The Complete Dachuang Workflow: Application, Midterm Review, and Completion

Three Project Types, Funding, and Participation Limits

The authoritative policy is the National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program Management Measures (Ministry of Education Letter [2019] No. 13). The three project types have different tasks and output formats. Choose a type according to its official definition.

• Funding:The measures set average funding of at least RMB 20,000 for innovation and entrepreneurship training projects and RMB 100,000 for entrepreneurial practice projects (Articles 9 and 14).
• Credits and participation limits:Universities may award credits under their own rules (Article 21). In principle, each student may join only one project in the same academic year (Article 9), so check whether teammates already have an active project.
• Platform:The National Innovation Training Platform, operated by Beijing Jiaotong University, provides public records of approved and completed projects and annual reports since 2012. Use it to check topic overlap and find benchmarks.

Timeline: Four Milestones and Their Deliverables

The months below reflect a common schedule compiled from several university notices (see the application schedule from USTC's Academic Affairs Officeand the midterm schedule from Changsha University of Science and Technology). Cohorts and months vary by university, so always follow your own academic affairs office's notice。

For a field-by-field application guide and sample score sheet, see the Dachuang application checklist.

What to Write in Applications, Progress Reports, and Completion Reports

Comparing the application's eight sectionswith midterm and completion materials clarifies their different purposes. The application describes the research plan. Midterm materials document completed work and interim data. Completion materials present the full methods, results, charts, output list, and self-evaluation. Schedules should correspond to verifiable interim outputs, and expected outcomes should form a checklist that can be reviewed item by item.

Update the original plan with research, data, and outputs actually completed when writing progress and completion reports. Explain the cause and treatment of anything not completed.

Completion Criteria: Compliance Carries the Most Weight

To understand completion review, read the score sheet. Consider North China Electric Power University's public rubric. It assigns 40% to compliance for academic-paper projects, including 15 points for structure and 25 for content. This is one university's example; use your university's current rubric for the actual review.

The entrepreneurship rubric says imitation is discouraged under innovation and that literature-only research is discouraged while fieldwork is emphasized under commercial merit. Entrepreneurship completion materials therefore need evidence of real research and project operations.

Completion Outputs and the Expected-versus-Actual Table

Common outputs include papers, software copyrights, patents, physical products, and research reports. At completion, use these three checks to map actual outcomes to expected ones.

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  List everything honestly: every promised output belongs in the comparison table, not only completed items—the reviewers have your original application.
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  Explain deviations for incomplete items: describe objective changes or plan adjustments and any substitute outputs produced.
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  Map outputs to research content: identify which application research component each output supports.