Shenzhen can now open "one-person" jewelry companies, and vertical OPC communities are becoming a new trend

Shenzhen is seizing the opportunity of the "One Person Company" (OPC) wave to accelerate the construction of a nationally leading super individual entrepreneurship ecosystem. Each district is leveraging its own industrial advantages to layout vertical track OPC communities, providing precise and professional growth soil for entrepreneurs. Since the release of the "Shenzhen Action Plan for Building an AI OPC Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (2026-2027)" in January this year, Shenzhen has made it clear that by the end of 2027, the total area of OPC communities in the city will exceed 500,000 square meters, focusing on creating an AI entrepreneurship ecosystem characterized by resource aggregation, clear functions, and industrial clustering. The reporter has found that, in addition to the first batch of 10 key OPC communities such as "Moli Ying," "Angel Club," and "π Creation Space," various districts in Shenzhen are laying out vertical track OPC communities based on their own industrial advantages. For example, Luohu District has established the country's first gold and jewelry vertical OPC community "E+OPC Jewelry Community"; Longgang District is creating a "Ultra HD OPC Community"; Bao'an District has set up the first AI hardware OPC community "Dagangfang AI Hardware OPC·hub"; and Qianhai Cooperation Zone is leveraging the advantages of Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation and internationalization to build the "Qianhai OPC International Community," among others. Today, Shenzhen has built a diverse range of landing options for OPC projects. Entrepreneurs can match the most suitable regional development based on their own technology direction, funding needs, and business characteristics, achieving a leap from "super individual" to "one person company" in this innovative hotbed. Luohu: Establishing the First Gold and Jewelry OPC Community Shenzhen Shuibei is known as "China's Jewelry Capital." As the world's largest jewelry aggregation area, the Shuibei area has an annual wholesale value exceeding 120 billion yuan, accounting for 50% of the domestic jewelry market. On the other side of the industrial scale advantage, the gold and jewelry industry faces pain points such as slow creative transformation. Recently, the E+OPC Jewelry Community was established in Shuibei, which is the country's first jewelry vertical OPC community, aiming to explore new paths for the digital transformation of the jewelry industry. Simultaneously launching an internal test of the intelligent agent Open Crab, which is an AI digital steward specifically designed for the jewelry B-end vertical industry. Compared to general-purpose intelligent agents, Open Crab has developed four core modules tailored to the pain points of the jewelry industry: Crab Head cloud management center, Crab Core edge cross-platform collaboration, and more, featuring multi-end adaptation, data security, and natural language interaction. It supports full-link functions such as generating jewelry design inspiration, automatically organizing orders, real-time analysis of precious metal market trends, intelligent marketing customer acquisition, and cross-system data synchronization. Breaking the OPC Model, Creating an Innovative Ecosystem for Jewelry Verticals He Xubin, the person in charge of the E+OPC Jewelry Community, told reporters that the OPC model is not about "one person doing everything," but rather focuses on the individual as the core, AI as the support, and the ecosystem as the backing, allowing practitioners to concentrate on their core advantages such as design, customer operations, and product selection, using AI tools to replace repetitive work and relying on the community to obtain resources One-stop support for compliance, technology, and more. In addition, He Xubin provided a detailed interpretation of the "E+OPC Community Launch Empowerment Package." As a gold and jewelry vertical OPC community, E+OPC not only fills a gap in the industry but also forms a differentiated complement with the existing OPC communities in Luohu District, transforming the macro planning of industrial transformation at the city and district levels into micro-innovative units that can be implemented, showcased, and measured on the front lines of the industry. In the future, the E+OPC Jewelry Community will create a practical training system for "AI + Jewelry," providing multi-dimensional services such as compliance assurance, brand empowerment, and cultural integration, promoting a new entrepreneurial model of "individual/small team + AI" in the jewelry industry. Written/Photographed by: Southern Metropolis Daily N Video Reporter Cai Yuqing