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On March 18, the first of the serial activities of 2021 ZGC Forum -- ZGC Science City Life Technologies Innovation Forum was successfully held in the Meeting Center of the Exhibition Center of ZGC National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. Xu Qiang, secretary of the party group of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and ZGC Management Committee and director of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and Yu Jun, secretary of the Haidian District Committee, attended the activity and made a speech. Hou Yun, member and deputy director of the party group of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and ZGC Management Committee attended the activity.

The forum is hosted by the Organizing Committee Office of ZGC Forum, organized by the Management Committee of ZGC Science City, and co-organized by Beijing ZGC Science City Innovation and Development Co., Ltd. and Beijing Biological and Health Industry Association of Beijing Haidian.

Focusing on "New Drug Innovation in the First-In-Class Era", the forum is intended to invite nearly 20 scientists, entrepreneurs and investors in the field of life science and technology from China, the United Kingdom, Italy and other countries to discuss innovation, exchange and share ideas in an online and offline way.

Centering on "search for first-in-class" and the hot issues such as basic research and application transformation of new drugs, comparison of development paths of new drugs at home and abroad, and financing of pharmaceutical enterprises, experts and investors held heated discussions. They shared their unique opinions and generated inspiration.

The keynote speeches shared by attendees such as "Artificial Intelligence Driven Research and Development of New Drugs", "Nucleic Acid Therapy", "Synthetic Biology" and "Review and Future Prospects of Biomedical Investment and Financing" have aroused heated discussion among insiders.

According to Xu Qiang, as the first one of normalized activities of 2021 ZGC Forum, this activity unveiled 2021 ZGC Forum. The forum of this year will be featured by further enhanced high-end and internationalization level and aims to invite global well-known experts and scholars, entrepreneurs and investors, and representatives from international organizations and the top academic institutions to meet online and offline together, exchange ideas, discuss cooperation and innovation, create world-oriented national science and technology exchange and cooperation platform, and boost the construction of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center. In the future, Beijing will further leverage its advantages in science and technology and human resources, step up innovation and cultivation, expand the channels for international cooperation and development in the medical health industry in Beijing, strive to build Beijing into an important source of innovation and development in the medical health sector, and join hands with all parties to contribute to the building of healthy China.

Yu Jun said that the first activity of 2021 ZGC Forum was held in Haidian District, which reflects the sense of responsibility of Haidian District. At present, ZGC Science City, an innovative, harmonious and livable area, is under construction in Haidian District. ZGC Science City is rich in scientific and technological innovation resources, has many superior resources in the field of medicine and health industry, presenting and is characterized by strong innovation ability, cross-integration of information and medical treatment, and more basic research. The theme of this forum meets the current development needs of ZGC Science City. ZGC Science City is home to a large number of outstanding talents, including academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering. The Innovation Ecological Rainforest provides an innovative environment for them to live and work in a suitable way. Friends from all walks of life are sincerely invited to settle in Haidian District to forge ahead and join hands to help Beijing build the International Science And Technology Innovation Center.

As one of the regions with the richest life and health basic research and clinical medical resources in China, Beijing has always attached great importance to the development of the medical health industry. In recent years, Beijing medical health industry has been maintaining the high quality development momentum. By strengthening industry cultivation, boost in-depth integration of enterprises, academia, and research institutes, Beijing has formed a biological medicine industrial cluster, including ZGC Life Park in the north, and Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone and ZGC Daxing Biomedical Base in the south. The technology innovation ability and the level of industry development in medical health field gradually achieve the domestic top level and international advanced level.

In recent years, ZGC Science City, by giving full play to the original innovation advantages of regional scientific research institutions, and adhering to the industrial system layout of "Regarding large information industry as the pillar, and the big health industry as the breakthrough”, has deployed numerous medical health industry cluster districts in the north area of ZGC Science City, Dongsheng Science Park the ZGC science park and Sijiqing Pre-Incubation Center - surrounding area of Jushan Industrial Park. The industry platforms and projects have been approved. They include Global Healthy Drug Development Center, BioFront New Drug Discovery Platform, open nest.bio labs, Mukangruichuang preparations platform, medical robot innovation center and other industry platform and projects. At the same time, AI can be used to enable the medical health industry, accelerate the efficiency of new drug research and development, and provide new health service models such as Internet medical treatment and cloud health management.

It is reported that 2021 ZGC Forum will be held in the golden autumn, and it mainly includes forum meetings, technology trading, exhibitions, results release, innovation competition and serial activities, with focus on the development trend of science and technology, national strategy and the capital development planning activities. At the same time, beyond the main meeting period, 2021 ZGC Forum is intended to hold a series of full-year normalized activities (online and offline, centralized and disperse as well as home and abroad), and it is intended to hold conferences and technology trade release activities so as to result in a fact that activities are held each month, and there are highlights each quarter. In addition, relevant organizers will carry out full-year "5+365" all-round services to realize "enjoying full-year services after participation ", and extend the forum activities to "three cities and one district", to the sub-center of the city, so as to form a normalized and active atmosphere of multi-regional linkage.