Return to Singapore 1995

Chapter 523: Get a piece of land from the

Soon, Li Xiaofan met Director Mei Meng of the Tsinghua Science and Technology Park Development Center in the Tsinghua Science and Technology Park’s newly built first building.

Director Mei Meng is an alumnus of Tsinghua University who graduated from the Department of Automation in 1977. After graduating in 1982, he stayed at the school and served as the school youth league committee and the head of the principal’s office.

Li Xiaofan's first question after meeting the enthusiastic Director Mei was:

"Director Mei, why did Tsinghua think of taking the lead in building a university science and technology park in the country?"

Director Mei Meng smiled and replied: "Director Li, when we see the booming Silicon Valley in the United States on the other side of the ocean, becoming the world's innovation center and the global high-tech industrial highland, and cultivating a large number of high-tech listed companies, to be honest, The success of Stanford and Silicon Valley makes us very anxious. In terms of industry, academia and research, we at Tsinghua University have always wanted to do something. Nowadays, universities around the world are clamoring for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and Tsinghua University also wants to make achievements in this area!”

Director Mei Meng explained that promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and serving society was a basic starting point for Tsinghua University in building a university science park.

Director Mei told Li Xiaofan that he had another interesting consideration. Entrepreneurship was encouraged in the past few years, and many Tsinghua teachers also registered many companies part-time. Tsinghua has a total of 146 teaching and research offices, and at that time there were 164 corporate legal persons registered in Tsinghua. Based on this number, if you open the door of a teaching and research office, you may encounter two companies! Some teachers have BP instruments on their waists that sound from time to time during class.

Tsinghua teachers and students joked, paraphrasing a lyric from the Anti-Japanese War: The huge Tsinghua campus can no longer accommodate a peaceful desk...

This situation made Tsinghua University and the Beijing government later decide to jointly build a Tsinghua Science and Technology Park: it is hoped that the Tsinghua campus will realize functional zoning, return the place for teaching and educating people to the campus, and put the parts of the university that serve the economy and society into the planned science and technology park. garden.

So four summers ago, the Tsinghua Science and Technology Park Development Center was established, the main campus in Beijing broke ground, and the Tsinghua Science and Technology Park under the leadership of Director Mei Meng began its arduous entrepreneurial journey...

"Director Mei, to be honest, it's not easy for someone like you who was originally engaged in administrative work on campus to switch to building a university science park! How did you find me again?" Li Xiaofan asked after expressing his admiration.

"Director Li, you hit the point. After the school leaders asked me to take charge of the Tsinghua Science and Technology Park, I was under a lot of pressure because I had no experience at all before. What should a university science and technology park look like? We can only set our sights on it. We went abroad. Four years ago, we didn’t have access to the Internet and there were very few texts we could find.”

"Later we inquired about it and found that the most famous ones in the industry are Silicon Valley in the United States, Cambridge Science and Technology Park in the United Kingdom, Hsinchu Science and Technology Park in Taiwan, etc. However, we later found that these park models can not be used for reference. Silicon Valley in the United States was completely created by the market. No plans, no institutions, not even borders; Taiwan There is a little more to learn from Hsinchu Science and Technology Park, but it is next to an industrial zone. After comparing several cases around the world, we found that the current domestic environment and various situations are very different from those in Silicon Valley and other parks. There are differences. You can’t learn from anyone, so you can only try to find your own way!”

Director Mei Meng finally smiled at Li Xiaofan and said:

"But, Director Li, now in 1998, the situation is different now that there is the Internet. I have heard several alumni who have returned from Silicon Valley in the United States mention that the Y-lab entrepreneurial incubator you founded next to the Stanford campus has been very successful. We also searched online and found out that Director Li Not only have you done a very successful business incubator, but you have also achieved great success in investment and Internet entrepreneurship. What makes us even more happy is that there are a large number of Tsinghua alumni like Gu Qijun working under you in their careers. They were all very successful, doing a great job and feeling very accomplished.”

Director Mei continued: "Director Li, to tell you the truth, last month I led our Tsinghua Science and Technology Park Development Center team to visit Silicon Valley in the United States. By the way, I also secretly inspected your Y-lab entrepreneurial incubator next to the Stanford campus. This This trip to Silicon Valley allowed us to deepen our understanding of Incubato r' concept. And your Y-lab business incubator is refreshing and eye-opening for us! Therefore, I want to meet and chat with you through Qijun. I wonder if you are interested in coming to us. Tsinghua Science and Technology Park also has a project similar to Silicon Valley’s Y-lab entrepreneurial incubator?”

Facing the olive branch extended by Director Mei, Li Xiaofan smiled and said:

"Thank you, Director Mei! Of course I am interested in setting up a business incubator next to Tsinghua University. To be honest, when we invested in the domestic Panda EDA software project, I had a similar idea. I will wait for the right time to cooperate with domestic Cooperate with famous universities to build a series of incubators and accelerators with differentiated industrial positioning..."

Li Xiaofan's answer made Director Mei Meng very happy, and the two hit it off.

Director Mei Meng's idea was to give Li Xiaofan the two floors of the Xueyan Building, the first building under Tsinghua Science and Technology Park, to operate the incubator.

In the previous life, at the end of 1998, the first building of Tsinghua Science Park, the Xueyan Building, had just been completed. When the building's occupancy rate was on the rise, Director Mei Meng decided to use two floors to establish an incubator. Luo Jianbei, deputy director of Tsinghua Science Park, was appointed as director of the Entrepreneurship Park and concurrently chairman of the incubator company established later. Luo Zhuo, vice president of Tsinghua Science Park TusHoldings, was appointed as deputy director of the Entrepreneurship Park and general manager of the incubator company...

Unexpectedly, Li Xiaofan did not seem to appreciate it very much. He said to Director Mei Meng:

"Director Mei, thank you, but these two floors may not be able to do much. You have been to my Y-lab entrepreneurship incubator in Silicon Valley, and you should know that my incubator has both office buildings, R\u0026D buildings and standard factory buildings. We provide different types of space to meet the needs of different types of high-tech projects. So, if you want me to set up an incubator at the gate of Tsinghua, these two floors will not be able to do much. If I really want to do it, we might as well make it bigger. You'd better give me a piece of land in Tsinghua Science Park, and we will work together to plan, design and invest in building a world-class entrepreneurship incubator! Of course, considering that your park has just started, the capital investment can be borne by us, and your park can just be responsible for giving me a piece of land..."

Director Mei Meng was surprised and delighted by Li Xiaofan's words. What surprised him was that Li Xiaofan seemed to have a big appetite, but what delighted him was that Li Xiaofan also had a big appetite.

At present, the pressure on a state-owned university like Tsinghua Science Park to operate the park is very high. Since there is no ready-made profit model, the cycle for the park to achieve healthy operation seems to be relatively long. At present, there is only investment and little return. Moreover, under the huge competitive pressure, although the science park as a public institution can obtain some limited funding from the government, the mechanism is not flexible, and Tsinghua Science Park seems to find no breakthrough direction all of a sudden.

If a partner like Li Xiaofan who has rich industrial resources at home and abroad, incubator operation and management experience, and financial strength is willing to cooperate with Tsinghua Science Park, it would be the most ideal!

For Li Xiaofan, this Feng Shui treasure land at the gate of Tsinghua in the previous life was later jokingly called the "center of the universe", and the housing prices were ridiculously high. It is definitely worthwhile to get a piece of land here. And the most important thing is that Tsinghua Science Park Development and Construction Company was later reorganized into Tus Holdings. If I now reach a partnership with Tsinghua Science Park, I may have the opportunity to buy shares in the future...

Please remember the domain name of the first release of this book:. _wap.

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