21st century: Since the return, it is clear that the connection between Hong Kong and the Mainland in the Hong Kong economy has become more and more abundant and more prominent. In the future, Hong Kong will integrate into the development of the Greater Bay Area and integrate into the overall national development situation. What new opportunities do this bring to the Hong Kong science and technology industry?

Shang Hailong: In the end, the science and technology industry is industry. The most important thing in the industry is to have products and markets. If the direction of the economic rotation of Hong Kong is Chuangke -Mr. Li Jiachao, the sixth (waiting) Chief Executive, says "non -invasive family and no future". From such a height and pattern, we must think about how our innovative products are manufactured to create products to create products come out? Where is our future market? How can the industrial chain innovate chain reaches a closed loop?

Hong Kong must be integrated into the overall national development situation, and Hong Kong's director must actively integrate into the country's needs. From the return process of the past 25 years, when Hong Kong integrates the director into the country's need, it is an extremely prosperous scene. Therefore, it is the same to develop Chuangke at present, and now it is also a very good time.

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Reporter: Julina

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