With the gathering of resources, the surge of talents and the favorable policies, Guangdong has actively built a science and technology innovation highland in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and a row of unmanned vehicles on the road for trial implementation. Xinhua News Agency
Engineers inspect the linear accelerator at the China Spallation Neutron Source in Dongguan, Guangdong Province. Xinhua News Agency
On December 11, the 2021 Greater Bay Area Science Forum opened in Guangzhou. Sub-forums such as life sciences, nanoscience, network communications, and intelligent industrial software are important components of this forum. These high-tech technologies, which once seemed to be "high and cold", have now entered the economic life of the city, affecting and even subverting the previous cognition and traditional production mode.
As a global science and technology innovation center, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which hosted this forum, will shoulder more responsibilities in the future and usher in more development opportunities in the future: not only to connect the world with science and technology innovation capabilities and become a global science and technology innovation hub, but also to bring together more global innovation resources to jointly create a new model of scientific and technological innovation and development.
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Providing a "Bay Area Solution" for Global Science and Technology Innovation Governance
Nanoenzyme is a class of nanomaterials containing enzymatic properties that Yan Xiyun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team accidentally discovered when studying tumor diagnosis, has the unique charm of building a bridge between organic and inorganic matter. Since 2017, Yan Xiyun and his team have begun to cooperate with shenzhen second hospitals and established the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Nanoenzyme Medical Transformation. Nanoenzymes and its field of nanotechnology have a wide range of industrial application prospects, but also reveal the importance of cutting-edge basic science innovation to the development of social economy and people's living standards.
"Basic science is difficult to understand, and fundamental discoveries are difficult to predict. However, the Nobel Prize favors basic science because, while all scientific discoveries need to be based on previous research, discoveries that open up new areas are far more important than those found in existing fields. Dr. Michael Levitt, a 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and professor of structural biology at Stanford University, said at the forum via video.
The sudden outbreak of new crown pneumonia has brought together scientists from all over the world, and the world has once again felt the efforts of Chinese scientists. "Last year, early in the outbreak, a team of researchers from China deciphered the genome of the new coronavirus. They shared the results of their research with the world, allowing us to find more convenient ways to detect viruses. At the forum, Richard John Roberts, president of the Nobel Laureate Science Alliance, fully affirmed the efforts made by Chinese scientists.
The forum was initiated by the Belt and Road International Alliance of Scientific Organizations (ANSO). AS CHINA'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION TO LAUNCH UNDER THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE, ANSO AND GLOBAL INNOVATION PARTNERS HAVE WORKED TOGETHER TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES FACING PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOOD AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND HAVE CONTINUED A NUMBER OF JOINT RESEARCH PROJECTS AROUND GLOBAL SCIENCE HOTSPOTS SUCH AS "JOINT FIGHT AGAINST THE EPIDEMIC". It is expected that the forum will play the role of a platform hub and provide a "Bay Area Plan" for global science and technology innovation governance.
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The greater bay area science and technology innovation capacity is located in the "first echelon"
"In nanotechnology, China's basic research is at the forefront of the world." Zhao Yuliang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of the National Institute of Nanotechnology and Innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, said that on this basis, it is necessary to let nanotechnology be truly transformed from the previous research results, such as papers and patents on paper. Zhao Yuliang said that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area belongs to the country's "first echelon" in scientific and technological innovation. In particular, in recent years, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has gathered scientific and technological resources, attracting a large number of outstanding scientific and technological talents, scientific and technological enterprises and scientific and technological resources from all over the country and even the world.
Ni Mingxuan, president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (preparing), also said that the development of scientific and technological innovation requires the joint efforts of the Greater Bay Area. What makes him happy is that at present, Nansha and other places are actively creating good conditions for entrepreneurship and creating a good entrepreneurial ecology.
The atmosphere of science and technology innovation in the Greater Bay Area was also recognized by the international guests attending the meeting. "In the future, I hope to expand cooperation and involve more scientists in the Greater Bay Area." A few days ago, Robert Borwick, a scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, issued a sincere invitation to scientists from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in a video message to the Greater Bay Area Science Forum.
In recent years, Guangdong has adhered to scientific and technological innovation as the core strategy to promote the high-quality economic and social development of the province. On December 11, the "China Regional Innovation Capacity Evaluation Report 2021" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") was released in Beijing, and Guangdong's regional innovation capacity continued to maintain its national leadership, ranking first for five consecutive years. At the same time, it has created the highest score in the history of Guangdong's regional innovation ability evaluation.
Analyze the reasons behind the data: In recent years, a number of national strategic scientific and technological forces represented by spallation neutron sources, neutrino experimental stations, and national supercomputing centers have successively settled in Guangdong, with the "two corridors" of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Macao as the main skeleton, and the innovation layout of the Greater Bay Area of 26 key innovation platforms such as Guangzhou Laboratory and Pengcheng Laboratory is accelerating into a trend.
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Develop world-class disruptive original technologies
How to build a science and technology innovation highland in the Greater Bay Area in the future? Where are the important incisions?
Dean of the Usurcular University of Southern California School of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Humanities, Steve M. Dr. A. Kaye believes that as a contemporary scientist, the greatest responsibility is to convey the value of scientific methods and scientific analysis to the public. Help them understand the dangers of climate change, how to contain and respond to epidemics, and how to ensure that all people around the world can be the beneficiaries of technological and medical advances. To that end, he believes that one of the best ways to achieve this goal is through large-scale international open cooperation.
Zhang Xiang, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of the University of Hong Kong, holds the same view, he gave an example that the truly revolutionary technology starts from basic research, and to lead the global optoelectronic technology, there are three aspects that are very critical, including the establishment of a world-class talent training "Bell Lab", Bell Lab has produced 7 Nobel Prize winners, many outstanding scientists, if the Greater Bay Area can lay out such a laboratory, it will be very meaningful. To create a flexible innovation and R&D system, we hope that sister universities in the Greater Bay Area will strengthen cooperation, improve their innovation and R&D capabilities, and develop world-class subversive original technologies.
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Give full play to the advantages of the industry and let the scientific research results land
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao innovation collaboration is the main line.
It is reported that at present, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center has formed an innovative layout of the Greater Bay Area with the "two corridors" of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Guangzhou-Zhuhai-Macao as the main skeleton, and has promoted the construction of 26 key innovation platforms in the corridor, and gradually built a development pattern of "stringing beads into chains".
As experts suggest, Guangdong should also give full play to its industrial advantages and let more scientific research results land.
On December 11, Ma Xingrui, deputy secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and governor of Guangdong Province, also said at the forum that building an international science and technology innovation center with global influence is one of the five strategic positioning of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Guangdong will firmly seize the opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change, adhere to the core position of innovation in the overall situation of modernization, and strive to build a global highland of scientific and technological innovation and promote the development of emerging industries.
It is hoped that scientists around the world will seize the opportunity of the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center, actively carry out academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation in Guangdong and the Greater Bay Area, and promote the transformation of more scientific research results into practical productivity.
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Written by: Nandu reporter Xu Jincong, Chen Peijun