Tianhe incubator base becomes highland for GBA talents

chinadaily.com.cn Updated: October 13, 2021

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator Base, which has settled in Tianhe district, has attracted 88 projects since its founding on March 29, and 67 are from both Hong Kong and Macao.

In addition, a total of 116 young people from Hong Kong and Macao found employment at the base, as well as 88 people with doctorates, 134 people with master's degrees, 460 undergraduates, and 59 senior technicians and senior professional technical personnel.

The incubator base has become a developmental highland for talents from the Greater Bay Area.

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The incubator base in Tianhe district. [Photo/WeChat account: gztzth]

Full chain services of innovation and entrepreneurship have been provided by the base for youths from the Greater Bay Area.

A total of 112 entrepreneurship mentors, 51 investment and financing institutions and five international maker alliance institutions were introduced to provide professional services for incubated projects at the base.

The Hong Kong and Macao youth talent workstation was also set up at the base to address their study issues, internships and employment, innovation and entrepreneurship, and living and working.

A special product and production testing area was established at the base to offer free product and production testing services for settled enterprises to reduce their costs.

The incubator base was jointly set up by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security and the Tianhe district government and covers a combined floor area of 66,500 square meters and has a total investment of over 700 million yuan ($108.54 million).