Strategic Foresight and Policy Interpretation of Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation(MEI) in China

China's development has entered a new normal, which is a critical transformable age from old developing energy to a new one. We should take mass entrepreneurship and innovation (MEI) as a structural reform to stimulate the creativity of the whole society and build a new engine of development. Up to date, the State Council of China has published nearly 30 policy papers to promote China MEI since 2014. To understand policy effectiveness, the State Council entrusted China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) to do the third-party evaluation on the MEI implementation in July 2015. This evaluation was mainly focused on policy tools. We chose several perspectives to evaluate the implementation situation and outcomes of MEI, including the entrepreneurial platforms, financing channels and entrepreneurial groups (university students, scientific and technical workers, returning migrant workers, returnees, etc.). The method we use is including 20 thousand questionnaires sent to the university students and S&T workers, big data mining with companies such as Baidu and Ali research, field interview and investigation in 20 provinces, second hand information collecting from Ministries. This paper will show the evaluation results of 2015 MEI and 2016MEI, try to give suggestions for further development of MEI.