An employee works at a photovoltaic panel production facility in Hefei, Anhui province. [Photo by Ruan Xuefeng/For China Daily]

China will hold a national mass entrepreneurship and innovation week from Sept 15 to 21, with Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone, which is located in the capital city of Hefei in East China's Anhui province, being the main venue of this year's event.

During the 2022 National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week, nearly 1,000 online and offline activities will be held across the nation to showcase the achievements that have been made in mass entrepreneurship and innovation. The event's theme is "Innovation drives vitality, entrepreneurship creates employment".

At the Hefei venue, over 160 typical projects selected from around the nation are scheduled to be showcased at five exhibition areas to give a comprehensive display of typical cases and the latest achievements in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Activities such as the Innovation and Entrepreneurship High-quality Development Summit, the Venture Capital Industry Summit, Entrepreneurship Anhui, and a number of livestreaming events, will also be held in Hefei to provide a display platform for innovators and entrepreneurs and a favorable business environment.

Anhui has been striving to build itself into an influential cradle of science and technology innovation and a hub of emerging industries. Hefei has been optimizing its business environment for entrepreneurship and innovation in recent years, and the city now houses 4,578 national-level high-tech enterprises, and Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone is home to about 2,000 of the national high-tech enterprises.