The sons and daughters of invention

Given the challenge of coming up with innovative products or practices, thousands of young people went to work during a 7-month competition, ultimately producing a new flock of entrepreneurs, Chen Meiling reports.

There were a total of 1,707 teams, a figure whittled down to just 33 over seven months, before just four emerged triumphant. They won medals for coming up with the most promising innovative projects.

Over those seven months, young entrepreneurs throughout the country had dazzled judges of the first "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Guangdong-Macao-Hong Kong" youth innovation and entrepreneurship competition with their ingenuity and innovative projects. These included eye patches said to ease depression and insomnia; DNA technology for identifying criminal-suspects; underwater robots that can gather sea cucumbers; and remotely controlled indoor gardens. The contest was held during the 2018 National Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week.