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Young Chinese showcase innovative business ideas

Many young Chinese have showcased their innovative business ideas at a national mass entrepreneurship and innovation week.

The event was themed “Innovation drives vitality, entrepreneurship creates employment.”

From creative cultural products and novel mushroom growing techniques to aerial imaging technology, over 160 projects were selected from around the nation and showcased in Hefei, capital of Anhui Province.

To promote tourism and culture of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwest China’s Gansu Province, a creative cultural project was set up at Lanzhou Jiaotong University in 2015.

“So far, we have launched eight types of cultural products, including colored sand craft plates, moon-shaped fans and seals, all of which feature patterns of the signature Flying Apsaras of the grottoes,” said Liang Yan, associate professor at the university’s art and design school.

About 80 students are enrolled in the project every year. Apart from learning art and design skills, they also have to take courses on intellectual property protection, patent application and entrepreneurship policies that may come in handy when they start a business in the future.

Hao Kaili, a postgraduate student of environmental design, has been involved with the project for about three years. She hails from Gansu and feels proud every time she completes a creative work with the distinctive features of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.

“Among all the students who have participated in this project, about 50 have pursued careers in entrepreneurship after their graduation,” said Liang, adding that there are 48 such creative projects in the university, covering various majors, that allow students to experience entrepreneurship at an early stage.

Entrepreneurship helps create employment. It is estimated that about 900,000 students started their own businesses in 2021, while the number was only 478,000 in 2014, according to a report released by Tianming Shuangchuang research institute.

Min Qifeng, a 21-year-old postgraduate student from China Three Gorges University, has also jumped on the entrepreneurship bandwagon starting in 2018. Min and his five classmates set up a biotechnology company that specializes in fungi-culture with the help of his professors.

“At present, there are 27 people in our company, all of whom are from the university,” said Min.

“Promoting mass entrepreneurship and innovation has become an important measure to implement the innovation-driven development strategy over the recent years, and the practice has continued to expand,” said Zhang Guihua of the China Association for Science and Technology.

The annual national mass entrepreneurship and innovation week is expected to see the launch of nearly 1,000 activities across the country, both online and offline.




 

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