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2025.04

Special Event for Medical Device Industry was a Success

On March 30, a special event for the medical device industry was successfully held at the Key Field Achievements Release and Supply-Demand Matching Conference of the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference. Focusing on the high-end medical device sector, this event invited industry experts to explain industrial development policies, sci-tech innovation and transformation practices, and regulations on high-tech achievements trading. The representatives from industrial parks in Daxing and Fangshan Districts in Beijing , Hengshui City in Hebei and other places introduced and promoted their industrial environment, in order to drive the deep integration of industry, university, research and application and the transfer and transformation of achievements. Seven strategic collaborations were reached at the event, covering the fields of achievement transformation, technology trading and clinical innovation. Six leading companies demonstrated innovative achievements, such as fluorescent navigation targeted surgery solutions, and the world's first brain diagnosis and treatment devices, highlighting technological breakthroughs in medical devices, to contribute to the high-quality development of the medical and health care industry.

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2023.05

ZGC Development Group has Successfully Hosted the “2023 Zhongguancun Forum”

After more than 150 activities, 55 parallel forums and the like, with more than 100 enterprises participating, the main session of the five-day-long “2023 Zhongguancun Forum” drew to a close on May 30th. By integrating advanced multi-scene technical products into the forum processes, this year’s forum provided all participants with a unique technological experience. ZGC Development Group has successfully organized the “Zhongguancun Forum” for five consecutive years, delivering high-quality and efficient operation services. As a member of the Zhongguancun Forum Office and one of the main organizers of the forum, ZGC Development Group participated in the top-level design of the forum, such as overall solution planning, agenda design and guest invitation. At the same time, it’s also responsible for planning and implementing major events, organizing conference, creating the ambiance of the setting, providing technical support for meetings, managing market-oriented operations, communicating through new media, overseeing brand operation, coordinating volunteers, and organizing supporting activities. Six types of operational products ensure the marketization of the forum As the exclusive marketization management unit authorized by Zhongguancun Forum, ZGC Development Group established Zhongguancun International Exhibition Operation Management Co., LTD. in 2020 to professionally and commercially operate the forum on a regular basis. ZGC Development Group has tailored six types of operation products for the Forum, including sponsorship and membership systems. These products have organically integrated the needs for the national platform of innovation subjects seeking commercialization with the content and on-site presentation of the forum, achieving new breakthroughs in market-oriented operation. This forum has established partnership with Beijing Electric Control, the Bank of Beijing, Huaxia Bank, while actively pursuing brand cooperation with Beijing Yiqing Holding and Toread. More than 40 of “Fortune Top 500 Enterprises”, including Astrazeneca and Qualcomm, as well as industrial leaders, top scientific research institutions and high-growth companies have joined the Forum as members. As a state-owned enterprise, ZGC Development Group bravely shoulders its responsibility and serves as the global partner of the Forum to ensure the steady and sustainable market-oriented development of the Forum’. Mature operational experience ensures the efficient functioning of the Forum The operation team of ZGC Development Group ensured the safety of the Forum with high-level services, such as venue construction, conference service, guest reception and more. During the preparation phase of the “2023 Zhongguancun Forum”, ZGC Development Group established a high-level working team dedicated to ensuring the safety and success of major events, including the opening ceremony and plenary meeting. This Forum has established a national benchmark for sci-tech activities in terms of venue design and construction, technical support, equipment provision, content arrangement and procedures, as well as online and offline presentation. Based on years of experience in conference operation and management as well as a proven track record of five consecutive successful Zhongguancun Forums, the working team of ZGC Development Group has established a four-party organization mechanism and implementation norms for conference activities. They have standardized the visual system and implementation protocols, organized nearly 100 events, including parallel forums, technology transactions, cutting-edge technology competitions, achievement releases and supporting activities. As the official website and new media operator of this Zhongguancun Forum, the team successfully hosted over 50 live events during the forum. More than 200 wonderful sentences made by guest speakers at the Forum were promptly selected out for efficient dissemination the essential thoughts generated during the exchange to the public. “Xiao Guan” is the chief virtual communication officer of the Forum. This year, two new personas were introduced -- astronaut “Xiao Guan” and top-rank player “Xiao Guan”-both of which received high praise from the attendees. To fully leverage its strength in hosting international conferences, the working team has also extended invitations to a number of distinguished foreign guests to participate in key activities of the Forum, enhancing its global image. The International Volunteer Service Center, led by ZGC Development Group, collaborated with 15 universities and agencies to recruit more than 400 volunteers for the “2023 Zhongguancun Forum”, showcasing the youthful spirit of university students serving technological innovation in the capital. The Hi-tech Forum uses new technologies to enhance participants’ experience ZGC Development Group has fully capitalized its sci-tech innovation resources to create highlights for the “Hi-tech Forum”. The 2023 Forum focused on three key features—intelligence, environmental sustainability and cloud-based services. To this end, they developed and applied new techniques, products and ideas, such as an intelligent management system, a data cockpit, and a naked eye 3D visual system. They set up a meta-universe venue, an MR panorama venue, an XR super live broadcast room and other cloud-based forum entrances to expand the reach of the forum. The forum highlighted the low-carbon concept by setting up green stations, using eco-friendly materials, and promoting sustainable practices. Advanced technologies contribute to a lively atmosphere. Considering the Forum’s dual attributes as a national-level platform and a technical innovation platform, the operation team created a visual atmosphere that not only highlights the solemnity, but also exudes a cool sense of technology. The forum has attracted a lot of attention by a naked-eye 3D large screen at the main entrance of the conference and an outdoor technological interactive area. Nearly 8,000 advertising flags were placed along major roads, while promotional videos were played on large screens at landmarks, such as The Place, creating a warm ambiance for the Forum in Beijing. The main session of the Zhongguancun Forum may have only lasted five days, but technological innovation will continue to thrive beyond its conclusion. ZGC Development Group will seize the opportunity to implement a new round of pilot reforms and establish world-leading science parks. It will adopt more powerful measure to enrich the soil for innovation-based development, join hands with innovators and entrepreneurs to co-create an open and shared ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship, contributing to advancing global innovation governance and fostering a community with a shared future for mankind.

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2022.12

Fitch Affirmed ZGC Development Group’s A Rating

On November 15, 2022, Fitch held the rating of long-term debt in foreign and local currencies of ZGC Development Group at “A” and said the outlook was stable. The Group received its first “A” rating from Fitch in early 2020. This is also the fourth time that the Group was given an international “A” rating.

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2022.01

Fitch Affirmed ZGC Development Group’s A Rating

On December 23, 2021, Fitch Ratings confirmed the A rating of ZGC Development Group as a long-term foreign and local currency bond issuer, with the outlook as “stable”. Meanwhile, Fitch also affirmed that the Group’s $300 million of senior unsecured bonds was rated A. International credit rating is a comprehensive evaluation given by rating agencies on an enterprise’s ability to fulfill its economic commitments and its trustworthiness after careful investigation, examination, comparison and measurement. Fitch Ratings is one of the three major rating agencies in the world. Fitch’s ratings are highly differentiated and widely trusted by investors in the international capital market. Fitch has more than 1,100 analysts in more than 40 branches around the world, giving ratings to various financial institutions, enterprises, countries, local governments and structured finance. Fitch has so far issued ratings on more than 1,600 banks and other financial institutions, more than 1,000 corporates and 1,400 local governments, as well as 78% of the world’s structured finance and 70% sovereign bonds, which have been endorsed by regulators and bond investors around the world.

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2021.11

The first “New Industry 50 People Forum” Was Successfully Held in Beijing

On October 23, under the guidance of the Executive Committee Office of Zhongguancun Forum, the first “New Industry 50 People Forum”, sponsored by ZGC Development Group and hosted by ZGC Industrial Research Institute, was successfully held at the Exhibition Center of Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. More than 200 representatives from new technology firms, cutting-edge innovation enterprises, investment institutions, financial institutions, professional service agencies and medias and so on attended the event, and nearly 80,000 people watched the live broadcast online. As part of a series of events of “2021 Zhongguancun Forum”, “New Industry 50 People Forum”, in the theme of “The oncoming future: New Industries in the Age of Digital Intelligence”, was designed to build a platform for idea exchanges, element interactions and sharing development, to enrich and invigorate the ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship, facilitate transformation of new technologies, lead the development of new industries. The forum focused on three topics: digital intelligence, quantum, emission peak and carbon neutral. At the forum, industrial and technical experts from home and abroad, leading enterprisers, new entrepreneurs, industrial organizers and service providers discussed the trend of industrial development, stimulated new industrial ideas, pooled industrial elements and resources, and facilitated the landing of new industries. As industrial clusters are evolving into innovation communities, industrial organizations are sorely in need of digital intelligence to adapt to the diversification, complexity and systematicness of innovation ecosystems. In line with the overall layout designed by ZGC Development Group, ZGC Industrial Institute launched a program to empower industrial organizations with digital intelligence, along with a lot of other ecological partners, such as ZGC Sci-tech Services, ZGC Software Park, Beijing IP and etc. The “Digital-intelligence Program for Industrial Organizations” aims to provide industrial organization solutions, solve key challenges, and combine regional characteristics and industrial trends to iterate and upgrade industrial organizations. Specifically, it includes seven digital tools: digital intelligent diagnosis, digital intelligent monitor, digital intelligent patent navigation, digital intelligent element docking, digital intelligent operation, digital intelligent business selection, and digital intelligent scenario. ZGC Industrial Research Institute actively explores the mode of university-enterprise joint training of innovative talents and promotes industry-university-research cooperation. Under the witness of the participants, ZGC Industrial Research Institute signed an agreement with Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, Central University of Finance and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, University of Chinese Academy of Science (Zhongdan College), Equipment Manufacturing Development Research Center under China General Institute of Machinery to co-build an industry-university-research cooperation base for the New Industry 50 People Forum. Looking forward, the “New Industry 50 People Forum” will set up communication channels for new technologies and industries, promote interaction of production elements, provide support and services for the building of an international scientific and technological innovation center, contributing to the transformation of new technological achievements and the development of new industries.