Morning Post Reporter Cha Rui

"Sorry, I'm late." 3:30 p.m., Xie Jihua, general manager of Yangpu Entrepreneurship Center (hereinafter referred to as "Yangchuang"), hurried into the meeting room, half an hour later than scheduled, "flew to Beijing overnight last night to negotiate with a foreign project in the Pioneer Park in Beijing, talked about 9:00 a.m. in the restaurant from 7:00 a.m., and flew back to Shanghai quickly! and report back to the head of the science committee, and then come back right after."

The reporter in front of Xie Jihua, although a little tired, but a talk about entrepreneurship is radiant, in the face of a friend's advice: "You're in state-owned enterprises, the money you make is not your own, so why fight?" His answer was candid: "I just love being around entrepreneurs. If I can't innovate, I'd rather retire."

Abolition of the enterprise structure and creation of service chains

"In 2000, Yangpu District Government wanted to establish "Yangchuang" as a traditional enterprise. ", brought in Xie Jihua, then CEO of the Shanghai Science and Technology Investment subsidiary, to preside over the reform.

"Continuous innovation is the only way for 'Yangchuang' to succeed." In 2001, Xie Jihua as "Yangchuang" general manager, under his proposal, the incubation base carried out the first institutional mechanism of reform, that is, to explore the incubation base of the separation of ownership and management of the operation mode, the formation of Shanghai high-tech enterprises Yangpu incubation base Co. Ownership, responsible for base hardware construction, the former Yangpu high-tech entrepreneurial service center to exercise management rights, belongs to the non-profit institutions, which is a different from the traditional incubator construction mode of the new road.

"After the first reform, the base has become the largest entrepreneurship center, but 'Yang Chuang' did not stop there, four years later the second system innovation, the original two units reorganized into Yangpu Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center Co. The general manager to the employees all implement the labor contract system." Xie Jihua said.In 2008, Xie Jihua also pushed for the implementation of a grouping strategy and the creation of a business nursery at the front end of the incubator and an accelerator service chain at the back end. Last November, the National Technology Transfer Eastern Center officially settled in Yangpu Bay Valley.

"I will not always sit down in the general manager's seat, I often ask myself can still innovate, can not innovate, I would rather retire." Xie Jihua said, he will "Yang Chuang" defined as a public welfare enterprise, the reason is public welfare, in order not to forget the original intention of supporting entrepreneurship, but more to be defined as an enterprise, public welfare can not rely on the government, only through their own innovation, to enhance their own profits for development, in order to do better public welfare.

In the past 15 years under Xie Jihua's administration, Yangchuang has grown from 6,000 square meters to 1 million square meters, and its total assets have grown from 45 million yuan to nearly 3 billion yuan, making it the largest and best-serviced incubator for science and technology enterprises in Shanghai.

It's an incubator, but it's also a home.

"Mr. Xie is actually considered my master, and under his guidance, I started my business step by step to today." Sun Hongtao, who calls himself an apprentice, is now the CEO of a listed company, but 10 years ago he was just a fledgling graduate. "At that time, I wanted to start a business and didn't have too many ideas, but after graduating from Fudan in 2005, I was applying for the first batch of Shanghai University Student Entrepreneurship Fund, and immediately pulled in my postgraduate roommate, ready to apply for the maximum amount of 300,000 yuan, and Xie was one of the four defense judges at that time. That's when I got involved with Xie." At that time, Sun Hongtao just graduated, bold, but entrepreneurial planning is not clear, "did trade, development, engineering, auto parts, construction, and even tablecloths, what to make money on what to do, at that time I think he is a master's degree, entrepreneurial mix can not go on, the worst thing is to find a job."

But Xie Jihua does not think so, as Sun Hongtao's business mentor, he helped Sun Hongtao's company planning strategy and direction, for the company matchmaking integration of resources, and consultation business bottlenecks, now Sun Hongtao founded the Shanghai Fuzhan Intelligent Technology Co.

This is just a part of Xie Jihua's innovative "liaison + counselor + mentor" service system, entrepreneurs' personal problems are also the focus of "Yangchuang". In the process of entrepreneurship, Sun Hongtao encountered his girlfriend's lack of understanding and the divergence of views of the entrepreneurial team, he sought help from Xie Jihua, "I think 'Yangchuang' is not only a business incubator, here I find a sense of belonging, it is the entrepreneur's 'home'. '."

As Xie Jihua's former secretary, Qu Lin has witnessed the development of Yangchuang over the past decade. ID number, and he sends a text message to congratulate every employee on their birthday."

Xie Jihua dedicates almost all his time to the entrepreneurs and employees of Yangchuang, "I spend two-thirds of my time outside, and my daughter says I spend too little time at home. But he has no regrets, he put forward the slogan "Look up to the entrepreneurs" in 2006, emphasizing that and entrepreneurs as friends, incubators are not givers, but service providers. Innovation, entrepreneurs are full of positive energy.