New Era Entrepreneurial Spirit: "Breaking Out" and "Breaking Through"
Securities Times reporter, Han Zhongnan
As the global economy enters a deep transformation phase, the 2025 Summer Davos Forum focused on "New Era Entrepreneurial Spirit" for the theme, taking stock of the world's economic pulse.
From the Industrial Revolution to the digital age, entrepreneurial spirit has always been one of the core driving forces behind economic transformation. And in today's uncertain times, this spirit has been endowed with new connotations for the era.
At a sub-forum titled "China Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Outlook", Chinese young entrepreneurs from cloud computing, autonomous driving, and AI fields, brought to life the path of "breaking out" and "breaking through" in new era entrepreneurial spirit.
"Breaking Out" first manifests itself at the depth level of industrial fusion. At the 2025 Summer Davos Forum site, discussions on AI, biotechnology, new energy, and information technology were hotly debated. More and more entrepreneurs realized that as single-industry development spaces are gradually reaching a "ceiling", integrating resources across industries and sharing technological achievements is an important way to tap into new growth points.
Proactively breaking down boundaries, discovering new blue oceans at the intersection of technologies. CEO Zhou Guang of Meta Motors shared his experience in commercializing autonomous driving, which is a case in point for this cross-border thinking.
New era entrepreneurial spirit's "breaking out" also manifests itself internationally. In the face of economic globalization encountering obstacles, many entrepreneurs are actively seeking opportunities to collaborate across borders, pushing their products and services onto global markets. They not only export high-quality goods but also disseminate China's innovative ideas, management models to the world.
Just like TCL founder Li Dongsheng said, in the face of globalization's new trends, multinational corporations as active participants in globalization need to re-examine their development strategies and build local industrial chains and supply chains to benefit regional economic and social development.
"Breaking Through" means finding a way out in times of chaos and seizing opportunities amidst challenges. Currently, the global economy is growing slowly, trade protectionism is on the rise, technological competition is intensifying, and enterprises face heavy pressure for development. In this context, new era entrepreneurs need to use innovation as their sword to break through. The "user-centric innovation" proposed by 360 Group founder and the "technology-driven transformation" emphasized by Huawei Biotech Board Chairman Zhao Yanzhong both embody China's entrepreneurial wisdom in breaking through.
Most commendable is that new era entrepreneurial spirit also contains a profound sense of responsibility. In discussing sustainable development, more and more entrepreneurs are incorporating environmental friendliness and social welfare into the core indicators of enterprise development, which is the balance between economic value and social value that embodies entrepreneurial spirit in the new era.