Zhongguancun Frontier Technology Innovation Competition and Entrepreneurship Week grandly opened

[51CTO.com Beijing report] In order to implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions at the National Science and Technology Conference on "facing the world's technological frontiers, the main battlefield of the economy, and the major needs of the country", and to further promote "mass entrepreneurship and innovation", on September 19, the opening ceremony of the 2017 Zhongguancun Frontier Science and Technology Innovation Competition, co-organized by the Zhongguancun Management Committee, Beijing Municipal Education Commission, Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Peking University, and Tsinghua University, was grandly held at the Zhongguancun Exhibition Center Conference Center.

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2017 Zhongguancun Frontier Science and Technology Innovation Competition officially launched

Two hundred people, including Beijing Municipal Government leaders, financial institutions, 100 cutting-edge technology companies and media, attended the opening ceremony. Academician Ni Guangnan of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman of the Expert Committee of the Competition, Founder and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, and Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Engineering Institute of Sinovation Ventures, respectively gave keynote speeches on cutting-edge technology and innovation and entrepreneurship. Liu Da, Vice Chairman of the Zhongguancun Frontier Technology Alliance of the Organizing Committee Secretariat, introduced the background and situation of the competition.

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Guo Hong, representative of the competition organizer and chairman of Zhongguancun Bank, delivered a speech

It is understood that this competition will focus on eight cutting-edge fields that Zhongguancun has focused on, including artificial intelligence, high-end chips, big data, medical health, new materials and intelligent manufacturing, and will carry out a hard technology competition to attract teams and projects with disruptive original core technologies from around the world to innovate and start businesses in Zhongguancun.

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Zhao Huijun, deputy director of the Zhongguancun Management Committee, delivered a speech

The characteristics of the competition can be summarized in three words: "cutting-edge, professional, and service-oriented".
"Frontiers": The companies and teams selected in this competition must have top technologies in emerging frontier fields such as artificial intelligence, high-end chips, and medical health, which belong to hard technology;

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Liu Da, Vice Chairman of Zhongguancun Frontier Technology and Industry Service Alliance, delivered a speech

"Professional" means inviting top experts in technology, investment and business such as Academician Shen Changxiang, Academician Liu Zhongfan, Kai-Fu Lee, Zhang Quanling, Xu Xiaoping and Hong Xiaowen to lead the project selection work.

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Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, founder of Sinovation Ventures, gives a speech

"Service". In addition to receiving a resource package worth more than one million yuan (cash + Kingsoft Cloud resource package) and direct entry into the Zhongguancun cutting-edge technology enterprise selection and Microsoft Accelerator green channel in the future, the winning projects will receive six services from the organizing committee of the competition in conjunction with relevant sponsors, including market docking with 100 leading enterprises in the industry such as China Unicom and BAIC, including central enterprises and listed companies in Beijing; high-quality capital services provided by Sequoia, Zhen Fund, Zhongguancun Bank, etc.; technology and talent docking with hundreds of Zhongguancun open laboratories; policy docking with 16 parks in Zhongguancun; and some districts and counties will provide the winners with a three-year rent-free policy.

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Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Ni Guangnan delivered a speech

At the opening ceremony, four cutting-edge technology companies, Zero Zero Infinity, Sound Intelligence Technology, Rogge Data, and Tyco Tianrun, conducted a wonderful roadshow and received rave reviews from the audience. The participating companies all expressed that they would concentrate on participating in the upcoming group competitions in the best possible state.

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