When the big factory comes, everything is born

○ On the evening of May 23, in Building A2 of Nanjing New Town Science and Technology Park Complex, in the office area of the former Alibaba Jiangsu headquarters, hundreds of workstations were neatly arranged with packaged relocation boxes.
○ At the same time, the Nanjing Ali Center, 4 km away, is brightly lit. Fan Wei, the person in charge of service operations in the park, kept on the phone, closely tracking the real-time dynamics of the logistics team, and making final preparations for the upcoming unified relocation.
○ Nanjing Ali Center is a major provincial and municipal project, and it is also the first self-built and self-owned park of Alibaba Holding Group in Jiangsu Province. Two days later, all the staff of Alibaba’s Jiangsu business settled in the “new home”.
○ On the economic map, the headquarters of Dachang is a landmark business card, and it is a powerful magnetic pole. With the completion of a new generation of digital parks such as Nanjing Ali Center, more than 40 Alibaba ecological enterprises and digital economy-related enterprises have moved in advance, and the regional innovation ecology is quietly reconstructing.

01Siphon overflow, poly “cost-effective project”
○ The future kitchen is officially open to the public, the landmark building flying saucer is turned on and lit up, and the logo of “Jinling has a world, Ali leaps into a new journey” shines on the large electronic screens everywhere…… Recently, Nanjing Ali Center has been dressed up inside and out, ready to welcome Ali students.
○ “This will be our last ‘move’.” Fan Wei said that since joining the company, she has experienced four relocations such as Zhongguancun (Jiangning) Industrial Park and Jiulonghu International Enterprise Headquarters Park. Unlike in the past, Nanjing Ali Center is Alibaba’s self-built campus, and this time it will move into the Nanjing team of Alibaba Holdings, Taotian, Cloud Intelligence, Local Life, and other Alibaba businesses in Jiangsu.
○ From “renting” to “building a garden”, the opportunity dates back to 8 years ago. In 2017, with the support of provinces and cities, Alibaba signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Jianye District to build a regional headquarters in the western part of Hexi, with a total construction area of about 850,000 square meters, including 6 office buildings, 1 commercial block, 1 shopping mall and 1 talent apartment.
○ Over the past eight years, Alibaba has been deeply involved in multiple business segments in Nanjing. For example, Alibaba Cloud has supported the implementation of more than 50 scenario solutions for manufacturing enterprises in Jiangsu Province through “intelligent transformation and digital transformation”. For another example, Alibaba’s local life Ele.me business serves more than 300,000 catering, retail, pharmaceutical and other merchants in the province, with about 300,000 active riders per year.

○ “It can be said that this is a ‘cost-effective’ project attracted by Kunye District.” The relevant person in charge of the Industrial Investment Promotion Department of Nanjing Jianye High-tech Zone believes that the more far-reaching impact of Alibaba’s Jiangsu headquarters is to set up a “golden signboard” for regional investment. He introduced that because of the smooth landing of Ali, the brand effect of the park to do an excellent business environment has been amplified, and many leading enterprises, such as Xiaomi’s East China headquarters and Hengsheng Electronics Jiangsu headquarters, have also chosen to cooperate with Jianye and become “neighbors” with Ali.
○ The “high cost performance” of Dachang has long been reflected in the development of Nanjing’s industry. On both sides of Nanjing Software Avenue, the logos of leading enterprises such as ZTE, Huawei, vivo, and ArcherMind can be seen everywhere. China (Nanjing) Software Valley, where it is located, has created about 35% of the city’s software and information service industry output value with 1% of the land area. And the starting point of all this stems from the landing of ZTE.
○ “After ZTE came, Huawei also came in 2005. The two main chain leaders in the field of communication have continuously released the siphon effect and gathered batch after batch of software companies. According to the relevant person in charge of Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, in 2001, Nanjing’s software business income was only 1.8 billion yuan; By this year, the software and information service industry has become the city’s first industrial cluster with a scale of more than one trillion yuan.
○ According to Ding Hong, dean of the Jiangbei New Area Development Research Institute of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and special researcher of the Counselor’s Office of the Jiangsu Provincial Government, large factories can drive the value of the city’s and even the province’s industrial chain through factor reorganization, and their leading radiation role far exceeds the limitations of physical space. In particular, the new production factors such as computing power and algorithms carried by “new generation manufacturers” such as Alibaba have completed the key puzzle of Jiangsu’s construction of a modern industrial system, and will effectively promote the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
○ Jumping out of the economic category, from the perspective of urban development, ZTE and Huawei have given birth to the butterfly change of Yuhuatai District from the suburbs to the city. The commissioning of major Internet factories such as Xiaomi and Alibaba will directly drive Jianye District to start the construction of Hexi Central Science and Technology Innovation Zone, accelerating the improvement of urban functions and infrastructure in southwest Hexi.

02 Build a chain in a group, “move with Alibaba” ○ In March this year, ahead of Alibaba’s Jiangsu headquarters, Nanjing Endpoint Xingchen Technology Co., Ltd. has settled in Nanjing Ali Center “ahead of schedule”, and the new office location is located on the 6th floor of Building T5 in the park. ○ “The office location of the endpoint start-up period is in Aliyun Feitian Park, Xihu District, Hangzhou; Later, he came to Nanjing to expand his business, set up an independent company, and ‘went up and down’ with the office area of the original Alibaba Jiangsu headquarters. Lv Yihang, the co-founder of the company, introduced. ○ There is a significant capital and business synergy between the endpoint and Alibaba. As one of the earliest providers of digital solutions for traditional enterprises in China, the founding team of Endpoint is “from Alibaba”, and some large central state-owned enterprises choose to cooperate with Endpoint, an important factor is that they have Ali technology genes; In 2018, Alibaba Cloud also made a strategic investment in endpoints, and is still the largest single shareholder with a 30% stake. ○ In recent years, Alibaba Cloud has continued to import cooperative resources for endpoints. In the Xinhua Bookstore online mall project, Alibaba Cloud provides the underlying architecture support, and Endpoint Technology is responsible for application development and platform operation, which is similar to “laying the foundation” and “building a house”, and such joint services account for about one-third of the overall endpoint business volume. ○ The in-depth collaboration between large factories and ecological enterprises has been profoundly demonstrated in China (Nanjing) Software Valley. Many enterprises in the valley started from undertaking the outsourcing business of ZTE and Huawei, and finally realized the transformation and upgrading from technology foundry to joint development to ecological co-creation. Jiangsu Runhe Software Co., Ltd. was originally Huawei’s outsourcing service provider, and now it has entered the core circle of the HarmonyOS ecosystem. ○ Compared with the “fission effect” of ZTE and Huawei in terms of technology and business, the “new generation of big factory effect” such as Xiaomi and Alibaba is more complex and diverse. Take Alibaba’s ecological partners as an example – ○ Some have followed the business sector to Nanjing, for example, Ali’s local life has driven more than a dozen companies such as Zhongxin (Nanjing) Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. to land; Some of them were incubated and turned into legal companies by Alibaba, and Ali Lingyang was “independent” from Alibaba’s data middle office team, and then went to Nanjing to conduct business; There are also direct business dealings with Alibaba, and Beijing Tiantai Law Firm, the first owner of Nanjing Ali Center, has cooperated with Alibaba Assets for many years. ○ In Building T4 of Nanjing Ali Center, I also met Zhongyu Artificial Intelligence Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. to seek cooperation. The company focuses on AI applications in the shipbuilding industry, and the rust removal robot developed by the company can achieve a manual replacement rate of “one to ten”. The founder of the company said frankly: “Although China’s shipbuilding industry has accumulated a lot of data, the industry experience has not been fully digitized. It is hoped that with the help of Ali Tongyi’s large model, a vertical AI model will be developed to implant a ‘brain’ into the company’s robot products. ○ When the big factory comes, everything is born. According to public data, Xiaomi’s Nanjing Science and Technology Park has gathered 6 Xiaomi’s enterprises and more than 20 ecological enterprises. Jianye High-tech Zone has set up a special class for Ali to identify the key investment enterprises and business dealings with Ali