From News Center (Text/Photo by Ji Li, Engineering Training Center (School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship)) The Southeast Asia Division Contest of China International College Students’ Innovation Competition 2026 (SEA-CICSIC 2026) recently concluded. LZPU teams won three gold awards and fourteen silver awards at the Indonesia regional final, as well as three bronze awards in the Malaysia division—a historic, consecutive breakthrough for LZPU in international innovation and entrepreneurship competitions across Southeast Asia. This impressive result is the fruit of months of intensive preparation by participating faculty and students. It also serves as a vivid testament to LZPU’s efforts in deepening China-Indonesia cooperation in innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as its practice of promoting teaching, learning and creativity through competitions.

Since the launch of the competition, LZPU has attached great importance to the event. Led by the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the International Exchange Department, the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and other secondary schools of LZPU worked with partner institutions in Indonesia to build an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural preparation team. Preparation extended well beyond classrooms and labs. Months in advance, the teams conducted industrial research and made field visits to industrial parks, enterprises, and industry associations across Indonesia, aligning their projects with practical demands in China-Indonesia production capacity cooperation, green energy transition, and digital technology application. Entries shifted from mere academic concepts into scenario-based solutions for Southeast Asia. Every business model and every technical parameter adjustment was supported by field interviews and data verification.

During preparation, LZPU organized more than ten rounds of internal roadshow simulations. Innovation and entrepreneurship mentors ran high-pressure, all-English "6+5" defense drills, refining presentation logic, Q&A responsiveness, and cross-cultural communication. Students worked intensively day and night to polish business plans and demo videos, with supervising faculty providing on-site support throughout. Indonesian partners were even invited online to raise feedback, ensuring that each entry combined robust technology with practical, implementable solutions.

The Indonesia regional final officially kicked off in Jakarta on May 28. A total of 587 teams consisting of nearly 3,000 teachers and students from 15 provinces across Indonesia took part in the event. The 17 shortlisted projects coached by LZPU faculty—with team members from "2+1+1" and "1+1+1" China-Indonesian joint education programs—delivered all-English presentations addressing pain points in China-Indonesia industrial cooperation from the perspectives of technological originality, model innovation, and market viability. Thanks to thorough preparation and steady on-site performance, LZPU teams won 3 gold awards and 14 silver awards, ranking among the top in both award level and total number of prizes.

Immediately after the Indonesia regional final, the three gold award-winning teams went on to compete in the Malaysia division, where they further refined their projects and highlighted strengths in cross-border technology transfer and regional supply chain collaboration. The Malaysia division concluded on June 20. The LZPU teams secured three bronze awards, ranking among the vocational colleges with the most awards in that division—a strong demonstration of the competitiveness of LZPU’s international technical and skilled talents.

These excellent results reflect LZPU’s systematic engagement in China-Indonesian innovation and entrepreneurship cooperation over the years. As an institution included in the National Double High-Quality Plan, LZPU has turned competition platforms into long-term cooperation bonds. It led the establishment of the China-Indonesia TVET Industry-Education Alliance, which now includes 344 members and stands out as the largest and most influential cooperation platform in China-Indonesian vocational education. Taking competitions as a bridge, LZPU encourages deep teacher and student participation in China-Indonesia production capacity cooperation projects, integrating China’s vocational education standards and technical solutions with local Indonesian needs and offering a distinctive LZPU model for coordinated innovation-driven development across ASEAN.

This consecutive breakthrough in the Southeast Asia Division Contest is the result of LZPU’s overall planning and coordinated efforts across departments, and the close collaboration among the Engineering Training Center (School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship), International Exchange Department, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and other secondary schools. Going forward, LZPU will continue to leverage innovation and entrepreneurship competitions to deepen pragmatic cooperation with universities and enterprises across ASEAN, and to cultivate more high-caliber technical and skilled talents with global vision, patriotism and practical cross-cultural capabilities, thereby contributing stronger vocational education strength to advancing the Belt and Road Initiative and building the China-ASEAN community with a shared future.

Online Competition Site in Indonesia

Online Competition Site in Indonesia  Online Competition Site of the Southeast Asia Division Contest (Malaysia)

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