The Thematic Exchange on Innovation and Entrepreneurship & Inaugural Ceremony of Hangzhou International Startup Club was successfully held in the Dream Town in the afternoon of June 14 during the 2019 National Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week. The event was jointly hosted by the BRLC Secretariat, Talent Office of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Foreign Affairs Office of Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, and Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China. Mao Xihao, Member of Standing Committee and Director of Organization Department of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, attended the event and made a speech. Other participants included Ma Liyang, Secretary of Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, Wu Lianping, Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs Office of Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, Wang Menghui, Deputy Director of Talent Office of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Zhu Hongdan, Member of Standing Committee and Director of Organization Department of Yuhang District Party Committee, Zhao Xikai, Director of Management Committee of Zhejiang Hangzhou Future Sci-tech City (Zhejiang Overseas High-level Talents Innovation Park), etc. At the exchange, James Chou, CEO & Managing Director of Microsoft for Start-ups North Asia, and other guests delivered keynote speeches and had round table exchanges with representatives of international entrepreneurs and venture capital services in Hangzhou. The event aimed to build an open and shared international innovation and entrepreneurship platform to attract global innovation resources, promote overseas entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in Hangzhou to form an “international innovation community” and help Hangzhou and talents in Hangzhou to go global.