5th World Laureates Forum opens in Shanghai
The fifth World Laureates Forum (WLF), one of the world's largest science and technology gatherings, kicked off in east China's Shanghai on Sunday, with more than 60 top scientists from over 20 countries and regions attending online and offline.
With the theme of "Science forward: Create a bright future," this year's event takes place from Sunday to Monday. The participants include 27 Nobel Prize laureates.
In addition to the founder of the event, the World Laureates Association (WLA), this year's organizers also include the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and China Media Group (CMG).
Initiated in 2018, the WLF aims at promoting basic science, advocating international cooperation, and supporting younger generations of scientists, according to its website.
Over the past years, the forum has become an important channel to connect the world's top scientists and a significant high-level dialogue platform in the global scientific community.
"Cooperation and openness are an unstoppable trend," said Chen Jining, the newly appointed secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), at the opening ceremony of the forum. "Shanghai will build an innovation platform of better quality and provide convenient services for scientists from around the world." Read More...
