Beijing, China, April 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Establishing a “Green Channel” for Chinese Sci-Tech Enterprises to Land in Qatar: ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Program and Licorne Gulf Holding Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement in Beijing
Zhang Kai, Director of ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Program, 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.
On March 31, ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Program organized the ZGC-Gulf Conference for AI Industry in Beijing. During the Conference, ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Program 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 corporations, to conduct enterprise in Qatar, a milestone that straight advances the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) Digital Silk Road pillar, which seeks to attach Chinese innovation capability with accomplice economies by way of shared infrastructure, co-development, and expertise requirements. At the identical time, it responds to Qatar’s personal strategic imperatives: Qatar National Vision 2030 (QNV2030) requires a knowledge-intensive, diversified financial system able to lowering dependence on hydrocarbon revenues, and the structured arrival of Chinese sci-tech enterprises affords exactly the utilized expertise, expertise switch, and sector diversification this imaginative and prescient requires.
Representatives from upstream and downstream enterprises in the AI business in Beijing, together with Tencent Cloud, Mininglamp, Aibee, Thunisoft and SoundAI, had been invited to attend the convention. They engaged in in-depth exchanges with Licorne Gulf Holding and different Qatari companions, exploring cooperation fashions for collectively creating AI expertise utility situations in Qatar. Multiple cooperative intentions had been reached on the convention. These exchanges replicate Qatar’s rising recognition as a strategic node in international expertise diffusion, not merely a regional endpoint, however a bridge between Chinese technological depth and a wider community of markets spanning Africa, South Asia, and the broader MENA area. For Chinese sci-tech enterprises, touchdown in Qatar isn’t merely getting into a single market; it’s buying a globally related platform underpinned by sovereign wealth capability, world-class logistics infrastructure, and bilateral commerce ties extending throughout three continents.
Subsequently, witnessed by all attending enterprise representatives, Zhang Kai, Director of ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Program, 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 longer term, the signing events will make the most of this mechanism to help Chinese sci-tech enterprises, particularly ZGC high-tech corporations, in rapidly establishing places of work or branches in Qatar, absolutely connecting them with native companions, business consultants, funding establishments, potential shoppers, and different assets wanted for enterprise growth. The Beijing enterprises taking part in this convention concurrently grew to become the primary batch of “experience officers” for the “green channel.” Beyond industrial connectivity, this mechanism carries a dimension of strategic resilience: in an period of intensifying technological competitors, export controls, and shifting geopolitical alignments, a Qatar-based operational foothold in a jurisdiction with non-aligned geopolitical positioning and rising affect in multilateral requirements our bodies gives Chinese expertise corporations with a diversified, lower-risk international base. Qatar-based subsidiaries additionally allow Chinese tech corporations to serve third markets from a impartial, well-capitalised hub, lowering over-reliance on any single commerce hall.
The “ZhongGuanCun-Gulf Cooperation Council States Innovation Incubation Service” (hereinafter known as the “ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Program”) was launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC in August 2025. It has repeatedly related with tech enterprises, analysis institutes, authorities departments, and monetary establishments in Qatar. Focusing on high-growth sectors equivalent to synthetic intelligence, life sciences & well being, and inexperienced expertise, it has been continually exploring the tech utility situation calls for and expertise assist insurance policies in Qatar, offering complete companies and assist for Chinese sci-tech corporations planning to enter the Qatari market. This programme operates in direct alignment with BRI’s imaginative and prescient of constructing sturdy institutional corridors, shifting past one-off engagements towards structured pipelines that embed Chinese expertise capability inside Qatar’s financial ecosystem and, by way of it, into the broader markets Qatar connects. As its understanding of Qatar’s industries and enterprise fashions deepens, ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Program has signed cooperation paperwork with Licorne Gulf Holding and a number of high-tech corporations and expertise parks, aiming to collectively construct a transnational sci-tech innovation ecosystem and help Chinese tech in going international.
Licorne Gulf Holding was established in the Middle East in 1999. It repeatedly expands its enterprise with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain as core areas, specializing in investing in high-growth and hard-tech industries equivalent to digital infrastructure building, aerospace, industrial-grade synthetic intelligence, life sciences, and medical expertise. It additionally assists its portfolio corporations in increasing into worldwide markets. In 2025, the corporate invested over USD 600 million in the expertise sector by way of strategies together with direct funding, establishing joint ventures, and offering post-IPO monetary companies. The firm belong to Irina Duisimbekova and Alexandre Katrangi together with another GCC Partners and has strong monitor data in creating, investing and syndicating investments with their Partners spanning from in-house Licorne Gulf funding and direct funding by way of their ventures, syndicating capital with native and worldwide companions since 27 years into sectors like tech, industries, protection, transport, LifeScience, fintech, sports activities,telecommunications, satellites, suppose tank, with roots in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Switzerland, UK and New York.
The cooperation settlement signed at this convention marks the entry of the mannequin for ZhongGuanCun tech enterprises increasing into Qatar into a brand new stage of useful resource integration and systematic development. After the institution of the “green channel” mechanism, ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Program’s working mannequin for serving to enterprises discover potential alternatives in Qatar can be upgraded from “matchmaking” to “pipeline operation.” It will exactly match enterprises with “strategic gatekeepers” and “local agents” for conducting abroad enterprise, serving to enterprises enhance the effectivity of abroad expertise switch and tech utility situation matching, and quickly selling “ZhongGuanCun tech standards” into the Qatari market and past. In this manner, Qatar is positioned not as a vacation spot however as a departure level, a strategic node from which Chinese expertise corporations can scale systematically throughout the Gulf area and into international markets, leveraging Qatar’s sovereign credibility, geographic centrality, and deep commerce connectivity to speed up worldwide enlargement at pace and with lowered danger. In combination, this settlement institutionalises a BRI-aligned, QNV2030-compatible hall by way of which Chinese innovation can circulation systematically into Qatar and, from there, into the broader world. As geopolitical pressures proceed to reshape international expertise flows, Qatar’s function as a resilient, strategically well-positioned bridge between East and West will solely deepen in worth, and the “green channel” framework is constructed exactly for that second.
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ZGC-GCC Innovation Partners Program and Licorne Gulf Holding Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement in Beijing
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