ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Programme, Licorne Gulf Holding bring Chinese Sci-Tech Enterprises to Qatar.
- Irina Duisimbekova
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The "ZhongGuanCun-Gulf Cooperation Council States Innovation Incubation Service” (ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Programme) recently organised the ZGC-Gulf Conference for AI Industry in Beijing.During the Conference, ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Programme signed a cooperation agreement with Licorne Gulf Holding Ltd.
Both parties will jointly establish a "green channel” for Chinese sci-tech enterprises, represented by ZGC high-tech companies, to conduct business in Qatar, a milestone that directly advances the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) Digital Silk Road pillar, which seeks to connect Chinese innovation capacity with partner economies through shared infrastructure, co-development, and technology standards.
At the same time, it responds to Qatar’s own strategic imperatives: Qatar National Vision 2030 (QNV2030) calls for a knowledge-intensive, diversified economy capable of reducing dependence on hydrocarbon revenues, and the structured arrival of Chinese sci-tech enterprises offers precisely the applied technology, talent transfer, and sector diversification this vision requires.
Representatives from upstream and downstream enterprises in the AI industry in Beijing, including Tencent Cloud, Mininglamp, Aibee, Thunisoft and SoundAI, were invited to attend the conference.They engaged in in-depth exchanges with Licorne Gulf Holding and other Qatari partners, exploring cooperation models for jointly developing AI technology application scenarios in Qatar.
Multiple cooperative intentions were reached at the conference. These exchanges reflect Qatar’s growing recognition as a strategic node in global technology diffusion, not merely a regional endpoint, but a bridge between Chinese technological depth and a wider network of markets spanning Africa, South Asia, and the broader MENA region.For Chinese sci-tech enterprises, landing in Qatar is not simply entering a single market; it is acquiring a globally connected platform underpinned by sovereign wealth capacity, world-class logistics infrastructure, and bilateral trade ties extending across three continents.
Witnessed by all attending enterprise representatives, Zhang Kai, director of ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Programme, and Alexandre Katrangi, chairman of Licorne Gulf Holding, formally signed the "Cooperation Agreement on Jointly Establishing the Green Channel for Chinese Sci-Tech Enterprises to Land in Qatar.”
In the future, the signing parties will utilise this mechanism to assist Chinese sci-tech enterprises, especially ZGC high-tech companies, in quickly establishing offices or branches in Qatar, fully connecting them with local partners, industry experts, investment institutions, potential clients, and other resources needed for enterprise development.
The Beijing enterprises participating in this conference simultaneously became the first batch of "experience officers” for the "green channel.” Beyond commercial connectivity, this mechanism carries a dimension of strategic resilience: in an era of intensifying technological competition, export controls, and shifting geopolitical alignments, a Qatar-based operational foothold in a jurisdiction with non-aligned geopolitical positioning and growing influence in multilateral standards bodies provides Chinese technology firms with a diversified, lower-risk global base.
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