Xi'an

Covering 2,000 square meters, the market offers services including exhibitions, tech trading and consulting Home to the famed ancient terracotta army, Xi'an is now making a modern name for itself as a place where people can trade technologies. The Xi'an Technology Resources Mar¬ket founded in 2011 is designed to capi¬talize on local resources to bo... ost devel¬opment of the sprawling Guanzhong-Tianshui economic zone, which covers 696,000 square kilometers in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. Benefiting from the vibrant tech envi¬ronment in Xi'an, the market has helped make technological transactions worth more than 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) since it began operation two years ago. By the end of 2012, 16,793 deals had been made that had a combined value of 30 billion yuan. The market now also offers e-plat¬forms including traditional and mobile Internet. People who visit the market hall can benefit from more than 110 services ranging from technology trading and equipment sharing to intellectual prop-erty protection. The e-platforms list information about 874 colleges and universities, 5,826 pro¬fessionals, 6,368 items of technology for sale and more than 11000 high-tech companies to satisfy specific demands of more than 11,000 members. The online portal received 1.84 million hits by the end of last year. The market is now expanding its cov¬erage with a mobile phone app and an online cloud computing service center for startups. It also started branches in Xi'an last year. "By establishing branches and improv¬ing our services, we will expand our net¬work from Xi'an to Shaanxi province and then to other parts of the country," said an official at the market. To realize the ambition, the staff is improving and diversifying other services as well. "We know Xi'an is home to many mili¬tary R&D institutions. But staff visits show some of them know little about products for civilian use despite their outstanding technical strength," said a market member. By providing up-to-date information, the market has helped them explore ...Read More