The 5th China College Students “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award kicks off

On June 13, the Ministry of Education held a press conference giving updates on the 5th edition of China College Students “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award，which will be hosted by Zhejiang University this October.

Since its inauguration in 2015, the competition has been successfully for 4 consecutive years. A total of 4.9 million college students have participated in the Competition with over 1.19 million projects from 51 countries and regions. There have emerged a massive number of high-caliber scientific and technological projects with immense market potential and remarkable social efficiency. The Competition has thus become the largest and most influential innovation and entrepreneurship gathering for college students.

WU Yan，director of the Department of Higher Education with the Ministry of Education，said that the primary aim of the Award can be summed up as “five mores” for this year. First, it will become more comprehensive by extending its participants beyond undergraduates, including vocational school students, international students and even high school students. Second, it will become more international by inviting university students from 100 countries and regions to participate. The Competition will be renamed as China International University Student “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award with the ultimate goal of hosting an innovation and entrepreneurship Olympiad for students. Third, it will embrace more Chinese characteristics by disseminating the Chinese practices on innovation and entrepreneurship education. Fourth, it will become more educational by fusing innovation and entrepreneurship education and ideological, political professional, physical, aesthetic and labor education. Fifth, it will become more innovative in both form and content by launching a series of innovation activities among middle school and university students and driving forward technology transfer.

The highlight of the 2019 Award will be summarized into “311”. These three digits stand for 3 million contestants, 1 million participants in the “social enterprise” section, and contestants from 100 countries and regions, respectively. Up till June 10, a total of 772,000 projects involving 3.319 million students had signed up for the Award.

Professor WU Zhaohui, president of ZJU extended a cordial invitation to the youth all over the globe to attend the grand finale at Zhejiang University this autumn. “The Competition endeavors to align itself with the demands of talent cultivation perfectly, explore the “major competing event + auxiliary activity” pattern and experiment with new activities in an innovative manner so as to provide a top-notch platform for innovation and entrepreneurship,” said WU.

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