On October 20th, the "Intelligent New Frontiers, Global Leadership – 2026 East China AI Overseas Entrepreneurship Competition Grand Final" was held in Changning. The competition, centered on AI empowering overseas trade, closely aligned with Changning's "Artificial Intelligence+" characteristic track layout. It brought together emerging entrepreneurial teams, industry experts, and representatives of Yangtze River Delta overseas-bound enterprises, building a platform integrating talent cultivation, project roadshows, and industry investment promotion. The competition aimed to promote the innovative development of the "AI + Overseas" industry and continuously cultivate new momentum for the cross-border digital economy.

This competition, positioned as "setting benchmarks, attracting talent, and promoting investment," showcased the practical achievements of "AI + Going Global," cultivated OPC(One Person Company) entrepreneurial talent and high-quality industrial projects, and empowered the clustering of the regional foreign trade ecosystem. The event attracted approximately one thousand participants, including contestants, industry judges, companies from the Yangtze River Delta region expanding overseas, and industrial ecosystem service providers.

The competition's initial practical phase lasted 35 days, with 45 entrepreneurs deeply involved in the hands-on competition. Participating teams utilized AI tools to conduct practical exercises across the entire process of product selection, product launch, customer acquisition, and conversion, resulting in a set of replicable and scalable methodologies for AI-enabled overseas trade.

The six finalists are all post-90s and post-00s entrepreneurs, representing a diverse range of popular foreign trade sectors, including home furniture, auto parts, cleaning tools, and hotel supplies. They include both promising university student entrepreneurs and seasoned business leaders transitioning from other industries to foreign trade. Many have successfully built their cross-border stores from scratch. They shared their practical experiences in AI-powered product selection strategies, intelligent customer acquisition, inquiry conversion, supply chain development, and large-scale team operations, showcasing the innovative practices of this new generation of entrepreneurs in leveraging artificial intelligence to expand into global markets.

During the event, industry experts delivered a presentation titled "The AI Era - Seizing Opportunities and Going Global in One Stop," interpreting new trends in AI-driven foreign trade.

In recent years, Changning has continuously developed a distinctive "AI+" track, vigorously cultivating new scenarios for AI-enabled foreign trade overseas expansion. The hosting of this competition in Changning further streamlines the connection between talent, projects, policies, and services, discovers new generations of entrepreneurial talent going global, attracts more high-quality foreign trade projects and ecosystem resources to the region, and helps enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta leverage AI to expand overseas, injecting youthful momentum into the high-quality development of regional foreign trade.

Yang Xubo, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Hongqiao International Central Business District, attended the meeting.