Three Zhuhai sci-tech enterprise incubation carriers were recently elevated to provincial level with the backing of local sci-tech authorities and experts of the Department of Science & Technology of Guangdong Province.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao 3D Printing Innovation Hub has been named a Guangdong Makerspace. Makers are those who "tinker, experiment, and create electronic hardware from scratch." A makerspace provides components, machines, and training.

The 3D hub for innovation and entrepreneurship is operated by Print-Rite Holdings and the Administrative Committee of the Zhuhai Free Trade Zone. The hub incubates and backs 3D printing entrepreneurship, downstream, and upstream projects. As of late 2020, it had served 25 startups and project teams.

Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao 3D Printing Innovation Hub at 25 Lianfeng Road in the Zhuhai Free Trade Zone [Photo courtesy WeChat account gh-c2276559a77f]

The Southern Software Park Accelerator in National Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone (Tangjiawan) has been recognized as a Guangdong Sci-Tech Enterprise Accelerator. Operated by Southern Software Park Development, it serves the electronic information industry in collaboration with national-level Southern Software Park Incubator and Southern Software Park Entrepreneurship Dream Factory.

As of December 2019, more than 80 percent of enterprises in the accelerator engage in electronic information R&D and production and over half had advanced from the Southern Software Park Incubator.

The Incubator for the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Science & Technology Industrial Park of Cooperation Between Guangdong & Macao has been named a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Sci-Tech Enterprise Incubator. Founded in 2011 by Macau Investment & Development and Zhuhai Da Heng Qin Investment in Hengqin New Area, it serves the TCM and biomedicine industries, and engages in medical equipment and service.

By the end of 2020, the TCM incubator housed more than 90 enterprises, of which 21 are Hong Kong and Macao funded, and 10 invested by domestic heavyweight enterprises. Nine of the more than 20 graduated enterprises received venture investment of 280 million yuan ($43 million).

In addition, the incubator had cultivated 10 hi-tech enterprises and three provincial engineering technology research centers. Six enterprises entered the Zhuhai High-Growth Innovation (Unicorn) Enterprise Cultivation Repository, while 28 were certified as, for example, sci-tech small- and medium-sized enterprises or provincial/municipal new-type R&D institutions.

Zhuhai currently is home to 10 national, eight provincial, four municipal, and three Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao sic-tech enterprise incubators, 11 national, seven provincial, and seven municipal makerspaces, and one provincial sci-tech enterprise accelerator.