Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are invited to launch startups in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen to help build the city into an innovation hub. Hundreds of people, including representatives from Chinese and US companies as well as local governments, were attracted to China Shenzhen-US Silicon Valley Investment Collaboration and Exchange Conference hosted by the Shenzhen municipal government in Santa Clara, California, on Monday. The conference, themed "Shenzhen-Silicon Valley: Innovation Consensus", aimed to promote collaboration between Chinese and US companies in investment, science and technology innovation by leveraging Shenzhen's advantages in hardware and Silicon Valley's advantages in software. "Shenzhen is a city of innovation with global competitiveness. He said he was excited at the opportunity of bringing innovation to China and continuing the partnership with Shenzhen.