Sino-US makers create a better future

On June 19, the 10th anniversary of the "Chunhui Cup" Chinese Overseas Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and the launching ceremony of the 2015 China-US Youth Maker Competition were held in Pittsburgh, USA. Representatives of academic and business circles from China and the United States unanimously said that young entrepreneurs and makers in China and the United States have caught up with a good time and are becoming a new focus of people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States. Intel CEO Kirzanich said: "China is already one of the world's innovation centers. We are very excited to contribute to the maker movement and cultural exchanges between the youth of China and the United States. We hope to use the company's advanced technology and globalization. Vision and international resources support innovation and build a bridge for international exchanges and cooperation between young innovators of the two countries."

As one of the important supporting activities of the high-level consultation on people to people exchanges between China and the United States, this year, with the theme of "creating the future together", the Sino US youth maker competition focuses on the sustainable development fields such as community, education, health, transportation, environmental protection and energy, and combines innovative design concepts and cutting-edge science and technology to create brand-new products or applications with both industrial and social values. According to the process of the competition, the winning teams of each division of China and the United States will compete in the final stage in China in mid-August this year.

In the past 10 years, the "Chunhui Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition has selected 1654 innovative and entrepreneurial projects for overseas students, of which more than 300 projects have been hatched in China, involving electronic information, biomedicine, new materials, new energy and other fields. Among the shortlisted projects in the past nine competitions, 41.5 percent were from the United States. This year, the North American competition area was added for the first time.

Pittsburgh was once a famous industrial city in the United States, known as the "steel capital. However, the development of industry has also brought smoke and dust to the city. With the decline of the steel industry, Pittsburgh's development was once pale. Locals told reporters that now relying on finance, healthcare and manufacturing, Pittsburgh, which is located in the "industrial rust belt" of the United States, has successfully transformed into a well-known innovation and entrepreneurship capital in the United States, and has achieved a "double harvest" of prosperity and green ". This year, the launching ceremony of the Sino-US Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project was held here, which has a special meaning.

Lei Bao, a master of business administration at Bridgeport University in the United States, is the winner of the 9th "Chunhui Cup". Her award-winning project will soon land in Nanjing. By participating in the "Chunhui Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Leibao deeply realized that the country is in a period of entrepreneurial opportunities, especially the country's policy support for mass entrepreneurship and innovation. Lei Bao said that the field of cooperation between China and the United States has moved from economy to innovation and creativity, and the two sides have a lot to learn from each other. China learns from the experience of cultivating entrepreneurs in the whole society from the United States, which also helps the American people to feel the Chinese people's ability to innovate and start businesses. Take the mobile Internet as an example. Chinese people are more confident in this field. Instead, the United States should learn from China, so as to further promote equal competition and equal dialogue between China and the United States.

Nansen Smith, a biomedical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh, as a representative of young American makers, said in an interview with our reporter that although there are differences in history, culture and development stages between the United States and China, the differences also mean opportunities for complementarity and cooperation. The convergence of ideas between the young people of the two countries in innovation and entrepreneurship is conducive to enhancing mutual understanding and cultivating a group of young talents with innovative consciousness and international vision. This force of cooperation is bound to have a positive and profound impact on the next generation of the two countries, and he is full of confidence in this. More importantly, in various frontier fields such as new energy, the United States and China can work together to provide innovative solutions to the common challenges facing countries around the world.