From August 23 to 25, the HICOOL 2024 Global Entrepreneur Summit will be held in Shunyi, Beijing. This year's summit aims to deliver a professional, diversified international carnival for entrepreneurs from around the globe. In addition, this year's HICOOL 2024 Global Entrepreneurship Competition will feature seven registration regions worldwide, present 140 project-specific awards and 28 Talent Scout Awards.

Focusing on seven key technology sectors, this year's summit will invite outstanding entrepreneurs, renowned Chinese and foreign investment institutions, corporate innovation centers, unicorn enterprises, and international innovation organizations. Together, they will engage in in-depth discussions on cutting-edge hotspot technological innovations and Beijing's advantages regarding sci-tech innovation talent through various forms such as industrial leaders' speeches, and round-table forums. Also, the summit will showcase the skills and capabilities of the entrepreneurs worldwide through such means as program roadshows, thematic displays, featured theme activities, a sci-tech consumption and culture festival, and a talent fair.

Since the beginning of 2024, the HICOOL has hosted 85 high-profile seminars worldwide, connecting over 55,000 entrepreneurs from around the world. In the same year, 7,406 entrepreneurship programs involving 9,700 talents from 124 countries and regions around the world will present a carnival of entrepreneurs on the grand stage of Beijing. Over the past five years, the HICOOL has been continuously promoting the development of new quality productive forces, nurturing a total of 16 unicorn enterprises and 127 specialized, high-end, and innovation-driven SMEs providing distinctive products or services. After the previous competitions, the awarded programs have gained over CNY 36.3 billion in new funding.

(Source: Beijing Daily)