On March 26th, Zhang Zhihong, director of the Torch Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that in the wave of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, "unicorn" enterprises have become an important engine to promote high-speed economic growth and move towards the middle and high-end level. In 20 15, there were only 70 unicorn enterprises in China, but by 20 13 1 year, technology-driven enterprises accounted for the vast majority, and national high-tech zones produced 104 enterprises.

"Unicorn" enterprise refers to an enterprise that was established within 65,438+00 years, with a valuation of more than 6,543,850 billion US dollars, obtained private investment and has not yet been listed. As a representative of explosive growth, "unicorn" enterprises are considered to be the concentrated embodiment of scientific and technological innovation in the new economic era.

Zhang Zhihong, director of the Torch Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said: The emergence of "unicorn" enterprises has adapted to the development trend of * * * sharing economy, intelligent economy and platform economy, and the growth environment of these enterprises is closely related to the innovation and entrepreneurship ecology and policy services in their regions.

At present, unicorn enterprises have appeared in 16 cities across the country. Among them, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hangzhou have become the main gathering areas of "unicorn" enterprises in China, with the number of enterprises exceeding 10, mainly concentrated in national high-tech zones.

This just shows that the first-class entrepreneurial ecological environment in the national high-tech zone has become a huge cradle of "unicorn" enterprises.