Launch Ceremony for the Japan Round of the 3rd China Shenzhen Innovation and Entrepreneurship International Competition

On the evening of Friday 21 December 2018, the Association, together with the Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talent Liaison Office in Japan and People's Daily Overseas Edition Japan Monthly, hosted the launch ceremony for the Japan round of the 3rd China Shenzhen Innovation and Entrepreneurship International Competition at Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo. About 50 guests from Japanese and Chinese research, business and investment circles and Chinese community organisations attended.

Overview

• Co-hosts: Japan Shenzhen Economic, Trade and Cultural Promotion Association; Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talent Liaison Office in Japan; People's Daily Overseas Edition Japan Monthly
• Supported by: Broadband Tower, Inc.; Shanghai Electric Power Japan Co., Ltd.; Japan New Overseas Chinese News Co., Ltd.; Vbest Law Office

About the 3rd competition

Yutaka Iwasa, talent officer at the Liaison Office, outlined the competition. Applications were open from 1 December 2018 to 28 February 2019. Overseas rounds would take place in March 2019 in 10 cities across nine countries, with the Japan round on 23 March at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo. In April, more than 100 projects from the overseas and sector rounds would meet in Shenzhen. Total prize money was RMB 11.2 million, with up to RMB 1.4 million for a single team, plus Shenzhen support for industrial incentives, technology finance and incubation.

Speakers

• Association President Jiang Feng: forty years after Deng Xiaoping's visit to Japan, he hoped the Japan round would become part of Japan-China technology exchange
• Sadahiro Sugita, Executive Managing Director of the Japan-China Economic Association: recalled leading 30 start-ups and 20 member companies to Shenzhen that March and pledged to encourage more Japanese companies to take part
• Xu Fucheng, President of Fusei Shoji and a participant in the previous competition: competing had deepened his understanding of Shenzhen and its companies, and its talent policies had greatly helped his business
• Zhang Linfeng, Deputy General Manager at ZTE: at the reception he described ZTE Japan's volunteer work after disasters and the rapid restoration of its base stations, and called for win-win technology cooperation

Networking

At the reception that followed, guests discussed research, competition experience and Shenzhen's talent policies, and many praised the Shenzhen government for delivering on its talent commitments.