A SPECIAL conference for the networking of cultural and creative industries, as a part of the Futian District Matchmaking Conference on Venture Capital Fund and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Projects, was held on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on June 20. Eight enterprises stood out from nearly 100 famous enterprises that attended the roadshow. Some of them were based in Futian and others were from Beijing and Shanghai with an intention of relocating to Futian District. Each company was given 15 minutes to introduce themselves and five minutes to answer questions from the attendees. Executives from a number of financial and investment institutions, including a subsidiary fund of Futian Guidance Fund, listened to the introduction to the projects’ characteristics, prospects, profit models and requirements for financing. Apart from the offline event, the matchmaking conference was also broadcast live simultaneously on apps and other online platforms. The conference was able to reach more than 3,200 investment institutions and over 8,000 investors. Anyone interested in the projects can simply scan the QR code or download the app to learn more about the projects. This year, the Futian District Committee of the CPC and Futian District Government have further deepened reform, spurred financial vitality and attached great importance to the guiding role of the Futian Guidance Fund, in a bid to tap various social resources, establish an investment and financing matchmaking system and to give full play to the market role in allocating resources and the guiding role of fiscal capital. Besides, Futian has made efforts to quicken the pace of development for high-end industrial clusters, promote the transfer of innovative results and build an investment and financing system which is diverse, multi-layered and multi-channeled. All these efforts are aimed at building Futian into a model district for finance and innovation and to contribute to Shenzhen’s efforts to turn itself into a hub for international venture capital and innovation investment and a pioneering city for China’s economic reform. (Yang Mei) ? | 