Yunpu home to 17 national 'little giants'

Despite just having 46.78 square kilometers under its jurisdiction, Yunpu sub-district in Guangzhou's Huangpu district has cultivated 17 national specialized, elaborative, characteristic, and innovative enterprises, of which six are national-level key "little giants".

It is also home to 28 provincial-level and 125 city-level specialized, elaborative, characteristic, and innovative enterprises. "Little giants" are generally businesses that are innovation-driven, have core technologies and high market shares, as well as focus on niche sectors.

Yunpu sub-district. [Photo by Qu Junhua]

Yunpu sub-district has been improving the gradient cultivation system of enterprises. It has also increased support for innovation and entrepreneurship in recent years.

According to the three levels of national "little giants", provincial-level specialized, elaborative, characteristic, and innovative enterprises, as well as innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, Yunpu has established a dynamic information database for the 369 enterprises above designated size, organized various policy promotion meetings, as well as guided enterprises to strengthen their weak points.

"We are very familiar with the specialists in the sub-district, who often offer door-to-door services and do policy analysis for us," said Xie Gaohui, chairman and general manager of Guangzhou Wuzhou Technology.

The Beijing-Guangzhou Collaborative Innovation Center, the first industrial park for specialized, elaborative, characteristic, and innovative enterprises in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, settles in Yunpu Industrial Zone. [Photo by Li Jianfeng]

An enterprise service center was also built by Yunpu to assist in solving business difficulties. It established the dynamic purchase ledger information for 10 enterprises looking at being listed, as well as offered more accurate services for the sub-district's 35 listed enterprises and 12 Global Fortune 500 companies.

It also analyzed industrial chains and supply chains related to enterprises within its jurisdiction, established an exchange platform, as well as promoted cooperative research and development. To date, eight industrial chains have been formed in the sub-district, while exchange platforms have also been built.

There are currently 15,441 enterprises in Yunpu, of which 961 enterprises are above designated size. Among them, 35 have been listed, while 22 are high-tech and new material-related enterprises. Its total industrial output value was 183.18 billion yuan ($26.69 billion) in 2021, accounting for 20.9 percent of Huangpu's total.

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