A new round of scientific and technological revolution, a new round of industrial transformation, and a great change unseen in a century are accelerating. As a national-level platform for China's global scientific and technological innovation exchanges and cooperation, the Zhongguancun Forum has set the theme of the 2024 forum as "Innovation: Building a Better World". Under this idea of solving problems, we will see how the Zhongguancun Forum can help accelerate the formation of new quality productivity, talk about innovation and seek common development.
Source of innovation: technology and R&D
As a city that gathers global innovation resources, Beijing has provided strong support for the cultivation and development of new quality productivity, and has also created a stage for the display and exchange of many scientific and technological achievements. At the same time, it also brings together the world's top experts, scholars and entrepreneurs in the field of scientific and technological innovation, and provides valuable experience and inspiration for the technology research and development and application of new quality productivity by sharing the latest scientific and technological achievements and discussing cutting-edge scientific and technological issues.
As the core component of the rocket, the liquid nitrogen engine of Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Co., Ltd. is a product with relatively high technical content and can represent the company's technical level. Peng Xiaobo, chairman of the company, believes that Beijing is a fertile ground for scientific and technological innovation, and other well-developed scientific and technological innovation enterprises have given them good inspiration. Therefore, based on the fertile soil of Beijing, the company has expanded its popularity and gained many partners.
Sun Weijie, founder and CEO of Beijing Shenshi Technology Co., Ltd., believes that the Zhongguancun Forum can be summarized by three key words, the first is breadth, it is truly all-encompassing, a forum that integrates various cutting-edge technology fields; the second is depth, which not only represents the most profound cognition in each technical field, but also contains the most cutting-edge and forward-looking breakthroughs in this field; the third keyword is humanistic care, Zhongguancun Forum is one of the few forums in the world that has humanistic feelings for the future development of mankind.
Gao Fu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that how to spread Chinese culture and tell Chinese stories well requires professionals to tell specific stories clearly, and only in this way can exchanges and cooperation be achieved. The general secretary proposed a new quality of productivity, which is not only a slogan, but also a down-to-earth innovation-driven productivity.
To develop new quality productive forces, it is necessary to continuously carry out technological innovation and industrial upgrading, among which it is very important to break through the barriers between production, education, research and application. Ni Guangnan, honorary chairman of the "Science and Technology China" open source innovation consortium and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, believes that for the enterprise itself, the importance of ecology is very emphasized. Technology and products alone are not enough, but it is also necessary to build a consortium of government, industry, academia, research and finance to jointly promote ecological construction.
Qiao Jie, as the executive vice president and director of the Department of Medicine of Peking University, is well aware of the importance of medical research and practical application, so she hopes to quickly transform the latest scientific research results into practical applications through full-chain cooperation.
New quality productivity represents a more efficient, smarter and more environmentally friendly production mode, and is an important driving force for future social development. With the in-depth advancement of science and technology and R&D, how to transform these innovative achievements into actual productivity and how to deeply integrate with the industry is another major issue that we are concerned about.
The Power of Innovation: Entrepreneurship and Industry
Every scientific and technological achievement has the potential to change the world. Only by translating these results into productive forces can social progress be promoted. The entrepreneurs bred in Beijing have turned their ideas into products and turned them into a force to change the world, like a bright pearl, connecting a shining production chain.
Founded in 2016 and focusing on the AI medical field, Zhongguancun led by Chen Kuan has helped his company quickly grow into a well-known unicorn company.
The atmosphere of pragmatic innovation is the advantage of Beijing's fertile soil for entrepreneurship, and its unique innovation ecology leads and helps the development of China's new quality productivity. In the face of increasingly fierce global competition in science and technology, only by breaking through the bottleneck can we go further on the road of scientific and technological innovation.
Wang Tianmiao, honorary director of the Beihang Robotics Research Institute and president of the Zhongguancun Zhiyou Research Institute, said that when they established this fund, its strategic mission was to serve the country's cutting-edge hard technology. In a two-wheel driven way, they will discover high-quality projects through forum publicity and communication, participate in the exchange, guidance and cultivation in the project, and if it meets the value of the scientist fund, they will make corresponding investments through the fund, so as to empower the corresponding team.
Ma Jianping, vice chairman of Zhongguancun Angel Investment Alliance and managing partner of Zhongguancun Development Group Qihang Investment, said: "Zhongguancun Development Group was established to serve the main body of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship, we have our own industrial investment, our own science and technology park, and a variety of financial services, and we also provide different ecological operating environments for various science and technology services, which is the original intention of our Zhongguancun establishment." ”
Wang Jinqiao, executive deputy director of the Large Model Center of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that the Zhongguancun Committee is actually very advanced in many aspects, which has formed an innovation ecology with Zhongguancun as the core. From policy guidance, then technology transformation, to the unveiling of the leader, the whole chain has played a very important leading and supporting role.
Guo Fengming, chairman of Beijing Shouke Group Co., Ltd., believes that the most critical key is how to do it from 0 to 1, but from 0 to 1 is too slow, and China's specialty is from 1 to 10 in the field of science and technology.
Peng Liangyou, deputy director of the Institute of Optics of the School of Physics of Peking University, believes that basic scientific research is the source of scientific and technological innovation in the future, and that the innovative role of basic science from 0 to 1 has been fully emphasized at all stages from the state to society and from state leaders to the government this year.
In the face of bottlenecks, Beijing has continuously explored the "Beijing Path" of transformative technologies and disruptive innovations, promoted the construction of major scientific and technological infrastructure clusters, continuously increased investment in basic research, and the proportion of basic research funding has reached about a quarter of the country, and new breakthroughs have been made in frontier fields such as basic mathematical theory, artificial intelligence algorithms, protein science, and semiconductor materials, which have further enhanced the development ability of new quality productivity and injected new vitality into scientific and technological innovation.
Chen Hongbo, former chairman of the International Association of Science and Technology Parks and Innovation Regions (IASP), believes that there are four future development trends of science and technology incubation, the first is to be closer to the source of innovation, the second is that more large enterprises will join in, the third is that more and more enterprises are developing towards hard technology, and the fourth trend is internationalization.
To build a global highland of scientific and technological innovation, we must not only make up for shortcomings, but also embrace the world with a more open and cooperative attitude and promote the convergence and integration of global innovation elements.
Bridges to Innovation: International Exchange and Cooperation
On May 25, 2023, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum. Xi Jinping pointed out that at present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in depth, and mankind needs international cooperation and openness and sharing more than ever to solve the problem of common development. China firmly pursues a mutually beneficial and win-win strategy of opening-up, and stands ready to work with other countries to promote scientific and technological innovation and promote science and technology to better benefit the people of all countries. This is a congratulatory letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping to the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum. Openness, sharing, mutual benefit and win-win results are the deep expectations of the party and state leaders for the Zhongguancun Forum.
Bao Yungang, deputy director of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, agrees with the highly international nature of the Zhongguancun Forum, because it is open to the world to collect and explore technologies that are closely related to China, and he believes that this also releases China's concept of always being open to the world in new fields of science and technology.
Luo Minmin, a neurobiologist and director of the Beijing Institute of Brain Science and Brain-like, believes that it is impossible to work behind closed doors, and that international exchanges and cooperation on the one hand allow us to understand the latest international level, and on the other hand, it also increases exchanges and cooperation with international counterparts.
Zhang Xiao, Senior Vice President of Varian Medical and President of Greater China, believes that with the division of labor in society and the division of labor in the industrial chain becoming more and more detailed, in this case, the only way to develop rapidly, expand production capacity and expand the scope of services is cooperation. Last year, the Global Innovation Center was established in Zhongguancun, and its only goal is to work with leading domestic enterprises to attract other teams around the world with international know-how, resources and achievements within the scope of their expertise.
According to Huang Tiejun, chairman of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence and professor at the School of Computer Science of Peking University, the Zhongguancun Forum can attract different teams from all over the world to jointly tackle some major problems in a centralized and group manner.
In Beijing, science and technology and R&D are breaking down national boundaries and forming new and more efficient and high-quality productive forces, driving the development of the global economy. The key factor in this is talent, which provides a steady stream of intellectual support for the formation and development of new quality productive forces.
The foundation of innovation: talent support
Beijing is home to many of the world's top universities and research institutions, with a total of more than 90 universities and more than 1,000 research institutes. At this time, in Zhongguancun, tens of thousands of science and technology practitioners are promoting the continuous development of the frontier of science and technology.
Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman of Sinovation Works and CEO of 01000, said: "Every year, we see smarter students graduating from various colleges and universities, and their learning backgrounds are getting stronger and stronger, and they are much stronger than they were 10 or 20 years ago......
Gao Fu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that Beijing's greatest advantage is its talent advantage, and Beijing should grasp this advantage well
Qiao Jie, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, executive vice president of Peking University, and director of the Department of Medicine, believes that Beijing is a center for talent gathering, because it has Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beihang University, University of Science and Technology, etc., which gather our advanced talents in multiple fields and disciplines, which also attracts international friends to come here to get new inspiration in exchanges, and to carry out more innovation with the support of a series of policies conducive to talent development, which is also Beijing's unique advantage.
Peng Xiaobo, chairman of Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Co., Ltd., said: "For start-ups, talent is the core and the first element to promote technological development. Because the rocket is a system engineering, all the specialties must be complete, and all the talents must be gathered together to get this thing done. The biggest feature of Beijing is that all talents in all aspects are complete, and they can select the best of the best, so as to quickly build up the team.
Liu Qiao, dean of Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, believes that innovation is not only a matter for scientists, but also for entrepreneurs. No matter how big an innovation is, if there are no entrepreneurs to transform it, it will end up in our books or patent registers.
In the view of Chen Kuan, founder of Beijing Inference Medical Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing not only has spanning talents such as artificial intelligence, technology, and business, but also has talents who can complement each other in the real sense, and most importantly, talents who can continue to learn and iterate in this process, which has a huge advantage in Beijing, so it is very valuable for enterprises to have the foundation of this kind of talent.
Zhang Jianhui, chairman of Hipostron Technology Co., Ltd., believes that scientific and technological research and development, scientific and technological innovation need to be developed, and a highland plays a vital role. One of Beijing's entrepreneurial advantages is the comprehensive environment, such as the conditions for engaging in scientific research. The second is the business environment created by the city, and the third is the need for the conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship. These are all factors to consider for the landing of high-end talents.
To create a stable innovation environment, not only the number of talents, but also to attract and stabilize valuable human resources, is the foundation to give full play to the advantages of talents. The 2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference will witness Zhongguancun's outstanding achievements in scientific and technological innovation, entrepreneurial environment, industrial upgrading, etc., and will also feel the infinite possibilities of global innovation network construction and transnational innovation cooperation. And all this is inseparable from the support and promotion of talents.
Chen Hongbo, former chairman of the International Association of Science and Technology Parks and Innovation (IASP), said: "China's future depends on innovation, the quality and speed of innovation, and innovation is an indispensable factor for China to stand on its own among the nations of the world. Then innovation needs soil, and we need to continuously improve this soil composition and continuously create a good innovation ecosystem. ”
Sun Weijie, founder and CEO of Beijing Shenshi Technology Co., Ltd., believes that Beijing is precisely because of its very fertile talent soil and open innovation environment, and then it also has a very rich downstream scene, so it can make this excellent talent find the matching of technology and market between the original innovation and the scene, so it can continue to generate good innovation opportunities.
Liu Qiao, dean of Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, believes that whether it is enterprises, governments, or experts from academia, they are particularly concerned about the future high-quality development of China's economy, and the most important driving force behind it is through innovation and technological change.
Standing at the intersection of innovation and the future, the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference will be a feast of science and technology. We can not only see the incisive integration of science and technology and life, but also see the innovative power demonstrated by the vigorous development of new quality productivity. At 21:15 on April 24th, please stay tuned to Beijing Satellite TV's "Cheer for You" to witness how technology and innovation are building a better world.