The ZGC Forum Organizing Committee Office announced today that the 2020 ZGC Forum will be held in Beijing from September 17 to September 20 with the approval of the State Council. The Forum focuses on the themes of fighting COVID-19 by science and technology, global innovation cooperation, etc., and will conduct more than 50 activities in four sections: "Conference+ Exhibition+ Trade+ Release". The whole Forum is broadcast live online, and people can enjoy this technological feast online.

Four Sections

Conference+ Exhibition+ Trade + Release

According to ZGC Forum Organizing Committee Office, the 2020 ZGC Forum, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Association for Science and Technology, Beijing Municipal Government and supported by the Ministry of Education, Chinese Academy of Engineering, National Intellectual Property Administration, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, World Intellectual Property Organization and IASP, will be hosted by the ZGC Forum Organizing Committee Office. The annual theme of this Forum is "Cooperate and Innovate, Jointly Meet Challenges", and over 50 events will be held around four sections: "Conference+ Exhibition+ Trade+ Release".

I. Section Conference

There will be 27 events including the opening ceremony, 3 pioneer forums, 21 parallel forums and 2 professional forums.

At the opening ceremony, top scientists such as Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners, representatives of well-known multinational corporations, industry leaders and start-ups will have ideological collisions and exchanges in terms of the "people's livelihood under the global epidemic"; Pioneer forums, parallel forums and professional forums held on the eve and during the opening of the Forum will focus on global innovation cooperation, life health, artificial intelligence, innovation ecology, youth entrepreneurship, etc., which include the Global Science and Life Health Forum, Sino-Russian Science and Technology Innovation Forum, the 3rd China-Europe Talent Forum, the 3rd UNESCO Creative Cities Beijing Summit, the "Belt and Road" Science and Technology Park Forum, the Artificial Intelligence Open Source and Productivity Promotion Forum, the Intellectual Property Forum, and the Innovators Under 35 Reunion.

II. Section Exhibition

This year, the 23rd China Beijing International High-tech Expo (referred to as the Expo) will be held for the first time in conjunction with the ZGC Forum, as an exhibition section of the ZGC Forum.

This Expo includes over 10 activities, such as exhibition, promotion and trade. Thereinto, the most important special exhibition will discuss the world's science and technology frontier, focusing on key core technologies and original innovations, and comprehensively displaying the latest scientific and technological innovations. The 12 special exhibition areas set up include anti-pandemic technology exhibition area, international exhibition area, cutting-edge technology hotspot exhibition area, science and technology Winter Olympics exhibition area, Beijing high-tech industry innovation exhibition area, financial science and technology exhibition area, wisdom education exhibition area, capital culture and technology integration development achievement exhibition area, science and technology industry functional area innovation achievement exhibition area, capital youth science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship achievement exhibition area, capital automobile science and technology exhibition area, and provincial and municipal science and technology innovation achievements exhibition area. Official website (http://www.chitec.cn/) also provides comprehensive services such as online promotion of excellent enterprises and products, and online docking of investment cooperation projects, so as to create an everlasting Expo.

III. Section Trade

This Forum set up a technology trade section for the first time, focusing on promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and technology trading through three "As" to achieve the goal of "buying globally and selling globally":

First, unite more than 300 well-known technology transfer institutions and service institutions at home and abroad to launch “A” global technology trading alliance;

Second, work with domestic and foreign industries to hold nearly 10 technical transaction negotiation activities in “A” number of key countries and regions such as Sino-British artificial intelligence, Sino-German intelligent manufacturing, and clean energy in China-EU digital economy;

Third, focus on four areas: artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing, biotechnology and great health, energy conservation and environmental protection and green innovation, new generation information technology and intelligent transportation, collect industrial innovation projects from around the world, and launch “A” list of the top 100 leading technologies in industrial innovation.

IV. Section Release

Seven activities will be carried out, including the press conference on major achievements and the launch of new technologies and products in Zhongguancun. At the press conference of major achievements, Beijing will jointly select and release a number of leading innovations, science and technology policies and research reports with the sponsors Ministry of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and internationally renowned scientific and technological organizations; In the launching activities of new technologies and new products in Zhongguancun, six thematic areas, such as epidemic prevention and control, 5G and integrated circuits, artificial intelligence and intelligent hardware, biomedicine and high-end medical devices, new energy and new materials, will be organized to launch the cutting-edge new technologies and new products of Zhongguancun enterprises for the first time. In addition, a number of research results and reports will be released in parallel forums such as the 3rd China-Europe Talent Forum and the Global Science and Technology Youth Forum.

Three Highlights

Clear Theme, Giants Gather, High-end Projects

According to the ZGC Forum Organizing Committee Office, in the preparation process of the 2020 ZGC Forum, the "International Forum" was marked on the invitation of guests, topic setting and event arrangement, which received positive responses from relevant institutions and people from all walks of life at home and abroad, showing the following three aspects:

First, clear theme. Since the beginning of this year, the COVID-19 has spread all over the world, and the anti-globalization trend of thought has fermented, which has brought far-reaching influence on the economic development, social progress and people's lives of various countries. The flow of technological innovation elements such as technology, capital, talents and information is blocked and full of uncertainties. The 2020 ZGC Forum focuses on the common concern under the global epidemic, highlights win-win cooperation and common development, determines the annual theme of "Cooperate and Innovate, Jointly Meet Challenges", focuses on "people's livelihood under the global epidemic", and thoroughly discusses major issues of international concern such as science and technology anti-epidemic, life and health, global innovation cooperation, and the frontier of scientific and technological development. The conference, exhibition, trade and release of this Forum are all designed regarding this theme.

Second, giants gather. Up to now, more than 10 Nobel Prize-level scientists like Gregory P. Winter winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018 and former dean of Trinity College of Cambridge University, and Efim Zelmanov, winner of Fields Medal in 1994, and heads of multinational enterprises such as Intel and AstraZeneca, many well-known domestic technology entrepreneurs, and more than 20 international organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations and the International Trademark Association, top academic journals such as Nature, Science and Cell, and leaders of more than 20 science and technology parks such as IASP, Silicon Valley Bay Area Council and Cambridge Science Park have confirmed to participate in the forum in different forms. Among the more than 2,200 guests who are sure to attend the forum, there are more than 1,100 foreign guests from more than 30 countries and regions around the world.

Third, high-end projects. This ZGC Forum will gather a large number of cutting-edge high-end projects. A total of more than 5,000 cutting-edge high-end projects have been collected and sorted out in the series of technology trading activities, including more than 2,100 international projects from the United States, Britain, Germany, Israel and other countries, accounting for nearly half of the total projects. For these projects, the Forum will organize a jury of 100 experts to select 100 leading technology projects with the most value and innovation influence.

A total of 9 international organizations and more than 800 Chinese and foreign technology enterprises were selected to participate in the Expo, and a number of cutting-edge high-end projects were selected for key promotion. In the release session of the Forum, the organizers will also select the best among the best and release a number of leading innovations. Meantime, they will release over 80 most representative technical projects and over 100 latest and brightest new technologies and products through activities such as transaction negotiation and product launch.

Online Broadcasting

People can enjoy science and technology feast without leaving home

Due to the impact of the epidemic, this Forum has made innovations in its hosting mode and communication mode, and actively explored new modes such as cloud forum, cloud promotion, cloud negotiation and 360 live broadcast rooms, making this Forum a "cloud forum".

In terms of participation methods, this Forum will be held online and offline, with overseas guests mainly participating online and domestic guests and foreign guests in China mainly participating offline. Meantime, according to the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, the Forum Organizing Committee will moderately control the audience size of the Forum, strictly implement the epidemic prevention and control and medical security work plan, and earnestly do well in on-site epidemic prevention.

In terms of communication mode, the four major activities of this Forum will be broadcast live through the third-party platforms such as ZGC Forum official website (http://www.thesourcetimes.com/) and Weibo, Toutiao, TikTok, Kuaishou, bilibili.com, AcFun, CCTV, iQIYI, www.qianlong.com, Beijing Daily and Beijing News. People can watch live broadcast, playback and wonderful moments on mobile phones and computers without leaving home. At present, the official website of ZGC Forum, WeChat and Weibo have been updated and launched simultaneously. People can learn more about the Forum via the above channels and WeChat and Weibo of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Zhongguancun.

In addition, this Forum will give full play to Zhongguancun's technological advantages in electronic information, video processing, emerging media, etc., and use advanced technologies such as augmented reality, 5G, artificial intelligence, new display, etc., to effectively enhance the experience effect of the audience both on the spot and online.

According to head of the ZGC Forum Organizing Committee Office, under the background of the continuous spread of the international epidemic and the severe and complex global economy, the ZGC Forum, a high-end platform for international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, aimed to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's idea of building a community with shared future for mankind, and to build a national platform for scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation and a grand gathering of global scientists, concentrating on the focus and hot spots of global common concern, as well as the topics and activities of design forums regarding strengthening international cooperation and scientific and technological exchanges in epidemic prevention and control, will accelerate the promotion of international scientific and technological innovation exchanges and cooperation and technology transactions, and further strengthen our common confidence and determination to build a community with shared future for mankind.

ZGC Forum, founded in 2007, has been successfully held for eleven sessions so far. The Forum is based on the science, technology, products and market with whole-chain innovation, and strives to become an international scientific and technological innovation exchange and cooperation platform integrating scientific and technological exchanges and innovation achievements display, trade and release. The first Pioneer Forum of 2020 ZGC Forum was held on August 26th, and the second Pioneer Forum will be held this afternoon.