US CHINA Innovation Alliance (UCIA), a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization founded and registered in Houston, Texas, the U.S., aims to build a high-level exchange and matchmaking platform for innovation and investment between China and the U.S. It has the mission of fostering China-US innovation cooperation, cementing inter-city cooperation, and matchmaking China-US innovative corporate resources. The annual international projects held by UCIA include the “InnoSTARS Competition” and the “US-China Innovation and Investment Summit” (UCIS).

Since 2016, the UCIA and China Science and Technology Exchange Center have held the US-China Innovation and Investment Summit for four consecutive years, and InnoSTARS competition for three consecutive years. They bring together over 70 international strategic cooperation agencies to provide targeted business matchmaking services for over 3,000 innovation projects.