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Teams from Jiangsu Province won 60 gold medals at the finals of the 8th China International College Students Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, securing first place nationwide.

As the largest and most important competition on innovation and entrepreneurship, it was jointly hosted by 12 ministries and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government and organized by Chongqing University. The competition attracted the participation of 14.5 million students from 4,554 schools in 108 countries and regions that brought more than 3.4 million projects.

This included more than 125,900 teams with a total of 519,600 students from Jiangsu's 76 universities, 79 higher vocational schools, and 124 secondary schools. The province had 171 projects shortlisted for the finals, among which 121 made it to the finals. A total of 60 projects from the province's 25 schools won the gold medals.