Hangzhou’s Tech Evolution: Meet the New Eight Steeds Shaping the Next Decade

Hangzhou, China’s “Six Little Dragons” have a new counterpart in the city’s “New Eight Steeds.” Recently, the “Fortunate Meeting Hangzhou • Dialogue with the Future” Investment Promotion Conference showcased eight cutting-edge tech startups leading the way in technological innovation. These companies, dubbed the “New Eight Steeds,” are at the forefront of frontier technologies such as smart glasses, chip manufacturing, space-based computing, embodied AI, and biomanufacturing, positioning Hangzhou as a key player in hard-tech evolution. The previous era of the “Six Little Dragons” focused on internet applications, but the “New Eight Steeds” are delving into more fundamental aspects of technology such…