People's Daily: China's new economic momentum from the 2024 Global Entrepreneurs Summit
2024-08-27
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Original title: Moving towards the new, the innovative vitality is surging
——Looking at the new driving force of China's economy from the 2024 Global Entrepreneurs Summit
Scientific and technological achievements were unveiled, entrepreneurial roadshows were wonderful, and cooperation agreements were reached one after another... From August 23 to 25, the 2024 Global Entrepreneurs Summit held in Beijing achieved fruitful results.
A summit is also a window to observe the Chinese economy. This summit attracted more than 30,000 scientific and technological innovators, more than 1,000 global investors, and more than 500 high-tech innovative enterprises from hundreds of countries and regions around the world. The summit covers the Global Entrepreneurship Competition, forum exhibitions, project signing and other sections. This year's Global Entrepreneurship Competition attracted 7,406 entrepreneurial projects and 9,700 entrepreneurial talents from 124 countries and regions, and the number of entrepreneurial projects and entrepreneurial talents reached a record high.
The attraction of innovation is constantly increasing, and the vitality of innovation is surging. The summit reflects the new momentum and vitality of China's economy. Data show that in July, the added value of my country's high-tech manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 10% year-on-year, and the output of civil drone products, service robots, and integrated circuits all achieved rapid double-digit growth. The accelerated cultivation and growth of new quality productivity has provided strong support for strengthening the sustained recovery of the economy.
Innovation from the Summit
The cultivation of new quality productivity has been accelerated, accumulating new momentum and creating new advantages.
A model of the domestically-produced reusable rocket "Zhenshengxing-1", an ultra-powerful laser for domestic substitution, a physiotherapy robot that can automatically identify meridian points... A batch of cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements made a stunning appearance in the exhibition area serving the capital's high-quality development achievements.
"This is an autonomous drone driving system we developed. It has functions such as precise obstacle avoidance and automatic route planning. It solves the pain point that drones were difficult to control in complex environments in the past. It can be used in low-altitude logistics, emergency rescue and other fields." On August 24, at the roadshow, the sharing of Che Jiaxing, founder of Youlian Intelligent Control, attracted many investors and entrepreneurs.
"There were more than 10 new energy, new materials and high-end equipment start-up companies competing on the same stage. After fierce competition, we won the second prize in this year's entrepreneurship competition." Che Jiaxing said with emotion that the venue was filled with a strong atmosphere of innovation. "As soon as the roadshow ended, many companies came to discuss cooperation."
Walking into the innovation achievement exhibition area, a bionic flexible arm robot is grabbing a ping-pong ball freely. "It can also take out the yolk from a raw egg intact." Zhao Xin, founder of the soft robot company, said that the team has been working hard to overcome technical difficulties such as high-elastic material modification and complex flexible body molding, and has become an innovative technology company in China that has broken through key technologies in the entire chain of soft robot production, learning and research.
"Three years ago, we won the first prize in the entrepreneurship competition. Now, the company's size has grown three times, and its products are exported to more than 20 countries around the world. It has become a national-level specialized and innovative 'little giant' enterprise." Zhao Xin observed that this year's exhibition of new achievements in future industries such as artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and the metaverse has increased significantly.
"In 2020, the first Global Entrepreneurs Summit and Entrepreneurship Competition was launched. In the past five years, the saplings of innovation and entrepreneurship have thrived and yielded fruitful results." Zhang Ruobing, head of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Talent Work, said that the Global Entrepreneurship Competition has produced 720 winning projects to date, and has cultivated and incubated 16 "unicorn" companies and 127 specialized and new companies.
The summit also reflects the vigorous vitality of innovation and entrepreneurship in Beijing, the capital. At present, Beijing has cultivated 28,300 national high-tech enterprises, with an average of 337 new technology-based enterprises established every day.
Since the beginning of this year, all regions and departments have been striving to be the first and to take action to develop new quality productivity in accordance with local conditions: Shanghai has introduced a number of high-level research institutions, gathering more than 800,000 talents in the three leading industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence; Anhui has accelerated the construction of advanced manufacturing clusters, and cultivated and expanded industries such as automobiles and electronic information; Guizhou has seized the "trend" of artificial intelligence to expand the digital economy, and has implemented six major scientific and technological strategic actions in depth... Accumulating new momentum and shaping new advantages, new quality productivity is accelerating its development on the land of China.
Talents from the Summit
Deepen institutional and mechanism reform to provide strong talent support for high-quality development
The only way to innovate is to get the right people. Innovation-driven development is essentially talent-driven. Facing a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, developing new quality productivity is inseparable from stimulating the innovative vitality of all kinds of talents.
After years of expansion and upgrading, the Global Entrepreneurs Summit and Entrepreneurship Competition has become a big stage for global innovative and entrepreneurial talents to display their talents, exchange and cooperate.
What new explorations does the big model have in the investment field? How do robots serve a better life? On August 25, the "Zhihui Chaobai·Qingchuang Future" Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Think Tank at the summit was packed.
Lv Simo, founder of Dongtai Jiaer (Beijing) Cultural Development Co., Ltd., has participated in the summit for the third time, and his role has changed from a contestant to a judge and host. "The summit witnesses the growth of entrepreneurial talents. Through this platform, we can make friends with more top talents at home and abroad and move forward in competition and cooperation." Lv Simo said.
Earrings that replicate the style of the Song Dynasty, rings that use enamel craftsmanship... Each piece of jewelry full of oriental charm is dazzling, making Huiyu Jewelry a popular booth at the summit. Liu Chun, the founder of the company, said that the company won the second prize in this year's entrepreneurship competition. After only more than half a year of sales business, the monthly revenue has exceeded one million yuan. "Beijing has gathered rich cultural resources and many high-level talents in design and branding. As long as you have innovative ideas, there is no shortage of excellent partners here."
Looking through the Global Entrepreneurs Summit and Entrepreneurship Competition, we can see the accelerated burst of talent innovation vitality.
This year's summit focused on seven major professional tracks, including artificial intelligence, medical health, and new generation information technology, with a more comprehensive range of talents; 1,543 participants in the entrepreneurship competition graduated from the top 30 universities in the QS World University Rankings, and the number of winning seats in the competition increased from 140 to 200, with higher quality talents.
Dennis Simon, president of the International Federation of Talent Organizations, said that the summit and entrepreneurship competition has become a very important event for innovative and entrepreneurial talents. It not only reflects Beijing's accelerated efforts to become a talent gathering center, but also reflects China's innovation progress and economic development.
Looking at the whole country from the summit, since this year, the Ministry of Education has implemented the "101 Plan" for basic disciplines to cultivate top innovative talents; the Ministry of Science and Technology has improved the system to ensure that scientific researchers can concentrate on scientific research, insisted on authorizing employers, and relieved the burden on talents; the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other departments have organized and implemented a plan to cultivate high-skilled leading talents, striving to drive about 5 million new high-skilled talents by 2026... All departments have coordinated and promoted the reform of the system and mechanism of education, science and technology talents, and improved the overall efficiency of the national innovation system. The total number of skilled talents in my country has exceeded 200 million, and the number of highly skilled talents has exceeded 60 million. The total number of R&D personnel has ranked first in the world for many years, and the scale of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors is the world's leading, providing strong talent support for high-quality development.
Looking at the environment from the summit
Multiple parties work together to build an innovation and entrepreneurship "ecosystem"
The development of new quality productivity requires strong policy support and a good business environment.
On August 25, the special exchange meeting on the integration of large, medium and small enterprises, which was originally scheduled to end at 12 noon, was postponed for one hour, and nearly 40 companies actively participated in the meeting.
"Many medical institutions and companies have come to us for in-depth discussions and agreed on the details of the next cooperation." Chen Jinhui, an entrepreneur who won the first prize in this year's entrepreneurship competition, said, "The Rongtong matchmaking event has provided valuable opportunities for many entrepreneurs and built a bridge for upstream and downstream companies to match supply and demand and closely connect them."
Integrating competition selection, butler services, business school acceleration, industrial park landing, fund empowerment, and digital platform docking, this Global Entrepreneurs Summit and Entrepreneurship Competition aims to connect "government, industry, academia, research, application, and finance" in one stop and build an innovation and entrepreneurship "ecosystem". This year, 76 of the participating projects received financing of more than 100 million yuan.
In Beijing's Shunyi District, where the summit is held, 89 square kilometers of high-quality talent community services are constantly being updated, a "Haichuang City" with a planned area of 6.98 square kilometers has sprung up, and 12 industry-bearing spaces such as Zhongguancun Shunyi Park have been upgraded... "In the past five years, 358 high-quality projects have taken root here through the summit," said Liu Hongyan, head of the Shunyi District Talent Work Bureau.
The "circle of friends" of open cooperation is growing. It is understood that the number of global partners of the 2024 summit has reached 161, and there are 4,683 overseas projects, an increase of 29% over the previous event. The achievements are due to Beijing's increasingly improved business environment. In recent years, the local area has continued to build the "Beijing Service" brand. So far, 115 international organizations such as the Global Service Trade Alliance have been established in Beijing.
Beijing is a microcosm of the whole country. Since the beginning of this year, from the promulgation of the "Fair Competition Review Regulations", the comprehensive promotion of the implementation of the patent open licensing system, to the orderly expansion of opening up in the fields of telecommunications, Internet, education, culture, and medical care, all regions and departments have unswervingly promoted reform and opening up, continued to create a market-oriented, legal, and internationalized business environment, and continuously strengthened China's new economic momentum and new advantages. In the first half of the year, the number of newly established foreign-invested enterprises nationwide increased by 14.2% year-on-year, attracting nearly 500 billion yuan in foreign investment, which is at a high level in the past 10 years.
China is accelerating the development of new quality productive forces, giving the world new opportunities for cooperation.
"Hosting the Global Entrepreneurs Summit itself proves that Beijing has a good policy environment and innovation ecology." Dennis Simon told reporters that this year it was decided to establish the Beijing Representative Office of the International Federation of Talent Organizations to help build a global innovation and talent gathering center. Dimitrios Petrotos, an entrepreneur from Greece, said that the disability assistance equipment they developed used exoskeleton technology and won the third prize in the entrepreneurship competition. "This is my fifth visit to China this year, and I plan to set up a company."
The booming new quality productivity will provide new impetus for China's high-quality development and will also inject new impetus into the world's sustainable development.
