Today, 3D printing technology is commonly used to produce mechanical parts, but rarely for biological tissue. 

On June 1, a piece of liver tissue with cellular activity was printed by a 3D printer at the Suling Technology Co., Ltd. in Changsha, through depositing bioinks in a layer-by-layer manner via high-precision projection.

The company's founder Liang Bangchao, is a doctoral student at the College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University. Over the past year, he has embarked on a new journey of entrepreneurship. He secured one million CNY from the Hunan Provincial College Student Entrepreneurship Investment Fund, released the first bio-printed material, and received a flood of overseas orders... "Turning sci-tech 'golden ideas' into entrepreneurial 'golden seeds,' I have truly felt Hunan's innovative vitality," Liang said.

Young people possess the strongest enthusiasm and impetus for innovation. President Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to "show care for the growth of the youth and support them in making achievements."

Thoroughly implementing the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important instructions, Hunan, grounded in local realities and future-oriented development, has been addressing young people's most pressing concerns — such as employment and entrepreneurship, living environment, and social integration, to make Hunan genuinely friendly to young people and enable young people to achieve greater success in Hunan.

Ensuring young people are willing to come

The "Intelligence Converges in Xiaoxiang, Talents Gather in Hunan" recruitment event took place at the Guangdong Science Center on May 16. Aimed at boosting employment and entrepreneurship for college graduates, the event has been held 17 sessions in and outside Hunan since last year. During the recruitment season of this year, over 7,200 employers across Hunan have provided a total of 256,000 job openings.

With five national advanced manufacturing clusters, and six trillion-CNY level and 17 hundred-billion-CNY level industrial clusters, Hunan provides a broad stage for young people. Over the past five years, 128,000 people have moved into Changsha each year on average, about 80% of whom are young people. In December 2025, Hunan issued the Implementation Opinions on Building Hunan into a Youth-Friendly Province, proposing four major youth-friendly initiatives in the aspects of employment, entrepreneurship, living, and growth, to attract young people to grow and succeed in Hunan.

Ensuring young people can stay

Accommodation and travel are major expenses for graduates seeking jobs away from home. Liu Kunxue, a master's graduate from Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, once worried about this. This April, she received interview notices from two Changsha companies, but the interview dates were six days apart. Seeing the message "free accommodation at Youth Talent Hubs" on a social platform, Liu applied on her phone in the afternoon and was approved that evening. A 60-square-meter room at a talent hub became her free accommodation during her job seeking tour in Changsha.

"Changsha's 23 youth talent hubs with 787 beds can provide job seekers with free stays for up to 14 days," said Chen Maolian, a staff member assigned to the hub by the Changsha Communist Youth League Municipal Committee. Since 2024, the talent hubs across Changsha have accommodated over 40,000 stays cumulatively.

To enable young people to "seek jobs or start a business with just a backpack," Hunan provides diverse accommodation options: "a free bed" for college graduates from other places on short stays, "a room" in existing talent apartments, and "a home" available for purchase supported by innovative financial products. In Changsha, more than 50,000 young people have already benefited from the considerate housing policy.

The Changsha Shibby Technology Co., Ltd., primarily engaged in game development, moved to the incubation center of the Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Industrial Park last year. The average office rent is only a quarter of what it was before, and the entrepreneurial partners live in a commercial residential community just across the street. They walk to work, with an average monthly rent of just over 1,000 CNY per person. "We truly experience 'low-cost entrepreneurship, high-quality living,'" said Lian Zhan, the manager of the company.

Facilitating young people's entrepreneurship

Liu Lian, a post-95 Changsha native, returned after finishing her studies abroad. A slogan "Come to Changsha to Start Your Business" attracted her. Coinciding with the establishment of Hunan Province's college student entrepreneurship investment fund, Liu Lian submitted an application, and the first investment soon came through. Staff from the College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park in the Hunan Xiangjiang New Area then came to provide full-chain services, enabling her startup to enter the park smoothly. "Entrepreneurs face challenges, but in Changsha, we are not alone," Liu said.

By gaining a deep understanding of how college students innovate and start businesses, Hunan has rolled out targeted measures, providing concrete assistance to college student startup teams from such aspects as policies, funds, and mentor teams. The Hunan Provincial College Student Entrepreneurship Investment Fund is committed to early-stage, small-scale, long-term, and hard-tech investments, with a total scale of 505 million CNY. So far, 367 projects have passed investment decision reviews, with planned investments exceeding 188 million CNY.

According to statistics, as of the end of March this year, the number of registered business entities founded by Hunan college students increased by 21,991 compared to the end of September 2024, with the number of registered companies rising by 10,362 — representing growth rates of 70.88% and 66.05%, respectively.

"Building Hunan into a youth-friendly province is not a temporary measure but a long-term commitment. Firmly keeping President Xi Jinping's earnest instructions in mind, we must work on the needs of the people — especially young people—to develop Hunan well as an inland province in central China," said Shen Xiaoming, secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn.  

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn