The Alibaba Cloud Innovation Center Project was launched in the Jinnan District, Tianjin. Jointly built by the Jinnan District Government, Nankai University, Tianjin University and Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd., the Center focuses on innovative enterprises in which traditional industries and emerging enterprises coexist. These innovative enterprises include intelligent manufacturing, the Internet of Things, new materials, new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, Big Data, and Cloud Computing.

The Director of the Center explained: “There are 42 offices in the Innovation Center, and 36 enterprises have now settled there.” “Backed by a good foundation of Intelligent manufacturing and technological innovation, as well as the supporting talent development policy of the Jinnan District, the Center makes the best of talented people and scientific research centers at Tianjin University and Nankai University. With Alibaba Group’s integrated high-quality resources in scientific and technological innovation, the Center will be able to support innovative enterprises with cloud resources, information technology research and development and accelerated services to help them boost their core competitiveness.” Ren Geng, the Vice President of Alibaba Cloud commented: “Its unique characteristic is that Alibaba’s high-quality integrated resources, including Alibaba Cloud, Ant Financial Services Group (Alipay, Ant Small Loan, Sesame Credit), Taobao and Rookie Logistics, support enterprises and provide access to Alibaba’s cloud resources subsidy.”

An official of the Jinnan District Government said, “Being committed to promote innovation in the private economy, the Center will strive to become an integrated and advanced place to incubate emerging industry such as the transformation and upgrading of intelligent manufacturing. It will also give support to power conversion technologies, the development of green industry and the transformation of enterprises.”