A Conversation with China's Youngest "Trillion-Yuan City": How AI-Powered Manufacturing Is Reshaping Industrial Futures | Cloud Summit · Changzhou

Technological transformation is the core engine behind industry inflection points. As emerging technologies like AI iterate rapidly, how much further must industrial digitalization go to achieve true quality-driven "new" productivity?

On May 24, the second edition of "Renowned Investors' Dragon City Roadshow" — Yunqi Gathering · Changzhou — will take place. Yunqi Capital will enter Changzhou, the "international smart manufacturing hub," to deliver themed presentations and facilitate industry-finance matchmaking around "AI-Powered Manufacturing, Charting a Steady Course." We'll join the Changzhou local government, state-owned enterprises, leading local industry players, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Yunqi Capital portfolio companies to explore the digital convergence of AI and manufacturing, plus practical lessons in going global. We'll also build an efficient matchmaking platform connecting government, enterprises, and investors to jointly explore the next chapter of industrial cluster development.

Located in the heart of the Yangtze River Delta, Changzhou — known as "Dragon City" — has leveraged its solid manufacturing foundation to grow over the past decade into the "New Energy Capital" and an "international smart manufacturing hub." In 2023, Changzhou's GDP crossed the trillion-yuan threshold, making it China's 25th "trillion-yuan city." Now, with new energy capital construction as its north star, Changzhou is accelerating the forging of new quality productive forces, generating fresh momentum for its "trillion-yuan city" next chapter.

Over its ten years, Yunqi Capital has continuously deepened its focus on the "technology + industry" space, making forward-looking independent judgments, adhering to research-driven investment, and tracking long-term international technology innovation trends — while combining these with China's industrial characteristics and advantages to lead and systematically deploy capital across many outstanding technology projects. On May 24, we'll bring more than ten Yunqi Capital portfolio companies to engage with this "trillion-yuan city."

The event agenda and participating Yunqi portfolio companies are below. We sincerely welcome industry experts and entrepreneurs interested in AI, digitalization, new quality productive forces, and going global to join us in Changzhou for in-person exchange. Registration is now open — scan the QR code to sign up.

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• About the "Renowned Investors' Dragon City Roadshow" series:

"Renowned Investors' Dragon City Roadshow" is jointly organized by the Changzhou Municipal Party Committee Talent Office, the Municipal Finance Bureau, and Changzhou Investment Group. It aims to harness the power of renowned domestic and international investors' networks, leverage synergies between municipal and district-level platforms, build a "golden bridge" for multi-stakeholder government-enterprise and industry-finance collaboration, direct quality resources to empower local enterprises, and invite committed partners to join in building Changzhou's "New Energy Capital" and "trillion-yuan city."

• About Yunqi Gathering:

Yunqi Gathering is one of Yunqi Capital's flagship empowerment initiatives, designed to build bridges for value exchange between portfolio companies and partners. Since its first edition in 2017, it has grown into one of the industry's largest tech investment roadshow events, attracting nearly 5,000 investor participants and generating follow-up conversations with 100+ investors per startup, along with industry partnerships and media coverage.