China-Israel Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CICEI) is founded by Jilin University, inaugurated by Israeli ambassador to China Mr. MatanVilnai and the President of Jilin University Prof. Li Yuanyuan on the opening ceremony of the second Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Conference (GEIC) on May 29, 2015.

The founding of the center is supported not only by some Chinese departments such as National Development and Reform Commission, Jilin Provincial Science & Technology Department, but also by some institutes and department from Israel, such as the Embassy of Israel in China and so on.

The director of the center is Prof. Zheng Li, who is alsothe vice Dean of Economics School at Jilin University.The advisory board of CICEI includes Israeli ambassador to China Mr. MatanVilnai, Nobel Laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman and other leading international experts. The center is composedby researchers and scholars from China, Israel, Germany and the Netherlands.

Focusing on research and comparative studies of innovative economy and entrepreneurship policy between China and Israel, the center is devoted itself to promoting the bilateral economic and technical exchanges and cooperation. The goal of the center is to build itself into an international research platform for entrepreneurship and innovation, an interactive research platform for government, enterprise and university, an effective platform for technology transfer, a training platform for entrepreneurship education, and a service platform for high-tech business.