More than a hundred years ago, "Youth Magazine" published a piece of paper that was shocking and enlightening. In 1915, Shanghai was devastated by thunder. Chen Duxiu's words are so true: "Youth is to society as fresh and lively cells are in the human body."
In August of the following year, "Morning Bell News" was launched, and Li Dazhao's launch speech was equally resonant. He said that young people "only know how to make leaps forward, and only know how to fly." , only to know that with its free spirit, strange thoughts, keen intuition, and lively life, it can create an environment and conquer history..."
"Youth Magazine" later changed its name to "New Youth". At that time, "New Youth" , lies in abandoning the old, in destroying and then establishing. Times have changed, the Chinese nation has stood tall in the world, and Shanghai has grown from an old concession into an international center. The footsteps of young people are always sonorous in the history of the nation, and they grow and move forward together with the city.
On May 18, the 5th Shanghai Innovation and Entrepreneurship Youth Forum of 50 will be held, where young people will gather to discuss innovation and the future. Training camps, service groups, entrepreneurship bases, support programs, research reports...more engines that drive youth forward are also roaring and ready to go.
The "new" of today's youth will be from 0 to 1 in the further future.
Yang Zhao, who was born in 1991, came to Shanghai with three other founder partners and officially started operating the company's energy singularity in 2022. They want to use high-temperature superconducting technology to rewrite the rumor in the scientific community that "controllable nuclear fusion will always take 30 years."
In March 2024, the final assembly of the world's first fully high-temperature superconducting tokamak device "Anhuang 70" developed by Energy Singularity was completed, taking a further step forward in mankind's exploration of the ultimate energy. Yang Zhao used the analogy of shipbuilding. Before someone proposed using iron to build ships, all ships were wooden ships. In this sense, "Prehistoric 70" is like the first iron ship. It proved that iron ships can be launched and operated. It is not yet an aircraft carrier, but with it, aircraft carriers may appear.
Qin Chuhan was also invited to participate in this forum. The 32-year-old has spent nearly half of his life studying in Canada. Two years after graduating from his undergraduate degree, he anchored in the field of vertical farming and started his own business. In 2022, he brought the technology and team back to Shanghai from Canada and founded Moquan Biotechnology. What this company is exploring is three-dimensional planting indoors, using algorithms to achieve automation, and pursuing the optimal solution to the crop growth environment in real time. With the same area, the annual output of pea tips can be more than 400 times that of ordinary farmland. In addition, this kind of planting technology can almost ignore the restrictions of regional climate conditions, ensuring quality while reducing logistics and other costs.
Agriculture does not sound cool, but Qin Chuhan regarded it as a promising track. "Although technology may still be in the early stages of development, we can see with the naked eye that it can benefit everyone, and even benefit the country. This is still very satisfying." As a "post-90s", he I believe that in addition to pursuing financial freedom, this generation also needs to do things that they will not regret when they look back decades later.
From the ultimate source of energy to a meal, young people are everywhere. In their respective fields, they are the torchbearers of this era. They set out from Shanghai to bring more light to the city, and they chose Shanghai because of the city's open attitude and development opportunities.
In 2022, "Building a youth development city and creating a city of hope for young people" was written into the report of the 12th Party Congress of Shanghai. For two consecutive years since then, the "Youth Development City Construction Pilot" has not been absent from Shanghai. government working report. Nowadays, such points have penetrated into the streets and towns.
At last year’s Shanghai Innovation and Entrepreneurship Youth Forum of 50 people, Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary Chen Jining said that Shanghai will strive to build a youth development city, create more space for innovation and entrepreneurship, provide more scenarios for displaying talents, and launch more accurate and efficient services. , allowing the vast number of innovative entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams and achieve their careers in Shanghai, the innovative city.
This city is eager to see more young people active at the forefront of scientific and technological innovation. From the municipal level to the district level, various talent plans, research funds, and entrepreneurial competitions abound.During the National Two Sessions in 2024, Liu Duo, deputy to the National People's Congress and deputy mayor of Shanghai, also mentioned when talking about the construction of an international science and technology innovation center that a talent plan will be implemented this year to support outstanding young scientists to "sharpen their swords for ten years" to carry out high-tech research. Risky, high-value scientific research.
In Minhang’s “Big Zero Bay”, universities and technology companies are closely integrated, and original innovation results are efficiently transformed and implemented, constantly stimulating the innovation and entrepreneurial potential of university teachers and students. In Xuhui’s “Model Speed Space”—the country’s first and Shanghai’s only large-scale model innovation ecological community—entrepreneurial teams with high platforms, high education, and high vision quickly gathered, and the West Bund International Talent Port was created to bring talent services directly to young people. Surround yourself with talent. The slogan of the Lingang New Area is even more clear-cut, to create a “young city, a city for young people”.
move forward without any worries. Facing the housing difficulties of new citizens, young people and other groups, Shanghai continues to expand the supply of affordable rental housing. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Shanghai plans to raise and construct more than 470,000 affordable rental housing units; by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the total number of affordable rental housing units to be financed and constructed will reach 600,000 units (units). Above, there is a supply of about 400,000 units (rooms). In order to make demand matching more focused, Shanghai has held the "Guaranteed Rent Housing on Campus" campaign for many years in a row to provide fresh graduates with cheaper and safer rental options.
In October last year, the "Five Major Service Plans" Action Plan for the Construction of a Youth Development-oriented City in Shanghai was officially released. The plan focuses on five major areas: youth innovation, employment, livability, health, marriage and love, and plans to promote policy integration and the implementation of inclusive and iconic policy initiatives. On April 26 this year, the "Shanghai Youth Policy Online Platform", which collects more than 700 policy documents related to youth development, was launched to provide "one-stop" answers to young people.
Young people and this city go in both directions and grow together. When he returned to Shanghai to start his own business, Qin Chuhan undoubtedly considered Shanghai's "cutting edge" and "novelty", and what was more important to him was "respect." He said: "Don't regard technical talents as screws, respect different ideas and viewpoints, only in this way can we have better innovation."
Wang Daoyu, the founder of Shanghai Zhuodao Medical, was born in 1990, and is "the same age" as the development and opening up of Pudong. . Talking about his first impression of Zhangjiang in the past, he described it as "like a small county town." Nowadays, remote suburbs have become highlands for scientific innovation. Zhuodao Medical has more than 100 patents and its core products cover nearly a thousand hospitals. The rapid development of enterprises in the past was due to the opportunities provided by the intelligent era and regional take-off. But now in Pudong, Wang Daoyu sees global and future possibilities.
The 2024 Shanghai Science and Technology Festival will be held on the same day as the "50 People Forum" on May 18. At such a science and technology event, academicians of the two academies, young scientists, scientific craftsmen, science and technology communication celebrities and scientific education figures will all walk on the red carpet and appear one by one. At the top of science and technology, young scientists are constantly emerging and occupying their own place.
In 2024, Shanghai will celebrate its tenth anniversary as an international science and technology innovation center. The city is like water, science and technology is like a boat, and young people are like a boat. The three of them are like the wind. Looking back from more than a hundred years ago to today, young people are still sticking to "Mr. Sai" as Chen Duxiu hoped.
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