2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference to Focus on Innovation: Building a Better World

The 2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference with the theme “Innovation: Building a Better World” will be held for the first time from the 25th to the 29th of this month at the new permanent venue. At a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on April 17, the 2024 annual meeting has established five main sections and will hold nearly 120 activities, involving more than 100 countries and regions, more than 150 foreign government departments and international organizations, etc. He was invited to attend. Among them, April 27 has been set as the artificial intelligence theme day of the annual meeting. rise in Beijing’s Building a source of artificial intelligence innovation and industrial Highlands.

Yu Yingjie, a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Education Working Committee, introduced that the features of the 2024 Forum Annual Meeting are mainly reflected in the “four more”: more openness. 19 international organizations and foreign government departments will host 17 parallel forums, among them, UNESCO will hold the International Forum on the Decade of Science, and the World Intellectual Property Organization will hold two new parallel forums- global science and technology customization that more than 100 countries and foreign guests from the region attended the conference, with foreign speakers making up more than 50%. For the first time, Frontier Competition has established four overseas competition regions: North America, Europe, Asia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and the proportion of international projects has exceeded 40% With the support of national ministries and relevant commissions, services such as port visas and convenient currency exchange will be provided to foreign guests in need in 2024.

Later on. In addition to the modern competition, in parallel forums, product announcements, technology transactions and other sections and connections, participants engage in ideological collisions and scientific and technological exchanges around new areas modern such as 6G, brain computer interface, blockchain. , and synthetic biology manufacturing. April 27 is the Artificial Intelligence Theme Day of this annual forum. .

Pay more attention to practical results. Give full play to the role of the Zhongguancun Forum as a national platform, and use the “meeting” as a medium to introduce talents, gather information, and develop businesses throughout the whole process and various sections of the forum’s annual meeting. Through forums such as the Beijing Investment Conference, International Cooperation of Venture Capital, Unicorn Enterprises, and platforms such as technology affairs and innovation competitions, a number of technology products will be launched for the first time, there are several large projects. signed, and several innovative achievements will be changed and implemented.

Better knowledge. Further strengthen the technology-based conference, launch a non-sensitive conference navigation system, embedded AI large-scale bionic robots, AIGC products that can be experienced on site, etc., and upgrade to whole on Yuanverse live broadcast platform to introduce new. products for the guests and technological knowledge for the public.

The Zhongguancun Forum has become an important platform for exchanges outside the Beijing Science and Technology Innovation Center. Vice Minister of Science and Technology Chen Jiachang said that in the next step, more efforts and more practical measures will be taken to support the construction of the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center to a new level. Strengthen the function of scientific and technological innovation as a source of resources, accelerate the cultivation and development of new productive forces, deepen the reform of the scientific and technological system, expand international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, make Beijing a “leader ” in global scientific and technological innovation, and strives to be a “leader” in the construction of a modern industrial system with “Vanguard” scientific and technological innovation, to become a “testing ground” for re- the development of the science and technology system, and create a “gathering place” for international scientific and technological talents. (Wu Na)