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About the Competition

In order to further implement the strategy of strengthening the city through talents, and accelerate the construction of a central innovation zone centered on talents, we are specially organizing the fifth "Golden Boot Running" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. The aim is to discover and cultivate a number of high-quality projects with strong innovation capabilities and high growth potential, and attract outstanding talents and teams from home and abroad to gather in Shangcheng District.

  • Launch of the competition

    June 3rd

    The competition announcement has been released, officially launching the fifth "Golden Boot Running" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition of Shangcheng District. Focusing on six major industrial fields including artificial intelligence, embodied intelligence, high-end software, brain-like intelligence, low-altitude economy, and future healthcare, the competition is widely soliciting projects from key domestic economic regions such as the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Sichuan-Chongqing Economic Circle, as well as overseas regions including the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
  • Qualification review and qualifying rounds

    Late July

    The eligibility of the participating projects will be reviewed. The projects that pass the review will proceed to the preliminary round. The preliminary round is organized in the form of written evaluation, with a review panel composed of investment experts selecting approximately 120 projects to advance to the next round.
  • semi-final

    August to September

    The competition organized a total of seven semi-finals, one of which was held in Singapore. The semi-finals will select 30 high-quality projects in a comprehensive format, with the top 12 projects advancing to the finals, and the remaining 18 projects being awarded honorable mentions.
  • Yaji and the final

    Mid-October

    1. Yaji
    The project leaders who made it to the top 30 of the organization's selection were invited to Hangzhou to participate in a project-focused matchmaking salon, where they discussed and negotiated the details of implementation.
    2. Finals
    The finals consist of 12 high-quality projects, and leading venture capital investors, top industry experts, industry tycoons, and technology upstarts are invited to the venue for interactive evaluation. Participants present their projects in a live roadshow, and through a combination of questions from the judging panel and answers from the contestants, the first, second, and third prizes of the competition are determined after comprehensive evaluation, followed by an award ceremony.

Land policy

POLICY

1. The competition awards 1 first prize, 4 second prizes, 7 third prizes and 18 honorable mentions. After the winning projects are approved and implemented in the urban district within half a year, according to the A, B, C and D categories of outstanding high-level talent entrepreneurship projects from both domestic and overseas,they will be given a maximum R&D subsidy of RMB 10 million, 5 million, 3 million and 1 million shall be granted respectively. For all the winning projects that are successfully implemented and transformed in the urban district, they will be included in the "Golden Boot Running" entrepreneurship project management system of the urban district. They can enjoy full interest subsidies of up to 10 million yuan for bank loans, up to 200,000 yuan in equity incentives, and a 50% rent subsidy of up to 1,000 square meters of office space (for enterprise research, production or operation) within three years, and other related policy support.

2. The semi-final projects participating in the roadshow will be included in the "Golden Boot Run" reserve project management. Those that meet the relevant conditions will be entitled to receive corresponding types of research and development subsidies as well as up to 200 square meters of office space support from the Science and Technology Innovation Space of the Upper District for a period of three years.

Newsletter for the Competition

Video

  • The Fifth Golden Boot Running Promotional Video

  • The promotional short video for the Fifth Golden Boot Competition

  • The Fifth Golden Boot Investor Interview

  • The Fifth Golden Boot Entrepreneur Interview

  • Entrepreneur interviews Wu Weijie

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