BEIJING, March 18 (Xinhua) — The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) will highlight the theme of “Full Integration Between Technological and Industrial Innovation,” an official with the Ministry of Science and Technology mentioned on Wednesday.
This 12 months’s ZGC Forum can be held in Beijing from March 25 to 29. More than 1,000 visitors from over 100 nations and areas are anticipated to take part in the discussion board, which options a couple of hundred occasions, Lin Xin, vice minister of science and know-how, mentioned at a press convention.
The 2026 discussion board can be characterised by 4 distinctive options. Firstly, it’ll emphasize the growth of the capital metropolis’s efforts to change into a global science and know-how innovation middle by holding boards and releasing related insurance policies for deepening coordination amongst Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, all situated in north China, Lin mentioned.
Lin additionally famous that it’ll emphasize the deep integration of technological innovation with industrial innovation by specializing in frontier fields reminiscent of 6G, brain-computer interfaces, and cell and gene remedy.
The built-in development of training, science and know-how, and expertise cultivation can even be a key attribute of the 2026 discussion board, in accordance to Lin.
Additionally, this 12 months’s discussion board will emphasize high-level scientific and technological openness and cooperation, she added.
The 2026 discussion board is collectively organized by a number of Chinese authorities companies, together with the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Founded in 2007, this discussion board in Beijing has developed into a worldwide, complete, open and high-level worldwide occasion for enhancing world innovation in science and know-how. ■