The first National Graduate Technological Entrepreneurship Business Plan Contest has been launched on May 25, 2008. The event was co-organized by Graduate School of Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University and Research Center for Technological Innovation of Tsinghua University. Open to all post-graduate students across the country, the contest aims at promoting the cultivation of innovative talents, the transformation of technological innovation to technological entrepreneurship as well as the transformation of scientific and technological achievement from institution of higher education into productivity. The winner will receive a bonus of 60,000 RMB sponsored by GSR Ventures.

(Vice-president of Tsinghua Univeristy Wang Jingsongaddresses at the opening ceremony)

(Ms Zhu Lilan addresses at the opening ceremony)

Chair of the organizing committee of the contest, Vice- president and Dean of Graduate School of Tsinghua University Wang Jingsong, the contest advisor, Council Chairperson of China Association of Inventions and former Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Zhu Lilan, Deputy-chair of the organizing committee and Associate Dean of Tsinghua SEM Professor Tong Yunhuan, President of GSR Ventures Wu Shenjun addressed at the opening ceremony of the contest.