Co-host of the Shenzhen Futian District Investment and Talent Promotion Meeting

On Tuesday 29 October 2019, the Association, together with the Talent Work Bureau and the Investment Promotion Agency of Shenzhen's Futian District, held the Futian District Investment and Talent Promotion Meeting at Kouchi Gakuen's Shinjuku campus in Tokyo. The aim was to introduce Futian's start-up environment and support policies to Japanese companies and Chinese community groups and to advance technology exchange between Japan and Shenzhen.

Overview

• Co-hosts: Japan Shenzhen Economic, Trade and Cultural Promotion Association; Futian District Talent Work Bureau and Investment Promotion Agency
• Supported by: Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talent Liaison Office in Japan; All-Japan Chinese Association of Science and Technology; Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Japan; Japan New Overseas Chinese News Co., Ltd.
• Participants: business leaders and four competitors from the Shenzhen innovation competition, among others

Programme

• Yutaka Iwasa, Liaison Office: role and activities of the office
• Lai Yangao, Deputy Director of the Futian Investment Promotion Agency: Futian's GDP passed RMB 400 billion in 2018, and the district is attracting high-level talent as the Greater Bay Area develops
• Meng Yang, Deputy Director of the Futian Talent Work Bureau: Peacock Plan awards, housing subsidies and other talent measures
• Chen Ju'en, Futian Enterprise Development Service Center: the "1+9+N" industrial funding policy, which grew from RMB 600 million in 2016 to RMB 1.8 billion in 2019
• Lin Daoguo, Association Secretary-General: Japan teams' strong record in the Shenzhen innovation competition, with projects in five fields already set up in Shenzhen

Outcomes

Sun Honghong, representing a team that won second prize in a sector final of the 3rd international competition, pitched her project and drew strong interest from Futian, and Shi Hong of a third-prize team shared her experience. Yang Ge, President of Kouchi Gakuen, announced plans to open a Japanese-language school in Futian to help train international talent. The Futian delegation also visited a Chinese scholars' group at the University of Tokyo, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Japan and Japan New Overseas Chinese News.