Editor's notes
Makers, a buzz word in 2015, refer to people who try to transform creative ideas into businesses.
Makers are now all the rage in China, especially in the capital city, Beijing. They’ve not only got the nod of the Chinese government, but also won the back from China’s leading entrepreneurs.
Here we’ll acquaint you with this new “creature” in Beijing, by telling who they are, what they’re doing and why they are spotlit.
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Students' business, innovation efforts backed
Adjustments are to be made to the higher education system to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship among college students.
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Premier: More favorable policies to back ‘makers’
Student “makers” from Tsinghua University got a special gift from Chinese premier Li Keqiang for the Chinese Youth Day: a letter in reply.
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Business is China's latest youth fashion trend
In a new trend, young independent Chinese are seeking success, wealth and happiness by going it alone. The startup frenzy grips China from city to village.
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Tencent to give startups a helping hand
Tencent plans to set up 25 innovation incubators across China in 2015, the latest move to facilitate Chinese startups through integrating its online and offline resources.
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JD.com finds a way to help start-ups raise funds
JD.com, a Beijing-based e-commerce site, has just launched an equity crowd-funding site on March 31, to give start-ups greater access to financing channels.
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3W teams up with JD on new incubation initiative
3W, an innovation service institute in Beijing's Zhongguancun, and JD Finance, the finance business unit of China's e-commerce giant JD.com, announced the establishment of 3W Incubator Management Co on Tuesday.
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Zhongguancun Innovation Street attractive to startups
Zhongguancun Innovation Street, which once was home to shops selling books and clothes, has become an innovation and entrepreneurship landscape avenue.
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Portrait of a post-95: an enterprising tech 'geek'
An 18-year-old Beijinger is working to take Chinese students to foreign universities.
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'Chuangke' dreams high to improve health care
Li Huachun and his team intend to change China's healthcare with "big data".
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Entrepreneurs share ideals
Founder of online karaoke/social networking platform aims to change the traditional industry.
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Olympic champion starts new as a ‘maker’
Xing Aowei still has something athletic in him, but he has transformed himself into an entrepreneur, or “maker”.
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May the force of entrepreneurship be with you
The choices of young entrepreneurs in Zhongguancun Science Park show the innovation and bravery of youths in modern China.
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23-year-old wants to ease workload of teachers
Wu Xingyu has been making his dream of reliving teachers in China from drowning in marking papers a reality.
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Post-95 entrepreneur starts agricultural business online
Twenty-year-old Gou Yingda is already an industry veteran, having spent seven years in Internet start-ups.
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'Making profit is a side product'
Post-90s postgraduate Zhang Tianyi has gone from a modest start-up to CEO of a four-outlet restaurant chain in a year.