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ZJU students honored at the 5th College Students' 'Internet+' Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition

2019-10-18

With seven gold medals, Zhejiang University wins the 1st place in the 5th College Students’‘Internet+’Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition.

This year’s competition was hosted by Zhejiang University. The competition took place from the 12th of October to the 16th of October, 2019.

The competition was planned for students from colleges, vocational schools, high schools and overseas universities. This year more than 4.57 million college students from with over 109,000 entries signed up for the competition. Over 2500 students from 27 countries attended the national finale in Hangzhou.  

The unmanned helicopter project from Tsinghua University took the championship. Zhejiang University teams locked up the second and third place. "iHe@r"from International Track impressed the 150 judges with their innovative idea to help the communication with the deaf people through state-of-art techniques and won the third place.

During their stay in Hangzhou, 284 finalists submitted financing intentions and 335 investors participated in the docking activities. A total number of 406 investment intentions were reached with a total amount of more than 1.7 billion yuan.

The Competition offers a supportive platform to harness the talents of Chinese students to address real-world problems, where they combine new, marketable skills in innovation and social entrepreneurship with their creativity and passion to make an impact.