The 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting will be held from March 27th to 31st. Beijing opens its doors to welcome spring and innovators from over 100 countries and regions. The green peaches and early cherry blossoms in Beijing are in full bloom, and the "flower of the future" in Zhongguancun is also blooming - the "Great Nation Heavy Tool" HEPS emits its first beam of light, the "Dream" ocean drilling ship is completed and put into operation, gene therapy technology allows blind people to "see" light... A batch of world-class achievements "make their debut", a batch of black technologies "go new", bringing the world's attention back to Zhongguancun. In 2025, a new round of technological revolution, mainly represented by artificial intelligence, is accelerating, making the public eager for the future, and the Zhongguancun Forum is an important window for looking forward to the future. 128 events across 5 major sectors, 60 parallel forums... Thousands of top scholars and Chinese and foreign guests gathered around the annual theme of "New Quality Productivity and Global Technology Cooperation" to engage in cutting-edge dialogues and jointly draw a blueprint for the future. The living 'history of technology': 'Within two steps, we encountered a robot, and' silicon-based life 'caught the attention.' This is not a science fiction film, but a true portrayal of the forum's annual meeting. There is nothing more fascinating than the future. Listening to the "Prelude to the Future", the Zhongguancun Forum gave a wonderful performance - the "robot shop assistant" handed freshly ground coffee, the "robot calligrapher" splashed ink, and the bionic robot dog improvised a backflip... The annual meeting was like a large-scale "robot job search site". Nearly a hundred robots from 15 companies showcase the commercial potential of embodied intelligent technology in five core scenarios: welcoming, communication, hosting, performance, and service. All of this made the attendees truly feel that the future has arrived, right beside us. Today, the wave of innovation is surging, and the speed of technological breakthroughs is more intense than ever before Witnessing the transformation of Zhongguancun, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Wang Ruijie, who attended the opening ceremony, sighed that artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biotechnology are profoundly changing our lives. The Zhongguancun Forum, born in 2007, has undergone 18 years of accumulation and has become an important window for China's innovative development and active participation in international scientific and technological cooperation. In recent years, a series of technological achievements have chosen to be presented to the public at the Zhongguancun Forum, from long-lived superconducting quantum bit chips, quantum computing cloud platform "Kuafu", to AI optical chips "Taiji", and general intelligent agents "everything". During this annual conference, a number of scientific and technological achievements, innovation policies, and authoritative reports were released, including the major achievements of the Zhongguancun Forum, the National Innovation Index Report, the 2024 "Top Ten Scientific Advances in China", the top ten key research directions of embodied intelligence, and the standardization white paper. These reports share the "Chinese science and technology story" with the world and provide new ideas and inspirations for global innovation and development. The 2025 government work report emphasizes the cultivation and growth of emerging and future industries. During the annual conference, the permanent exhibition of Zhongguancun Exhibition Center, which was refurbished and unveiled, attracted a large number of domestic and foreign guests to visit. Entering the exhibition hall filled with black technology, one after another significant milestone achievements such as the "Tiangong" intelligent robot, the reusable Zhuque-3 rocket, and the world's largest offshore wind turbine have marked one technological milestone after another, and also lifted the weight of Zhongguancun Science Center and innovation highland. Innovation "Dreamworks" is a semi intrusive brain computer interface "Beinao No.1" independently developed by China, which has completed three human experiments... "Outside the Changchun Hall where the opening ceremony was held, foreigners gathered around a transparent brain model and gave thumbs up. Last year's forum, 'Beinao No.2' immediately gained global attention upon its release, allowing us to receive more olive branches from investors. This greatly shortens the cycle from laboratory to clinical results Luo Minmin, director of the Beijing Institute of Neuroscience and Brain like Research, said that the Zhongguancun Forum is truly an accelerator for the growth of innovative enterprises and a catalyst for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. To promote supply-demand integration, this forum held more than ten technology trading events such as Zhongguancun International Technology Trading Conference and Technology Trading Open Day, creating a new engine for deep integration of innovation chain and industry chain. As soon as we stepped off the roadshow stage of the Zhongguancun Forum Frontier Competition, we encountered investors and park representatives who came to cooperate, which enabled us to quickly connect upstream and downstream and turn technology into products Wang Yujing, Chief Technology Officer of Borui Kang, said excitedly. The innovative 'chemical reaction' cannot be separated from the fertile soil of the innovation rainforest. If the Zhongguancun Forum has witnessed everyone's dream moment, then Zhongguancun behind it is the place where innovative enterprises build their dreams. From a piece of farmland and an electronic street to an innovation highland that radiates across the country and connects the world... Zhongguancun has always grown. On 488 square kilometers of land, new miracles are nurtured every day, and innovation power for the future is surging everywhere. Zhipu AI, the darling of the capital market and a unicorn in artificial intelligence, showcased its AI agent AutoGLM at the opening ceremony of this year's annual conference. Founder Zhang Peng recalled his initial dream, "Six years ago, we had a heart full of purpose: to make robots think like humans and let AI truly help people do something. Now, this dream has been realized: the AI agent AutoGLM, born from Zhipu AI, can enable AI to jump out of dialogue boxes and actively "work" for humans. Zhongguancun people have jointly built an innovative 'dream factory'. There is no shortage of top-notch technology and talents here, with precise policies and patient capital pouring in, allowing dreams to take off with wings. From breakthroughs in original achievements and accelerated pilot incubation, to industrial gradient progress and innovation partner collaboration, to application scenario traction and financial vitality empowerment, Zhongguancun breaks barriers and takes the lead in experimentation, enabling innovation entities to dare to layout the forefront and climb the peak of scientific and technological innovation. From "Silicon Valley of China" to "Zhongguancun of the world", "openness" has always been the theme of the Zhongguancun Forum. During the annual conference, more than 30 international organizations and institutions hosted and organized 18 parallel forums, transforming cutting-edge technological breakthroughs into strong driving forces for global development. This year, the Zhongguancun International Frontier Technology Competition, known as the "cradle of hard technology enterprise growth," has reached a new high in international participation, with over 3200 projects from 75 countries and regions participating, with international projects accounting for 40%. The high level of international participation, recognition, and reputation reflects the increasing influence, linkage, and radiation of the Zhongguancun Forum. Recently, a series of open-source achievements such as Changan Chain, RISC-V processor cores, and Ideal Vehicle Operating System have been intensively updated. This attempt to "drive innovation with innovation" not only benefits more innovators with a free and open atmosphere, but also gathers brilliant collective wisdom, highlighting China's leadership in the trend of open source and allowing the world to share China's wisdom. Only through open cooperation can we address global scientific challenges. Our vision coincides with China's development strategy and Beijing's innovation advantages Nobel Prize winner in Physics and French physicist Gerhard Albert Muru extended an olive branch of cooperation. Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Barry Marshall, once again stepped onto the stage of the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting and exclaimed, "Beijing is a rare innovation partner. Zhongguancun has strong policy support, intellectual property, regulation, listing planning, and achievement transformation, which are particularly important for innovation." He also gained a new identity as a collaborator of Zhongguancun Characteristic Industrial Park. This "old friend" of Zhongguancun Forum voted with his feet to place his innovation base in Beijing. He will work with Chinese partners to build a healthier 'global village'. Quantum computing, AI big models, biotechnology... Faced with a new wave of technological revolution, countries around the world need to work together to break through technological barriers and share development achievements. As a national level platform for global technological innovation exchange and cooperation, Zhongguancun Forum has become a bridge connecting global wisdom and creating a better future together. With the growth of Zhongguancun Forum, Zhongguancun's foreign trade achievements are also gradually shining. Since 2007, the cumulative foreign trade scale of Zhongguancun has exceeded one trillion yuan, of which the proportion of private economy has exceeded 50%, and the proportion of high-tech products has exceeded 70%, and this proportion continues to rise. Open cooperation has also led to rapid progress in China's biotechnology Dennis Gillings, founder and chairman of Kuntai Company in the United States, commented as follows. And his wife Mireya Gillins, as the founder of Huya Biotechnology, also came to Zhongguancun with the vision of finding original new drug achievements in China and developing global markets. Thanks to its openness and commitment to openness, Zhongguancun will not stop. Zhongguancun will always maintain an open mind, further deepen scientific and technological cooperation, actively build a key hub of global innovation network, and contribute Zhongguancun's strength to global scientific and technological innovation exchange and cooperation, "said Zhang Jihong, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Management Committee. (New Society)