The participants are divided into Innovation Group and Entrepreneurship Group:

1. Innovation Group

   Participants are undergraduates and postgraduates in universities and scientific research institutes, full-time undergraduate and postgraduate graduates, teachers in colleges and universities. The applicant must be the project leader.

2. Entrepreneurship Group

   Participants are domestic and foreign teams from registered companies and start-ups. They should have basic product, technology or service prototypes, own intellectual property rights, and seek for commercial scale. The applicant must be the founder, legal representative or technical director of the start-up.
   The intellectual property rights involved in the submitted works must be owned by the team. If the works involve the intellectual property rights of others, a complete and legally valid written authorization letter from the owner, patent certificate, etc. must be submitted at the time of appication.