Incus Company, eSign and Resproly Bio Pharmaceutical are the top three winners of Pitch@Palace, a platform founded by the Duke of York in 2014 to support entrepreneurs to accelerate and amplify their ideas.

And Wright Brothers Science and Technology Development won the People's Choice Award.

Themed "The Future of Technology," the final of Pitch@Palace China 3.0 was held in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sunday, joined by entrepreneurs in areas ranging from biotechnology, robotics, artificial intelligence to virtual reality.

Incus, founded in Hong Kong in 2016, is a company that committed to audio processing technologies which have been widely used in hearing aids, speech noise reduction and recognition, communication equipment, smart home, intelligent vehicle systems and human-computer interaction.

eSign, a third-party electronic signature platform in China, offers legally-recognized e-signature services to its customers, largely improving the efficiency. And Zhuhai-based Resproly focuses on the treatment of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease.

China's top three winners will compete to be the world's top three in London later with counterparts from other competition divisions.

A transformation laboratory will be set up by Pitch@Palace in Shenzhen in the future, said the Duke of York, to incubate and accelerate the work of entrepreneurs, adding that Shenzhen is a reliable base where global start-ups that want to enter China can start.

China "will further promote the close cooperation with the UK in innovation platform construction, entrepreneurship project incubation and financial capital docking," said Wang Zhigang, Minister of Science and Technology. "We'll continue to support Pitch@Palace China, and open up new space for scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries with better innovation environment and more open innovation ecology."

(Cover: Britain's Prince Andrew (C), the Duke of York, with the winners during the final of Pitch@Palace China in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, April 14, 2019. /Xinhua Photo)