Technology Empowering High-Quality Development: The 2024 Tengchong Scientists Forum Kicks Off Spectacularly
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Dec. 06, 2024
Academician Gu Binglin, Chairman of the Tengchong Scientist Forum, and Academician Rao Zihe, Co-Chairman, presented the awards to the winners Xue Qikun and Xie Xiaoliang, while Co-Chairman Academician Xu Zhihong read out the list of winners. The Tengchong Scientist Forum Development Fund and the Yunnan Province Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials Industry Development Fund were launched. Ding Zhongli, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, delivered a video address. Chen Zhu, Chief Technical Designer of the Four Major Chronic Disease Projects and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Wang Ning, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, delivered a speech, and Wang Yubo, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Governor, presided over the meeting. Luo Hui, member of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of International Cooperation of the China Association for Science and Technology, and Academician Gu Binglin delivered speeches.
this forum invited Nobel laureates, 120 academicians, 59 university presidents, over 300 young experts and scholars, over 600 entrepreneurs, and other guests gathered in Tengchong, focusing on the theme "Science · Global Innovation and the Mission of Scientists — Empowering High-Quality Development with Technology," Targeting the forefront of hot topics, discussing technological empowerment, jointly promoting cooperative development.
Nobel laureate in physics George Smoot said that science is a beacon of human progress, illuminating the path forward; The Tengchong Scientists Forum provides us with an excellent platform to cross borders and disciplines, advancing scientific endeavors with an open mind, innovative thinking, and resilient perseverance contribute to the exhibition.
opening ceremony announced the results of the 2024 Tengchong Science Award. Xue Qikun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at Tsinghua University, and President of Southern University of Science and Technology, and Professor Xie Xiaoliang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of Changping Laboratory, and Professor at Peking University Lee Shau Kee Chair Professor, were awarded the "2024 Tengchong Science Award." Forum officially launched two major funds: the Tengchong Scientist Forum Development Fund and the Yunnan Province Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials Industry Development Fund. The total scale target for the Tengchong Scientists Forum Development Fund is 5 billion RMB, focusing on investing in early and small investments, technology investments, and innovation, promoting more achievement research and transformation in Yunnan. The Yunnan Province Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials Industry Development Fund has a total planned scale of 10 billion yuan, focusing on the provincial Chinese medicinal materials industry chain and health enterprises, making it an "accelerator" leading the high-quality development of Yunnan's Chinese medicinal materials industry. on-site, 6 talent recruitment projects and 7 investment promotion projects signed their results on site. In 2024, the forum facilitated 170 talent recruitment projects and attracted more than 360 high-level talents; Over 600 investment promotion projects have been facilitated, with a total agreed amount exceeding 70 billion yuan.
past three years, the forum has received strong support from all sides, its influence has grown ever larger, its content richer, and its achievements increasingly remarkable. It is gradually becoming an important platform for the exchange of advanced academic ideas, interaction among government, industry, academia, and research, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and scientific cooperation between China and South Asian and Southeast Asian countries. It has formed a model of 'main forum + sub-forum + series of activities,' facilitating 496 talent introduction projects, 780 investment promotion projects, and an agreed investment of 190 billion yuan. today, the Tengchong Scientists Forum has gone nationwide and global. It is not only a bridge for communication among scientists, educators, entrepreneurs, and financiers, but also a platform that integrates science, technology, and the application of achievements. Yunnan will fully promote the forum's high-quality development and, relying on the forum, bring more opportunities and growth momentum to Yunnan.
