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全球创业周中国站聚焦创新与科技初创企业 2025-11-19
The 19th Global Entrepreneurship Week China opened in Shanghai on Tuesday. The 19th Global Entrepreneurship Week China opened in Shanghai on Tuesday, with organizers pledging to build a more results-oriented innovation ecosystem. The five-day event, aimed at early-stage technology founders, features more than 40 activities designed to foster collaboration and growth.
Chu Junhao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, emphasized at the opening ceremony that technological convergence is driving a new wave of innovation and outlined opportunities in future energy, materials, manufacturing, information and health.
Mi Lei, founding partner of Casstar, called for the acceleration of the development of a national technology-finance pipeline to support frontier research amid intensifying global competition.
Angel investor Paulo Andrez, president emeritus of the European Business Angels Network, told attendees that entrepreneurs who can pair human creativity with AI tools will have a competitive edge and lower risk profiles.
To emphasize practicality, Shanghai Technology Entrepreneurship Foundation for Graduates (EFG), the event's host, showcased two start-ups funded by its Angel Fund, giving early-stage companies a national stage to pitch their innovations.
Running through Friday, the week's program spans future intelligence, materials and energy, the low-altitude economy, life sciences and future urban space. Sessions will explore AI-driven industrial applications, new materials ecosystems, low-altitude mobility road shows and a workshop on quantum-city concepts by the Shanghai Bureau of City Planning and Natural Resources.
On Friday, EFG will host its annual Angel Fund Day, including a financing road show for early-stage tech start-ups and the release of its 2025 entrepreneurship data report, covering investment trends, ecosystem shifts and technology hotspots.
For the first time, GEW China is being held at Fuxing Island in Yangpu district, a former industrial zone now revitalized with 300,000 square meters of converted factories and 2,500 talent housing units. More than 300 global incubators, research institutes and investors gathered for the newly launched Fuxing Island innovation conference, where the Fuxing Island innovation hub was formally unveiled.
GEW China has drawn more than 150,000 participants since its inception in 2007, facilitating over 5,000 investment-matching sessions. As of October, EFG has funded 4,664 projects, investing more than 1.2 billion yuan in university-based innovation through training camps, incubation programs and early-stage angel support.
Source: China Daily
