Source: SYSU Youth Association

Written: SYSU Youth Association

Translated by: Lin Zhitao

The final of the 8th CHALLENGE CUP National College Students Business Plan Competition, organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, All-China Students Federation and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, was held in Tongji University from Nov. 25 to 28. After fierce competition, among the three works recommended by SYSU, both From App Store Applications to Mobile Game Kingdom DreamWorks of the Martin team and South Burgeon of the South Burgeon team won national gold award, and MIX Deep Water Net Cage Science and Technology Co., Ltd. of the MIX team won national silver award, tying for first place in the number of gold awards. Deputy Secretary Zhu Kongjun made a special trip to Shanghai to visit the contestants. He cheered for everyone and encouraged them to do well in the competition to win honor for SYSU.

Lu Yongzheng, Secretary of the Secretariat of the CYL Central Committee, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. He pointed out that the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has indicated that the whole party “should care about the young people, learn about what they have in mind, encourage their growth and support them in pursuing careers in an entrepreneurial spirit". As a socially influential collegiate entrepreneurship contest, the CHALLENGE CUP should always adhere to its purpose —"cultivate awareness of innovation, inspire creative thinking, enhance the ability to create, and foster entrepreneurial talents’, so as to train more high-quality young talents for the Party and the country. In the future, in creating a better environment for college students to start an undertaking, the CHALLENGE CUP should pay more attention to such elements as cultural creativity, high-tech elements and new business models, and focus on exploring a CHN (China) mode in the new era, so as to open up a brighter future for collegiate entrepreneurship.

The National College Students Business Plan Competition is one of the two national college students extracurricular academic practice competitions under the banner of the CHALLENGE CUP, the other one being the CHALLENGE CUP National College Students Extracurricular Science and Technology Works Competition. These two events are held in turn every two years. Since the first competition held in 1999, the CHALLENGE CUP College Students Business Plan Competition has developed into the largest and most influential collegiate entrepreneurship contest nationwide with great social, economic and talent benefits, and it is hailed as the "Olympics" of college students innovation and entrepreneurship practice. Themed with "meeting the challenge, creating our future", the current competition has attracted millions of college students from over 1,000 universities across the country since its launch in March this year.