More than 100 years ago, the "Youth Magazine" published a deafening word, and in 1915, the flat land of Shanghai thundered. Chen Duxiu's words are earnest: "Youth is to society, just as fresh and lively cells are in the human body. ”
In August of the following year, the "Morning Bell Newspaper" was launched, and Li Dazhao's speech was equally loud, saying that young people "only know how to leap forward, only to know how to fly, only to know their spirit of freedom, strange thoughts, keen intuition, and lively life, so as to create an environment and conquer the ...... of history"
"Youth Magazine" was later renamed "New Youth", and at that time, "New Youth" was about abandoning the old and standing up after breaking down. Times have changed, the Chinese nation has stood tall in the world, and Shanghai has grown from an old concession to an international center. The footsteps of young people are always sonorous in the history of the nation, and they grow together with the city and move forward together.
On May 18, the 5th Shanghai Innovation and Entrepreneurship Youth 50 Forum will be held, where young people will gather to discuss innovation and the future. Training camps, service groups, entrepreneurship bases, support programs, research reports, ...... More engines to push the power of young people forward are also roaring and ready to go.
The "new" of today's youth is from 0 to 1 in the farther future.
Yang Zhao, who was born in 1991, came to Shanghai with three other founding partners, and officially started operating the company's energy singularity in 2022. They want to use the technical route of high-temperature superconductivity to rewrite the meme that "controlled nuclear fusion will always take 30 years" in the scientific community.
In March 2024, the final assembly of the world's first all-high-temperature superconducting tokamak device "Honghuang 70" developed by Energy Singularity will be completed, making a further step forward in mankind's exploration of the ultimate energy source. Yang Zhao used the analogy of shipbuilding, before someone proposed to build ships with iron, all ships were wooden ships. In this sense, "Honghuang 70" is like the first iron ship, which proves that iron ships can be launched and operated. It is not yet an aircraft carrier, but with it it it can be an aircraft carrier.
Qin Chuhan was also invited to participate in the forum. At the age of 32, he has spent nearly half of his life studying in Canada. Two years after graduating with a bachelor's degree, he anchored himself in the field of vertical farming and started his own business. In 2022, he brought the technology and team back to Shanghai from Canada to found Moquan Biotech. What this company explores is three-dimensional planting indoors, using algorithms to achieve automation, and pursuing real-time construction of the optimal solution for crop growth environment. With the same floor area, the annual output of pea tips can reach more than 400 times that of ordinary farmland. In addition, this cultivation technology can reduce logistics and other costs while maintaining quality, almost regardless of regional climatic conditions.
Farming doesn't sound cool, but Qin Chuhan sees it as a track with potential. "Although technology may still be in the early stages of development, it is still very satisfying that we can do it with the naked eye, which is beneficial to everyone, and even to the country." As a "post-90s", he believes that in addition to pursuing financial freedom, this generation will also have to do something that they will not regret in retrospect decades later.
From the ultimate energy source to a porridge and a meal, young people are everywhere. In their respective fields, they are the torchbearers of this era. They started from Shanghai to give the city more light, and they chose Shanghai because of the city's openness and development opportunities.
In 2022, "Building a Youth Development City and Building a City of Hope for Young People" was written into the report of the 12th Party Congress of Shanghai, and for two consecutive years, the "Youth Development City Construction Pilot" has not been absent from the Shanghai Municipal Government Work Report. Today, such points have penetrated deep into the town.
At last year's Shanghai Innovation and Entrepreneurship Youth 50 Forum, Chen Jining, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, said that Shanghai will build a youth development city with all its heart, create more space for innovation and entrepreneurship, provide more scenes for displaying talents, and launch more accurate and efficient services, so that the majority of innovative entrepreneurs can chase their dreams and achieve their careers in Shanghai, a city of innovation.
The city is eager to see more young people at the forefront of science and technology, from the municipal level to the district level, various talent programs, research funds, and entrepreneurship competitions abound. During the 2024 National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, Liu Duo, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice mayor of Shanghai, also mentioned when talking about the construction of an international science and technology innovation center that a talent plan will be implemented this year to support outstanding young scientists to carry out high-risk and high-value scientific research "ten years of sharpening a sword".
In Minhang's "Da Zero Bay", universities and science and technology enterprises are closely integrated, and the original innovation achievements are efficiently transformed and implemented, which continuously stimulates the innovation and entrepreneurship potential of teachers and students in colleges and universities. In Xuhui's "Modular Speed Space", the first large-scale model innovation ecological community in China and the only one in Shanghai, high-platform, high-education, and high-vision entrepreneurial teams have gathered rapidly, and the West Coast International Talent Port has been built during this period, bringing talent services directly to young talents. The slogan of the Lingang New Area is even clearer, to build a "young city, a young city".
Move forward, but also have no worries. Faced with the housing difficulties of new citizens, young people and other groups, Shanghai continues to expand the supply of affordable rental housing. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Shanghai plans to raise and build more than 470,000 units (rooms) of affordable rental housing; By the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the total amount of affordable rental housing raised and constructed will reach more than 600,000 units, of which about 400,000 units (rooms) will be supplied. In order to make the demand docking more focused, Shanghai has held the "Rental Housing on Campus" activity for many years to provide cheaper and safer rental options for fresh graduates.
In October last year, the Action Plan for the Construction of Shanghai's Youth Development City "Five Service Plans" was officially released. The plan focuses on five major areas, including youth innovation, employment, livability, health, and marriage and love, and intends to promote policy integration and the implementation of inclusive and landmark policy initiatives. On April 26 this year, the "Shanghai Youth Policy Online Platform", which brings together more than 700 policy documents related to youth development, was launched to provide "one-stop" answers for young people.
Young people and this city are two-way running and growing together. Returning to Shanghai to start a business, Qin Chuhan undoubtedly took into account Shanghai's "frontier" and "innovation", and more importantly, he felt "respect". "Don't treat technical talent as a screw, and respect different ideas and perspectives, so that there can be better innovation," he said. ”
Wang Daoyu, the founder of Shanghai Zhuodao Medical, was born in 1990 and is "the same age" as Pudong's development and opening up. Talking about his first impression of Zhangjiang in the past, he described it as "like a small county town". Today, the remote suburbs have become the highland of science and technology, and Zhuodao Medical has more than 100 patents, and its core products cover nearly 1,000 hospitals. The rapid development of enterprises in the past was due to the opportunities of the intelligent era and regional take-off, and now in Pudong, Wang Daoyu sees the possibility of facing the world and the future.
On May 18, the same day as the "50 Forum" will be held, as well as the 2024 Shanghai Science and Technology Festival. At such a scientific and technological event, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, young scientists, scientific craftsmen, science and technology communication celebrities and science education figures will all walk on the red carpet and appear one by one. At the pinnacle of science and technology, young scientists are emerging to occupy their place.
In 2024, Shanghai will celebrate its 10th anniversary as an international science and technology innovation center. The city is like water, science and technology innovation is like a boat, and the youth are in charge, and the three are all going in the wind. From more than 100 years ago to today, young people are still sticking to "Mr. Sai" as Chen Duxiu hoped, and they are like this.
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