The 6th China International College Students’ “Internet+”
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
Notice to International Participants
Innovation and entrepreneurship is a global trend and the
lingua franca of the youth worldwide. Young people shape the
world’s future and are the mainstay of innovation and
entrepreneurship. Faced with the great challenge of the
COVID-19 pandemic in this information age, young people
around the world should endeavor to enhance people-to-people
exchanges, join hands to build an “Internet+” platform of
innovation and entrepreneurship, and create a community of
shared future for humanity.
The China International College Students’ “Internet+”
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition has been
successfully held five times since 2015, and has become the
world’s largest innovation and entrepreneurship competition for
college students. In 2019, the competition drew 4.57 million
participants (1.09 million teams) from 4,093 colleges and
universities in 124 countries and regions. Over 1,000
professionals were invited to judge the competition and mentor
the participants, among whom were investors, entrepreneurs,
startup incubator mentors, and innovation and entrepreneurship
education experts from China and abroad. Many high-quality
projects stood out, gaining market visibility and investment.
In 2020, we will hold the 6th China International College
Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Competition. We sincerely invite young people who are
passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship around the
globe to join us in this event where creativity converges,
aspirations emerge, and cooperative awareness develops. As
young talents compete, communicate, and cooperate in this
arena, they will set an example for the youth worldwide.
I. Project Requirements
1. Projects entered should involve innovative ideas,
technologies, products, or business models, give consideration
to the major problems or challenges of humanity, and have clear
entrepreneurial plans. Projects are eligible to be entered
regardless of whether they have been registered as companies. If
the project involves a registered company, the team leader
should be the founder or co-founder of the project, and own no
less than 10% of the shareholder rights. The shareholder rights
of all team members combined should be no less than 1/3.
2. Projects entered must be authentic, ethical, legal and
without any harmful information; projects entered must not
infringe on the intellectual property rights of others; all
inventions, patented technologies and resources involved in the
project must have clear legal intellectual property rights or
property rights; Participants that submit plagiarized, pirated or
false materials will be disqualified and bear all legal liabilities.
3. If the project entered contains the intellectual property
rights of others, the entrants should submit, in writing and in its
entirety:
a legally valid letter of authorization from the
intellectual property rights owner；Or
a legally valid patent certificate, etc. If the project
entered involves a registered company, entrants should submit:
a profile of the company, its founders, and share
structure;
photocopies of other relevant credentials, etc.
Entrants can also provide materials about the project’s:
A: financial status,
B: investment obtained,
C: employment creation,
D: contribution to ecology, etc.
We advise participants to provide credentials if:
the project has received an investment (or income) of
over 10 million yuan; or
the project has received an annual income of over 10
million yuan in or before 2019.
4. All projects submitted must be designed or run by the
team itself. Unoriginal projects are not eligible.
5. All entry materials should be in Chinese or English. All
finalist teams are required to present and defend the project in
Chinese or English. Please contact the organizing committee
should you have further language related needs.
6. Projects that have won the Gold or Silver Awards in this
competition previously are not eligible to be submitted this year.
7. All projects must abide by the Constitution, laws and
regulations of China, show respect for the Chinese culture, and
comply with public morals.
II. Eligibility and Category
This competition only accepts team entries. All participants
must enter in teams of 2 to 15 people (team leader included). A
team may be formed by members from more than one
college/university. All entrants must be core members of the
project. Individuals that are enrolled or have studied only at a
Chinese college/university are not eligible to participate, but can
be a member of the startup team.
All participants must be students who are currently enrolled
at a foreign college/university or those who have graduated
within the past 5 years. (A foreign college/university refers to a
higher education institution that is located outside the People’s
Republic of China and is qualified to provide education and
award degrees. A student enrolled at a foreign college/university
refers to a student that has registered and studied at a foreign
college/university and is qualified to receive a degree.) The
application should be submitted by the leader of the
participating team.
All projects will be divided into Creativity Category,
Emerging Project Category, and Rising Project Category
according to their features. Requirements for each category are
as follows:
1. Creative Project Category.
Projects that:
(1) are creative;
(2) have mature product prototypes or service models;
(3) had not been registered on or before May 31, 2020.
2. Emerging Project Category.
Projects that:
(1) were registered within the past three years (after
March 1, 2017);
(2) have completed no more than one round of equity
investment.
3. Rising Project Category.
Projects that:
(1) have been registered for over three years (prior to
March 1,2017); Or
(2) were registered within the past three years (after
March 1, 2017), have completed two or more rounds of equity
investment.
III. Competition Rules and Awards
International entries will be called for through Chinese
colleges, universities and co-organizers of the competition. A
total of 400 projects will be selected to enter the higher
education track finals, among which 100 projects will be
selected through online judging to enter the finals live
competition. The organizing committee will present the winners
with an award certificate and provide them with assistance in
finding investment and incubators. The first, second and third
place teams of the higher education track will be awarded prize
money.
We will present 10 International Organizer Awards and
several Outstanding Innovation and Entrepreneurship Mentor
Awards.
IV. Registration
1. Participants must register at https://www.pilcchina.org/.
Registration will open on July 20, 2020 and close on September
15, 2020 (Beijing time, UTC+8).
2. All teams should submit a project presentation file (PPT
format), and can also submit a business plan (PDF/Word format)
or a one minute video as a supplement.
3. The organizing committee will, provided that air travel
returns to normal, cover the air travel expenses (round-trip
economy class) for two members from each of the 100 finalist
teams and the accommodation expenses for all 100 finalist
teams.
This year’s finals and award ceremony will be held in
Guangzhou in November 2020.
V. Judging Criteria
For detailed information on the judging rules and criteria
of the competition, please visit https://cy.ncss.cn or
https://www.pilcchina.org/.
VI. Miscellaneous
The organizing committee of the China International
College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Competition reserves the right to make the final interpretation of
all terms in this Appendix.
VII. Contact Us
FAN Zhi, Promotion Association for the Global Youth
Innovation Leadership Community (PILC)
Tel: 0086-18628258959; Email: info@pilcchina.org
Address: Rm 1006, Marco Polo Building, No. 80 Anli
Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, Postcode: 100101
HAO Hao, China Higher Education Student Information
and Career Center
Tel: 0086-10-68352311; Email: haoh@chsi.com.cn
Tower C Jinmao Building, No.18 Xizhimenwai Street,
Xicheng District, Beijing, Postcode: 100044
LONG Qian, International Office, South China University
of Technology
Tel: 0086-20-87113180; Email: experts@scut.edu.cn
Address: No.381, Wushan Road, Tianhe District,
Guangzhou, Postcode: 510641
WANG Yanan, General Office, Department of Higher
Education, Ministry of Education
Tel: 0086-10-66097850; Email: internetplus@moe.edu.cn
Address: No.37, Damucang Hutong, Xicheng District,
Beijing, Postcode: 100816
Organizing Committee of the China International College
Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Competition
July 20, 2020
