--- title: "Exploring \"One-Person Companies\" | Chen Shan: OPC is an important outlet for high-quality employment in the AI era" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/282406101.md" description: "Chen Shan stated in an interview that OPC (One Person Company) is an important outlet for high-quality employment in the AI era, capable of filling gaps in industrial development. The first OPC service community in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has attracted over 300 young entrepreneurs from Hong Kong and Macao, forming a unique entrepreneurial ecosystem. The base promotes OPC as a new engine for high-quality employment and innovative development through the AI + light entrepreneurship model. So far, it has incubated 452 projects, mainly focused on artificial intelligence, cultural creativity, and other fields" datetime: "2026-04-11T05:45:14.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/282406101.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/282406101.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/282406101.md) --- # Exploring "One-Person Companies" | Chen Shan: OPC is an important outlet for high-quality employment in the AI era China Economic Reporter Chen Ting Zhao Yi Guangzhou Report "OPC is like a 'catalyst' in the changing times, filling the 'gaps' in industrial development. With the growth of entrepreneurs, new industrial value will inevitably be formed in the future, creating more tax revenue and job opportunities. OPC gathers sand to form a tower, and it will be the answer sheet for entrepreneurship driving employment and high-quality development in the Greater Bay Area." Recently, Chen Shan, president of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Guangdong) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Base (hereinafter referred to as "the Base"), made this statement during an interview with reporters from China Business Journal. In early April, the first OPC (One Person Company) Hong Kong-Macao service community in the Greater Bay Area was officially unveiled at the Base. Chen Shan told reporters that since focusing on the OPC group, the Base has attracted over 300 young people and entrepreneurs from Hong Kong and Macao, forming a unique entrepreneurial ecosystem. "The Base is creating a zero-threshold, strong-link, full-cycle entrepreneurial support system for young people from Hong Kong and Macao with an AI + light entrepreneurship model, promoting OPC to become a new engine for high-quality employment and innovative development in the Greater Bay Area," Chen Shan stated. **Two Major Fields Become Hotbeds for Entrepreneurship** Through interviews, reporters learned that the Base, as the leading entity of Guangdong Province's "1+12+N" Hong Kong-Macao Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base system, is the core carrier for incubating Hong Kong-Macao OPC youth entrepreneurship in the Greater Bay Area. So far, the Base has incubated a total of 452 projects, with 175 projects currently in incubation, including 158 Hong Kong-Macao projects; there are 25 OPC entrepreneurial projects. At the first project review meeting for resident projects in 2026, lightweight entrepreneurial projects accounted for over 60%. The incubated Hong Kong-Macao OPC projects are mainly concentrated in fields such as artificial intelligence, cultural creativity, cross-border e-commerce, software, and the internet, showing typical characteristics of "light assets, high growth, and strong technology-driven." _Caption: The first OPC Hong Kong-Macao service community in the Greater Bay Area is officially unveiled. Chen Ting/Photography_ "The Greater Bay Area has unique advantages," Chen Shan stated. Currently, OPC entrepreneurs in the Base are mainly focused on two major fields. One of them is the combination of "AI + content/marketing," covering AI questionnaires, intelligent animation production, AIGC creativity, etc. A typical case is the Miaoxiang team, which relies on AI storyboarding, raw images, and expression binding technologies to significantly improve animation production efficiency, leading to rapid order growth. In addition, the complete supply chain advantages of the Greater Bay Area promote the integration of AI technology with smart hardware, toys, etc., quickly realizing product landing and mass production. "AI + hardware" is another entrepreneurial direction with high growth potential. To lower the entrepreneurial threshold, the Base has launched a "seven exemptions and two reductions" policy and supporting service measures, providing Hong Kong-Macao OPC entrepreneurs with a "light asset, high efficiency, strong link" entrepreneurial platform, achieving "easy entry with ideas and relaxed entrepreneurship," and promoting efficient interconnection of resources, technology, and talent among the three regions of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao Among them, the "Seven Exemptions and Two Low Costs" policy includes exemption from rent, exemption from utility property fees, exemption from internet fees, free simulation training, free scenario matching, free policy guidance, free capital support acceleration, low-cost computing power support, and low-cost product trial production. "Our understanding of OPC is not the traditional 'one-person company,' but a small entrepreneurial team that may consist of one, two, or three people. The core is to rely on AI tools to achieve an efficient entrepreneurial model of 'one person forming an army,'" Chen Shan told reporters. The base always adheres to the "offline + virtual" incubation model, breaking the limitations of physical space, allowing entrepreneurs in Hong Kong and Macau to conveniently access the base's computing power resources and network resources to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. **Breaking Down Cross-Border Entrepreneurship Barriers** As the first OPC service community for Hong Kong and Macau in the Greater Bay Area, the base's characteristics are particularly prominent. Chen Shan mentioned the concept of "Hong Kong people serving Hong Kong people, Macau people serving Macau people." The operating team is not only equipped with colleagues and mentors from Hong Kong and Macau but has also invited multiple Hong Kong and Macau associations to establish branches at the base. "Those young people who are 'daring to explore and fight' can connect to relevant resources here, and they will naturally take root." According to reports, in the past three years, the base has become the primary contact point for the Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base Alliance in mainland cities, continuously linking over 120 universities and institutions in Hong Kong and Macau, with more than 25 deep cooperation institutions, building a collaborative service network that includes three major internship bases and eight entrepreneurial service stations. The base holds more than 320 events annually, with nearly 50% of activities related to Hong Kong and Macau, continuously playing a core hub role in connecting Hong Kong and Macau resources to the Greater Bay Area. Chen Shan stated that the base positions the OPC community as a hybrid incubation model of "offline entity + virtual platform." Specifically, it includes using physical space as a "model room," achieving resource matching, project team formation, and collaborative division of labor through platform software and intelligent agents; with the base as the core, radiating to Tianhe CBD and the nine cities of the Pearl River Delta, allowing scattered OPC entrepreneurs to grow locally and connect across the network, with a long-term goal of serving tens of thousands of entrepreneurial units; constructing a "large company + OPC" collaborative model to jointly undertake innovation scenario orders and break traditional entrepreneurial boundaries. "The advantages of OPC entrepreneurs are strong creativity, quick response, and focus on niche demands, with pain points concentrated on lack of resources, supply chains, and orders. The base positions itself as a 'youth entrepreneurship guardian' and 'resource linker' to accurately fill the gaps," Chen Shan stated. OPC is an important outlet for high-quality employment in the AI era, and the base focuses on long-term value, first ensuring that entrepreneurs "survive and grow," and then gradually forming industrial and tax contributions, akin to "planting trees and nurturing seedlings," waiting patiently for them to blossom. 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