Litchi News Beijing Work Department reporter/Liu Xin
As an important section of the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum, the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum Exhibition (Science Fair) will be held in Beijing from May 26 to 30. The exhibition venue is located in the Zhongguancun Exhibition Center and the west side of Haidian Park Road, with a total area of 27,000 square meters.
It is understood that the annual theme of this year's Zhongguancun Forum Exhibition (Science Fair) is "Open Cooperation and Sharing the Future", which is organized by the Beijing Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and sets up four parts: comprehensive activities, exhibition display, promotion and trading, and online exhibition, with about 650 enterprises and institutions participating in the exhibition. The comprehensive activities included a tour of leaders and a meeting between Beijing leaders and heads of delegations from various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. The exhibition has 6 exhibition areas of cutting-edge technology and future industry, information technology and intelligent manufacturing, green dual carbon, medicine and health, digital economy, and regional innovation cooperation, focusing on cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements in the fields of blockchain, high-end manufacturing, gene and cell therapy. The promotion transaction includes 8 activities, namely the "Digital Intelligence Reshaping the Future" promotion and exchange meeting, the 2023 "Specialized, specialized and new" enterprises and capital market matchmaking exchange meeting, ChatGPT and artificial intelligence frontier technology exchange meeting, 2023 science and technology empowerment non-performing asset industry investment exchange meeting, scientific and technological achievements and investment and financing project promotion conference, 2023 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei science and technology industry project promotion conference, Beijing Green Silk Road dual carbon technology innovation cooperation and exchange meeting (2023) and "digital creates the future, virtual and real integration" — 2023 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Industry-University-Research Promotion and Exchange Conference. The online exhibition will build an online display platform on the official website of Zhongguancun Forum and the official website of the Science and Technology Expo to digitally present the image of exhibitors' institutions, scientific research achievements and latest products.
An Yongjun, Director of the International Exhibition Department of the Beijing Council for the Promotion of International Trade, introduced that this year's Zhongguancun Forum Exhibition (Science Fair) has four highlights.
First, the functions of the national platform are more prominent. The exhibition focuses on the national innovation-driven development strategy, attracting more than 70 central enterprises such as COMAC, CETC, China Electronics, more than 30 science and technology leading enterprises such as Xiaomi and BOE, more than 20 universities and institutes and new research and development institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University and Peking University, three major international science and technology innovation centers and 30 Anhui, Hunan, Shaanxi, Wuhan, Chengdu, etc A number of provinces, autonomous regions and cities and cities with separate plans participated in the exhibition.
Second, international scientific and technological exchanges are more extensive. This exhibition focuses on the construction of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center and the construction of a benchmark city for global digital economy, further increasing the invitation of international science and technology organizations and multinational enterprises, 165 foreign-funded enterprises and institutions from nearly 30 countries and regions participated in the exhibition, including 25 of the world's top 500 enterprises, ABB, Schneider, Veolia, NEC, Panasonic, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Nokia, Emerson, BJMTR, S&P Ratings and other multinational companies were unveiled at the exhibition to display cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements of enterprises.
Third, cutting-edge science and technology are more prominent. This year's exhibition focuses on cutting-edge technology and future industries, focusing on the latest global technological progress and major achievements in the fields of metaverse, artificial intelligence, quantum information, brain science, cell and gene therapy, including many first-time projects, Changan Chain, quantum computing cloud platform, open source chips, brain-like computing chips and other cutting-edge technological achievements in the world.
Fourth, the interactive exhibition form is more dazzling. Strengthen the concept of science and technology exhibitions, and introduce technical means such as holographic projection and digital guidance. In the metaverse display cluster, interact through VR, AR, wireless motion capture, physical models and other experience methods, so that visitors have a sense of immersion. In the robot exhibition cluster, not only core technologies and components such as chips and sensors are displayed, but also multi-functional robots used in various industries are exhibited. In the new energy intelligent networked vehicle exhibition cluster, the audience can fully interact with the vehicle and experience the new mode of future mobility.
It is understood that the Zhongguancun Forum Exhibition (Science Fair), China Beijing International Science and Technology Industry Expo, founded in 1998, is a large-scale national-level international science and technology exchange and cooperation event approved by the State Council and co-sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Intellectual Property Office, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Beijing Municipal People's Government, organized by the Beijing Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and integrated with the Zhongguancun Forum since 2021. According to incomplete statistics, more than 1,100 overseas delegations from more than 100 countries and regions have participated in the exhibition, more than 40,000 exhibitors and enterprises, and received more than 5.7 million visitors in total, providing an important platform for displaying the achievements of the construction of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center, promoting collaborative innovation between government, industry, academia, research and application, and deepening international production capacity cooperation, leaving a strong mark in the historical process of mainland science and technology industry from introduction, self-reliance and self-improvement to going out.