Currently, with continuous innovation momentum being released, emerging industries, the digital economy, and green development are bringing new growth drivers for the high-quality development of the Chinese economy.
The private sector plays a fundamental role in this process, with private enterprises and entrepreneurs being indispensable forces. At the national level, a series of policies has been introduced to promote the growth of the private sector, further optimising the development environment for private enterprises, stabilising expectations, and stimulating vitality.
A group of resilient and visionary private entrepreneurs actively practice new development concepts and promote the spirit of entrepreneurship, contributing to industrial upgrades, cultivating new productive forces, and advancing Chinese-style modernisation.
On October 24, the inaugural KPMG Future Entrepreneur Award ceremony was held in Shenzhen.
Since the award was officially launched in March this year, it has undergone rigorous selection and professional evaluation, recognising outstanding entrepreneurs for their exceptional contributions to long-term enterprise development, innovation, internationalisation, and social responsibility.
While achieving good business results, they have demonstrated forward-looking planning and solid practices for sustainable enterprise development, showing significant advantages in technological innovation and international competition.
This selection focused on the inheritance and breakthroughs, innovation, and sustainable development of Chinese private enterprises.
The award ceremony attracted representatives of entrepreneurs, experts, and scholars from across the country, who gathered to discuss how enterprises can achieve orderly inheritance, governance upgrades, and innovative breakthroughs in the context of the new economy.
Jacky Zou, Chairman, KPMG China, stated, “The spirit of Chinese entrepreneurship continues to evolve with national development. Today’s ‘Future Entrepreneurs’ are pioneers who break through to lead continuous innovation and plan for inheritance. They are bringing a qualitative leap to China’s economic development with ‘new productive forces’, becoming the core engine in the modernisation process.
“KPMG hopes to uncover truly ‘future-oriented’ successful entrepreneurs through the establishment of the Future Entrepreneur Award, focusing on five core areas: strategic foresight, innovation, governance optimisation, operational resilience, and social responsibility. KPMG will also continue to leverage its expertise to support and assist in enterprise growth.”
During the ceremony, the four awards were announced: ‘Future Entrepreneur of the Year’, ‘Extraordinary Female Future Entrepreneur’, ‘Excellent Family Business Future Entrepreneur’, and ‘Outstanding Emerging Future Entrepreneur’.
The awardees included not only technology entrepreneurs who have made breakthroughs in high-end manufacturing, new energy, and digital transformation but also exemplary business operators who have achieved generational handover through institutional governance and cultural inheritance, reflecting the leadership and forward-looking vision of entrepreneurs in the new era.
According to Michael Jiang, Head of Clients and Markets at KPMG China, the Future Entrepreneur Award gather entrepreneurs from different stages of development. We hope that through this platform, mature entrepreneurs can see new trends and new forces. In contrast, growing entrepreneurs can more quickly integrate into an excellent business ecosystem, establishing a long-lasting connection mechanism of ‘common progress and co-creating the future’.
He noted that entrepreneurs are not only drivers of economic growth but also bearers of social responsibility.
“The spirit of ‘Future Entrepreneurs’ should embody both innovation awareness and long-termism, daring to embrace change and promote breakthroughs in technology and business models while also being able to build sustainable capabilities and organisations calmly,” said Jiang.
