Building the bridge of integration from "Laboratory" to "Production Line"—A remark on the opening of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference

Headline: Building a Bridge to Fuse “Labs” and “Production Lines”—Written on the Occasion of the Opening of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference

From March 25 to 29, the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, with the annual theme of “Deep Integration of Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation,” will be held in Beijing. The annual conference comprises five major sections—forum sessions, achievement releases, technology trading, frontier competitions, and supporting activities—featuring more than 100 events in total. Thousands of guests from over 100 countries and regions will participate. Photo taken on March 24 inside the news center of the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, showing two humanoid robots performing a lion dance. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Huanzong photo

◎ Commentator of this paper

On March 25, the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference officially opened with great fanfare. This year’s annual conference sets up five major sections: forum sessions, achievement releases, technology trading, frontier competitions, and supporting activities, with more than 100 events in total. Thousands of guests from more than 100 countries and regions will gather in Beijing to discuss the trends of cutting-edge technologies and to deliberate on major plans for industrial transformation.

As an important global barometer of technological innovation and a national-level platform for exchanges and cooperation, since its establishment in 2007, the Zhongguancun Forum has adhered to the permanent theme of “Innovation and Development,” and the philosophy of running the forum with open innovation and win-win cooperation. It continues to gather high-quality global innovation resources and builds a core platform for idea exchanges and collision, major achievement releases, and technology trading and transformation. The forum provides an authoritative window for the release of frontier technologies and innovative products, as well as application demonstration. Relying on the technology trading mechanism, it facilitates the connection between scientific research achievements and industrial needs, promotes technology transfer and transformation, docking of investment and financing, and industrialization on the ground, and fosters deep integration among the innovation chain, the industrial chain, the capital chain, and the talent chain. The forum not only strongly supports the development of Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) as an international science and technology innovation center, and serves high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening as well as the cultivation of new productive forces, but also links global innovation networks with an open and inclusive stance, making an active contribution to creating an open and win-win global innovation ecosystem.

Focusing on the theme of “Deep Integration of Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation,” this year’s annual conference is of high ambition and perfectly timed. This is both an accurate grasp of the trends of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and a timely response to the practical needs of our country to accelerate the development of new productive forces and build a modern industrial system. Today, the world is in the acceleration of a once-in-a-century great change. Technological innovation has become the core arena of international strategic competition. A breakthrough in a single technology alone is insufficient to form a sustained competitive advantage. Only by driving comprehensive integration of technological innovation into the industrial chain and supply chain—connecting the “first mile” from the lab to the “last mile” to the production line—can we build the core competitive capability for economic and social development. The Zhongguancun Forum has built a globally leading coordinated platform for “government, industry, academia, research, finance, services, and users,” promoting efficient allocation of technology, capital, talent, and markets, and will push the integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation further inward and outward to the overall picture, achieving greater breakthroughs.

At this year’s Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei will jointly hold a forum and a docking meeting for technology trading achievements, release related policies for deepening cooperation, and aim to further break down regional barriers, advance innovation coordination and industrial cooperation in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and promote the free flow of innovation factors and coordinated upgrading of industrial chains. In addition, around frontier fields such as 6G, brain-computer interfaces, and cell and gene therapies, the annual conference will host multiple special forum sessions to deeply discuss technological innovation and industrial applications in these areas. Frontier science and technology competitions, technology trading conferences, and more provide docking platforms for transforming scientific and technological achievements, driving more “from 0 to 1” original innovations in these emerging fields to accelerate and achieve the industrial leap from “1 to N.” Meanwhile, the annual conference will uphold high-level opening up to the outside world, implement the bilateral and multilateral international cooperation framework agreements, and hold multiple themed forum activities. It will implement the international initiative on open science and release the “Action Plan for International Cooperation on Open Science,” helping the global innovation chain and industrial chain to integrate for win-win outcomes and move steadily and far ahead.

With spring breeze carrying new journeys and with energetic paddling toward the future. We look forward to, at this innovation event, more sparks of innovation bursting forth one after another; more cooperation projects taking root and growing; and more explorations of integration pathways taking shape—so that technological innovation and industrial innovation can spur each other forward in deep intertwinement, achieving mutual benefit. We will inject strong momentum into promoting high-quality development and contribute China’s plan to advancing global prosperity and development. (Ju Huanzong)

Headline: Building a Bridge to Fuse “Labs” and “Production Lines”—Written on the Occasion of the Opening of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference Source: Science and Technology Daily

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