The finals and award ceremony of the 9th "Maker China" Visual Intelligence Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for Small and Medium Enterprises successfully concluded in Hangzhou.

The autumn wind rises by the Qiantang River, and the tide rises in the Vision Valley Garden. On September 26, the finals and award ceremony of the 9th "Maker China" Visual Intelligence Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (hereinafter referred to as the "Visual Intelligence Special Competition") were held in Hangzhou.

"Decisive Battle" Moment Leading the Wave of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Visual Intelligence Special Competition is a global event that stimulates innovation potential, gathers entrepreneurial resources, and fosters new products, new technologies, new models, and new business formats.

At the finals, the top 20 contestants gathered in "China Vision Valley" to start a dazzling peak showdown, showcasing cutting-edge technological achievements and vibrant innovation energy.

A high-level and high-quality review expert team composed of industry, academia, and research experts provided "spicy comments" on the unique skills and overall strength of the enterprise group and maker group. Under the witness of the Hangzhou Linhang Notary Office, the enterprise group and maker group respectively competed for 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, 3 third prizes, and 4 merit awards, ascending to the peak of "Vision" and jointly illuminating the light of "Vision Valley."

In the end, the projects "Immersive XR Large Space" and "AI Detection Technology Research and Application Based on Multimodal Data Fusion" won the first prize in the maker group and enterprise group respectively. Wang Junfeng, Chief Engineer of the Cybersecurity Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (Information Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology), awarded the "crown" to the winners.

The projects "Fully Quantitative 3D Drug Raman Imaging Analysis" and "Borderless Intelligent Lawn Mowing Robot" won the second prize in the maker group, while the projects "New Energy Autonomous Driving Mobile Charging Vehicle" and "Next-Generation Storage and Computing Infrastructure for Massive Data" won the second prize in the enterprise group. The remaining projects won merit awards and third prizes respectively. Sun Ziqiang, a second-level inspector of the Party Committee of the Economic and Information Technology Department of Zhejiang Province, and Li Guoping, Deputy District Mayor of Xiaoshan District People's Government, awarded the "runner-up" projects.

It is reported that the Visual Intelligence Special Competition has set up a generous "prize pool," including 50,000 yuan for the first prize, 20,000 yuan for the second prize, 10,000 yuan for the third prize, and 5,000 yuan for the merit award. In addition to the competition prize money, the winning projects of this competition will also receive a rich "policy gift package."

For example, the landing support policy for the winning projects is planned to refer to the third round of the "5213" plan in Xiaoshan District, providing a maximum of 12 million yuan for enterprise group projects and 4.5 million yuan for maker group projects. The winning projects of the first, second, and third prizes in the enterprise group will be recommended to participate in the selection of the top 500 and top 50 in the national enterprise group of the 9th "Maker China". The enterprises that are finally shortlisted for the top 500 and top 50 in the national enterprise group will receive policy support according to the "Interim Measures for the Gradual Cultivation and Management of High-Quality Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" when applying for provincial-level specialized, refined, unique, and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and national specialized, refined, unique, and innovative "little giant" enterprises.

Creative Moments Inspire the Light of Wisdom

The Visual Intelligence Special Competition is not only a brand IP event of "China Vision Valley," but also an annual grand event that gathers industries, talents, and innovative elements of the industrial chain. It is also a platform for visual intelligence small and medium-sized enterprises and innovators to showcase, communicate, and facilitate cooperation.

At the award ceremony of the competition, it was stated that "small and medium-sized enterprises are the main force of economic development in our country, the main channel for promoting employment, and an important foundation for the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain. Zhejiang has a relatively complete visual intelligence industry system, gathering a number of leading and backbone enterprises in the industrial chain, exploring a cluster development model of 'visual intelligence +'." Chief Engineer Wang Junfeng expressed in his speech, "The 'Maker China' has established the Visual Intelligence Special Competition for two consecutive years, continuously holding competitions in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, where the industrial foundation is good, enterprises are concentrated, innovation capabilities are strong, and application scenarios are comprehensive. It is hoped that this will build a broad platform for communication, display, collaborative innovation, and industry-finance docking for visual intelligence enterprises nationwide, excavate and cultivate a batch of outstanding enterprises and teams in the field of visual intelligence, accurately serve the transformation and landing of excellent project results, cultivate a batch of 'specialized, refined, unique, and innovative' enterprises in the visual intelligence industrial chain, and help Hangzhou strengthen the industrial brand of 'China Vision Valley' and promote the cultivation of world-class industrial clusters in the field of visual intelligence."

On the journey of innovation and entrepreneurship, encountering high mountains and low valleys is the norm. At the scene, visiting teams shared their experiences, and each touching story of innovation was filled with both "new content" and "gold content."

"In the coming year, even sleeping will be a waste of time," said Shi Jingjian, Chairman of Weiyun Optoelectronics, expressing gratitude to "Maker China" and "China Vision Valley" for building an innovative win-win industrial platform for enterprises. Weiyun Optoelectronics will work with industry partners to promote innovative breakthroughs in ultraviolet vision within the Vision Valley ecosystem.

Yi Xiucheng, co-founder of Yilong Security Team, introduced that as a young team engaged in early diagnosis and monitoring of telecommunications security risks, Yilong Security has gained valuable advice from industry experts through the competition and many innovative peers, and will strive to deepen technological innovation.

Only by standing on the shoulders of predecessors can one see further. The competition gathered a group of review experts as confidence boosters and navigators for innovators and entrepreneurs. At the scene, Wei Zhenxing, partner of Hangzhou Liyuan Venture Capital Co., Ltd., and Cai Zheweng, partner of Zhejiang Saizhi Bole Equity Investment Management Co., Ltd., summarized the highlights of innovation and entrepreneurship in this competition on behalf of the review panel and further provided guidance and suggestions for these future industry leaders.

Wei Zhenxing stated that visual intelligence is a typical manifestation of artificial intelligence and a popular field in recent years. Many projects with mature product technologies and revenues reaching hundreds of millions of yuan emerged in this competition, and most participating enterprises are closely related to upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry. It is believed that under the leadership of "China Vision Valley," this new generation of visual intelligence enterprises will become future stars with huge scale and drive industry transformation.

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Cai Zheweng believes that just as the eyes are the windows to the soul, vision plays a key role in the era of artificial intelligence. It is believed that China's future innovation capability and new quality productivity will come from innovative entrepreneurial companies and star-level specialized, refined, unique, and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, which have more potential to disrupt new heights of technology than tech giants, becoming the new heroes of the artificial intelligence era. He also suggested that innovators and entrepreneurs should focus on their track, face the pain of industry-university-research, and closely align with the market to improve their "self-blood production" capacity.

Looking to the future, entrepreneurs will seek their life’s ignition point with the determination of "calm amidst chaos," the ambition of "reorganizing and setting out again," the tenacity of "holding on to the green mountain without letting go," and the courage of "hoisting the sails to cross the sea."

Symbiotic Moments: Making Good Use of the Second Half of the Competition.

The end of the finals is just the starting point; the victorious path of innovation and entrepreneurship has just begun.

In the future, the competition organizing committee will implement a series of measures to make good use of the second half of the competition, achieving the goals of "promoting innovation vitality through competition, promoting supply-demand docking through competition, promoting the integration of 'four chains' through competition, and promoting the integration of large, medium, and small enterprises through competition," accelerating the development of visual intelligence technology and industrial ecology, and making greater contributions to the formation of new quality productivity and the promotion of new industrialization.

The award ceremony officially launched the selection work for the "China Vision Valley" visual intelligence industry new quality productivity list.

This list is jointly initiated by Titanium Media and "China Vision Valley", and is the first visual intelligence industry influence list released nationwide. With the support of the China Industrial Association and the Peking University Research Institute in Zhejiang Province, it will award the Star Achievement Award, Star Leader Award, Star Excellence Award, and Star Contribution Award to leading enterprises, industry-leading experts, specialized and innovative enterprises, as well as third-party academic institutions, research institutions, investment institutions, and incubation institutions that have made outstanding contributions and innovative practices in the visual intelligence industry. Additionally, a specially designed Star Brilliant Award will be granted to the innovative and outstanding projects in this competition.

Ma Jinnan, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Industrial Cooperation Association and Executive Editor-in-Chief of Titanium Media, stated in the interpretation of the selection rules that the Titanium Media industry data and research team has focused on seven sub-tracks of Vision Valley, designed five chapters targeting six major industry entities in the industrial chain, and comprehensively set 18 major evaluation dimensions and 26 detailed evaluation dimensions, establishing a total of 45 sub-awards. This list will continue to promote post-competition investment attraction, exchange cooperation, innovation, and other extended values, and encourage various industry entities to inject strong momentum for the further leap of the visual intelligence industry.

This grand event is not only the "debut stage" of the first list of "China Vision Valley", but also the beginning of the alliance and innovation of the Vision Valley industry-university-research cooperation platform.

The event also held the signing ceremony for the co-construction of the "China Vision Valley" industry-university-research cooperation platform and the appointment ceremony for experts of the "China Vision Valley" think tank. The "China Vision Valley" Innovation Center has reached an open co-construction strategic cooperation with Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University of Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Ningbo University, China Metrology University, Hangzhou University of Electronic Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, the Visual Intelligence Concept Verification Center of the Peking University Research Institute in Hangzhou, and the Concept Verification Center for Intelligent Unmanned Systems of Beihang University in Hangzhou, to jointly create momentum in visual intelligence industry-university-research innovation and elite talent cultivation. Wang Hongxiang, Director of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Service Center of Hangzhou, and Dong Kexing, Deputy Director of the Economic and Information Bureau of Xiaoshan District, awarded appointment letters to a group of university scholars, investment experts, and industry leaders, further relying on the talent pool of the visual intelligence industry chain, seizing the innovative source of industry experts, and opening new ideas for the construction of "China Vision Valley".

In the crisp autumn, with abundant fruits, the gentle breeze and the lake's ripples linger on. The two national brands, "Maker China" and "China Vision Valley", have joined forces for two consecutive years, continuously empowering each other. In the future, they will explore a batch of cutting-edge technologies, innovative applications, and outstanding talents in the field of visual intelligence for the "China Vision Valley" window park to a greater extent, targeting the attraction of a batch of high-end intelligent IoT "high-end" and "chain group matching" projects to land, accelerating the construction of a "chain leader + specialized and innovative" enterprise echelon.

It is reported that this competition is hosted by the Cybersecurity Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (Information Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) and the Economic and Information Technology Department of Zhejiang Province, and undertaken by the People's Government of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou. It aims to implement the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises, further enhance the innovation capability and specialization level of small and medium-sized enterprises, serve the country's new industrialization construction, and based on the local industrial advantages of visual intelligence in Zhejiang, reach new heights, promoting the "China Vision Valley" industry gold business card to shine on the world stage.