China News Service, Wuhan, November 14 (Liang Tingwu and Ma Furong) The 2021 Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurship Development Conference (referred to as "Hua Chuanghui") will open in Wuhan on the 16th.

Since its first establishment in 2001, the China Innovation Association has gathered the hearts and minds of overseas Chinese for 20 years and realized the full effect of cluster radiation.

  "Where there is sea water, there are Chinese, and where there are Chinese, there is the influence of the China Entrepreneurship Association." Chen Liang, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, commented.

  According to statistics, the previous China Innovation Conferences invited more than 20,000 representatives of overseas Chinese professionals and overseas Chinese businessmen from 100 countries and regions to participate in the conference, and more than 2,500 projects were signed and introduced at the main venue.

  Focusing on the national strategy and the industrial structure of Hubei, previous China Innovation Conferences planned and organized special matchmaking activities.

The annual China Innovation Conference has basically formed a model with the main content of "Opening Ceremony + Wuhan Forum + Project Signing + Special Event + Project Roadshow + Field Investigation", etc., and has established the China Innovation Conference, the "Hua Chuang Cup" Entrepreneurship Competition, A complete set of service systems such as Huachuang Academy and Huachuang Base.

  Since 2014, the "Hua Chuang Cup" Entrepreneurship Competition has been held for 7 consecutive times, attracting more than 2500 projects from overseas countries and regions to participate in the competition.

Among them, the 2020 "Huachuang Cup" Entrepreneurship Competition focuses on high-tech fields such as "Optical Core Screen Terminal Network", and a number of award-winning projects settled in Hubei.

  Relying on Optics Valley Entrepreneurship Academy, the Overseas Chinese Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute was established in Wuhan in 2014. Currently, it has mentored more than 600 trainees. The main training targets are the contestants who entered the semi-finals of the previous "Hua Chuang Cup" competitions and the heads of overseas Chinese-funded start-up companies.

  As an important carrier for the majority of Chinese and overseas Chinese to realize their career dreams, Hubei "Qiaomengyuan" was unveiled in Wuhan Donghu New Technology Development Zone in June 2016.

At present, the "Qiaomengyuan" Wuhan Park has gathered more than 40,000 overseas Chinese and more than 4,000 overseas Chinese-funded enterprises. At the same time, the "Qiaomengyuan" Wuhan Park has been established in Xiangyang and Yichang.

  For many years, the China Innovation Association has "introduced overseas Chinese, promoted the domestic, and introduced foreigners with overseas Chinese."

Facing the country, inviting the United Front Work Department of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai and other brother provinces and cities, and the Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce to form a group to participate in the meeting to strengthen project cooperation; for overseas, a special "going out" promotion of Hubei products was opened, and Hubei "Chu Tea", "Chu Wine" and "Chu Medicine" "Chu Wei" and "Chu Yun" are promoted globally.

  Zhao Chenhui, a professor at the School of Business Administration of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, said that the China Innovation Association has gone through 20 years without interruption, and its contribution to Hubei's capital introduction and economic development is obvious to all.

  Faced with the challenge of the epidemic in 2020, the China Innovation Association tried for the first time "online + offline" to organize a conference. 300 offline people and more than 13 million online participants attended the conference.

Opening of the Anti-epidemic Normalization Cross-Strait and Hong Kong and Macao Smart Health Care Forum, and Li Shizhen International Traditional Chinese Medicine Special Activities to discuss the development direction of smart health care under the background of anti-epidemic normalization.

At the same time, 995 domestic and overseas projects were solicited, and the main venue signed 80 projects, with a total contract value of 50.67 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), covering biomedicine, modern manufacturing, IT optoelectronics and other fields. Currently, 76% of the projects are in Hubei Settle down.

  Zou Wei, a professor at the School of Economics and Management of Wuhan University, said that in the past two years, with the support of all parties in Hubei, various economic indicators have been on the right track. Lay a solid foundation for industrial development.

Currently, Hubei is accelerating the development of emerging industries such as life and health, digital economy, and smart manufacturing.

She believes that, through the platform of the China Innovation Conference, linking Hubei's existing industrial development foundation and element advantages with the current international advanced industrial development direction will help Hubei's industrial structure to achieve greater breakthroughs.

  It is reported that this year China Innovation Conference will focus on technological innovation around the industrial layout of Wuhan's economic transformation and upgrading and Hubei optical core screen terminal network.

Up to now, 1,646 projects have been solicited, including 111 overseas projects, 1535 domestic projects, 77 signed projects, with a total contract value of more than 50 billion yuan, mainly in the fields of energy conservation and environmental protection, biomedicine, new energy, and advanced manufacturing.

At the same time, at this China Innovation Conference, Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone extensively recruited high-end talent demand positions. For jobs with a salary of one million a year, it will be connected with the policy of "East Lake Science City Recruitment List", and the talents who have unveiled the list will enjoy high-level talent support. policy.

  Zhao Chenhui said that through the introduction of talents in projects, technologies, and industries, forming a three-dimensional introduction model, allowing projects, funds and Hubei's industry to connect, support each other, and interact with each other is the direction of future efforts.

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