“Last year Premier Li visited Chaihuo Makerspace during his inspection to Shenzhen, which greatly inspired makers in the whole country,” Xu Qin, mayor of Shenzhen said during Premier Li Keqiang’s discussion with deputies from South China’s Guangdong province to the 12th National People’s Congress on March 9.

Xu said that Chaihuo Makerspace has been reproduced nationwide and there are now more than 20 around the country, attracting nearly 220,000 people.

Premier Li encouraged Guangdong province to expand makerspace into a base for mass entrepreneurship and innovation.