YBC is an entrepreneurship educational project, which aims to help young people start their own businesses. In cooperation with the International Business Leaders Forum  (www.iblf.org) and Youth Business International (www.youth-business.org), it mobilizes all social sectors, particularly the business community, to provide business-mentoring, seed-money, technical and network support to young entrepreneurs, thus help them succeed in business start-ups.

　　Its target group is youth between 18 and 35 years old who have the potential to start their own businesses but have little experiences or no access to seed money.

　　By the end of April 2006, the YBC has established 5 local offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shandong, Shaanxi and Fujian, raised funds of nearly US$2.5 million, built up a team of 500 business mentors, helped 84 young start-ups and created over 300 employment opportunities.

　　For more information, please visit www.ybc.org.cn

　　Ms. LOU Laifeng

　　A female farmer who opens a soy-sauce workshop using traditional techniques

　　　　Mr. LIU Jiangang
　　A migrant university graduate who starts his business in Shanghai as a house-keeping company

　　　　Ms. WANG Yin
　　A female laid-off worker who manages a Chinese fast-food company

　　　　Mr. LI Haifeng
　　A university graduate who starts his business again to produce environment-friendly construction materials, after the failure of his first business start-ups