THE promising environment for innovation and starting a business in Shenzhen is attracting more high-end talents to settle in the city. A group of 12 doctoral degree holders recently presented their projects in Nanshan District, aiming to attract investment.

    A road show, organized by Aerospace Science Innovation Center and the city’s association for postdoctoral fellows, was held at Nanshan Industrial Park in order to match makers with doctorates and valuable projects with investors that are looking for promising projects.

    The specialty of these makers is that all of them are intellectuals with doctoral degrees in various new industries such as biomedicine, mobile payment, robotics, 3-D printing, IOT and so forth. A handful of investment companies in Shenzhen, including CFM Investments, attended the road show.

    One of the makers, named Zhu Jiahua, had just come back from overseas after gaining a patent for a new type of image-guided radiotherapy equipment for tumors. The equipment that Zhu and his team have invented is believed to surpass domestically made CT machines, as well as their imported counterparts, thereby enhancing the competitiveness of Chinese brands in the high-end markets.

    “I hope to gain support from investment institutions so that we can produce our sample machine first and I believe the machine will soon bring profits,” said Zhu.

    Robots that assist rehabilitation have become one of the highlights of the road show. Chen Gong is now the CEO of a Shenzhen startup focused on making rehabilitation robots, after graduating from Waseda University in Japan.

    Chen and his company are specialized in developing robots that can help patients with exoskeleton rehabilitation. In the road show, Chen’s team presented a sample machine.

    “This wearable robot can train stroke patients how to walk again when it is attached to the back of their legs,” said Chen during the road show.

    Another maker with a doctorate, Chen Ai, started a telecommunications technology company in Shenzhen a few years ago after completing his postdoctoral studies at Ohio State University. He is also a talent introduced to Shenzhen via a municipal talent project.

    Chen Ai’s road show project was based on LoRa IOT resolution that can build a wireless IOT supervising system that sends data directly to a cloud analysis platform. The technology, according to Chen Ai, can be used to supervise the transportation of gasoline and natural gas. It can also be adopted in the construction of smart parks, smart cities, smart agriculture and smart logistics.

    A deputy general manager with Shenzhen Aerospace Technology & Innovation, Li Hong, suggested that these makers with high-levels of education ask some mature incubators in Shenzhen to help their startups get closer to industrial practitioners, investors and clients.

    Shenzhen has been rolling out favorable policies to attract makers. Li Yan, the secretary general of the association for postdoctorates, said that the city has attracted many high-end teams to settle in Shenzhen since the association was set up.

    (Zhang Qian)