Gather global talents and drive industrial transformation: The 2nd "Chint Cup" Youth Innovation Competition creates a "dream factory" for young makers.
On October 23, as one of the regional extension activities of the 2025 World Youth Scientists Summit, the finals of the 2nd "Chint Cup" Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition were held in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. This year's competition set up three tracks: "Intelligent Electrical, Green Development, and Technological Innovation", attracting more than a thousand young makers from top domestic universities in the C9 League, as well as well - known domestic and foreign institutions such as Stanford University, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Pennsylvania. After a rigorous selection process, 25 innovative teams that stood out globally converged in the finals.
Shi Dongcai, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology; Wang Huan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Xi'an Jiaotong University; Gao Chunbo, Deputy President and Secretary - General of the World Youth Scientists Federation; Chen Jianming, President of the Wenzhou World Youth Scientists Growth Foundation; Dai Xuqiang, Secretary of the Yueqing Municipal Party Committee; Nan Cunhui, Chairman of Chint Group; Zhu Xinmin, Director and President of Chint Group; Wu Bingchi, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Chint Group; Nan Junyu, Director of Chint Group, Executive Dean of the Technology Research Institute, and Vice - President of Chint Electric Co., Ltd. attended the finals. They witnessed this grand event for young makers that gathered global innovation resources together with investment institutions, partners in the industrial ecosystem, experts, and scholars.
Shi Dongcai said in his speech that as a forefront area of reform and opening - up, Zhejiang has always placed technological innovation at the core of its overall development. This "Chint Cup" Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition is not only a concentrated display of young people's innovative talents but also a vivid microcosm of Zhejiang's excellent innovation ecosystem.
Wang Huan said that this year's competition precisely targeted high - potential fields. Young talents from around the world brought high - quality projects in cutting - edge areas, vividly demonstrating the role of young people as a vital force in technological innovation and highlighting the youth's responsibility in cultivating new productive forces.
Dai Xuqiang pointed out that this competition is a valuable platform for Yueqing to gather industrial resources and connect with innovative forces, which will inject more vibrant impetus into the innovative development of Yueqing and Wenzhou. Yueqing will strive to be the "Chief Service Officer", creating favorable conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship with the greatest sincerity, most practical measures, and best services, and achieving "win - win development" through mutual efforts.
The 25 young maker teams that stood out demonstrated in - depth thinking of young people in the new era on major issues such as energy transformation, intelligent manufacturing, and green and low - carbon development with their excellent insights and solid technical solutions. Chint will provide comprehensive and strong support for the winning high - quality projects. If the participating teams settle their projects in Chint's industrial park, they will also receive a series of entrepreneurial support.
"The 'ingenious ideas' of young makers, rooted in the 'full - industrial - chain soil' of the real economy, will surely grow into the 'towering trees' of new productive forces," a relevant person in charge of Chint said. Chint will continue to cooperate with partners in the ecosystem to transform more young people's scientific and technological innovation achievements into real industrial momentum, contributing to the achievement of the "dual - carbon" goal and the cultivation of new productive forces.
On the stage of this "Chint Cup" Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, innovative forces at home and abroad competed on the same stage, and global innovation resources were deeply integrated. In the future, Chint will continue to deepen cooperation with the World Youth Scientists Summit. With the "Chint Cup" and the "Spark Program" as carriers, it will accelerate the construction of an "international comprehensive science and technology innovation incubation platform" and a "symbolic platform for the national innovation and entrepreneurship competition", enabling more young innovative forces to grow and more scientific and technological achievements to be transformed into advanced productive forces.