This Spring Festival, there are many good news. On the noon of the 6th, after 5 years of pursuing excellence and challenging various "impossibilities", the box office of the movie "Ne Zha: The Magic Child Roars in the Sea" approached 5.8 billion yuan, setting a record in Chinese film history! During the entire Spring Festival period, Chinese startup DeepSeek "flooded the world with low-cost and high-efficiency models that overturned Wall Street and Silicon Valley's understanding of the development path of artificial intelligence." Thoroughly open source "also lit up the idealistic halo for" Chinese entrepreneurs ". A new round of enthusiasm for innovation and entrepreneurship is surging in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, commercial aerospace, and cultural creativity. Standing at a new starting point of a century of changes, it is worth re evaluating the "Chinese entrepreneurs" and the future China they are shaping. Do Chinese entrepreneurs only imitate? Do you still remember the scene at the 2024 Beijing Auto Show where foreign car company executives gathered to "watch" China's domestic new energy vehicles? Once, Chinese cars were ridiculed for their outdated design and rough workmanship. Nowadays, innovations in a series of key areas such as BYD's "blade battery", NIO's permanent magnet synchronous motor, and GAC's super fast charging have enabled Chinese car companies to dominate the global automotive market. Even local car company Zero Run has achieved technology exchange for the market through "comprehensive self-developed", opening up a "reverse joint venture" model. Once, at the initial stage of China's Internet development, "imitation" was a shortcut for many entrepreneurs. Nowadays, 'Copy to China' is no longer taken for granted, and 'Copy from China' is becoming increasingly common. China's mobile internet innovation formats, such as live broadcast with goods, super APP and social e-commerce, have become the objects of global capital research and imitation. Once upon a time, even earlier Chinese entrepreneurs stumbled from a starting point with almost zero foundation. This generation of pioneers, after decades of catching up with the accumulation of hundreds of years in the West, has enabled China to have the world's most complete industrial categories and the most resilient industrial chain today. The 2024 Global Innovation Index Report shows that China's innovation index ranking has risen to 11th place, making it one of the fastest progressing countries in the world. In the fields of new energy, new materials, biomanufacturing, and commercial aerospace, emerging industries are thriving; In the fields of humanoid robots, quantum computers, brain computer interfaces, and 6G network devices, future industry highlights are frequently emerging. In the past, entrepreneurship was about innovation; Nowadays, innovation is the key to entrepreneurship. Today, Chinese entrepreneurs are still thirsty for knowledge and striving for innovation. They create their own business and push the Chinese economy towards the center of the world stage. Are Chinese entrepreneurs too impulsive? In August 2024, the domestic game "Black Myth: Wukong" surpassed one million online players within one hour of its release. The exquisite and realistic visual impact, magnificent original music, delicate emotional narrative, and immersive and smooth control experience have won a phenomenal "breakthrough" for Wukong's journey to the west. Behind the astonishing business success lies a startup company, a team of 100 people, an investment of over 100 million, and six years of polishing. They traveled to over 100 places across the country, scanning and recording traditional buildings and real-life landscapes, and highly reproducing them in the game. The strong Chinese aesthetics and traditional colors endow it with cultural value beyond the product itself. The record breaking "Ne Zha 2" is also a masterpiece of hard work. After its predecessor "Ne Zha: The Birth of the Demon Child" became the box office champion of domestic animated films, the creative team still insisted on "slow work, meticulous work". The ten second scene of Ne Zha breaking the "Heart Breaking Curse" took a whole year to polish. Pursuing the ultimate is a common description of this group of idealists who devote themselves wholeheartedly to their passion. Looking back on the past, it's not just today's young entrepreneurs who pursue the ultimate? Zhang Ruimin, who decisively smashed 76 inferior refrigerators, Ren Zhengfei, who led Huawei to specialize in the communication field for 38 years, Wang Chuanfu, who broke through the barriers of the traditional automotive industry, and Zhou Qunfei, who went from assembly line workers to the "queen of mobile phone glass"... which one is not a perennialist who competes with oneself? Pursuing the ultimate is never the patent of a generation, but a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship passed down from generation to generation. Chinese enterprises, Chinese quality, and Chinese brands are lifted to a broader world through the almost obsessive perseverance of each generation of entrepreneurs. Do Chinese entrepreneurs only seek to go public? Is entrepreneurship such a capital game as roadshows, financing, and IPOs? When you pass by a hot breakfast stall and book a home repair with your phone, and group purchase seasonal strawberries in the live broadcast room, have you ever thought that pancake vendors, repair technicians, and strawberry farmers are all members of China's millions of entrepreneurial army? According to the fifth national economic census data, there are approximately 88 million self-employed households in China. With the support of "angels" from family members, relatives and friends, more than one hundred million Chinese people serve the society and earn their own living by virtue of their skills. They are both familiar and unfamiliar "Chinese entrepreneurs" among the public. Numerous individual businesses, small and medium-sized enterprises, and leading enterprises together constitute an important foundation of China's stable economic foundation, numerous advantages, strong resilience, and great potential. Many companies and institutions also have the presence of 'internal entrepreneurs'. Although they are within the company, they drive innovation and change within the organization with the mindset and action of entrepreneurs, becoming the backbone of the company's development. Even government departments have joined the ranks of "entrepreneurs". Shenzhen is vigorously promoting innovation in the technology industry, attracting global tech giants to gather here, and the GDP of a street exceeds that of a prefecture level city; Hangzhou continues to make efforts in the field of artificial intelligence, DeepSeek、 The Spring Festival Gala, Yangge Dance, robots, and other "Six Little Dragons" have emerged in clusters; Hefei dares to 'copy the bottom' of the new energy vehicle industry and achieve a turnaround against the trend... Through policy support, resource integration, and innovative services, many local governments have stepped in and worked together with entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is not a "capital game" for a few people, but a constant and ubiquitous creation and breakthrough; Entrepreneurs are not limited to "geniuses" and "elites", but every ordinary person who dares to challenge conventions, pursue dreams, those around us, and ourselves. Looking back on the past, in every turbulent era, there have been innovators looking up at the stars. Every historical poem of economic takeoff is imprinted with the down-to-earth footsteps of entrepreneurs. Today is still the best era for Chinese entrepreneurs! (New Society)