China.org.cn | December 9, 2024
Bloomberg:
In recent years, the numbers of new startups and unicorn enterprises have decreased while the venture capital industry has also faced various challenges. How do you plan to foster more unicorn firms and what are the biggest obstacles? Thank you.
Wang Jiangping:
Thank you for your questions. As representative enterprises for a new economy, new business form and new model, unicorn companies have become a new asset in fostering new quality productive forces by featuring fast development speeds and high growth rates. In recent years, a number of super unicorn companies have emerged in China, with unicorn firms continuously increasing and their comprehensive capacities greatly improving. At present, Chinese unicorn enterprises are not only stationed in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, but also nestled in Chongqing, Tianjin, Chengdu, Changsha, Wuhan and other cities, showcasing an emerging trend of diversified development. In recent years, unicorn enterprises from high-end manufacturing, consumer and retail, high-tech and other related fields have accounted for more than 78% of the total volume, and more than half of last year's new unicorn enterprises came from hard technology sectors such as new energy, artificial intelligence and semiconductors.
The growth of unicorn enterprises on the one hand depends on their own technological strengths, while, on the other hand, requires a favorable business environment. Next, the MIIT will take the following measures to boost the growth of such firms. First, a unified national cultivation system for unicorn enterprises will be established, with coordination between state organs and provincial governments. Second, technological innovation will be pushed and unicorn firms will be guided in carrying out scientific research on the basis of national strategic needs and to achieve remarkable results. Third, financial support like industry and financing cooperation platforms will be given full play to help unicorn enterprises go public, merge and reorganize. Fourth, future-oriented industries, including atomic-level manufacturing, brain-computer interface and 6G will be boosted with forward-looking plans, promoting the development of unicorn enterprises. Fifth, unicorn enterprises will be supported to join the global innovation network and conduct innovative cooperation. We warmly welcome international innovation teams to start businesses in China as well as welcome foreign capital to invest in unicorn enterprises in China. We are ready to share with the rest of the world China's development opportunities with entrepreneurship and innovation. Thank you!