With the theme of “cooperation innovation and meeting challenges head on”, the 2020 Zhongguancun Forum was opened in Beijing on September 17. During the two-week forum, the 2020 Zhongguancun Forum will introduce four blocks of “conference+exhibition+transaction+release”, and a total of over 50 activities will be held. Participants will share and exchange ideas on “global science and life health”, “sustainable development and innovation”, “activate the city with creativity and create the future with technology”, etc. at the main forum and over 20 parallel forums.

With the help of live broadcast, holography, 5G and other technologies, the 2020 Zhongguancun Forum was presented to the global audience in the cloud for the first time. More than 200 well-known experts and scholars all over the world, more than 400 famous entrepreneurs and investors, more than 150 government officials at home and abroad and envoys in China, more than 40 international organizations and heads of top academic institutions, and industry-university-research and political and business representatives all over the world met in Zhongguancun online and offline.

At the opening ceremony and plenary session, 15 famous figures in the industry all over the world communicated the cutting-edge innovation ideas freely and the people-oriented technology development orientation on the theme of the “well-being of the people under the global epidemic situation”. Outside the venue, various artificial intelligence robots such as Baoxiaomi mobile robot, Baoxiaofan movable robot, Baodaping and coffee master robot served as “waiters” of the forum.

In the forum block, participants conducted heated discussions on life health, artificial intelligence, creative city, technology park, innovation ecology, youth entrepreneurship, technology finance, intellectual property rights, etc.

This year, the Zhongguancun Forum integrated with the famous “China Beijing International High-Tech Expo” for the first time. The main exhibition venue was located at the China International Exhibition Centre, with an exhibition area of 30,000 square meters and 12 theme exhibition areas. At the same time, 9 promotion transactions, 2 forum conferences and “seeing Beijing in the China Beijing International High-Tech Expo” series activities would be held, which have attracted nearly 800 Chinese and foreign enterprises.