From April 27th to 29th, the 8th China Science Fiction Convention 2024 will be held in Shijingshan Shougang Park. More than 400 experts and scholars from all over the world shared the new opportunities brought by new science fiction technologies and sought new cooperation projects for science fiction, and more than 5,000 science fiction fans gathered at the scene to look forward to the autograph signing of science fiction celebrities and experience the feast of the latest science fiction movies.
Science and technology help the realization of science fiction dreams, and science fiction dreams inspire endless creation and pursuit. Shijingshan Shougang Park has become a new stage where technology and fantasy are intertwined, check in this science fiction world, conceive a science fiction story with full brain holes, draw a bright and vibrant science fiction future, build a wonderful science fiction scene, and develop top cutting-edge science fiction technology, so that your dream can set sail in the science fiction city of western Beijing.
The collision of science fiction thinking stimulates the power of innovation
As a parallel forum of the national science and technology forum, the China Science Fiction Conference focuses on promoting the development of the science fiction industry, building a platform for the integrated development of the whole industry chain, relying on the selection of the Science Fiction Planet Award, building a global exchange platform in the field of science fiction, focusing on the advantages of cutting-edge science and technology hotspots, and featuring professionalism, openness and internationality, discussing the hot spots of industry development and forming an industrial agglomeration effect.
A number of high-end forums gathered to interpret cutting-edge technology from a sci-fi perspective and talk about the development of the sci-fi industry. More than 40 foreign guests and nearly 30 guests from Hong Kong and Macao attended the event. Many keynote speeches and roundtable discussions focused on different topics and jointly provided suggestions for the development of the science fiction industry. "Let science fiction culture build a bridge between China and the West, so that more people can explore the infinite possibilities of the future together, I believe this will be a wonderful event to tell the world about the present and future of mankind." Spanish sinologist Xia Haiming spoke highly of this science fiction conference.
The "Science Fiction Frontier Technology Development Forum" focuses on the integrated development of science fiction and science and technology, discusses the path and strategy of science fiction creativity to empower scientific and technological innovation, and stimulates the inspiration of scientific and technological innovation. The "Future Industry and New Quality Productivity Forum" focuses on the methods and innovations of interdisciplinary and cross-border cooperation under the framework of the future system, and provides more reliable support for future decision-making. The "Virtual Reality Technology and Application Forum" focuses on the innovation and application of cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, and discusses new models of commercial implementation. The "Forum on the Integrated Development of Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction Film Industry" takes the pulse of technology trends for the industry and promotes the science fiction film industry to achieve "corner overtaking".
"Italian expert Antonio Frisoli introduced that science fiction works provide a new direction for the development and application of robots, which has benefited me a lot, I believe that the power of science fiction can promote the progress of science and technology, and the power of science and technology can create a better future. The young scientific and technological workers at the meeting said.
The release of planning policies leads the development of the industry
At the opening ceremony, the newly released "2024 China Science Fiction Industry Report" comprehensively interpreted the annual phenomenon and development trend of China's science fiction industry, analyzed the annual phenomenon and future development trend of China's science fiction industry in multiple dimensions, and provided experience reference and path reference for the overall development of China's science fiction industry.
At present, Beijing's science fiction industry has gradually entered a new stage of rapid development, and the "science fiction fever" is expected to give birth to a 100 billion market. As of December 2023, there are 632 science fiction enterprises and institutions in the city, of which 314 are science and technology support and operation service enterprises, accounting for 49.7%, with outstanding technological leadership. In terms of regional distribution, the development trend of Shijingshan's science fiction industry is rapid, gathering 184 science fiction industries and enterprises, ranking first among all districts in the city, and basically forming an industrial development pattern of "content creation + IP transformation + film and television venture capital + film and television shooting + technology + experience".
The "Shijingshan District Action Plan for Promoting the Development of Science Fiction Industry (2024-2025)" was released at this science fiction conference, Shijingshan District adheres to promoting industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, helping regional transformation with industrial innovation, accelerating the development of new quality productivity, and continuously optimizing the industrial ecology of science and technology and science fiction integration and mutual promotion, innovation and synergy. "As the main battlefield for the transformation and upgrading of the old industrial base, we will focus on science fiction, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet and other characteristic industries, improve the development ecology of the whole industrial chain, accelerate the cultivation of new quality productivity, and make every effort to create a hot land for industrial development. The relevant person in charge of Shijingshan District said.
The Science Fiction Film and Television Industry Research Institute and the University Science Fiction Alliance were unveiled, 9 key science fiction enterprise projects were signed and landed in Shijingshan, 7 major original achievements of science fiction technology leaders and the "Beijing Science Fiction Industry Development Research Report" were released on the spot, and a number of science fiction enterprises were released in a centralized manner, and the science fiction industry in Shijingshan District has gradually entered a new stage of rapid development, focusing on the science fiction industry and the frontier fields of science and technology, striving to achieve the development goal of promoting production and industry with the meeting, and helping Jingxi to build a highland for the development of science fiction industry.
All-round immersive experience to the sci-fi future
Scenes such as Shougang No. 1 Blast Furnace Science Fiction Park are novel and interesting, and science fiction experiences such as the tide fantasy adventure season are immersive and shocking...... In the past few days, the Beijing Science Fiction Carnival has brought rich activities to the audience to feel the charm of science fiction, high-end science fiction interactive exhibitions and rich innovative elements are full of vitality, creating a science fiction grand scene of science fiction and technology integration for the public, and wonderful activities such as the tide fantasy adventure season, science fiction electronic competition, and science fiction electronic music festival will continue until May 5.
Shougang No. 1 Blast Furnace SoReal Science Fiction Park has evolved from an industrial legacy to a "space starship" equipped with innovative technologies such as XR technology, spatial computing, and digital twins, with a sense of science fiction and futurism, and the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as holographic images, artificial intelligence, and motion capture, creating an all-round and immersive science fiction experience.
Walking into the tide fantasy season, nearly 300 primary school students from Jingyuan School experienced the driving of the planetary research vehicle and VR interaction, simulated a variety of experiments in the laboratory, and participated in robot challenges, archery competitions and AR script games and other projects, "amazing" and "interesting", and the children rushed to experience various science fiction equipment. The small press group came to the press center of the science fiction conference to learn about the story behind the production of the promotional video of the conference, experience shooting small videos with professional cameras and DJI Osmo, and simulate the on-site hosting with a microphone, so as to feel the changes brought by the rapid development of new media to news and publicity.
At the same time, the Beijing Science Fiction Film Week was grandly opened in Shougang Park, which is full of hard-core industrial style, bringing a new vision of science fiction films - Beijing Science Fiction Film Night, Science Fiction Short Film Collection, Science Fiction Film Forum, Science Fiction Film Screening, and Science Fiction Film Poster Collection Five major theme activities will record the beautiful vision of Chinese science fiction filmmakers one by one.
Two sci-fi short films of the same name, adapted from Liu Cixin's novel of the same name "Earth Cannon" and Wang Jinkang's short film collection "Song of Life", made their debut at the opening ceremony, showing the confusion and beauty brought by science and technology to human society, and carrying out in-depth philosophical thinking on the future of mankind. The snap-up buying boom of the new book signing event of "Ancient Mountain Songyue" is constantly staged, and Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang and other sci-fi masters felt the super enthusiasm of fans on the spot.
In-depth media visits to show the charm of science fiction in western Beijing
At this year's Science Fiction Conference, Shijingshan District set up a news center for the first time in the lecture hall of Hall B of the third blast furnace of Shougang Park, as the main place for registered journalists to work, providing services such as media office, public signal, conference interview, forum information and tea break. Xinhua News Agency, CCTV, People's Daily, China Daily, Economic Daily, Science and Technology Daily, Beijing Daily, Beijing TV and other central and municipal media, as well as Ta Kung Wen Wei Po, Hong Kong Economic Herald and other Hong Kong and Macao media reporters nearly 100 on-site office, Beijing, Hong Kong and Macao Science Fiction Integration Forum and other guests on-site media interviews.
Newspapers, television, radio, the Internet, mobile phones, Toutiao, Douyin and other media platforms are fully covered, and a number of immersive and visitative news products play an important role in quickly attracting public attention for China's science fiction convention.
Beijing Daily launched a special page for comprehensive and in-depth reports, CCTV, Xinhua News Agency and other media launched a number of bilingual propaganda warm-up short films, carried out a number of live online interactions, held a press conference on the China Science Fiction Convention in the Zhongguancun Forum News Center, and more than 30 central and municipal news media participated in the "Building a Science Fiction City in Western Beijing" concentrated interview activities, and the number of press releases related to the China Science Fiction Convention reached nearly 4,000.
The science fiction industry has gradually become an important force in scientific and technological innovation and the progress of social civilization. In the future, Shijingshan will continue to take the China Science Fiction Convention as a platform, adhere to the promotion of production and industry, further build a platform, optimize policies, cohesion, and strive to promote the construction of science fiction industry clusters, strive to build a science fiction ecosystem, jointly explore the infinite possibilities of science fiction, and promote the strong rise of the science fiction city in western Beijing.