The final of the 2023 Chenzhou SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held at the Chenzhou SME Service Center on August 31.
The competition attracted a large number of outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship forces in the city, mainly focusing on fields such as intelligent manufacturing, electronic information, new energy and new materials, energy conservation and environmental protection, and aerospace.
Besides, there have emerged a number of high-quality projects with leading technology, novel creativity and huge demand.
As the vane of Hunan’s private economic development, Chenzhou’s growth rate of major economic indicators is generally higher than that of the whole province.
The industrial development has achieved a comprehensive improvement and historical breakthrough of the “100 billion yuan target”. The scale of non-ferrous metals has returned to the 100 billion yuan mark after many years. The total amount of the digital economy exceeded 100 billion yuan for the first time. The signed amount of lithium battery new energy industry projects exceeded 100 billion yuan. Chenzhou High-tech Zone and Yongxing Economic Development Zone have become 100-billion-yuan industrial parks, and the total income of technology, industry and trade in the city’s provincial-level and above parks has exceeded 500 billion yuan.
Chenzhou is ushering in a critical period of innovation, transformation and industrial optimization. This competition will stimulate a stronger passion and contribute to a better climate for innovation and entrepreneurship.