Creating cradle for world leading scientific and academic advances
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SHANGHAI will improve its capacity for innovation as well as strive to become a global cradle for new academic ideas, scientific discoveries, technical inventions and industrial advances, according to Li Qiang, Shanghai’s Party secretary.
He was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Pujiang Innovation Forum yesterday morning.
“Shanghai should initiate and participate in large international scientific projects and strengthen breakthroughs in key technologies,” he said.
“It will focus on fields such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuit, biomedicine, space and aviation and ocean engineering.”
He said the city should create an eco-system of innovation which is full of energy and vitality.
Shanghai should gather talented people from home and abroad in an environment free of red tape that evokes their passion.
Zhang Quan, head of the city’s science and technology commission, also said raising the capability of scientific innovation is one of the city’s new goals.
“We have undergone the stages from following, chasing (the other countries) to our own innovation, which is a qualitative leap,” he said.
“To realize the improvement on innovative capability, we need to drive the motivation and vigor further on scientific innovation through reforms and create a more open atmosphere for innovation.”
He told Shanghai Daily that the Ministry of Science and Technology and Shanghai have started a new round of cooperation with much wider content at the Pujiang Innovation Forum.
It covers 18 important issues including launching new national and city scientific research platforms, promoting the integration of scientific and technological resources for the nation and Yangtze River Delta and deploying a group of large special projects for science and technology in Shanghai.
Zhang also said science demands international collaboration and the next step is to work on international talent, platforms and programs to form an international environment for innovation.
“We will pay more attention to the requirements, researches and even personal lives of young talent,” he said.
Many foreign scientists attended the forum echoed Li and Zhang’s ideas.
They were impressed by the progress that Shanghai is making in becoming a major science hub, and they were keen for more collaboration in both scientific research and entrepreneurship.
Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek said encouraging talent should begin at a fairly young age.
“Early processes of development are very influential,” Wilczek said.
“Care and patient feedback to young people can be crucial.”
Being the first dean of Tsung-Dao Lee Institute of Jiao Tong University, Wilczek said he was confident that Shanghai will become an even more attractive city for scientific researchers.
The institute is part of a plan to make Zhangjiang High-Tech Park an urban sub-center which is supported by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It has invited 17 renowned physicists and astronomers.
“By introducing more methodologies from other universities and institutions like Cambridge and Columbia, I hope we can make this institute the best around the world,” Wilczek said.
Paulo Ferrao, president of the board of the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal, said Shanghai had impressed him.
Not only for its effort to promote scientific research, but to further develop the benefit to society that research can make.
Ferrao also argued that some mindsets of young people should be changed.
“We need to teach youth that to fail is normal,” Ferrao said. “One can get more strength from failure and get better result next time.”
Ferrao also suggested that scientific research should become more supply-oriented.
“Science should be solving the people’s problems,” he said.
Antoine Petit, CEO and chairman of the French National Center for Scientific Research, revealed a series of cooperations between France and Shanghai involving agriculture, health, space and AI.
Petit also said communication between young talented people can be crucial to the future science of both countries.
“We have welcomed more than 1,400 Chinese PhD students to France,” said Petit. “The number can still be bigger.”
A scientific and technological resource sharing service platform of the Yangtze River Delta was launched at a sub-forum.
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