2016-09-21 17:49:24

　　(Journalists Li Pengfei and Bian Jianxin, Correspondent Chen Xiaojun)The fifth China innovation and entrepreneurship competition of Hubei province was inaugurated in Yichang on August 4th.
　　Yichang competition area includes applied items which have passed investigation in Yichang, Jingzhou, Qianjiang, Tianmen, Enshi and Shennongjia The competition was divided into preliminaries, semifinals and finals periods. The final showdown will be carried out among 18 teams, which qualified for the finals and the first, the second and the third among the enterprise groups and team groups will be selected finally. The winning companies and teams can receive the rent subsidies, financial incentives, investment funds, discount loans and many other policies support. At the same time, the enterprises, which settle in Yichang high-tech zone will take the priority over being innovation and training projects, acquiring the comprehensive support from the high-tech zone.
　　Sponsored by the Provincial Science and Technology Department and Municipal Government, this competition aims to further implement the strategy of innovation-driven development, gather and integrate various innovation and entrepreneurship resources, guide all sectors of society to support the innovation and entrepreneurship, set up the platform serving for the innovation and entrepreneurship. At the same time, by carrying forward the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, it also stimulates people’s enthusiasm of innovation and entrepreneurship to create the endogenous power for driving the development, transition and upgrade of the economy in Yichang.