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“Currently, all 500 workstations are fully occupied, and the newly expanded area of over 1,000 square meters has been fully decorated.” Recently, at the Nanjing Alibaba Center Xinying OPC community, the enterprise service manager of Nanjing Alibaba Center, Feiyan, couldn’t contain her excitement as she shared this good news.
The first phase of the Pinkberry OPC community is located on the 8th floor of Building T5 of Nanjing Alibaba Center, covering approximately 2,800 square meters. It is the first OPC community under Alibaba and the largest in Jiangsu Province. It was officially inaugurated on December 12th last year. Less than three months after the opening, the community urgently expanded due to insufficient space.
“At present, more than 50 teams are working here. Last month, our public project selection attracted another 70 teams to sign up and move in,” said Feiyan, pointing upstairs. The “new space” on the 13th floor is ready and will be officially put into use in March.
On the sofa seat facing the window in the public communication area, Gu Yanyan, the founder of Begguijin Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd., was sitting sideways and chatting animatedly with her partner. Gu Yanyan has been deeply involved in the “AI + HR” field and has used intelligent agent products to increase the efficiency of enterprise resume screening by more than half. Leveraging her accumulated resources in the field of human resources, she actively attracts traffic to the “Yuping” OPC community. She said, “This is the person in charge of our AI overseas training project. He has a particularly strong interest in the ‘New Space’ on the 13th floor.”
Not far away in the “Telephone Booth”, Wang Peng, the founder of Yuemei Technology, was repeatedly training his newly developed AI intelligent outbound calling system. He was originally the head of a research and development department at an Internet company in Beijing and was attracted to Nanjing Alibaba Center by its industrial ecosystem. What impressed him the most was the efficient connection platform built by the Yuping OPC community. In December last year, because of an “All in AI Geek Sharing Session”, he met the person in charge of Chengxingqi, a 1688 Nanjing service provider, who was on the 8th floor of T4 building.当场， Wang Peng and the other party agreed on the time for product demonstration and successfully won the first cooperation.
“During the just past Spring Festival holiday， except for the New Year’s Eve night， I didn’t rest for a single day. I hope the first order can be a huge success,” Wang Peng introduced. Previously， Chengxingqi relied on manual phone calls to maintain the member customers of the 1688 platform. The labor cost was high and there was an urgent need to use AI to improve the efficiency of member maintenance. The AI digital avatar requires complex interaction design. Where pauses are needed， how to handle customer interruptions， etc.， all need to be repeatedly debugged. Since the beginning of the Spring Festival， he has made dozens of phone calls to train the AI and modify the algorithm. Now， the “clever AI customer service agent” can have an average conversation with the customer for more than two minutes. UI designer Xiao Ran came to experience the new office space in advance. Previously， he was the design supervisor at Nanjing Xinhuan and resigned to start his own business， relying on AI large models to create promotional videos for enterprises. “Before， we even called ourselves a ‘grassroots team’. With the help of social media， we started to have inquiries from customers. Recently， we have had customers asking for quotations every day and need to officially register the company,” said Xiao Ran. Although they haven’t officially moved in yet， the staff of the Yuping OPC community have already intervened in advance， providing one-on-one guidance on personnel structure setup and enterprise registration procedures， making the start of the business more stable and smooth.
The intense entrepreneurial atmosphere not only enabled the rapid expansion of the Qipeng OPC community but also spurred the prosperity of the entire innovative ecosystem of Nanjing Alibaba Center. Within just three months, two OPC entrepreneurial teams have matured from the Qipeng OPC community and moved to the more suitable office space in Building T4 of Nanjing Alibaba Center to continue their development. Here, a cluster of high-growth artificial intelligence enterprises and regional R&D centers have gathered, forming a mutually beneficial industrial ecosystem with the start-up teams from the Qipeng OPC community.
On the 6th floor of Building T4, Xu Yingchun, the general manager of Nanjing Nengli Xincheng Technology Co., Ltd., just sent off an investor. The enterprise independently developed high-performance power supply modules, which can handle 1.5 kilowatts of power with a size of a fingernail, and have a peak efficiency of electrical energy conversion of up to 98.3%. They are widely used in data centers and other AI infrastructure. Thanks to its core innovation strength, the enterprise’s B-round financing has achieved oversubscription. As of now, Nanjing Alibaba Center, which has been open for less than a year, has gathered over 150 enterprises and 6,000 innovative and entrepreneurial talents.
The vigorous momentum of innovation and entrepreneurship cannot be separated from policy support. This year, the Jiangsu Provincial Government’s work report clearly stated that it supports OPC innovation and entrepreneurship, making “single-person teams” become widespread. Nanjing has introduced 42 policies and measures to accelerate the cultivation of new quality productive forces, clearly stating that “support for the construction of OPC incubation communities” will be provided. The Jianye District has also simultaneously introduced “Several Measures to Support OPC Community Construction”, offering everything from the highest 2-year office rent exemption to full-chain subsidies and rewards for R&D, computing power, data sets, and industrialization, as well as support for OPC products during their “first trial, first use, and first purchase”. With “real money” support, the OPC entrepreneurs are fully protected.
In one corner of the Pink Orange OPC community, the tea bar is still bustling with activity. Sun Hui, who is in charge of space services, is busy handing out freshly ground coffee to the entrepreneurs who are coming in for business discussions. She recalls that when the community was first launched, there were only about 30 startup teams. Now, the number has skyrocketed, and some of the colleagues she knows have changed her mind about their names. Since the Spring Festival, there have been an exceptionally high number of people seeking cooperation, and the coffee machine has hardly stopped running. “For 1 kilogram of coffee beans, we use 2 packs every day.”
The coffee machine keeps beeping and the entrepreneurs keep chatting. This might be the most vivid illustration of the innovative vitality in Nanjing.
