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　　the china (shenzhen) innovation competition of international talents was officially launched at wuzhou guest house in futian district yesterday.

　　the competition will give financial support to contestants to launch a business in shenzhen by looking at certain qualities in them.

　　chinese who have studied overseas and foreign nationals can register at www.itcsz.cn (chinese language), the organizers said at a news conference.

　　judges will assess the innovative ability of people who enter by looking at their work experience, personal character, skills, and ability to be inventive.

　　the competition is specifically looking for contestants with skills in high technology.

　　preliminary contests will be held in sydney, australia; munich, germany; tel aviv, israel; tokyo, japan; and silicon valley, the united states, before the end of march.

　　the event is organized by the shenzhen municipal government and co-organized by the longgang district government, shenzhen human resources and social security bureau and shenzhen science and technology innovation commission.

　　finalists will attend the final contest to be held in longgang district in shenzhen during the 14th conference on international exchange of professionals in april next year.

　　venture capital agencies will invest in the winning projects with funds of up to us$100 million.

　　liu yanguo, deputy director with the state administration of foreign experts affairs, said at the launch ceremony that the contest will attract more overseas talent to shenzhen.

　　shenzhen vice mayor ai xuefeng said the contest will contribute to the city's drive to build an internationalized and innovative city with the introduction of international talents.

　　by the end of 2014, shenzhen’s number of international patent applications had reached 11,600, tripling the number of 2010, and accounting for 48.5 percent of china's total, according to official data.

　　so far, 18 foreign experts in shenzhen have won friendship awards, the top prize for foreigners working in china. a total of 154 professionals in shenzhen have been selected for the national 1,000 professional program and 1,219 have been selected for the peacock plan, which aims to bring in high-tech talents and research teams to shenzhen.

　　shenzhen has helped 81 science and research teams from overseas settle in the city along with 60,000 overseas professionals so far. the city has more than 3,000 enterprises owned by returned overseas students, and more than 30 of them each have an annual output value of more than 100 million yuan (us$15.87 million).