In the first session of the 2012 China Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition, two enterprises from Shanxi province -- the Shanxi Changxin Biological Agricultural Technology Co and Shanxi Huaqing Activated Carbon (Group) Co – won awards for their excellence.

The competition was established to encourage innovation by companies and to support innovative enterprises and technology-oriented, small-to-mid-sized enterprise development. The winning programs receive support through different channels, which is intended to motivate them.

Shanxi Changxin, is a high-tech business involved in R&D, production, sales, and technological guidance of micro-organic compound fertilizer and Shanxi Huaqing is China’s only high-tech activated-carbon enterprise, specializing in R&D, production, sales, and applied service of coal-based activated carbon.

Edited by Roger Bradshaw