On November 10, a Wuhan University entrepreneurship team won the champion of 2011 Intel & Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge (IBTEC), the second time a Chinese team has won the contest. Altogether 20 teams from 20 different countries competed in the competition.

The WHU Team was composed of three members: Li Jing, a postgraduate student in the Economics and Management School majoring in marketing; Yu Fangzhou, a junior finance engineering major; and Qin Xuan, a senior advertising major in the School of Journalism and Communication.

Li Jing

The WHU team, named Forward (Gaitu), won the champion for its project Gaitu.com, a website created by Yu Wei, a doctorate student in the WHU Computer Science School. Gaitu is an integrated, e-commerce platform that enables consumers to add special effects to photos without expensive, difficult-to-use photo-editing software.

Yu Fangzhou

IBTEC, co-hosted by Intel Corporation and Berkeley, since 2005, aims at encouraging innovative ideas by student entrepreneurs and showcasing business opportunities with great potential for positively impacting society through the commercialization of innovative technologies.

Qin Xuan

By winning this contest, WHU has further demonstrated its ability to cultivate quality talents, by attaching importance to creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in education.