Chicago: July 1, 2012, with the First “thousands of Talent people plan” entrepreneurship competition has launched at Beijing in May, the committee had a number of global promotional activities, including the promotion event in the Silicon Valley and Washington D.C of United States. In order to encourage more overseas entrepreneurs participating to this competition, a Mid-west promotion event had been officially held on July7 inChicago!

“Thousands of talent people plan” entrepreneurship competition, jointly organized by the “Thousand Talents Program” venture capital center and “Thousand Talents Program” experts Association, aimed to build a specialize platform for the talent people in the world who carries the dream of entrepreneurial and get chance to work in China. This Project also support to the idea that introducing overseas high-level talents into China. The promotion event in Chicago sponsored by the “thousands of talent people plan” venture capital center of China, , Mashington Group, Blue Angel Startup & investment club(BASIC), Chicago Culture & Career Club(CCC). Local Media sponsored by NiHao Media in Chicago and also supported by Chinese Students and Scholars Association in Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, UIC, DePaul University, IIT and etc.

Mr. Vincent Ma (Yaoguang Ma) who is one of the organizers of this event and also the V.P of Mashington Group and BASIC has introduced the Chinese market situation during the past 30 years, and predicted “in 2020, China will become the world’s top or second largest economy entity … the rapid development of the domestic economy in the next 10 years, will provide invaluable opportunities and development space for oversea entrepreneurs. National “thousands of Talent people plan” entrepreneurship competition will no doubt light up the passions of overseas entrepreneurs especially in the Midwest of U.S. Our company and our startup club are more than willing to contribute to the oversea startups career.”

In order to boost project development, besides of a certain amount bonus to the winner, “thousands of talent people plan” venture capital funds and dozens of well-known venture capital company will also invest to the winning projects. Deng Feng, One of the contest judges, founder of Northern Light Venture Capital, said: “Through this contest, it will be able to give more entrepreneurial dream come true with plug in ‘Angel’ wings”. The contest officially launched by today. Online registration deadline is the end of July. The rematch list will be announced in the end of August. And the ultimate winner will be selected in early 2013.