Starting from this year, Hunan will hold the 'Golden Seed Cup' College Student Entrepreneurship Competition, inviting college students from all over the country and even the world to participate. We hope that Hunan can become a fertile ground for more entrepreneurial 'golden seeds' to take root, sprout, and grow strong. "Recently, at a press conference held by the Information Office of the Hunan Provincial People's Government, Lan Yong, a member of the Education Working Committee of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Education, said. Previously, Shen Xiaoming, secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, issued an invitation at the 2024 Internet Yuelu Summit, inviting college students from all over the country and even the world to come to Hunan to innovate and start businesses. At the just concluded National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Shen Xiaoming once again "shouted" and warmly invited college students to "come to Hunan to start a business with a shoulder bag". The "Golden Seed Cup" College Student Entrepreneurship Competition is the third invitation sent by the province to college students nationwide and even globally. As one of the effective ways to drive employment through entrepreneurship, college student entrepreneurship is an important measure to promote the integration of education, technology, and talent reform, and is also a necessary path to promote high-quality economic development. To encourage college students to start businesses, Hunan has continuously stimulated their entrepreneurial enthusiasm and created a favorable environment for innovation and entrepreneurship through various policies, entrepreneurship competitions, and incubation platforms. In September 2024, Hunan launched the "Seven Ones" initiative to support college students' entrepreneurship, including the introduction of a number of policies to support college students' entrepreneurship, the establishment of a national entrepreneurship investment fund for college students, the construction of a group of distinctive and powerful entrepreneurship incubation carriers, the establishment of an entrepreneur advisory mentor group to guide college students' entrepreneurship, encouraging universities to offer a series of college students' entrepreneurship courses, selecting a group of typical college students' innovation and entrepreneurship models, and launching a college students' entrepreneurship program. Subsequently, the province quickly introduced the "Several Policies and Measures to Strongly Support College Students' Entrepreneurship in Hunan Province" and formulated the "Policy Guidelines for Supporting College Students to Stay in Hunan and Start up in Hunan", building a comprehensive service guarantee system to make Hunan a hotbed for college students' entrepreneurship nationwide. Zhou Bin, a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, stated that this year the department will lead the construction of 60 standardized college student entrepreneurship guidance studios, providing strong support for entrepreneurial projects by formulating unified construction norms and management standards. We will break down resource barriers by linking universities and incubation carriers, introducing market resources to empower university projects, while also delivering high-quality industrial chain projects to incubators. He said that Hunan Province will also successively introduce policies and regulations related to the recognition and management of provincial-level incubation bases, the management of entrepreneurial mentors, and the selection of entrepreneurial models. Holding the 2025 "Golden Seed Cup" College Student Entrepreneurship Competition is a key task for Hunan Province to promote college student entrepreneurship, and it is also a typical measure for Hunan to fully build a globally influential "low-cost entrepreneurship, high-quality life" youth entrepreneurship Hunan IP. The competition is divided into four tracks: traditional industries, advantageous industries, emerging industries, and future industries, and has launched a "1+N" competition system. The competition has established a joint evaluation mechanism for the transformation of competition results, seamlessly connecting the 'arena' and the 'market'. At the same time, the four major tracks are precisely connected to the '4 × 4' modern industrial system in Hunan Province, making entrepreneurial projects closely fit the needs of the province's industrial chain, and focusing on 'solving problems in Hunan and serving the whole country'. Lan Yong said that efforts should be made to make college students' entrepreneurial 'golden seeds' bear' golden fruits' in the land of Sanxiang. Zhou Bin stated that for the high-quality projects selected in the competition, Hunan will establish a multidimensional empowerment system of "mentors+studios+technology services", carry out systematic assistance work, help cultivate more innovative teams and enterprises, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. We will make every effort to ensure that high-quality projects have priority in scientific research support, financial support, and achievement transformation, "he said. Wang Xianmin, Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Xiangjiang New Area, introduced: "Since its establishment in September last year, the Hunan Provincial College Student Entrepreneurship Investment Fund has collected 2018 college student entrepreneurship projects. Through project approval review and due diligence, there are currently 20 projects that have passed the review and received an investment of 16 million yuan." As a representative of the fund, Wang Xianmin stated that he will provide strong financial support to the "golden seeds" selected by the competition: "The registration conditions of the competition are consistent with the investment conditions of the fund projects, and the evaluation criteria of the competition projects are consistent with the screening criteria of the fund projects. Therefore, the award-winning projects of the competition will be regarded as passing the fund approval review and can directly enter the due diligence stage." In recent years, Xiangjiang New Area has actively implemented the "five stages" of kinetic energy stimulation, capacity improvement, platform integration, financial empowerment, policy optimization, etc. The Great Action ", Focus on building a "tropical rainforest" that supports college students' entrepreneurship. At present, the district has built 32 youth talent incubators with different functions, with a total area of 672000 square meters and 2154 incubating enterprises. This year, we also built the first batch of provincial-level college student entrepreneurship incubation bases in Hunan - Xiangjiang New Area College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park. Qualified college student entrepreneurship teams can come here to start their own businesses by carrying backpacks. Whether it's the initial stage, seedling stage, or large-scale stage, there is always a 'fund' to provide support for them Wang Xianren said. (New Society)