On the afternoon of October 27, the third "China Merchants Cup" Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Industry Matchmaking Meeting was successfully held in the form of a combination of online and offline in the cm space of China Merchants Departure. Zhong Bo, Deputy Director of the Economic Development Bureau of Zhangzhou Development Zone and Deputy Director of the Investment Promotion Bureau (presided over the work), Wang Suwang, Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Jiyu, Ye Guodong, Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Chengke, Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Cruise Co., Ltd., General Manager of Shenzhen China Merchants Shekou International Cruise Home Port Co., Ltd., General Manager of Shenzhen China Merchants Xunlong Shipping Co., Ltd. Lv Rufu, Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Guanyi, Zhong Ning, Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Shekou Overseas Development Division, Zeng Junjie, Assistant General Manager of China Merchants Shekou Industrial Park Division, Xia Yan, assistant general manager of China Merchants Sanya Deep-sea Science and Technology City Development Co., Ltd., Zhang Qiang, general manager of Taiping Bay Industrial Development Department of China Merchants Bureau, Xie Jinlong, general manager of China Merchants Business Management Digitalization Center, Xu Yilin, senior manager of China Merchants Zhangzhou Development Zone Co., Ltd., and other representatives of relevant units of the group's city and park comprehensive development and operation sector, Ji Yong, deputy general manager of China Merchants Qihang, Qiu Haihui, vice president of Shenzhen China Merchants Investment Management Co., Ltd., Ding Lide, investment manager of China Merchants Venture Capital, and other representatives of venture capital institutions, and representatives of semi-finalist projects attended the event.
Ji Yong, deputy general manager of China Merchants Qihang, delivered a welcome speech on behalf of the executive side of the competition, and the representatives of the industry introduced the business situation and innovation direction of each unit. Industry parties, venture capital institutions, and innovation and entrepreneurship projects gathered together to carry out in-depth exchanges around accurate docking needs, landing industrial scenarios, forming market orders, and obtaining capital empowerment, etc., and effectively promoted the financial development of large and small enterprises, innovation and win-win results.
With the theme of "Innovation-Driven Smart City", the third "China Merchants Cup" Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition attracted more than 400 projects from the fields of advanced manufacturing, new materials, new energy, artificial intelligence, new generation information technology, big health, big consumption, transportation and logistics, financial technology, and enterprise services. Using the comprehensive evaluation standard of "marketization + industrialization", after the fierce competition of the preliminary round and the national promotion competition, a total of 60 projects were shortlisted for the semi-finals. Some of the shortlisted projects are still in the stage of transforming innovative achievements, hoping to obtain support from industry and capital to accelerate the landing of results; some have won the favor of investment institutions, expecting to continuously optimize products in industrial scenarios and achieve market breakthroughs; some have formed synergies with China Merchants' relevant businesses and look forward to cooperating in deeper and broader fields. Through this activity, the rich resource scenarios of the industry side and the professional and innovative products of the project side have been efficiently docked. With the sharing of resources and capabilities as the link, strengthening the close connection between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and the innovation chain, the competition will play a more active role in promoting the development of innovative projects and serving the industrial innovation and transformation of service groups.
The integration and innovation of large and medium-sized enterprises put forward higher requirements for all kinds of entities to participate in innovation, which should not only highlight the leading and supporting role of large enterprises, but also give play to the key role of small and medium-sized enterprises. The "China Merchants Cup" Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition has built a platform for communication and exchange for all parties to innovation, and through the development of industrial matchmaking meetings and the establishment of an industrial mentor mechanism, it has continued to promote the opening of industrial resources to participating small and medium-sized enterprises, continuously gathered the innovation momentum from small and medium-sized enterprises, opened a new situation of complementary, mutually promoted and mutually beneficial innovation and development, and formed a new win-win innovation ecology of integration, integration and integration.