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2017 Chengdu Global Youth Innovation Day Debuts on May 11

CHENGDU, China, May 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- 2017 Chengdu Global Innovation and Entrepreneurs Fair, following the success of the first and second session held in 2015 and 2016, was held on May 10-12 in Chengdu. As an important part of the Fair, the theme of "Global Youth Innovation Day," with the theme of "Wise Youth and Innovative Future," was also debuted on May 11 at Chengdu International Exhibition Center.

China drives innovation as a national development strategy and looks forward to providing sufficient support and contribution to global innovation. Innovation and entrepreneurship are booming in China and becoming new impetus and vitality to promote China's economic development. And youth is one of the most dynamic and creative intellectual groups.

Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province in China, has become the sixth central city after Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing. Chengdu is currently building the western science and technology center and Regional entrepreneurship center around the world. Chengdu adheres to the principle of innovation-driven development which is seen as the core strategy for the future and the first transformation of the city's power, and seeks to provide international and global innovation and entrepreneurial ecological environment and the global seamless docking "innovation and entrepreneurship" industry chain for the global innovation and entrepreneurship team, entrepreneurial institutions as well as young people.

At the event, the world's leading schools of innovation and entrepreneurship, distinguished experts and scholars, international incubators, Fortune 500 executives, the world's leading opinion leaders and representatives of the young innovation and entrepreneurship teams from China, the United States, Britain, Israel and other countries gathered together in Chengdu. Global innovation and entrepreneurship trend is leading the dream of the youth innovation and entrepreneurship project hatch-landing. The trend is also helping the global innovation and entrepreneurship to open a new international journey. In the "entrepreneurial countries are met with business Tianfu - dialogue in Israel special activities", Mr. Amir Lati., Consul General of the Consulate General of Israel in Chengdu, engaged in a dialogue between Israel, a Science and technology innovation powerhouse known as the Middle East Silicon Valley and Chengdu, and an emerging city of entrepreneurship, aiming to explore innovative cooperation possibilities.

To actively respond to the call of "creating a global innovation and entrepreneurship with first full-chain, all-factor trading platform", the trade fair showed the level of the internationalization process of Chengdu from multi-angles. The 2017 Chengdu Global Youth Innovation Day event invited the world's leading universities, world's top 500 enterprises, domestic high-end enterprises, research team and representatives of Universities in Sichuan to participate in the joint creation of Sichuan's first "global youth science and technology innovation think tank". It is hoped that talent transactions, technical results transactions and equity investment transactions will promote domestic and foreign innovation and entrepreneurship projects. Capital, technology and other elements will be brought together in Tianfu, and landed in Chengdu.

SOURCE 2017 Chengdu Global Youth Innovation Day

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