"Capital Marshal Zhang Jiahao Investigates Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Association: Capital Empowerment, Win-Win Co-operation

On 28th June, Zhang Jiahao, an internationally renowned investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, social activist, honorary doctor of Cambridge University, global business ambassador of Cambridge, UK, and chairman of the European American and Chinese Investment Promotion Association (EACIPA), inspected the Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Association. This is after three years, the capital marshal "Zhang Jiahao" visited Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Association and Shenzhen VR public training base again.

Over the past three years, Zhang Jiahao has been paying attention to every step of the growth of Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Association, the technology iteration and product breakthroughs of every outstanding member enterprise, witnessing the strong momentum of continuous self-renewal and breakthroughs along the way.

Zhang Jiahao visits Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Federation

In these three years, OECCIP has already deeply cooperated with Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Federation on three major projects: OECCIP Greater Bay Area Chapter, Bay Area Meta-Universe Innovation Centre, and Frontier Economy and Technology Information Research (Guangdong) Institute.

In 2022, the Greater Bay Area Chapter of the Europe-America-China Investment Promotion Association (EACIPA) was established, and Tan Yiguo, President of the Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Federation, was appointed as the President of the Greater Bay Area Chapter. In the same year, the Bay Area Yuan Universe Innovation Centre, hosted by the Greater Bay Area Chapter, landed in Nanshan District, Shenzhen.

In June 2023, the Grand Bay Area Meta-Universe Ecological Conference was grandly opened, and the Frontier Economic and Technological Information Research (Guangdong) Institute, a talent and scientific research platform under the European American and Chinese Investment Promotion Association, was officially inaugurated.

Focusing on the fields of virtual reality, artificial intelligence and blockchain, the Frontier Economic and Technological Information Research (Guangdong) Institute cooperates with Tsinghua University Research Institute, Peking University Shenzhen Research Institute and other universities, and endeavours to build a platform-type institution with high-end consulting+resource allocation as its core. Pan Yi, Dean of the School of Computer Science and Control Engineering of Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Feng Shengzhong, Director of the National Supercomputing Centre Shenzhen, Yang Jincai, Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and President of the Shenzhen UAV Association, were appointed Honorary Presidents of the Institute of Frontier Economy, Technology and Information Research (Guangdong), Tan Yiguo, President of the Shenzhen Federation of Virtual Reality Industries, was appointed President, and Liu Jun, President of Content Creativity and Vice President of the Group of Shenzhen Chau Ming Science and Technology Co. Jun Liu was appointed as Executive Dean. A number of industry insiders were appointed as vice presidents.

Chairman Zhang Jiahao and his entourage paid a site visit to the Shenzhen VR Public Training and Exhibition Centre, focusing on experiencing the amazing Cave quad-folding screen technology achievements - MR Theatre, Full Fidelity Space, etc., and highly appreciated that such immersive experience not only effectively enhances the visitors' audio-visual sensation, but also stimulates their interest and desire to explore the VR technology, as well as providing a feasible teaching solution for the institutions of higher education and vocational training, which greatly reduces the cost and risk of the practical training.

Chairman Zhang Jiahao Visited Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Association

Zhang Jiahao chairman exclaimed that Shenzhen virtual reality public training base can completely vigorously promote replication in the city where he serves as an economic adviser, especially from the base of various human-computer interaction equipment functions, functional experience, ecological to emotional development direction, the future development trend will also obviously be from the high efficiency, precision and intelligence and other aspects of the continued advancement of digital technology. Although these technologies currently have certain limitations and bottlenecks, but its future potential and huge space is immeasurable, I believe that these digital technologies will continue to develop, evolve, enhance, Shenzhen as a city of science and technology innovation, the development of the meta-universe of the advantages of the more and more obvious.

The visit also triggered thoughts on the future development of Shenzhen VR Public Training Base. Chairman Jiahao proposed that the VR exhibition centre, as a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship, should pay close attention to technological innovation and development trends, and continuously introduce the latest VR technology and equipment to enhance user experience and display effects. Secondly, it should strengthen scientific research and innovation, establish cooperative relationships with internationally renowned universities, international research institutions and social organisations, etc., and promote the applied research of VR technology in the fields of education, medical care, recreation and entertainment. In addition, we will actively explore opportunities for cooperation with industrial enterprises and carry out customised solutions and professional training services to meet market demand.

Chairman Kenneth Chang believes that Shenzhen is a blessed place for investment, he frankly said, "In the early years, we had invested extensively in the electronic communication industry, and in recent years, we have also taken new technology as a key investment area. the ChatGPT triggered a revolution in thinking, which changed the way human beings thought about and dealt with problems, and the productivity of knowledge has been shown to be exponentially enlarged by Artificial Intelligence. Whether it is the PC Internet, mobile Internet, or today's artificial intelligence, the emergence of each era wind mouth will have the figure of capital."

Obsessed with the underlying technology, the Chairman Zhang Jiahao, who is a technology fanatic, has his own unique theoretical system of investment, he can stand in the global perspective to find and grasp more investment opportunities, and has already set up an industrial investment fund with a scale of up to 1 billion US dollars in the field of ChatGPT layout, Shenzhen is the key point of the fund's layout, and human-computer interaction and the meta-universe are the key points of the investment.

In this exchange, Chairman Zhang Jiahao put forward development suggestions to Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Federation from the development trend of VR, hardware entrepreneurship, scientific research and innovation and other aspects. Both sides expressed the development vision of focusing on key common technology research and development, formulating a clear technology roadmap, doing VR innovation in the Bay Area, and looking forward to the establishment of industry-influential technical standards and independent intellectual property rights, and effectively playing a leading role in the industry.

Chairman Zhang Jiahao said: Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Association will increase in-depth linkage with Europe, America and China Investment Promotion Association to jointly promote the application and commercialisation of VR technology. Through capital empowerment, resource sharing, technology exchange and market cooperation, we will achieve win-win cooperation and help the VR exhibition centre become an industry leader and innovation driver. Through capital empowerment technology, industry-university-research results incubation, and international talent industry transfer, we will put science and technology innovation in the first place in the development of the federation, and make a modest contribution to the scientific and technological innovation in Shenzhen.

Shenzhen Virtual Reality Industry Association

The Shenzhen Virtual Reality Public Training Base is jointly invested by the Federation and the Shenzhen Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the first industry "showcase window" led by the government and invested by social organisations in China, and the first time to adopt the mode of co-build and share. The base has trained 3,000 primary, intermediate and senior virtual reality engineers and technicians, transported them to enterprises, promoted stable employment, and helped member enterprises solve the most urgent problems of VR content production and other high-skilled personnel, and drove technological innovation in the industry. Since opening to the public on 1 August 2022, it has received nearly 80 batches of units from vocational colleges and universities, government agencies and institutions across the country to experience the interaction, and has successfully contracted the virtual factory and virtual distillery projects of Ningde Times and Wuliangye, the virtual marriage hall of Phoenix Yuan Universe, the virtual general's garden of Ganzhou, and the Yuan Universe Industrial College of Yibin Institute of Vocational and Technical Sciences, and the base not only compensates for the strategic emerging and urgent talents of colleges and universities to start professional time is insufficient, but also profoundly close to the industry of engineers training practical training mode, industrial talent vocational ability and professionalism is constantly improving, for the member enterprises to deliver a reliable and continuous talent training mode, for the enterprise development and growth of the team, access to a large number of market orders and application scenarios, provides a talent guarantee, with the development of science and technology, a number of primary applications related to the digital life has been gradually appearing In our vision, technologies such as meta-universe and ChapGPT digital twin are also helping digital life to complete the construction of the underlying logic.