The 4th China "internet plus" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was launched in an all-round way.
The Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the fourth China "internet plus" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. (China Education News reporter Zhang Jinsong/photo)
Xinhuanet Xiamen, March 29th, "Brave the tide of the times, dare to break new ground, take root in the land of China and write the chapter of life", and the 4th China "internet plus" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was launched in Xiamen. On March 29th, the Ministry of Education held a press conference in Xiamen University, Fujian. Wu Yan, Director of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, made a press release on the overall situation of the contest. Zhang Rong, president of Xiamen University, and Xue Weimin, deputy director of Fujian Provincial Department of Education, introduced the preparations for the contest. Zhang Wang, a representative of the student team, introduced her participation in the "Youth Red Dream Tour".
Wu Yan introduced that the theme of this year’s contest is "Brave the tide of the times, dare to break through and create, and take root in China to write the chapter of life". The main tone of the contest is "breadth, height, depth and temperature". This year’s competition will expand the scale of participation, achieve full coverage of regions, schools and student types, and greatly expand the international track; Fully implement the "Youth Red Dream Tour" to cultivate youthful strength with ideals, skills and responsibilities; National strategies such as strengthening the new force of innovation and entrepreneurship, service innovation-driven development, "Belt and Road" construction, rural revitalization and poverty alleviation.
Frequent highlights to create a platform for global dual-innovation communication
Wu Yan introduced that there are three main highlights in this competition.
The first is to build a platform for global dual-innovation communication. Expand the international track of the competition, attract outstanding college students’ innovative and entrepreneurial teams from all over the world to participate in the competition, and enhance the global influence of the competition. The contest plans to establish the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" innovation and entrepreneurship education community, deepen the cooperation and youth exchanges of countries along the "Belt and Road", and contribute new experiences to the development of international higher education.
The second is to give a good ideological and political course in the country’s largest colleges and universities. The contest will carry out the "Youth Red Dream Tour" on a larger scale, at a higher level and at a deeper level, promote the integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education with ideological and political education, and combine innovation and entrepreneurship practice with rural revitalization strategy and accurate poverty alleviation to create the largest ideological and political course in China. Organize college students from science and engineering, agriculture and forestry, medicine, teachers’ colleges, law, humanities and social sciences, entrepreneurs, investors, etc. to enter the old revolutionary areas and poor areas, accept ideological baptism, learn revolutionary spirit, inherit red genes, radiate the intelligence, technology and project resources of colleges and universities to the vast rural areas, promote local social and economic construction, and help precision poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.
The third is to make a good educational film. Put the vivid stories of college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship on the big screen, show the spirit of creativity, struggle, unity and dream, make a classic film reflecting education, pay tribute to the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, and present gifts to the new era. At present, the film preparation work is in full swing, and the film premiere is planned for December.
In addition, Fujian Province is the starting point of "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", which has geographical advantages such as the west coast of the Taiwan Strait. This year’s competition will highlight the characteristics of "Haisi" and strengthen the cooperation of innovation and entrepreneurship education in countries along the Maritime Silk Road; Highlight the characteristics of the Taiwan Strait and promote in-depth exchanges between young college students on both sides of the Taiwan Strait; Highlight the characteristics of marine culture, and cultivate students’ innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of daring to innovate, take risks and be the first in the world. Taking the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening up as an opportunity, the contest will achieve greater and higher-level open cooperation, build an international contest platform, and strive to hold an amazing and extraordinary global double-creation event.
One main event and five concurrent activities.
This year’s contest plans to hold a series of "1+5" activities.
"1" is the main event, and the national finals will be held on the basis of school competitions and provincial competitions. The live competition in the finals includes the gold medal competition, the semi-final competition and the championship competition. March-May is the registration stage, the preliminaries and semi-finals will be arranged from June to September, and the national finals will be held in the middle and late October.
"5" is five activities in the same period, including: First, the "Youth Red Dream Tour" was held. The second is to hold a series of activities on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Establish the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road University Alliance and hold the Belt and Road University Presidents’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Forum to promote extensive and pragmatic educational cooperation and exchanges among universities in countries and regions along the Belt and Road. The third is to hold the "College Student Maker Show". Xiamen University, the host school, has set up project exhibition area, project roadshow area, investment and financing docking area, cooperation signing area, exchange and sharing area, creative product experience area, etc., and carried out investment negotiation, innovation and entrepreneurship achievement exhibition, team roadshow and other activities to provide open participation opportunities for all parties. The fourth is to hold a dialogue between outstanding entrepreneurs and college entrepreneurs in the 40 years of reform and opening up. Invite influential entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders and technical experts who have emerged in the past 40 years of reform and opening up to talk with college entrepreneurs, share successful experiences and help college students grow and develop. The fifth is to hold a docking tour of outstanding projects in the competition. In 2018, during the "Digital China" Construction Summit, the 22nd China International Fair for Investment and Trade and the finals of the competition, special zones will be set up to carry out excellent project exhibition and exchange, investment and financing negotiation and docking activities, and further promote the transformation and application of the results of the competition. Implement the landing plan of international outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship projects, hold a joint exhibition between local governments and dual-innovation projects, and promote high-quality projects with high technology content, great market potential, good social benefits and obvious investment value to settle in China.
Compared with previous events, this year’s competition has also added three new contents. First, the "Youth Red Dream Tour" track has been added. The events participating in this track must be the events participating in the "Youth Red Dream Tour"; Projects participating in the "Youth Red Dream Tour" can choose to participate in the main track or the "Youth Red Dream Tour" track competition (but only one track can be selected). The second is to add awards. The number of events that entered the national finals on the main track increased from 120 to 150, and the number of gold medals increased from 30 to 50, and the number of silver medals increased from 90 to 100. The newly-added "Youth Red Dream Tour" track has 10 gold prizes, 30 silver prizes, 160 bronze prizes, 20 collective prizes in colleges and universities, 8 provincial and municipal outstanding organization prizes and several individual prizes. In addition, international track awards and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan project awards have also increased. The third is to set up a "Discipline and Supervision Committee" to supervise the organization and evaluation of the competition and the relevant work of the co-organizers, create a good atmosphere, and ensure that the competition is fair, just and open.
It is reported that since its establishment in 2015, the China "internet plus" University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition has accumulated 2.25 million university students and 550,000 teams to participate, and a large number of high-quality projects with high technology content, great market potential and good social benefits have emerged, showing the energetic and uplifting style of contemporary young university students. It has become the largest and most influential university student innovation and entrepreneurship event in China, and has also begun to become a beautiful landscape of international higher education.