Contest Consultation：
Contact：
LI Wenjuan
Phone：
13500505361
Cooperation consultation：
Contact：
WANG Yan
Phone：
0086-10-68207921
0086-18611529496
0086-18611529496
E-mail：
bricsiic@cietc.org.cn
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BACKGROUND
The 10th BRICS Summit (Johannesburg, July 2018) reached unanimous consensus on establishing the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution (PartNIR). Upholding the BRICS spirit of openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation and in line with the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, the PartNIR aims to translate the vision of the second Golden Decade of BRICS Cooperation into reality through deepened BRICS cooperation in digitalization, industrialization, innovation, inclusiveness, and investment. BRICS Summits have consistently reaffirmed the commitment to advancing the PartNIR. The year of 2024 has witnessed historic BRICS expansion. The growing influence of the BRICS cooperation mechanism provides a broader space for advancing the BRICS PartNIR. The 16th BRICS Summit has inaugurated a new chapter in greater BRICS cooperation, pioneering solidarity across the Global South.
The BRICS Industrial Innovation Contest is a flagship event under the BRICS PartNIR, playing a vital role in advancing practical cooperation among member states. The contest was formally recognized in the keynote speech delivered by President Xi Jinping at the 13th BRICS Summit in 2021. It was subsequently endorsed in the 14th BRICS Summit Beijing Declaration (2022) and the 16th BRICS Summit Kazan Declaration (2024). Between 2022 and 2024, the initiative was also incorporated into the Joint Declarations of the 6th, 7th, and 8th BRICS Industry Ministers Meetings.
To jointly seize opportunities and address challenges brought by the new industrial revolution, China has focused on human resource development and project cooperation in this context. From 2020 to 2024, China successfully hosted five editions of the Industrial Innovation Contest, which received over 6,000 project submissions from BRICS nations and engaged more than 10,000 participating teams. The contest has served as an effective platform for healthy competition, friendly exchanges, and mutual learning among participants, while fostering a collaborative environment for industrial innovation and talent exchange across BRICS countries.
AWARDS
Each of the five tracks will set one First Prize, two Second Prizes and three Third Prizes,
awarding certificates and bonuses to the winners. In addition, there will be Outstanding Project
and Outstanding Organization Prizes with certificates. The winning projects will be awarded
during the BRICS Forum on Partnership on New Industrial Revolution in September 2025.
SCHEDULE
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May-August
Call for Projects
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Late August
Expert Review
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Early September
Final
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16,September
Award Ceremony
INSTRUCTIONS
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Track 1Artificial IntelligenceThis track seeks to collect innovative projects that apply next-generation information technologies like AI large language models in industrial settings, and solutions that enhance production capacity and optimize operational efficiency. It focuses on cutting-edge technologies and key applications in the field of AI, such as machine learning, deep learning, image recognition, natural language processing, etc., and centers on the latest trends in large AI model technologies and their industry-specific applications. -
Track 2Green IndustriesThis track aims to collect exemplary cases in the manufacturing sector that showcase the application of green and low-carbon technologies, as well as the design and development of green products. Centering on promoting low-carbon, circular, and efficient development models, the vision is to build a green and low-carbon technology innovation system aligned with carbon neutrality goals, with the broader objective of reducing carbon emissions, controlling pollution, advancing green transformation, and achieving coordinated economic growth. -
Track 3General AviationThis track focuses on innovative design achievements in key fields including industrial equipment, marine and offshore engineering equipment, automobiles, rail transit equipment, aerospace equipment, new energy equipment, intelligent manufacturing equipment, robotics, AIGC innovation, daily consumer goods, smart home products, and cultural IP derivatives. Areas of interest specifically encompass innovative design for industrial equipment, industrial digital innovation design, cultural heritage and industry integration innovation design, consumer product innovation design, and AIGC innovation design. -
Track 4New Energy IndustryThe track focuses on the collection of general aviation (including unmanned aerial vehicles) related technologies, products, services, modes and applications and other innovative projects, focusing on the development needs and key issues of low-altitude economy, revolving around the research of low-altitude manufacturing, low-altitude flight, low-altitude security, comprehensive services and other major areas. -
Track 5Industrial DesignThis track focuses on innovative design achievements in key fields including industrial equipment, marine and offshore engineering equipment, automobiles, rail transit equipment, aerospace equipment, new energy equipment, intelligent manufacturing equipment, robotics, AIGC innovation, daily consumer goods, smart home products, and cultural IP derivatives. Areas of interest specifically encompass innovative design for industrial equipment, industrial digital innovation design, cultural heritage and industry integration innovation design, consumer product innovation design, and AIGC innovation design.
Organizational Structure
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Organising Committee
The Organising Committee of the Contest is responsible for coordinating and guiding the overall arrangements and preparation of the Contest, and is composed of relevant responsible comrades of the organisers and the contractors. The organising committee sets up a secretariat to carry out the organisation and implementation work, which is located in the International Economic and Technological Cooperation Centre of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. -
Expert Review Committee
It consists of authoritative experts from research institutes, universities, industrial organisations and other relevant fields in BRICS countries, responsible for finalising the evaluation rules and carrying out project review.
