GSF concludes with fruitful achievements
The three-day Greater Bay Area Science Forum 2024 concluded on Nov 18, with a wide range of achievements.
Adopting the theme “Leading through Open Science”, the forum has contributed to promoting scientific openness and expediting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area’s development into a globally influential innovation hub.
Nobel laureates, Fields Medal winners, leaders of international academic institutions, renowned academicians both at home and from abroad, and representatives of leading enterprises attended the forum, which was held across the three regions.
Focusing on cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, low-altitude economy, biomedicine, and green energy, as well as related topics, the forum presented more than 240 major scientific and technological achievements from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which were showcased for industrial transformation and collaboration, highlighting the Greater Bay Area's efforts to pioneer international scientific cooperation and collaborative innovation as well as promote the deep integration of technological innovation with industrial application.
Bai Chunli, chairman of the GSF, called for efforts to explore new trends in future scientific development, solve major scientific bottlenecks, and continuously drive new breakthroughs in science and technology.
Xue Qikun, president of Southern University of Science and Technology, underlined the need to fully leverage the Greater Bay Area's locational advantages and openness to further promote interdisciplinary, cross-sector, and cross-border research collaboration and talent cultivation in order to provide efficient and robust support for the technological innovation and development of the Greater Bay Area.
Barry James Marshall, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, conducts an on-site visit to Guangdong Medical Valley in Nansha. [Photo/WeChat account: GSFofficial]