From November 9 to November 13, the National Finals of 8th China International College Students’ "Internet +" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held online. The project "Hengte Energy Core - Leader of Special Converter Industry" (Instructor: Guo Xiaoqiang) of our postgraduate creative team won the gold medal in the higher education track competition. YSU successfully won the second gold medal after the first gold medal in Hebei higher education track competition of the 7th competition, and became the only university in Hebei that won the gold medal in the second consecutive competition.
Group photo of contestants
YSU attaches great importance to the preparation of the "Internet +" competition, and regards it as an important starting point for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education. Under the correct leadership of the CPC Yanshan University Committee, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education and Guidance Center started and prepared early, fully summarized the successful experience of the 7th competition, adhered to the strategy of combining "key cultivation" with "comprehensive mobilization", and further optimized the preparation plan. Before the start of competition, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education and Guidance Center deeply explored and carefully cultivated 15 seed projects, and selected a group of elites to participate in this competition. After the start of the competition, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education and Guidance Center carefully organized and various schools actively mobilized a total of 1,710 teams and 11,627 students to sign up for the competition, reaching a new record high in terms of the number of the teams and students. During the preparation for the provincial and national finals, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education and Guidance Center overcame the impact of the epidemic to invite the judges of the national and provincial competitions and experts on the campus to deliver dozens of counseling trainings around project refining, PPT art design, roadshow training, etc., which ensured the high standard of project quality and high level of team display, and laid a solid foundation for achieving the good results and winning the gold medal again in this competition.
Winning the gold medal again in this competition is another achievement of the continuous efforts made by YSU to build a innovation and entrepreneurship education system fully in line with YSU's social orientation and university-running characteristics and featured with "six points, one thousand items, fifty competitions, four forums, two camps and three platforms", and has made a good start for building a national innovation and entrepreneurship university with distinctive characteristics and first-class level. Winning the gold medal in the second consecutive competition indicates that the training program for high-level innovative and entrepreneurial talents characterized by "Dare to venture and create" has reached the domestic advanced and provincial leading level.
It is reported that the 8th China International College Students’ "Internet +" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was co-sponsored by 12 central ministries and commissions including the Ministry of Education and Chongqing Municipal People's Government, and organized by Chongqing University. With the theme of "I dare to venture, I can create" and the goal of "more Chinese, more international, more educational, more comprehensive and more innovative", the competition highlights the guidance of "Four Innovations" and further returns to and emphasizes the essence of educating people. This competition was officially launched in April 2022, with 14.5 million applicants and 3.4 million projects, covering 4554 universities in 111 countries and regions. The competition has become an important measure to implement the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue and improve the quality of personnel training in the field of higher education, an important platform to promote the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education in universities, an important window to show the achievements of higher education reform in the new era, and a global grand meeting for college students in the world to realize their dreams of innovation and entrepreneurship.