Science and Innovation Unite at Egret Island | 40 Hard Tech Projects Gather, Countdown to the Launch of Torch Entrepreneurship Camp

Iteration never stops, we march forward towards new horizons! The 2026 Xiamen Torch Startup Camp officially kicks off with a brand-new launch. This year, the core upgrade of the startup camp fully focuses on two key sectors: the full-scale reconstruction of the practical course system, and the full upgrade of investment and financing docking services, which specifically addresses the core pain points of early-stage hard tech projects, namely "lack of methodologies for entrepreneurship, lack of channels for financing, and lack of resources for implementation", to accelerate growth and boost efficiency for tech innovation projects.

At present, the national roadshow selection of the startup camp's three stops in Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen has been successfully completed. Through multi-layer screening and rigorous selection from 338 hard tech registered projects across the country, 40 high-quality startup projects have finally been selected to join the camp.

The selected projects in this camp are precisely focused on seven core tracks, covering marine and hydrogen energy, advanced manufacturing, new energy, new materials, biomedicine and medical care, intelligent sensing semiconductors, and electronic information. All featured projects have prominent technical barriers and distinct industrialization attributes, bringing together top-tier hard tech innovation forces and university achievement transformation resources across the country.

Overall, the teams proposed to join this camp present four distinct characteristics:

• Wide regional coverage: Teams and projects are sourced from all core sci-tech innovation hubs across the country, while high-quality achievement transformation projects from major universities and research institutes nationwide are also included, realizing efficient convergence of cross-regional innovation resources.

• Industrialization stage concentrated in early to mid-term: Most projects have entered key development stages including prototype verification, bench-scale testing, pilot-scale testing, and pre-clinical stages, with high technical maturity, clear industrialization paths and large-scale growth potential.

• Diversified team structure: The teams are composed of core scientific research teams from universities, senior technical founders from the industry, and serial hard tech entrepreneurs, integrating in-depth cutting-edge scientific research capabilities, frontline industry insights and mature practical entrepreneurship experience.

• Clear demands and explicit goals: The teams are centrally focused on core rigid demands including financing capability improvement, equity structure optimization, fiscal and tax compliance, benchmark client acquisition, and regional industrial implementation, to precisely solve the growth challenges of early-stage entrepreneurship.

The complete list of admitted camp participants is announced as follows:

After the public announcement of the admission list, the latest course schedule, overall camp arrangement and mentor docking rules of this session will be simultaneously distributed to all selected teams, officially launching the pre-camp preparation work to lay a solid foundation for concentrated acceleration and empowerment of the projects.

Different from traditional inclusive entrepreneurship training, this session of the startup camp is empowered by the national-level brand of the "Torch Science and Technology Achievement Express" under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Based on the complete full-chain industrial incubation ecosystem of Xiamen Torch High-tech Zone, it precisely targets early to mid-stage hard tech projects and university sci-tech achievement transformation projects. The 6-7 day concentrated acceleration camp has a clear core objective: to connect cutting-edge technologies with capital accurately, enable innovative products to deeply integrate into the industrial chain, and efficiently open up the industrialization transformation path for scientific and technological achievements.

Newly Iterated Practical Courses, Complete Course System Officially Released

Compared with previous sessions, the courses of the 2026 Xiamen Torch Startup Camp have achieved all-round iterative upgrades, abandoning traditional empty theoretical teaching. The whole process adheres to the three core orientations of practicality, problem-solving and implementation, and customizes a brand-new exclusive practical course system around the real pain points and operational difficulties in the industrialization process of hard tech startups. The full set of course content is now officially released to the public.

Course Content of 2026 Xiamen Torch Startup Camp

This session of courses innovatively adopts the four-dimensional teaching mode of "expert lectures + benchmark case analysis + group co-creation and polishing + one-on-one project consultation", which directly addresses the difficulties in the whole chain of hard tech entrepreneurship, and sets up five core practical modules: business logic sorting and business model iteration, product-market fit and industrialization implementation, equity structure construction and fiscal, tax and legal risk avoidance, brand building and market-oriented growth, founder management capability and enterprise strategy upgrading.

The instructor team is jointly composed of senior industry experts, founders of leading enterprises, partners of frontline investment institutions, and senior professionals specializing in fiscal, tax and legal fields, with a comprehensive lineup and solid industrial perspectives. The whole course closely focuses on the technical transformation bottlenecks, commercial implementation difficulties, and enterprise operation management pain points of the admitted projects to carry out targeted guidance, helping the entrepreneurship teams polish their business models and optimize development paths hand in hand, and truly transform technical barriers and scientific research advantages into implementable, profitable and investable high-quality industrialization solutions.

Heavy Upgrade of Investment, Financing and Industrial Services, Opening the Full Closed-Loop Link of Resource Docking

Investment and financing empowerment is the signature upgraded service of this session of the startup camp. Relying on the fund matrix of Xiamen High-tech Investment, resources of more than 50 top cooperative investment institutions, industrial and strategic investment resources of six listed companies across different sectors, and scientific research resources of Xiamen University, this camp session has fully upgraded the empowerment system, building a full closed-loop investment and financing service as well as industrial and scientific research resource docking link covering project polishing, capability improvement, precise docking and continuous follow-up, which precisely solves the industry problems of early-stage hard tech projects such as narrow financing channels, weak financing logic and low docking efficiency.

The startup camp will regularly carry out special activities including in-depth business plan polishing, financing mindset teaching from investors' perspective, project mock roadshow review, closed-door exclusive capital meeting, and precise DEMO docking for high-quality projects. Admitted teams can not only systematically master professional financing methods, optimize roadshow logic and BP system, but also obtain exclusive docking opportunities to directly connect with frontline venture capital institutions and industrial capital.

For high-quality potential projects, investment institutions will carry out in-depth communication, special due diligence and long-term follow-up empowerment. Supported by the dual capital of the exclusive RMB 500 million achievement transformation fund and RMB 2 billion sci-tech direct investment fund under the startup camp, it provides precise equity financing support for high-quality hard tech projects, ensuring that high-quality sci-tech projects are seen, recognized and empowered.

Long-term Public Welfare Empowerment, Accompanying Sci-tech Enterprises for Long-term Sustainable Growth

Xiamen Torch Startup Camp always adheres to the pure public welfare original aspiration, and insists on free cultivation throughout the whole process. All admitted projects are exempted from training fees, and teams that successfully complete the established courses of the camp can apply for exclusive entrepreneurship scholarships. Meanwhile, the startup camp has built a long-term one-on-one mentor accompanying system, assigning exclusive industry mentors for every admitted project, covering the whole life cycle of technical iteration, product implementation, market expansion and enterprise operation, accompanying startups to grow steadily and iterate continuously.

After six years and six sessions of in-depth cultivation, Xiamen Torch Startup Camp has accumulated more than 800 sci-tech enterprise registrations, nurtured 151 high-quality projects to join the camp for acceleration, helped more than 30 projects obtain market-oriented investment, with the total accumulated financing amount exceeding RMB 500 million. Among them, Xiamen High-tech Investment has directly invested in 13 high-quality projects, with total investment reaching RMB 80 million, demonstrating solid outstanding incubation strength and industrial empowerment achievements.

The newly upgraded 2026 Xiamen Torch Startup Camp consolidates entrepreneurship capabilities with the reconstructed high-quality practical courses, and expands development tracks with the expanded and upgraded capital resource matrix. It has officially evolved from a traditional entrepreneurship counseling platform to a professional, systematic and full-chain hard tech industrialization acceleration platform, making every effort to open up the "last mile" for the transformation of university sci-tech achievements.

In the golden autumn of October, 40 high-quality hard tech innovation teams will gather in Egret Island (Xiamen), ready to set sail. The brand-new course system has been finalized, all frontline industrial capital is in place, and the transformation and take-off for hard tech entrepreneurs has already entered the countdown stage.

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