The 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting will be held in Beijing from March 27th to 31st, with the theme of "New Quality Productivity and Global Technology Cooperation" this year. What are the highlights of this forum's annual meeting? The State Council Information Office held a press conference on March 20th to introduce the relevant situation. This year's forum annual meeting has set up five major sections including forum meetings, technology trading, achievement release, cutting-edge competitions, and supporting activities, with 128 events covering more than 100 countries and regions. Thousands of speakers will discuss the cultivation of new quality productivity through scientific and technological innovation, providing new ideas and inspirations for global innovation and development Vice Minister of Science and Technology Lin Xin said. Focusing on cutting-edge hotspots and creating a technological "barometer" - This forum's annual meeting will focus on cutting-edge fields such as AI big models, embodied intelligence, quantum technology, biomedicine, 6G, brain computer interfaces, etc., setting up 10 brand forums and 50 innovation forums to deeply explore the progress of cutting-edge technology and industry development trends. For example, the Future Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Forum will focus on two cutting-edge technology hotspots: general large-scale models and embodied intelligence. It will invite top scholars, leading entrepreneurs, and young scientists, including Turing Award winners, from home and abroad to explore the development trends of artificial intelligence and create a "barometer" for cutting-edge technology. It is worth mentioning that the annual meeting of this forum comprehensively constructs cutting-edge scientific and technological application scenarios, and creates a "sense of science and technology pull full" participation experience - using voiceprint recognition and speech fitting technology to achieve simultaneous interpreting translation of speakers' speech in their mother tongue and original voice; Nearly a hundred representative robots from 15 companies will serve as intelligent assistants for the forum's annual meeting, providing welcome, communication, hosting, performance, and service; Guests attending online conferences can also experience immersive interactive experiences at the metaverse venue... "We strive to make the forum annual meeting a grand stage where new technologies, products, and scenarios are showcased," said Jin Wei, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Mayor. Highlighting the sharing of achievements and promoting industrial development - Lin Xin introduced that this forum's annual meeting will highlight the sharing of achievements. Through activities such as technology trading conferences, cutting-edge technology competitions, and major scientific and technological achievements releases, a "government industry university research funding" cooperation platform will be established to promote the docking and industrialization of major scientific and technological achievements, and accelerate the cultivation of new quality productivity. Among them, more than ten technology trading events such as the Global Conference on Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements in Universities have gathered more than 30 professional technology transfer institutions, over 120 universities and colleges, over 200 venture capital institutions, and over 2000 innovative enterprises from 34 countries to participate, further promoting the supply and demand matching of innovation factors. During the annual forum, the final of the Zhongguancun International Frontier Technology Competition will also be held. This year's competition has attracted more than 3200 projects from 75 countries and regions around the world. In addition to last year's 10 tracks, four new tracks including synthetic biology have been added. The proportion of artificial intelligence participating projects has reached a quarter. A number of high-level entrepreneurial projects have also emerged in the fields of brain computer interfaces, gene therapy, and humanoid robots. In addition, a number of scientific and technological achievements, innovation policies, and authoritative reports such as the major achievements of the Zhongguancun Forum, the National Innovation Index Report, and the 2024 "Top Ten Scientific Advances in China" will also be released during the annual meeting of the forum. Linking global wisdom and promoting open cooperation - "This forum's annual meeting highlights open cooperation, including intergovernmental scientific and technological cooperation dialogues, as well as extensive invitations to international scientific and technological organizations, global scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, and others to participate," said Lin Xin. Jin Wei said that more than 30 international organizations and institutions will host and host 18 parallel forums at this forum annual meeting, promoting deep cooperation through high-level dialogue. We will also release a batch of open-source projects such as RISC-V, humanoid robots, Changan Chain, and vehicle operating systems to build a platform for innovation exchange and cooperation. Lin Xin said that in recent years, China has established a new pattern of multi-level, all-round, and wide-ranging scientific and technological cooperation. The Ministry of Science and Technology will further expand intergovernmental and non-governmental scientific and technological cooperation, deepen scientific and technological cooperation mechanisms in various fields with countries, accelerate the construction of an innovation environment open to science and technology, implement the "the Belt and Road" scientific and technological innovation action plan in high quality, and deeply participate in global scientific and technological governance. The Zhongguancun Forum is also a national level platform for global scientific and technological innovation cooperation and exchange. We will further leverage the platform and hub role of this forum to make new and greater contributions to promoting all-round international scientific and technological cooperation Lin Xin said. The Zhongguancun Forum was founded in 2007 with the permanent theme of "Innovation and Development". It has been successfully held for 15 sessions, with thousands of parallel forums and supporting activities, and a total of hundreds of thousands of guests and audiences participating. The 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting is co sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Association for Science and Technology and the Beijing Municipal Government. (New Society)