2021 Global Internet Competition of “Straight to Wuzhen”, guided by Cyberspace Administration of China, organized by Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government, co-organized by Economy and Information Technology Department of Zhejiang, Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Cyberspace Affairs Commission, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Jiaxing Municipal People’s Government and Tongxiang Municipal People’s Government, is a year-long global event for the advance of the digital economy.

On the morning of September 28, the award ceremony of the finals of Global Internet Competition of “Straight to Wuzhen” was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province. After three stages of competition, including online preliminary, thematic semi-finals and finals, 35 projects were finally determined to share the 5 million yuan prize pool. The finals invited experts from research, capital and industry to judge the full range of projects.

After fierce competition by the project team and on-site scoring by expert judges, the final ranking results are released: The project Hangzhou Asian Games — The pan-Games 5G Technology Application to Stadiums and Other Venues of Organizing Committee of the 19th Asian Games 2022 won the first prize of 5G Application Competition, the Agile Robots project of Beijing Agile Robots Technology Co.,Ltd won the first prize of AI competition, and the Quantum Hardware and Software for Engineering Quantum Computer project of Origin Quantum Computing Technology co., Ltd. won the first prize of Integrated Circuit competition. Project Predictive Maintenance Based Intelligent Equipment Operation and Maintenance Platform of Anhui Ronds Science & Technology Incorporated Company won the first prize of Industrial Internet Competition, and project Beike Future Home of Beike Zhaofang (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. won the first prize of Consumer Internet Competition, as well as 10 second prize projects and 20 third prize projects. The competition also set up one most innovative award and one best investment value award and one most followed award.

As one of the important part of the world Internet Conference, Global Internet Competition of “Straight to Wuzhen” continues to explore mechanism innovation and mode innovation, and the activities are becoming more and more professional, international and market-oriented.

2021 Global Internet Competition of “Straight to Wuzhen” adheres to the theme of the conference “Towards a New Era of Digital Civilization”, deeply grasps the development trend of the deep integration of digital technology with economic and social development, and it has set up five parallel contests i.e, AI, Integrated Circuit, Consumer Internet Services, Industrial Internet and 5G Applications. Compared with previous sessions, the theme is more distinctive and the content is more prominent, It attracted 1012 projects from 19 countries such as the United States, Britain and France, including 180 overseas projects.

The projects covered the fields of basic technology research, industrialization and application, mode innovation and development, among which there were some selected projects of Listed Companies and Quasi-Unicorn Enterprises in the industry. The quality, industrialization degree, market prospect and other aspects of projects have been significantly improved.

The competition innovated the mode, organized in the form of offline road show for domestic projects + real-time cloud road show for overseas projects, and it adopted the mode of combining offline competition with online live broadcasting and judges’ scoring with online voting, so as to realize the same competition in multiple fields, multiple periods and multiple spaces, and ensure the fairness, impartiality and openness of the event.

2021 Global Internet Competition of “Straight to Wuzhen” including three stages: online preliminary, semi-final and final. It has successively run on five tracks: AI – Yangtze River Delta · Shanghai station, Integrated Circuit – Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay · Shenzhen station, Consumer Internet – Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei · Beijing station, Industrial Internet – Yangtze River Delta · Suzhou station, 5G Application – Yangtze River Economic Belt · Wuhan station. The competition invited Academician Wu Jianping of Tsinghua University and Steven Hoffman, the Godfather of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship of the United States, as the co-chairman of the jury, gathered 83 senior experts in various fields, various industries and various directions, lasting 78 days, and finally determined 35 award-winning projects.

After fierce competition, 33 of the 35 award-winning projects were from China, accounting for 94.3% of the total awards. It was worth noting that a number of Zhejiang projects that highlight Zhejiang’s recognition and national influence emerged. The 50 projects shortlisted in the finals, 15 are from Zhejiang. See the Whole World from a Grain of Sand, these projects highlighting the latest achievements of Zhejiang’s digital reform in different fields and from different angles.

For example, Zhejiang Dongjing Techonlogy Co.,Ltd in our province, as the leading enterprise in the industrial brain of the paper packaging industry, won the second prize in the Industrial Internet competition, and the first batch of future factory “Zhongce Rubber” won the second prize in the 5G Application competition with 5G + Intelligent  Collaborative Digital Factory project, which are the latest achievements of digital reform in our province.

As an important activity in the “1 + 3” section of the world Internet Conference, “Straight to Wuzhen” competition gave full play to the window of the publicity and display of the world Internet Conference, the window of the promotion of the new generation of China’s Internet, the window of the achievements of Zhejiang digital reform and the platform for exchange and cooperation in the development of global digital economy. More people will get to know the World Internet Conference, China, Zhejiang and Wuzhen, and more Internet enterprises, capital institutions and research institutes will join the world Internet Conference. The coverage of the competition continues to expand and its influence continues to improve.

2021 Global Internet Competition of “Straight to Wuzhen” gathered new forces of the global Internet, built an important platform for cooperation in Internet projects, technology, talents and capital at home and abroad, and attracted more than 30 capital institutions such as SOFTBANK China, GSR Ventures and Fortune Capital by holding a series of activities such as capital match meeting and “Straight to Wuzhen” Dialogue, promoted the accurate connection and deepen the cooperation between projects and capital, and contributed to the co-governance and prosperity of the global Internet and the vigorous development of the digital economy.

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