On the morning of June 21th, the opening ceremony of the "Young Silicon Valley" Maker Classroom was held in the City No.6 Middle School, which was the first completed and inaugurated "Young Silicon Valley" Maker Classroom in the country in 2018. Gu Xiulian, Vice Chairman of the 10th NPC Standing Committee, and Director of China Cares for the Next Generation Working Committee, Yang Taibo, former Deputy Director of the Provincial People's Congress Standing, and Yi Pengfei, Municipal Party Secretary and Chairman of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, attended the ceremony.

Launched in 2017, the "Young Silicon Valley" Maker Education Public Welfare Program is aimed to donate money to build the "Young Silicon Valley" Maker Classrooms to the qualified kindergartens, schools, academy of juvenile sciences and youth activity centers in China, train science and technology teachers, organize the exchanges of experience, present the achievements and other activities. By 2020, the project will plan to donate 1,000 "Young Silicon Valley" maker education demonstration classrooms and build 100 educational centers, in which the 23 demonstration classrooms planned to be built in Hunan Province in 2018 will be settled in Chenzhou City.

Gu Xiulian, Vice Chairman of the 10th NPC Standing Committee, and Director of China Cares for the Next Generation Working Committee, and Yang Taibo, former Deputy Director of the Provincial People's Congress Standing, inaugurate for the "Young Silicon Valley" Maker Classroom.

Yang Taibo said in his speech that the "Young Silicon Valley" Maker Education Public Welfare Program is a major measure to promote the all-round development of quality education and innovative education, which is of great significance and far-reaching impact on cultivating the practical ability and innovative spirit of young people in the new era and cultivating more innovative talents. The Chenzhou Municipal China Cares for the Next Generation Working Committee at all levels should seize the opportunity, forge ahead and turn the implementation of the "Young Silicon Valley" project into a powerful driving force to do a good job of caring for the next generation. The "Young Silicon Valley" project implementation school should strive to make good use of and manage the maker classroom well, so that it can become a platform for disseminating scientific knowledge and scientific spirit, promoting quality education and science popularization education, and training innovative spirit and innovative ability, and make a contribution to bring up more and more new talents in line with the needs of the times and social development.

On behalf of the municipal party committee, the municipal government and the 5.28 million people of Chenzhou, Yi Pengfei, Municipal Party Secretary and Chairman of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, extended a warm welcome to the guests attending the event, and expressed sincere thanks to the leaders at all levels who attached importance to and supported Chenzhou's concern for the next generation of work. He said that Chenzhou has always attached great importance to the work of caring for the next generation, and vigorously carried out a series of activities such as popularizing legal education, caring for left-behind children, and the ideological and moral construction of young people. Youth is the future of the country, and science and technology is the cornerstone of the country. We will take the implementation of the "Young Silicon Valley" project as an opportunity to further strengthen the leadership and support for the work of caring for the next generation, and make every effort to do a good job of opening the "Young Silicon Valley" Maker Classrooms, so as to create a better environment for the growth of young people, encourage teenagers to explore and progress in the field of scientific innovation, and stimulate every teenager to help realize the strong youth energy of Chinese Dream.

At the opening ceremony, the first batch of pilot projects in Hunan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Gansu, Jiangxi and Qinghai provinces were awarded the "Artificial Intelligence Education Practice Bases" of the State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture; Chenzhou No.6 Middle School was awarded the "Information Technology Education Practice Base" of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

After the opening ceremony, the first batch of provincial participants of the pilot project also held an exchange of experiences and visited the "Young Silicon Valley" Maker Classroom in the No.6 Middle School.

Liu Xiaolian, Executive Deputy Director of China Cares for the Next Generation Working Committee and former Vice President of China Air Force Command Academy; Jiang Bo, Chenzhou Municipal Standing Committee, Minister of Organization Department, and Director of Cares for the Next Generation Working Committee; Ouyang Feng, Chenzhou Municipal Standing Committee and Secretary General; Chen Shezhao, Executive Director of Chenzhou Cares for the Next Generation Working Committee; Vice Mayor He Jianxiang and others attended the relevant activities.