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On June 14, during the National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week, the conclusion & award ceremony of the 2018 Central State-owned Enterprises Shining Star Innovation Contest was held at CASIC Second Academy.
Wang Yong, State Councilor, Hao Peng, Party Committee Secretary and Director of SASAC, Ren Hongbin, Deputy Director and Member of the Party Committee, Meng Yang, Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council, Shu Wei, Member of the Leading Party Members' Group and Secretary of the Secretariat of CAST, Gao Hongwei, Secretary of the Party Leading Group and President of CASIC, and Gong Bo, Member of the Party Leading Group and Deputy General Manager, attended the ceremony.
The Central State-owned Enterprises Shining Star Innovation Contest was launched in October 2018 with a total of 2,658 entries. Through screening by selection, mentoring, project docking and roadshow, 10 projects recommended by CASIC won awards. Among them, there were 1 first prize, 3 second prizes, 2 third prizes and 4 excellence awards. Meanwhile, CASIC was awarded as an excellent organization.
Wang Yong stressed in his speech that central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are the backbone of national scientific and technological innovation and important force in guiding and accelerating the development of industry technology. We should make planning, deployment and promotion of the "Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation" while performing enterprise reform and constructing national innovation system, to strengthen organizational leadership, enhance resource guarantee and promote development in depth and breadth. We should promote the mode of "Small Core and Big Integration" and "Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation" to pool talents and their ideas, so as to speed up the breakthrough of a number of key core technologies. We should promote the dynamic integration of the "Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation" with the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and growth of emerging industries, to continuously expand the effective and high-end supply. We should build a high-level social-oriented on-line and off-line "Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation" platform, and establish an industrial ecosystem of collaborative innovation and win-win cooperation among all kinds of entities, to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the whole society. We should promote reform through "Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation" and keep on promoting enterprise system innovation and management innovation, to invigorate innovation and creativity to the greatest extent.
Hao Peng stressed that we should follow the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to thoroughly implement important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on scientific and technological innovation, earnestly undertake the responsibilities and missions assigned by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, adhere to innovation-driven development, vigorously promote "Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation", give full play to the backbone role of central SOEs in national scientific and technological innovation, comprehensively improve the level of innovative development and promote the high-quality development of enterprises, so as to make greater contributions to building an innovation-originated nation and maintaining stable, sound and sustainable economic development.
Gao Hongwei pointed out in his speech that since 2016, a total of 24 projects of CASIC have won awards in the contest. Some of the mass entrepreneurship and innovation project achievements have been directly applied to the main battlefields of commercial aerospace, information technology, equipment manufacturing, and scientific research and productive services. For some of the mass entrepreneurship and innovation projects, corresponding companies have been established by mass entrepreneurship and innovation teams under the support of their parent organizations to march toward industrialization, commercialization and marketization. He said that CASIC would continue to innovate the talent team construction, build an innovative service platform, promote the close integration of science and technology with economy, and strive to make major breakthroughs in common and key technologies in advantageous fields, to promote the transformation from "made in China" to "created in China".
According to relevant information, up to now, CASIC has fostered more than 1,500 innovation and entrepreneurship teams, released 1,650 projects through its special Cloud Makerspace, and successfully launched more than 180 mass entrepreneurship and innovation projects.
Before the ceremony, Wang Yong and his delegation visited the exhibition of achievements of the 2018 Shining Star Innovation Contest to know more about enterprise system innovation, management innovation and technology innovation. (Written by Li Qingqin Photo by Li Shupeng)
