**Hard technology mainly refers to the key common technologies on the key industrial chains related to national strategic security and comprehensive national power.** Since its establishment 29 years ago, Xi'an High-Tech Zone has gathered abundant resources in talent, science and technology, and industry, laying a solid foundation for the development of hard technology. In June this year, Xi'an High-Tech Zone launched the construction of the country's first hard technology innovation demonstration zone to transform hard technology into tangible hard strength.

**What is the first hard technology innovation demonstration zone in the country like? How does Xi'an High-Tech Zone develop hard technology? Please see the on-site interview by the reporter.**

**Smooth Conversion of Hard Technology**

**Incubation platforms provide full-service, and technology managers build bridges for docking**

How difficult is it for researchers to transform into entrepreneurs? Yang Xiaojun, chairman of Xi'an Zhongke Weijing Photonics Manufacturing Technology Co., Ltd., has a deep understanding.

Yang Xiaojun was a researcher at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the Xi'an Institute). He has long been engaged in research in the field of ultrafast laser processing technology. In 2015, Yang Xiaojun decided to start his own business and established a company.

How to manage a company? How to handle finance? How to develop the market? At the beginning of the business, Yang Xiaojun had no concept of running a company and was completely at a loss. With the help of Zhongke Innovation Star, these problems were easily solved.

Zhongke Innovation Star is the first hard technology incubation platform established in Xi'an High-Tech Zone, aiming to help the technological achievements in the laboratory to be industrialized.

"To solve the financing difficulties for researchers' entrepreneurship, we have established a fund focusing on hard technology investment; to help researchers transform into entrepreneurs, we have set up a series of technology entrepreneurship service projects, such as entrepreneurship training, policy consultation, and financing services," said Li Hao, a founding partner of Zhongke Innovation Star.

Yang Xiaojun told reporters that almost all senior executives of the company have participated in the customized course "Hard Technology Entrepreneurship Training Camp" of Zhongke Innovation Star. The course is highly targeted and directly hits the pain points of entrepreneurship. Through the training, everyone's abilities have been greatly improved.

In addition to the "passing on and helping" of Zhongke Innovation Star, Xi'an High-Tech Zone has also launched the "technology manager model."

Asymmetric information has always been one of the difficulties in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. "For example, in the process of transforming scientific and technological achievements, researchers are more concerned with the advancement and forward-looking nature of the technology, while business operators are more concerned with the input-output ratio, return rate, and market advantages. Cooperation between the two sides needs an intermediary force to connect and promote," said He Huiming, director of the Hard Technology Innovation Bureau and Statistics Bureau of Xi'an High-Tech Zone. "At this time, a technology manager who understands both the market and the technology is needed to communicate effectively between the two sides and make the transformation of scientific and technological achievements smoother."

The main business of Xi'an Yuanuo Technology Transfer Co., Ltd. is to provide technical development, transfer, promotion, and consulting services, and Wang Haidong is the general manager of this company.

Five years ago, because he participated in an activity of the Xi'an High-Tech Zone Technology Market, Wang Haidong became a professional technology manager. Over the years, he and his team have found and matched suitable technological achievements for many enterprises, greatly improving the efficiency of technological achievement transformation.

"The role of technology managers in enterprise technological transformation and industrial upgrading is very important," Wang Haidong told reporters. On the one hand, technology managers can help enterprises tailor-select scientific and technological achievements and technical experts that are applicable to enterprises, reducing the R&D costs of enterprises; on the other hand, they can also help the achievements of universities and research institutes find application scenarios.

It is reported that the "technology manager model" has been promoted nationwide as an innovative reform case.

**Cultivating Hard Technology Enterprises**

**Establishing a tiered growth cultivation system and providing all-round support**

To ensure that the number and quality of high-tech enterprises grow together and that their scale and capabilities are enhanced simultaneously, Xi'an High-Tech Zone has established a tiered growth cultivation system for hard technology enterprises: "science and technology small and medium-sized enterprises - high-tech enterprises - science and technology little giants."

"I feel that the support from the High-Tech Zone is all-round from the early stage of the company's establishment to various stages of its later development," said Feng Zhenjun, deputy general manager of Xi'an Starcom Communication Technology Co., Ltd.

In July 2014, Xi'an Starcom Communication was established in Xi'an High-Tech Zone, with only six employees at that time. Now, the company has nearly a hundred employees and a research and development production base of more than 3,000 square meters.

"It is all inseparable from the strong support of the High-Tech Zone," Feng Zhenjun said. "At different stages of the company's development, we have enjoyed real policy support. Although the company is small in size, we have always had a pleasant and smooth communication with the government and coordination of some resources, and have never felt neglected."

With the rapid growth of the company, problems such as narrow office areas and insufficient production bases have become increasingly prominent. To this end, Xi'an High-Tech Zone has tried every means to coordinate and solve various problems at the fastest speed.

When Xi'an Ju Zi Biological Gene Technology Co., Ltd. was established, there were only three people, and the office space was only 15 square meters. Now, the new plant area of the company has reached 60,000 square meters.

Zhang Yu, director of the company's human resources and administration department, said: "Over the years, the High-Tech Zone has been very supportive. Recently, because the company's production capacity continues to expand, the High-Tech Zone has approved 150 acres of land for us to build a new plant."

Huang Shenglan, deputy general manager of Xi'an Clover Information Technology Co., Ltd., feels most deeply about the High-Tech Zone's support for enterprise talent.

"Our company is engaged in the business of network security, and the cultivation and discovery of talents in this area are very difficult. After the High-Tech Zone learned about this situation, it specially held recruitment activities such as high-tech enterprise campus tours, which have expanded the channels for us to recruit outstanding talents," he said.

According to statistics, in the past three years, Xi'an High-Tech Zone has cumulatively cultivated more than 1,100 science and technology little giant enterprises and more than 5,000 high-tech enterprises and science and technology small and medium-sized enterprises. It has promoted the "Xiguang Model" and cultivated a total of 305 hard technology enterprises. In 2020, five technology companies such as Sanrenxing, Ruilian, and Parui successfully went public.

**Strengthening Hard Technology Industry**

**Helping enterprises resume work and production, and encouraging the development of industrial clusters**

At the beginning of this year, the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 had an impact on many small and medium-sized enterprises.

To mitigate the impact of the epidemic, Xi'an High-Tech Zone has introduced a number of measures, including the "Several Policies to Support the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises during the Epidemic Prevention and Control Period," to provide support for enterprises to resume work and production in every possible way. Xi'an Nova Star Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the beneficiaries.

"During the epidemic prevention and control period, the High-Tech Zone Software Park exempted us from more than 1 million yuan in rent. To help enterprises solve the problem of difficult transportation to and from work, the High-Tech Zone coordinated with Xi'an Public Transport Company to open six special lines for us," said Vice President Weng Jing, who is very grateful for this experience.

With the protection of the High-Tech Zone, in the first half of this year, the output value of the semiconductor manufacturing industry supported by hard technology increased by 76.5%, and the output value of the new energy manufacturing industry increased by 46.5%.

The counter-cyclical growth of the hard technology industry is also inseparable from the cultivation and support of Xi'an High-Tech Zone.

In recent years, Xi'an High-Tech Zone has successively released the "Xi'an High-Tech Zone Hard Technology Industry Plan" and the "Xi'an National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone's Policies to Support Major Innovation and Industrialization of Achievements," to fully support the industrialization and development of hard technology. Under the impetus of a series of measures, the hard technology industry has accelerated its aggregation in Xi'an High-Tech Zone, and the scale of the industry continues to expand.

The electronic information industry cluster is the largest of the four major industrial clusters in Xi'an High-Tech Zone, and has basically formed a complete industrial chain of "materials - equipment - design - manufacturing - packaging - testing - application," attracting enterprises such as Unigroup Guoxin and Huawei Research Institute.

To help the development of the electronic information industry cluster, Xi'an High-Tech Zone has taken many major actions.

He Huiming listed them like counting the treasures of his family: "We have introduced the Huawei Xi'an Ecology Innovation Center and also

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