OPC Innovation Community at Zilang Smart Valley in Nantong. [Photo/WeChat account: ntjoy2012]

The Zilang Smart Valley in Nantong Central Innovation District, Jiangsu province, recently launched the OPC Innovation Community, or One Person Company Innovation Community, the first of its kind in Nantong.

Focusing on artificial intelligence plus, the community is dedicated to supporting individual innovators by offering comprehensive and full-cycle growth support.

This initiative marks a major step by the Nantong Central Innovation District to foster the AI industry ecosystem and implement an innovation-driven development strategy. It also plays a vital role in building a comprehensive service system for individual entrepreneurs in the AI era.

As the largest AI-centered OPC innovation community in Nantong, it concentrates on four key areas: Intelligent computing power, intelligent entities, data elements, and intelligent robots. The community offers high-quality physical spaces for individual entrepreneurs and teams, along with OPC-specific support policies, angel funding, and comprehensive lifecycle services.

Zilang Smart Valley is equipped with 98 offices and nearly 500 workstations, serving various individual entrepreneurs and teams. Its public service area includes shared meeting rooms, multifunctional roadshow halls, negotiation spaces, laundry facilities, and more, enabling entrepreneurs to "move in with ease and work without worries".

The park also hosts research and development institutions such as the Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics and the Advanced Ocean Institute of Southeast University Nantong, providing top-notch innovation resources for startup teams.

In the future, Zilang Smart Valley aims to collaborate with local industry leaders to set up additional OPC innovation workshops, forming an "AI plus OPC" innovation demonstration zone in the Yangtze River Delta.