This Bay Area, How to Empower the "Metaverse"

       The year 2021 is the year of the metaverse. A few days ago, the think tank announced the top ten hot words of 2021, and "meta-universe" was selected and ranked the eighth hot word.

Because of a conference related to "meta-universe", many cities in the Yangtze River Delta focused their attention on Wuxi on the north shore of Taihu Lake on the 15th.

        On the same day, the Yangtze River Delta Metaverse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Finals and Metaverse Industry Summit organized by Binhu District People's Government, Binhu District Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Liyuan Economic Development Zone Management Committee, Wuxi Yingling Zhitou Information Technology Co.

At the summit, the "Yangtze River Delta Metaverse Alliance", a "heavyweight carrier", was unveiled and established.

On the 11th before the summit, the Yangtze River Delta Regional Cooperation and Development Joint Conference was held. The meeting has a summary and requirements——

• In 2021, the three provinces and one city focused on the two keys of "integration" and "high quality", continuously broadened the field of cooperation, deepened the content of cooperation, and improved the cooperation mechanism, and achieved remarkable results in the development of "integration". The development of "integration" has achieved remarkable results.
• The year 2022 is a critical year for the full implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. All levels of the region should adhere to the combination of division of labor and collaboration with each other's strengths, demonstration and leadership with comprehensive promotion, and government guidance with market-led promotion, and continue to push forward the "integration" process. The process of "integration" will continue to be promoted.

        As an important node of Wuxi's "14th Five-Year Plan" Project No. 1 Taihu Bay Science and Innovation Belt, Binhu District not only concentrates 90% of Wuxi's scientific research institute resources, but also has a strong industrial base of integrated circuit design, new generation of information technology, intelligent manufacturing and so on.

        The alliance landed in Wuxi, the most beautiful lake bay, it is to carry forward the "strengths", continued for the Yangtze River Delta yuan universe industry development "blood transfusion", "empowerment".

There's speed.

Signing a contract as soon as it wins an award, bringing together new forces

Metaverse is an artificial space operating parallel to the real world, a virtual reality network world supported by AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality), XR (Expanded Reality), 3D and other technologies. At present, virtual reality technology has more scene applications and practical cases in manufacturing, retail, real estate, medical, education, entertainment and other industries, and is accelerating the development of traditional industries to digital transformation.

        Since 2020, the size of China's virtual reality market has reached hundreds of billions of yuan and maintained a growth rate of 30%-40%.

To meet friends and cut with the competition. This Yangtze River Delta Metaverse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was launched on December 7, 2021 in Tin, which attracted a total of 632 enterprises from all over the world to participate in the competition, covering such fields as AR/VR, virtual people, digital twins, artificial intelligence, and smart cities, etc. After a number of sub-station competitions and online and offline resumptions, 50 enterprises entered the final final, and after a fierce competition, a total of first-, second-, and third-place prizes were decided on the same day After the fierce competition, the first, second and third prizes were decided on that day.

        Promote the industry by the competition and recruit projects by the competition. It is worth mentioning that some excellent projects decided by this competition, such as Miyang Information, Huiyou Information, Rhinoceros Shimmering, Yu Chain Technology, etc., are directly attracted as major projects and become an important new force of Wuxi meta-universe industry, which will further help the construction of regional meta-universe ecological industry cluster.

        Ma Chao, the person in charge of Huiyou Information, one of the representatives on the ground, said that the country is paying more and more attention to vocational education, and Huiyou is now mainly committed to providing VR and e-sports training platforms for college customers, and at present the VR and e-sports training platforms have already been integrated into the actual teaching of 12 and 7 colleges and universities across the country respectively, and have already served tens of thousands of students. With the rise of new media marketing in the past two years, the vocational skills training of network salesman and network operator has started to enter the campus, and Huiyou has already developed the related practical training platform and practical training sandbox, and this year it will incorporate AI and meta-universe technology on the basis of the first phase of the practical training platform, so as to upgrade the platform to a higher level, to better serve the teaching and to cultivate more excellent talents of meta-universe industry.

Advantageous

Strong industrial foundation and science and innovation carriers

In this summit, the Yangtze River Delta Metacosmos Alliance and Wuxi Metacosmos Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base were inaugurated at the same time as two "heavyweight carriers". The Yangtze River Delta Metacosmos Alliance has attracted more attention from the outside world.

        The Yangtze River Delta Meta-Universe Alliance is jointly co-sponsored and established by more than 300 units in the Yangtze River Delta region, including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, etc. The Alliance mainly focuses on the cooperation of six supporting technologies, such as blockchain, interactive technology, electronic games, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and network and computing technology, to continuously stimulate the innovation vitality of meta-universe-related industries and to continue to provide technical support and talent output for the development of meta-universe industry in the Yangtze River Delta.

It is worth mentioning that both Yangtze River Delta Metaverse Alliance and Wuxi Metaverse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base are located in Binhu District of Wuxi City.

According to Huang Yangzhi, the secretary-general of Yangtze River Delta Metaverse Alliance, behind the two heavyweight metaverse carriers landing in Lake Bay at the same time, there is a strong industrial advantage of Binhu (the advantageous industrial clusters such as integrated circuit, intelligent manufacturing, digital culture and new generation of information technology have been keeping an annual growth rate of more than 20%) and many benchmark science and technology creation carriers and platforms (Southeast University, Jiangnan University and 12 "big institutes").

      "There are conditions to seize the lead in the meta-universe track and advantages to cultivate an ecology suitable for the flourishing growth of the meta-universe."

Sun Haidong, mayor of Binhu District, said that at present, the digitalization trend is promoting the accelerated integration of science and technology and humanities, and continues to reshape the economy and society and people's production and life style with technology. To "meta universe" as the representative of the wave of technological innovation has been opened, looking at the development trend, countries have to put into the meta universe of the new track, take the initiative to the meta universe of the "new blue sea", and the development of the meta universe of the industry, binhu has the foundation, has the advantage. In the future, Binhu will continue to increase the policy support for the meta-universe industry projects, provide the most dynamic and high-quality entrepreneurial soil, and create the most superior innovation ecological environment.

Planned

"One district," "one park," and "one place" to improve the industrial ecology

        This month, Binhu District, which is committed to building a leading area of Taihu Bay Science and Technology Innovation Belt, officially released the "Taihu Bay Science and Technology Innovation Belt Leading Area Metaverse Ecological Industry Development Plan", which clearly states that by 2025, it is necessary to build a metaverse industrial ecology with technology leadership, enterprise agglomeration, demonstration application, and complete standards in Binhu to form a leading edge in metaverse technology innovation——

Based on breakthroughs in core technologies and guided by industrial agglomeration, the metaverse industry will build a cluster development pattern of "one (Shanshui City) and two wings (Liyuan Development Zone and Hudai Town)" and "2+20+200" (2 unicorns, 20 leading enterprises, and 200 emerging enterprises), continuously deepen the promotion measures of the metaverse in technology, industry, ecology, talents, applications, etc., and accelerate the promotion of "one zone" (metaverse core industrial area), "one park" (metaverse innovation incubation park) and "one place" (Metaverse advanced intelligent manufacturing land).

       ★Won Universe Core Industrial Zone——Relying on the functional layout of Hongshawan Science City, accelerate the gathering of leading enterprises in the meta-universe and the creation of innovation ecology, vigorously develop the meta-universe eco-industry featuring blockchain, cloud computing, Internet of cars, digital film and television, digital games, and build a meta-universe eco-industry development highland where original technology is curated, and where industry, academia and research are transformed in depth.

       ★ Metaverse Innovation Incubation Park——Relying on the functional layout of Lihuwan Future City, it actively lays out high-end science and innovation carriers and internationalized production service functions, vigorously gathers intellectual property services, information exchange services, scientific and technological research and development, think tanks and consulting and other elements, and promotes the landing of headquarter institutions with decision-making, research and development, and other high-end functions, so that it can be built into a Yuan Universe Innovation Service Center radiating the Yangtze River Delta region.

        ★ Metaverse advanced intelligent land——Relying on the functional layout of Jiulong Bay Smart City, docking domestic and foreign "yuan technology" scientific research resources and scientific and technological achievements, promoting the landing of virtual reality machine equipment, perception and interaction equipment, content acquisition and production equipment and other manufacturing projects, vigorously developing the key system, assembly and integration, complete sets of equipment and other manufacturing segments, and exploring the construction of a virtual reality industry development base. The company is also exploring the construction of a virtual reality industry development base.

        In May 2021, the Yangtze River Delta Integration and Development High-level Forum was held in Wuxi, Shanghai Jiading District, Qingpu District, Jiangsu Province Suzhou, Wuxi City, Changzhou City, Zhejiang Province Huzhou City, Jiaxing City, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, and other "two districts and six cities" for the signing of a contract: by 2025, efforts will be made to build the Science and Technology Innovation Circle around the Taihu Lake into the Yangtze River Delta original By 2025, we will strive to build the Taihu Lake Science and Technology Innovation Circle into an original Yangtze River Delta innovation highland and an important carrying area for high-precision and specialized industries, and strive to build it into a benchmark of Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Community with international competitiveness and global influence.

So far, from the Taihu Bay Science and Innovation Zone to the Science and Innovation Circle around Lake Taihu, from the city strategy to the Yangtze River Delta regional strategy, a world-class innovation lake pioneer circle has been snapped to the development of the "accelerator button".

Behind the "accelerated" development, with 108 kilometers of beautiful Taihu Lake shoreline of the power of the lake is indispensable. (Reporter: Shao Xugen, Zhou Lanting, Editor: Zhou Lanting)

来源：无锡日报

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