China Launches Competition to Boost Youth Innovation, Entrep

An exhibitor demonstrates a robot in an exhibition held during the national mass entrepreneurship and innovation week in the Zhongguancun National Innovation Demonstration Zone in Beijing, capital of China, June 13, 2019. [Xinhua/Ju Huanzong]

With a combination of online and offline activities, this year's competition will focus on providing services for entrepreneurial youth as well as long-term support to their start-up projects.

BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) — China has launched a major innovation and entrepreneurship competition for youth.

With a combination of online and offline activities, this year's competition will focus on providing services for entrepreneurial youth as well as long-term support to their start-up projects, said a statement by the Communist Youth League of China Central Committee.

Candidates will compete in categories including commercial and industrial, agricultural, rural and internet-related areas.

The shortlisted projects will have access to further support in the form of investment docking and project incubation.

The competition, the seventh of its kind since 2014, has attracted more than 450,000 teams and 2 million participants over the years. 

(Source: Xinhua)