E-Park, also known as the Zhongshan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cooperation Platform for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Youth, is a public welfare business incubation base planned, funded and built by the Zhongshan municipal government.

In February this year, Liu and Lam, two post-90s from Hong Kong, decided to start a business in Zhongshan. After application and company registration, their company, Handle Culture Media, was established in E-Park in less than one month. Liu said that after visiting several Greater Bay Area cities including Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Zhongshan to look for business opportunities, they decided to settle in Zhongshan, where preferential policies like free rent are provided.

Handle Culture Media focuses on food and daily necessities sales, and it will promote products to its fans in Hong Kong through video tours and online sales activities. Speaking of the start-up project in E-Park, Liu said that Zhongshan offers free rent, shared office space and other entrepreneurial support, which allow them to start a business more easily.

E-Park has 8,000-square-meter incubation space and provides free employment and entrepreneurship services, including policy consultation, entrepreneurship consultation, project promotion, support funds in industry and commerce, taxation, social security, talent, employment and entrepreneurship and etc, as well as general living services in terms of legal rights protection, mental-health counseling, employment guidance, enrollment assistance, entry and exit matters, daily life information and etc that cover the full life circle of start-ups.

Since its establishment, E-Park has successfully incubated more than 440 projects including 65 from Hong Kong and Macao, and a total of 34 business entities from Hong Kong and Macao. E-Park has become the first choice in the Greater Bay Area for young people to start a business.