The 2024 Zhongguancun Forum is about to be held. What major scientific and technological innovation achievements are about to be "new"?

Author：DavisDate：2024-4-17

         CCTV News, Beijing, April 17 (Reporter Tang Jing) According to the "Global New Financial News" of China Central Radio and Television's economic voice, the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting will be held in Beijing from April 25 to 29. With the theme of "Innovation: Building a Better World", this year's forum will focus on cutting-edge fields of science and technology such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, and new materials, and release a number of the latest major scientific and technological achievements. In addition, there will also be an "Artificial Intelligence Theme Day" ". What are the highlights of this year’s forum? What major scientific and technological innovation achievements are about to be "new"?

         Compared with previous years, this year’s Zhongguancun Forum is more open and cutting-edge. There are 17 parallel forums hosted by 19 international organizations and foreign government departments. Foreign guests from more than 100 countries and regions are expected to participate, of which more than 50% are foreign speakers. In the sections and links of parallel forums, achievement release and technology transactions, we will further carry out ideological collision and scientific and technological exchanges around 6G, brain-computer interface, blockchain, synthetic biology manufacturing and other cutting-edge scientific and technological fields.

         Chen Jiachang, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that this year’s Zhongguancun Forum has three main features: first, highlighting cutting-edge exploration; second, highlighting the sharing of results; and third, highlighting open cooperation.

Chen Jiachang said that the Zhongguancun Forum focuses on artificial intelligence, life sciences, new materials and other cutting-edge fields of science and technology to hold a series of conferences and activities, and releases a number of the latest major scientific and technological achievements. Focusing on carbon peak carbon neutrality, medical health, clean energy and other livelihood technology fields, through Zhongguancun International Technology Trading Conference, Zhongguancun International Science and Technology Frontier Competition and other activities, it has established trading sharing for more than 3,000 scientific and technological achievements from more than 40 countries and regions. platform. It not only has intergovernmental scientific and technological cooperation dialogues, but also extensively invites international scientific and technological organizations, scientists, innovative enterprises, and investors to participate, linking global wisdom and building a communication platform.

         What deserves special attention is that this year, April 27 is set as the "Artificial Intelligence Theme Day" of this forum's annual meeting. Yu Yingjie, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Education Working Committee, introduced that this year will host 1 theme forum, 4 special forums and 7 special forums, focusing on cutting-edge hot topics at home and abroad such as large models, embodied intelligence, and trusted AI. Five More than a hundred big names, including Nobel Prize winners and Turing Award winners, will attend the conference and will release a number of blockbuster results to boost the construction of Beijing as a source of artificial intelligence innovation and an industrial highland.

         This forum annual meeting will also debut a number of technical products, sign a number of major projects, and transform and implement a number of innovative achievements. Further strengthen the technology conference, launch the conference navigation system without sense, large-model humanoid robot with built-in AI, AIGC products that can be experienced on-site, etc., and comprehensively upgrade the Yuanverse live broadcast venue to bring benefits to the guests and the public. A new technological experience.

         In addition, the 8th China Science Fiction Conference, one of the parallel forums of the Zhongguancun Forum, will be held in Shougang Park, Shijingshan District, Beijing from April 27th to 29th. Forums will be organized around science fiction technology, science fiction creation and industry cultivation. 18 exciting events including conferences and science fiction film week.