On September 25, the launching ceremony of the final of the 11th China Youth Innovation Competition (Science and Technology Innovation Special) and the exchange and exhibition activity of "Youth for Chinese Modernization" was held in Wuhan, Xu Xiao, executive secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and Chen Ping, vice governor of Hubei Province, attended the launching ceremony and delivered speeches.
Xu Xiao pointed out that young people are the vanguard in promoting scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurship. It is hoped that the majority of young people will always maintain their passion for struggle, have innovative dreams in mind, shoulder the responsibilities of the times, and make new contributions to building a new development pattern and achieving high-quality development. Youth League organizations at all levels should continue to improve the work system for serving youth innovation and entrepreneurship, and drive more aspiring young people to show their talents, serve the society, and contribute to the country in the practice of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Chen Ping said that Hubei's economic operation is stable and improving, the vitality of scientific and technological innovation is surging, the industrial development is new and strong, and the hub advantage is more obvious, which is a hot land for innovation and entrepreneurship for the majority of young people. It will build a first-class entrepreneurial platform of "gathering wisdom and strength", provide high-quality entrepreneurial services of "happy business and enjoyment", optimize the good entrepreneurial ecology of "dare to break through and dare to create", and sincerely invite the majority of young people to pursue their dreams and create a better future.
This year's competition attracted more than 6,000 project teams from all over the country to participate, and 75 projects entered the finals. Under the traction of the competition, the Hubei Communist Youth League continued to build the work brand of "Innovative Hubei · Qingli Qingwei", and focused on promoting the transformation and implementation of the project.
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It has been held in Hubei for 4 consecutive years
75 projects made it to the finals
The 11th China Youth Innovation Competition (Science and Technology Innovation Special) was launched in Wuhan on the 25th, which is one of the major events for youth innovation and entrepreneurship with the widest influence and most attention in China. Among them, the Science and Technology Innovation Special Competition was first established in 2021 and has been held in Hubei for four consecutive years, attracting more than 21,000 innovation and entrepreneurship projects from all over the country to participate.
This year's special competition for scientific and technological innovation is divided into "three groups and five courses". The three groups are the innovation group, the start-up group and the growth group. The five tracks revolve around Hubei's advantageous industries, namely the new generation of information technology industries such as optoelectronics, the new energy and intelligent networked automobile industry, the medical-industrial intersection and life and health industry, the intelligent manufacturing and high-end equipment industry, and the Beidou, future and other industries.
After solicitation, this competition attracted more than 6,000 project teams from all over the country to participate, and finally 75 projects entered the finals. There are 25 gold medal projects and 50 silver medal projects in this special competition.
The competition site also set up a landing transformation docking area, including a policy consultation docking area, an intellectual property service area, an investment and financing docking area, a verification pilot platform area, and an optimization and acceleration empowerment area, etc., to provide one-stop services for the contestants.
In addition, this year's competition pioneered the role of "youth scientific and technological achievement transformation broker", and invited more than 100 "youth scientific and technological achievement transformation brokers" in the fields of policy consulting, intellectual property services, investment and financing docking, verification pilot platform and incubation empowerment to observe the competition on the spot, track and dock the whole process, and promote the signing and landing of outstanding projects in Hubei.
Youth delegates share their entrepreneurial stories
At the launching ceremony of the finals, the exchange and display activity of "Youth Stands Up for Chinese Modernization" was held at the same time, and three representatives who won the gold medal in the previous "Create Youth" China Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition shared their entrepreneurial experience and showed the youth responsibility of "strengthening the country with science and technology, striving with me"; Li Deren, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, sent a video message to encourage young people to dare to make breakthroughs and make bold innovations; Liu Sheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of Wuhan University, and Chen Xuedong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, shared their stories of serving the country through scientific research on the spot, encouraging young people to climb the peak and make unremitting efforts.