Creating in Chengdu, Competing for the Moment
BEIJING/
PRNewswire/
-- The 11th China (Chengdu) International Software Design &
Application Competition and the 4th Global Mobile Internet Creative
Development Competition (Chengdu) were held successfully on August 10 at
the Century City New International Convention and Exhibition Center in
Chengdu, China. Present at the event included Li Changhong, a Deputy
Inspector from Chengdu Municipal Commission of Economy and Information
Technology, Wang Feng, Head of the Commission's Software Division, Cheng
Hong, Secretary General of Chengdu Software Industry Association, Xiong
Xiaoge, IDG Capital's Global Chairman, Xu Zhou, Vice President of IDG
Asia, Zhu Dongfang, Vice President of IDG China, as well as veterans and
gurus from leading domestic and overseas venture capital investment
companies such as China Growth Capital, QF Capital, YIYI Capital, Born
Capital, WinPower Capital, Oness Capital and Desun Capital, who had
close conversations with the outstanding developers participating in the
competition.
It's been years since "mass entrepreneurship and
innovation" became a popular term in 2014, and the Global Mobile
Internet Creative Development Competition has just kicked off its 4th
contest season. This competition is hosted by International Data Group
(IDG) with the purpose of attracting good mobile internet design &
application projects from both at home and abroad to participate in. At
the same time, it intends to provide capital support to those
outstanding contestant projects and help them with software and hardware
resources they need for localization. As the world's most stylish and
influential competition in the field of mobile internet, this
competition has gradually attracted and gathered a large number of
audiences through the previous three contests, and built up a good
reputation, becoming one of the most recognized contests in
entrepreneurship and innovation of mobile internet.
The 4th
Global Mobile Internet Creative Development Competition (Chengdu),
themed on "smart life," focuses its attention more on the contestant
projects' practicability and forward-looking consideration, and
emphasizes its close tie with Chengdu's "smart city" initiative. Li
Changhong, a Deputy Inspector from Chengdu Municipal Commission of
Economy and Information Technology addressed to the event, saying that
the event brought good opportunities of innovation and start-up to the
city, helped stockpile reserve forces for the development of China's
mobile internet sector, and therefore was a very important platform. She
hoped that the contest could offer more opportunities for excellent
individuals and teams from Chengdu to go nationwide or even worldwide.
Xiong Xiaoge, IDG Capital's Global Chairman said in his speech that
China is the one and only and the best market for making investment in
the creative industry. He said that the projects and creative ideas
participating in each of the competitions all bore advanced elements and
offered many opportunities. IDG completed its global acquisition in
this March and he hoped that business start-up teams would become
successful in the international market through the platform of the
competition.
After the speeches began the roadshow and comment
section of the event. A total of 10 project teams, who were runners-up
following mass collection and multi-channel reviews and selections,
embarked on an eye-opening showdown among themselves. Eight judges and
mentors, including China Growth Capital partner Wang Daoping, QF Capital
partner Zeng Zheng, YIYI Capital partner Huang Shaoming, Born Capital
founder Li Wencheng, WinPower Capital partner Song Weijia, Desun Capital
deputy general manager Wu Bozhong, Oness Capital partner Yang Zilong
and IDG Capital investment manager Xu Haotian all gave their brilliant
comments on the works of the teams. Founder of Void AR Zhong Fuxing, who
was both the champion of last year's Chengdu competition and also the
grand champion of the overall competition, was also present at the event
and shared his experience and opinions, thus offering to the
participating teams a valuable lesson. After fierce contending, Chengdu
Tianmai Tuodao Science and Technology Co., Ltd. stood on top of others
with its work Jiaopian (Banana Slices) and won the championship of the
Chengdu competition. Chengdu Jingwei Technologies Co., Ltd. came in
second with its work Xun ME, followed by Xitian Qujing Science and
Technology Co., Ltd. with its work Here Comes Senior Brother No. 2. A
grand award ceremony for the winners was held by the host of the event.
The
Global Mobile Internet Creative Development Competition serves as a
platform where developers can exchange ideas with experts, scholars and
sectoral tycoons and discuss about the developmental trend of start-up
businesses as well. It greatly boosts mass entrepreneurship and
innovation, upgrade of the mobile internet industry, transformation of
science and technology companies, as well as new investment
opportunities. The 4th Global Mobile Internet Creative Development
Competition will subsequently be held in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou,
with the upcoming event on 8 September at the China National Convention
Center in Beijing, where winter sports startup projects focusing on the
theme of "internet plus sports" will be on show. Those who intend to
participate in the competition may visit the official website at
http://www.gcac.com.cn for more information and sign-up.
SOURCE IDG China