Hangzhou Municipal Government and Ant Group signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement, and Ant Group's global headquarters officially settled in Hangzhou to accelerate the creation of the country's "first city of the digital economy".
According to the agreement, the two sides will focus on five key areas: industrial development, technological innovation, business applications, space expansion, and brand building, and build a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary and deep cooperation pattern between the two sides.
Eric Jing, chairman of Ant Group, said that Ant Group was born in Hangzhou, and the excellent business environment in Hangzhou supports Ant Group to develop into a world-leading technology group.
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Jing said that Hangzhou has accompanied and supported Ant Group's growth along the way. Hangzhou is the global city of mobile payment, financial technology, and digital governance, and Ant is fortunate to contribute to the city.
According to the agreement, relying on Hangzhou's new talent policy, Ant Group will step up its efforts to invite the world's top talent to come to Hangzhou to start up and innovate.
The two parties will focus on the core key technology of financial technology, continue to increase investment in research and development and innovation, accelerate the construction of technology infrastructure and innovation platform, and increase the introduction and training of top domestic and foreign talent, so as to build Hangzhou into an important global financial technology innovation curator and talent highland.
Focusing on the strategy of building the nation's No. 1 city for the digital economy, Jing said that in the future, Ant Group will accelerate the construction of its global headquarters and gather a global fintech ecosystem for Hangzhou.
