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	Podcast:		People In the Know
	Episode:		Encouraging Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:25:00
	Publish Date:		2016-03-17 20:13:20
	Description:		Chinese premier Li Keqiang has once again emphasized the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation in the government work report made at this year's Two Sessions.He says inspiring entrepreneurship and motivating our society to start businesses and make innovations will create a powerful force to drive development.He has vowed more support from the government, and called for a culture of innovation and an environment in which people dare to break new ground.Premier Li officially stated the target of developing entrepreneurship and innovation in his last government work report a year ago.So how has this strategy fared in the past year? What more could the government do to boost its growth? And could innovation and entrepreneurship become the new growth engines for China any time soon? PIK speaks with Zhang Haixia, professor of EECS School at Peking University, also general chair of iCAN contest, an international contest of innovation, and Liu Linlin, Investment Manageer of A+Labs, a smart device incubator.
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