In 2021, the second "Tongxin Cup" Overseas Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Summit Forum in Quanzhou Was held. Photo by Sun Hong
Zhongxin Network Quanzhou, November 30 (Reporter Sun Hong) On the 30th, the second "Tongxin Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for Overseas Students in Quanzhou City in 2021 came to a successful conclusion. The two projects of "special hydrophilic coating for metal spring guide wire" and "intelligent trolley box" won the gold medals of the start-up group and the incubation group of the competition.
At the award ceremony and summit forum held on the same day, the gold, silver, bronze awards, excellence awards and best organization awards were spent on each family, and 16 award-winning projects reached the intention of landing.
"Quanzhou has a strong industrial foundation, a developed private economy and a strong atmosphere of innovation, and is a hot land for students studying abroad to innovate and start a business." Chen Xiaoyu, executive deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Quanzhou Municipal CPC Committee and director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, pointed out that Quanzhou is accelerating the construction of a regional innovation highland, and is more eager for talents and more qualified to achieve talents than ever before.
The start-up group gold medal project was signed and landed. Photo by Sun Hong
"Quanzhou has a strong atmosphere of innovation and entrepreneurship, and participating in this competition is hoping to connect with local industries and achieve redevelopment in Quanzhou." Zhang Ying, the person in charge of the gold award project of the start-up group, led the team to develop a special hydrophilic coating project for metal spring guide wire, which helped domestic medical device manufacturers overcome the technical problems of card neck in the field of medical functional coatings and filled the gap in the industry.
"My ancestral home is in Quanzhou, and returning to my hometown to start a business means a lot to me!" Yao Zhenbang, a contestant from Hong Kong, has studied in the United States for ten years and independently developed the "AIoT High-risk Personnel Management and Life and Health Monitoring Overall Program" to realize the digital and visual management of high-risk personnel, and this time he is determined to return to his hometown to realize the dream of innovation and entrepreneurship.
It is reported that the competition is sponsored by the United Front Work Department of the Quanzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Talent Office of the Quanzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the People's Government of Fengze District, with the theme of "Studying Abroad in Quanzhou and Building Meritorious Quanzhou", recruiting and participating projects nationwide, and creating a platform for overseas students to exchange and display, explore and attract talents, and return to training.
In 2021, the second "Tongxin Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for Overseas Students in Quanzhou City held an award ceremony. Photo by Sun Hong
According to the relevant person in charge of the organizer, this competition presents a wide range of participants, a large number of projects, new industrial development, strong technological innovation, strong project landability, high docking success rate and other characteristics.
Among them, the competition collected a total of 119 applications for study abroad students from the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore and other countries, an increase of 70% over last year. In addition, for the first time, the participating study abroad institutions appeared in Cambridge, MIT, Imperial Polytechnic and other world-ranked science and engineering schools, and the participating projects not only focused on the development of people's livelihood, but also emerging industries such as intelligent manufacturing, big data cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, as well as projects with high technical content such as aerospace and biopharmaceuticals.
"I hope that the award-winning team and more returned talents will come to Quanzhou to innovate and start a business, and Quanzhou will provide a broader stage and more powerful support for all talents." Chen Xiaoyu said. (End)
Source: China News Network