Turbocharging entrepreneurs

Shenzhen's 'maker spaces' share expertise in promoting startups with other cities across the country

Editor's Note: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday called for more efforts to create a favorable environment for innovation and entrepreneurship and seek new driving forces for the economy. For China to maintain medium-high economic growth, the biggest potential lies in bringing out the creativity of the country's population of more than 1.3 billion. He promised to build innovation platforms to meet the demands from emerging industries and new business models. The following is a package of stories featuring the vitality, creativity and development of maker spaces, or incubators, if you will, in innovation-driven cities like Shenzhen and Shanghai.

Shenzhen, once dubbed "the world's factory", is exporting its model of innovation and entrepreneurship to other cities in China in a bid to stimulate local economies.