From October 16th to 18th, the HICOOL 2025 Global Entrepreneurs Summit, hosted by the Beijing Overseas High-level Talent Association, was held at the Beijing Capital International Convention and Exhibition Center.

As a significant initiative and testament to Beijing’s commitment to building a globally influential talent-driven entrepreneurial brand, HICOOL, hailed as the “Oscars” of the international entrepreneurial community, has held its fifth edition, attracting 45,000 entrepreneurial talents and 34,000 entrepreneurial projects from 167 countries and regions. In 2025, the competition reached a record high, with 10,055 entrepreneurial projects and 13,150 entrepreneurial talents participating, marking the first time both the number of projects and the number of participants have surpassed 10,000.

2025 is poised to be the year of explosive AI innovation. This summit, themed “Building a Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Capital,” attracted world-renowned scientists, Nobel laureates, university representatives, outstanding entrepreneurs, top investors, rising unicorns, and relevant government agencies. The summit focused on four key elements: technological innovation, industrial integration, international cooperation, and youth empowerment, encompassing a “1+8+11+X” innovation strategy: one main stage, eight ecosystem exhibition areas, and eleven sub-stages.

The bustling AI stage showcased the latest technological achievements from universities like Tsinghua University, as well as companies like State Grid, Lenovo, and Tashan Technology. Shine Global(霞光社） was invited to host a sub-forum on the same stage, themed “China’s Innovation Power in a Global Perspective: A New Era of Going Global.”

At the forum’s opening, He Wei, founder of Shine Global(霞光社）, addressed the increasingly severe global tariff challenge. As China’s past manufacturing cost advantages are offset by tariffs, we must rely on technological innovation to maintain global competitiveness. Chinese companies are using technology, algorithms, and even emotional understanding to redefine the meaning of “global innovation.” Shine Global(霞光社） looks forward to working with innovators and entrepreneurs to promote Chinese innovation globally.

Next, Liu Chenyu, Director of Shine GlobalLiu Chenyu, Director of Shine Global（霞光社） Think Tank, interpreted a report titled “Chinese Enterprises Reshaping the Global Business Landscape Under the AI Wave.” She stated that whether it’s general-purpose large-scale models or generative AI, whether it’s intelligent hardware or software applications, and whether it’s in consumer or enterprise scenarios, the global market is experiencing the disruptive power of Chinese AI technology on global business models and industrial structures. With AI empowering countless industries, Chinese companies going global are also making the leap from “traditional digital transformation” to “new digital and intelligent reconstruction.”

When it comes to artificial intelligence, a key focus is AI chips. Fu Yihui, Vice President of Marketing and Ecosystem at Heshan Technology, delivered a keynote speech titled “Task-Based Embodied Intelligent Robots: Perception Training and Application Directions.” He explained that Heshan Technology is leveraging its proprietary core tactile perception technology to demonstrate Chinese innovation in the global human-computer interaction arena.

Wu Yi, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Beijing Overseas High-Level Talent Association, and Head of the HICOOL One-Stop Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform.Tashan Technology has solved the challenge of simultaneously analyzing multi-dimensional tactile signals through its proprietary, world-first hybrid AI tactile chip and tactile sensing algorithm. The TS-F tactile sensor offers high-precision, real-time three-dimensional force sensing, material recognition, and proximity sensing. It also enables dynamic, collaborative sensing across multiple tactile sensing units, effectively promoting the closed-loop and generalization capabilities of humanoid robots, and enhancing the intelligent level of human-machine interaction and service quality.

Gu Jiawei, founder of Lingyuzhou, delivered a keynote speech at the forum entitled “World as prompt, world as interface”, explaining his vision of the physical world AI-OS: the world is the classroom, and everything is the teaching material.

Ling Yucheng is a company dedicated to creating consumer-grade robotics products and building the LingOS interactive operating system-an AI Agent OS for the physical world-to revolutionize human-computer interaction. Its Luka companion robot, a multimodal, emotional AI educational companion, has shipped nearly 10 million units worldwide. The Ling Yucheng “Small Square” portable AI product, released in 2025, quickly became a market sensation upon its release. It provides Alpha Generation AI natives with an AI Beings experience that combines emotional companionship, learning mentorship, and growth partnership, enabling the next generation of “New Computer” personal AI computing terminals.

Afterwards, Ada, the head of operations at GatherOne, presented a speech titled “Winning the World with Smarter Intelligence: Using AI to Solve the Dilemma of Overseas Marketing and Drive a New Chapter of Growth.” She provided practical and intelligent solutions to the key issue of “AI-driven overseas expansion” and explored how Chinese companies can reshape their competitiveness in the wave of globalization.

Today, as the wave of globalization sweeps across the world, going overseas has become a key path for the development of Chinese companies. Current technology is profoundly reshaping marketing logic, and AI capabilities have become a key watershed that determines growth.

Faced with the four major difficulties of going overseas, namely “not understanding, not being able to touch, not being able to play, and not being able to calculate”, GatherOne has built the Gather Al full-domain solution with the four pillars of “strategy, creativity, delivery, and risk control”, realizing a global closed loop from market insights, advertising delivery, to strategy optimization and performance marketing, building an intelligent marketing system for overseas companies and enabling companies to grow effectively in the global market.

At present, HICOOL has established deep connections with 165 global partners, and its “global circle of friends” continues to expand. HICOOL hosts more than 20 events overseas each year, building a diverse cooperation network and comprehensively promoting the vigorous development of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem both at home and abroad.

Finally, Lv Fengshi, Head of the Intelligent Robotics Division at Qianxun, delivered a speech titled “Leading with Chinese Innovation: Approaching the Dawn of General Embodied Intelligence”, in which he presented China’s position in the global ecosystem of embodied intelligence.

He believes that the bottleneck of embodied intelligence lies in the brain, not the body. To address this, Qianxun Intelligent has adopted a three-stage learning path similar to large models: first, injecting prior knowledge into the system through pretraining on internet videos; second, mapping actions via imitation learning using data collected from real robots; and finally, using reinforcement learning to push performance toward near perfection. At present, in the global embodied intelligence industry, China, leveraging its technological and application advantages, has surpassed Europe and now stands on par with the United States in a leading position.

Beyond the artificial intelligence stage, distinctive sections such as the HICOOL Lounge, International Talent Recruitment Fair, Youth Entrepreneurship Dream Program Stage, Industry Collaboration Stage, Venture Capital Matchmaking Stage, and Overseas Innovation Stage also drew the attention of numerous innovators and entrepreneurs.

In an era where AI is accelerating global transformation, this conference has become a super hub for key elements of the global innovation ecosystem in areas such as AI and robotics.