An important part of the fifth Cross-Straits Youth Festival, the Cross-Straits Youth Summit was held at the Haixia Youth Center in Mawei district in Fuzhou, Fujian province on Aug 12.
More than 600 young people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait attended the event. Six of them offered speeches based on their own experiences to address the subjects of innovation for reform, fusion for development and sharing for a brighter future.
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An important part of the fifth Cross-Straits Youth Festival, the Cross-Straits Youth Summit is held at the Haixia Youth Center in Mawei district in Fuzhou, Fujian province on Aug 12. [Photo by Jiang Qiaoling/Xinhua] |
Gao Qinquan, founder and CEO of Imperial Vision Technology, an AI-based computer vision company in Fuzhou, said that “innovation should keep up with the times, and be driven by the demands of society and the market”.
Sensitive to changes in the market, Gao redirected his research from medical imaging to digital image transmission during his time studying in the UK. The research findings he made during this time helped earn him investment by angel investors when he returned to China to start his own business in 2016.
Another speaker was Peng Chun-chieh, a former Taiwan resident who now works as the industrial design director of NetDragon Websoft Inc, an online gaming company headquartered in Fuzhou. Peng came to work on the mainland ”to embrace the internet era” and “to create more commercial value with [his] own designs”.
Peng has made the transition from aesthetic design to industrial design since his tenure with NetDragon started in 2016. Previously, during his 20 years working in Taiwan, Peng had designed more than 100 products including cameras, laptops and wireless communications devices.
Hou Han-ting, from Taiwan’s New Party, also called on young people from Taiwan to take advantage of the mainland’s rising internet economy and sharing economy to learn and explore new entrepreneurial opportunities, especially in the broker businesses where new business models are expected to emerge.
