Original Title: Helping “One-Person Companies” Achieve the Impact of a “Mighty Army”
One person, one computer, and a set of AI tools can run a company. A wave of “One-Person Companies” (OPCs) is reshaping the boundaries and logic of traditional entrepreneurship, catalyzed by AI technology.
On April 10th, the 2026 Zhongguancun AI OPC Ecosystem Conference was held. The “Several Measures of Haidian District for Comprehensively Building an OPC Entrepreneurship Ecosystem” were released. Through a series of substantial measures—including supporting the transformation of high-quality competition projects, providing model voucher subsidies, offering housing security, strengthening financial service supply for OPCs, supporting OPCs in R&D innovation, and incentivizing OPCs to achieve commercial breakthroughs—the district aims to seize the opportunity presented by the innovative paradigm shift of “one-person companies.”
“Super Individuals” Leverage AI to Unlock New Opportunities
Before the AI era, proficiency in artificial intelligence and proficiency in Chinese folk music were almost entirely unrelated skills. Today, however, this combination precisely constitutes the unique competitive edge of OPC entrepreneur Wang Yubo.
After working as an AI engineer for five years post-graduation and with over 20 years of experience playing Chinese folk music, Wang Yubo identified numerous long-standing unresolved issues in the field of traditional Chinese musical instruments. For instance, China has 60 million users learning traditional instruments, 80% of whom can only read numbered musical notation, yet 90% of modern music is written in staff notation. Using AI technology to solve this supply-demand mismatch was the starting point for his venture.
“AI is my capable employee—I use Claude for coding, Figma for demos, Gamma for presentations, and GPT for deep thinking…” Wang Yubo commands a team of “AI employees,” utilizing AI technology to solve the core challenge of “music transcription” and extending it to features like a music score library addressing the difficulty of finding scores, audio generation for reading scores, AI teaching, and a note-sharing community. Now, he has begun developing his second product.
The “Longgu Animation” platform, developed single-handedly by Su Kui, also stems from his insight into industry pain points. As a developer with years of experience in game companies, he noticed that traditional animation production processes were cumbersome and time-consuming. Through his developed platform—the first professional 2D skeletal animation creation platform in China—designers only need to provide a text prompt to generate an interactive character animation within ten minutes. Under traditional technical conditions, animators would require three to five hours to accomplish the same task. “In the AI era, all software is worth rewriting with AI,” Su Kui firmly believes.
Products like “Lumo Diary,” which can integrate users’ scattered text, images, movement trajectories, and even emotional data into visual charts and animations to form a visual diary; the “Longgu Animation” platform that helps designers generate interactive game animations from a text prompt; and the “Suyuan Matrix” industrial intelligent solution providing raw material quality prediction and dynamic process optimization for traditional industries… In Zhongguancun Science City, these innovative products from different teams share a common characteristic: leveraging AI technology, founders evolve into “super individuals,” and stories of “one-person companies” achieving the impact of a “mighty army” are unfolding.
“Substantial Support” Nurtures Growth Across the Entire Cycle
The clustering of industry and a thriving ecosystem are inseparable from precise policy “nurturing.” On the 10th, a series of high-value policies and ecosystem achievements were unveiled, presenting a “policy package” for OPC entrepreneurs in Haidian.
The “Several Measures of Haidian District for Comprehensively Building an OPC Entrepreneurship Ecosystem” were released at the conference. Centering on key stages such as company founding, tool access, talent support, financial empowerment, innovation R&D, and commercial implementation, the measures introduce eight substantial policy initiatives, providing all-chain, full-cycle support for OPC entrepreneurs.
For example, regarding supporting tech talent in founding OPCs, the measures propose encouraging researchers from universities and institutions, current students, alumni within five years of graduation, and technical talent from key enterprises to establish OPCs around the “1+X+1” modern industrial system. Upon certification, they will receive 100,000 RMB in startup funding support. Regarding supporting the transformation of high-quality competition projects, OPC projects that win awards in national or international competitions like the China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition or the HICOOL Global Entrepreneurship Competition and subsequently establish operations in Haidian will receive support of up to 500,000 RMB.
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