• WMU Selected as National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Practice Base
  • Author:Zhai Yuanming, School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship    Date:September 29, 2022
  • Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the list of national innovation and entrepreneurship colleges and innovation and entrepreneurship education practice bases construction units. Wenzhou Medical University was selected as a national practice base for innovation and entrepreneurship education.

    As the construction unit of the innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration base in Zhejiang province and a provincial maker space, WMU has adhered to the principle of cultivating virtue in education, strived to build a new ecological environment for the development of innovation and entrepreneurship education in medical colleges based on a professional foundation, and formed a distinctive innovation and entrepreneurship education mode. Selected as one of the national innovation and entrepreneurship education practice base construction units is another major breakthrough in WMU’s construction of innovation and entrepreneurship education platforms.


    List of National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Practice Base Construction Units

    (Zhejiang Province)


    Higher Education Institutions

    Zhejiang University

    China Academy of Art

    Ningbo University

    Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

    Wenzhou Medical University

    Zhejiang Industry & Trade Vocational College

    Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College


    WMU attaches great importance to innovation and entrepreneurship education and integrates the development of college students' spirit and ability of innovation and entrepreneurship into the whole process of talent cultivation. The research results on innovation and entrepreneurship education of WMU have won the first and second prizes of the Ministry of Education's Science Research Famous Achievement Award in Higher Institution (Humanities and Social Sciences) and the first and second prizes of the National Outstanding Achievement Award for Educational Science Research. Besides, the university has received seven gold prizes of the China International College Students "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the Exemplary Group Award of Colleges and Universities, the Outstanding Group Award of the Red Journey, the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Award, and has won the first place of medical colleges in the China International "Internet+" College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for four consecutive times.

    WMU will take the opportunity of building a national innovation and entrepreneurship education practice base, based on the characteristics and advantages of its disciplines, take the construction of innovation and entrepreneurship colleges and practice bases as the starting point, shoulder the responsibility of running a national education practice base, improve the system development and working mechanism, promote a series of reforms on talent training mode and collaborative training mechanism, and continue to enhance the development of innovation and entrepreneurship education in every aspect.

    It is reported that in order to fully implement the Guiding Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Further Supporting College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship, this year, the Ministry of Education initiated the construction of national innovation and entrepreneurship colleges and national innovation and entrepreneurship education practice bases among universities across the country for the first time. Through the selection process of independent application, expert review, public notice by the provincial Department of Education, and review by the Ministry of Education, 100 universities including Peking University were recognized as the construction units of national innovation and entrepreneurship colleges, and 100 universities including Tsinghua University were recognized as the construction units of national innovation and entrepreneurship education practice bases. There are five undergraduate universities selected as national innovation and entrepreneurship education practice bases in Zhejiang.



    Text translated by Zhang Na and reviewed by Sun You.