Online and offline "hardcore" support, Changzhou full-chain empowerment helps "one-person companies" grow rapidly

“A person can start a company alone—something I never would have dared to imagine before. But in Wujin District, Changzhou, after submitting the materials online, I can get a business license within half a day. It feels like having thousands upon thousands of troops on your side.” On this occasion, inside the Xitahu (Changzhou) Artificial Intelligence International Community OPC Integrated Service Center, entrepreneur Zang Tengfei was applying for a business license while speaking excitedly.

What Zang Tengfei founded is not only a typical “one-person company” (OPC), but also an “AI+OPC” science-and-technology enterprise market entity that deeply integrates artificial intelligence technology. His project—the AI intelligent scoliosis measurement system—serves as a medical assistance and diagnostic product. Using AI technology, it can automatically complete vertebral detection, measure the Cobb angle, and assess severity within 3 seconds, effectively and practically improving diagnostic efficiency. “I hope that with the OPC community’s support, the project can find more promotion and application scenarios.” Zang Tengfei said with feeling.

For startups, time is life. Song Jie, founder of Xingchen Low-Carbon Technology Co., Ltd., knows this firsthand. The entrepreneur from Liyang originally focused on the smart home field in Hangzhou. On March 10 of this year, after Changzhou released the “X-Claw Ten Provisions,” he was deeply attracted by the high-quality environment here, including venue support, application scenarios, and help with investment and financing, and he became part of the first batch of community tenants. Since then, Xingchen Low-Carbon has successfully developed the nation’s first “Lobster Box” in just one week—a smart device that ordinary users can plug in and use right away, eliminating safety hazards.

Launching the product is only the first step; what matters is how to quickly bring it to the market. Thanks to the abundant application scenarios and resource support that the community actively connects, Xingchen Low-Carbon quickly opened up promotion channels. Starting March 29, the company provided 10k “Lobster Boxes” for free to the market, ensuring that the innovation results reach the public at the earliest opportunity.

Around Xingchen Low-Carbon, similar cases are plentiful. Some of the companies that come to the community bring a business plan, while others only bring a product prototype. For entrepreneurs whose ideas are great but whose business models are still in the exploration stage, the community has not set high entry barriers. Instead, it dispatches a professional mentor team to step in directly, helping them sort out business logic, improve their plans, and accompany them in polishing an immature project step by step into a mature one. To date, the community has attracted nearly 60 OPCs to move in, covering multiple cutting-edge fields such as AI tool development, digital creativity, and smart hardware.

It is worth noting that, to help OPC entrepreneurs get started with ease, Wujin District has paved a “highway” from the very first step of “getting started.” As the core platform serving OPCs across the whole city, the OPC Integrated Service Center brings together a number of high-quality OPC clusters, including the Puyue OPC International Community, the Silicon-Base Smart OPC Community, the China Telecom OPC Maker Community, the XbotPark (Changzhou) robotics base, and the SHENG International Innovation Center. It also brings in 8 professional service institutions, with day-to-day operations handled by the Puyue Changzhou OPC International Community. By providing full-cycle, one-stop, professional support for “one-person companies” across the city, it further improves the community’s ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship, laying a key foundation for Changzhou to build a Changjiang Delta OPC entrepreneurship hub.

Getting the license is only the starting point; growth is the fundamental goal. Centered on the full life cycle of OPCs, the OPC Integrated Service Center closely follows the new entrepreneurial paradigm of the AI era—“one person + AI equals a company.” Focusing on the needs throughout the entire life cycle of OPCs, it builds eight core functions: industrial and commercial registration, tax and financial services, intellectual property, telecom services, policy applications, technical support, industrial matching, and international cooperation—thereby forming a service closed loop of “online one-net comprehensive processing, offline one-stop to the end.”

In addition to the “hard-core” support offline, the “soft environment” both online and offline is also impressive. The online platform integrates functions such as tenant application, a compute power marketplace, a model marketplace, a tool marketplace, and expert consultations, enabling lightweight, convenient, and efficient processing. Offline, professional teams provide on-site services to precisely resolve the pain points and difficulties encountered by startups, truly connecting the service “last mile.”

“Move in in the afternoon,” “get the license in half a day,” “deliver output in one week”… The Xitahu (Changzhou) Artificial Intelligence International Community is building a worry-free ecosystem that integrates compute power backup, full-chain support, international cooperation, and scenario matchmaking.

【Responsible editor: Miao Lu】

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