The three-day event (April 22-24), themed around innovation and AI, will introduce a dedicated forum connecting unicorn companies with overseas listing channels, particularly in Hong Kong.
The city trails only Beijing in total computing capacity, according to industry data, reflecting the capital’s concentration of national-level data centers and research institutions.
The port handles around 2,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) daily, peaking at over 4,000, with more than half destined for transshipment.
The offering marks Manycore as the first global space-intelligence company to go public and the first among Hangzhou’s so-called “Six Little Dragons” to hit the capital markets.
The new Hangzhou headquarters will focus on serving government and enterprise clients while scaling deployment of vision-AI applications across industries from finance to transportation.
Hangzhou has spent 18 years building its student entrepreneurship programs, rolling out six successive three-year initiatives that have helped nurture startups including robotics firm Unitree.
Parts of the professional testing events next month will prohibit remote controls, requiring machines to rely entirely on autonomous perception and decision-making.
The Hangzhou base will focus on higher-value labeling tasks tied to complex industrial scenarios such as autonomous driving, embodied intelligence, smart healthcare and industrial AI.
Liu said advancing the “296X” initiative would be central to achieving major breakthroughs during Hangzhou’s 15th Five Year Plan period (2026-2030).
Yao’s visit reflects the district’s ongoing transition from a central business district to a “Central Innovation District (CID),” as outlined in an official blueprint that came out in August last year.
