The final round of 2011 SIFE China National Competition was held in Garden Avenue Hotel, Shanghai, on 21st May. With the outstanding performance of its members, STU SIFE team was awarded National First Prize and Cargill's Most Innovative Award-a historic achievement since its participation in the event.
A total of 55 teams competed in the final round, including Dalian University of Technology, South China Normal University, Sun Yat Sen University (Champion), University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Tianjing University (2nd Place).
STU SIFE brought 2 well prepared projects, which had been managed assiduously for 2 years, to the competition. The Leiling Lichi Promotional Project had helped approximately 12,000 local farmers in Leiling to raise a surplus of 4.75 million Yuan to their income. In the Pugong Project, on the other hand, an online platform, designated to provide employment related information, was established and put into operation. The system had recorded 6,050 applications and benefited some 3,000 job seekers.
Many of the judges praised STU SIFE's excellent performance, stating that the team had embedded in its projects the spirit of '...combining commerce with public good, for creating public welfare through positive business power'. (SIFE China: 2011，*1)
*1：Zhang, C., An, C., SIFE China, http://www.sifechina.org/eng/News_Detail.asp?cid=388(25 May 2011)
Translate: Seann Huang, for comments and/or complaints please email conghuang@stu.edu.cn
