The ZGC Forum, an annual science and technology innovation event, will be held next week. On the afternoon of October 11th, the Press Conference of 2019 ZGC Forum was held in Beijing, at which many highlights of the Forum were disclosed for the first time. Compared with the previous sessions, the ZGC Forum of this year will include more than 30 activities, such as forums, exhibitions, announcements, etc. In addition to the meeting of a large number of celebrities at the Forum, more than 170 leading scientific and technological achievements will be exhibited, and 30 new measures for the construction of Beijing Science and Technology Innovation Center will be announced.

The 2019 ZGC Forum will be held at the Exhibition Center of Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone from October 16th to 18th. At the Press Conference, Zhai Lixin, director of the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park, introduced the overall situation of the ZGC Forum, the progress of preparations and the highlights of the Forum. Compared with the previous sessions, the Forum of this year will be upgraded in all aspects. The Forum will be further expanded in scope and extended to three days, with more than 30 activities including forums, exhibitions and announcements. The scale of the participants will also be greatly expanded compared with the previous sessions.

It is reported that the 2019 ZGC Forum will further enrich its contents and forms, adopt the framework of “Conference + Exhibition + Release”. The opening ceremony and plenary meeting will be held, 18 parallel forums will be organized at the same time, and the Zhongguancun International Cutting-Edge Technology Achievements Exhibition and the Major Achievements Release Conference will take place.

Who are the celebrities coming to this Forum? Zhai Lixin disclosed that the participants in this Forum will include representatives from international organizations such as the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the European Patent Office, etc., as well as world-class scientists such as Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine, Fields Medal winners, etc. According to incomplete statistics, during the 2019 ZGC Forum, dozens of well-known scientists, tens of investors, more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and tens of thousands of general public will participate in the forums and exhibitions.

During the Forum, the International Cutting-Edge Technology Achievements Exhibition to be held simultaneously will become a highlight of this year’s ZGC Forum. Centering on the theme of “Cutting-Edge Technology and Future Industries”, this Exhibition focuses on the display of nearly 170 technological achievements from 116 domestic and foreign entities, such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Microsoft, Intel, Siemens, etc., in sections of AI and information technology, bioscience and biotechnology, intelligent manufacturing and high-end equipment, new materials and new energy, and frontier technology exploration zone, etc., covering an area about 6,000 m2.

During the Forum, 30 new measures for the construction of Beijing Science and Technology Innovation Center will also be released, including a series of major policies, such as 14 policies and measures on intellectual property pledge and financing jointly introduced by the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park, the Bank Management Department of the People’s Bank of China, the Banking Regulatory Bureau and the Intellectual Property Office.