On August 4th, one of 2023 Zhongguancun Forum series of activities - the 7th “Xindong Beijing” ZGC IC Industry Forum was held at the ZGC IC Park. This forum was jointly hosted by ZGC Integrated Circuit Design Park Development Co., Ltd., and Integrated Circuit Design Branch of China Semiconductor Industry Association. With the theme of “Core Technology Core Energy”, the forum invited some industry regulatory departments, academician experts, research institutions, enterprise representatives to jointly explore the path of innovation and development in the integrated circuit and automotive electronics industry.

Building comprehensive IC industry cluster

Beijing attaches great importance to the development of the IC industry, and regards it as the key high-precision and cutting-edge industry. IC industry has gradually formed an IC industry cluster with Haidian, E-Town, and Shunyi as the core areas, continuously radiating to Chaoyang, Tongzhou, and other regions. It has emerged with several industrial parks with characteristics, like ICPARK. During the conference, 2022 “ICPARK Industrial Development Report” was released, which pointed out that ICPARK focused on specialized industrial ecosystem and provided systematic support and professional services of “Space + Investment + Services” for innovation and entrepreneurship entities. There has gathered more than 110 IC high-tech enterprises with annual output value of 46 billion Yuan. Xu Zhengwen, ICPARK Executive General Manager, comprehensively showcased the new achievements of industrial development in the park in the aspects of industrial development, ecological aggregation, industrial collaboration, industrial chain layout, and ecological services. He said, “ICPARK will focus on building an internationally competitive IC industry cluster in Beijing, with promotion for the output of ‘one platform with three nodes’ industrial service system. That will assist in the efficient clustering and high-speed development of IC industry.”

Another highlight of this forum was the grand launch of ICPARK Common Technology Service Center online platform. According to the reporter, in order to focus on the inspection and testing needs of small-and-medium-sized enterprises in IC design industry, the ICPARK Common Technology Service Center has comprehensively integrated professional technical resources and service capabilities both inside and outside Beijing, and meticulously created online service platform, which was officially released at the opening ceremony of this forum. After the platform launched, release of service, proposal of service requirements, quotation, as well as signing of business agreements, all of these can be processed through the online platform. Through the linkage service mode of “online release with offline delivery”, more than 100 services in 10 categories could be provided for enterprises, including more convenient failure analysis and reliability testing, which assisted enterprises in independent innovation.

Enriching activities to accompany the growth of enterprises

During the forum, ZGC Semiconductor Golden Seed Growth Camp Phase II, also was known as Yajie Cradle Plan Semiconductor Pilot Class, officially opened. The Growth Camp integrated ZGC's industrial chain and ecological chain service resources, to develop targeted growth plans for enterprises. Through a series of activities in the aspects of production capacity, market, finance, policy and management training, the camp effectively solved the practical problems of entering enterprises. Xuanhong, General Manager of ZGC Development Group, told reporters that Phase II of the camp would continue to adhere to the concept of “free public welfare, customized, open and shared prosperity”, guiding more social resources into innovation and entrepreneurship, accompanying, and helping enterprises grow rapidly.

Synchronously, “Xindong Star”, the intelligent-connected-vehicle-themed roadshow event was also held during this forum, which attracted 6 selected roadshow enterprises, as well as over 50 investment institutions to participate in, including ZGC Venture Capital, Jinggong Hongyuan, and Frontier Fund. The roadshow event was fully booked, and went smoothly with the warm atmosphere. In the communication and interaction section, the main leaders of roadshow enterprises and investment institutions conducted in-depth discussions on issues of mutual concern, such as technology and product leadership, market demand and competitiveness, investment highlights, revenue and financing needs, and fund usage.

In addition to holding on-site forum activities, ICPARK also frequently arranges rich activities for enterprises in the park to promote their growth. For example, ICPARK has held multiple “big hands pull small hands” industrial collaboration activities, and has facilitated multiple business cooperation projects between leading enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises in the park, which continuously improved the industrial collaborative atmosphere. Meanwhile, in order to promote deep cooperation between central enterprises and municipal state-owned enterprises, with the approval from Municipal Party Committee and the government, “Beijing Industrial Chip Innovation Center” was officially launched in ICPARK in August 2020, which was jointly initiated by municipal state-owned enterprises such as ZGC Development Group and some central enterprises. By leveraging leading enterprises, ICPARK drives more small-and-medium-sized enterprises to create an ecological chain in professional fields. At present, many enterprises in the park have entered the supply chain of central enterprises through industrial chip innovation centers. “ICPARK focuses on the field of integrated circuits, many enterprises that settle here belong to the upstream and downstream of the same industry chain. In order to provide better services, we connect and bridge the gap for enterprises to achieve mutual benefit, “ the head of ICPARK's related business told the reporter.