Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, September 28 (Reporter Pan Qing) "It's fun to participate in the competition" "I didn't expect to win the prize"... The "2021 Shanghai Cross-Strait Youth Entrepreneurship Competition" has just ended. Several exclamatory sentences to express my feelings.
Jenny, who has studied music since childhood, set up her own studio in Taipei with her partner Li Xiang five years ago.
Many times touring the mainland, the two young people have the idea of expanding new horizons.
Nine months ago, they formally "landed" and founded Shanghai Xen Music Culture Development Co., Ltd.
This time they participated in the competition with the mentality of "testing the water temperature", and they were overjoyed to win the prize.
"We hope to use the systematic courses designed by ourselves to provide training for people who are interested in the electronic audio industry. In the future, we also plan to cooperate with mainland professionals to build an online electronic audio platform." Jenny said that the combination of music and digital will form a very With the huge market, this award made her firmly believe that her choice of starting a business in the mainland was "not wrong."
The Cross-Strait Youth Innovation Competition that Jenny participated in was founded in 2016 by Jinshan District, Shanghai.
In the past six years, this event has attracted more than 7,000 cross-strait and overseas young talents, and 2,776 high-quality projects at home and abroad to compete.
A total of 543 entries were solicited for this year's competition, of which nearly 50% were "contributed" by young entrepreneurs from Taiwan.
The new generation of information technology, life and health, intelligent manufacturing, and cultural and creative fields covered by the participating projects are not only the focus of Jinshan's industrial development, but also the direction of the mainland's economic transformation.
Among the top 20 finalists, Taiqing participated in 8 projects, and 4 of them were cross-strait cooperation projects.
In the finals held on the 27th, the finalists went through the project roadshow and on-site defense respectively.
Well-known technical experts in the industry and heads of investment and financing institutions formed a five-person review panel to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the project from multiple dimensions such as the feasibility of industry implementation, innovation highlights, business models, technological advancement, market prospects, and core team. Bright points.
In the end, the overseas project "New Artificial Intelligence Orthopedic Surgery Robot" won the first prize.
The three projects that won the second prize were the mainland project and the cross-strait cooperation project.
The fierce competition came to an end, but the competition's support for entrepreneurial youths on both sides of the strait did not end.
In accordance with previous practices, after the competition, the Shanghai (Jinshan) Cross-Strait Youth Entrepreneurship Base will connect with outstanding projects and actively help potential projects settle in the base.
In addition to reducing rent, providing training and talent apartments, and minimizing the cost of innovation and entrepreneurship, the Youth Innovation Base also provides one-stop supporting policies and a full range of agency services, and actively integrates government departments, industry associations, well-known enterprises, colleges and universities, and Media resources provide technical support, policy support and publicity for the project, and help open market access.
In the past few years, many outstanding projects that have stood out in the Cross-Strait Youth Innovation Competition have successfully landed in Jinshan and developed steadily.
For young entrepreneurs from both sides of the strait, including Jenny, this "so interesting" contest has become their "dream-building stage."