Unlocking the New Quality of Productivity at the Zhongguancun Forum

(Source: Qianlong.com)

The five-day event is not long, but the path to breaking through new productive forces is arduous and lengthy. The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference expands boundaries through innovation, promoting deep interaction between technology, scenarios, and industries. Here, we can see breakthroughs in core technologies, the implementation of cutting-edge scenarios, and more importantly, perceive those “invisible” deep-seated competitive strengths—efficient transformation from research laboratories to industry frontlines, system-level leap from single-point innovation to ecological collaboration. Behind every achievement lies China’s firm stride toward new development and high-level ascent in science and technology. This is a springtime journey of pursuit; we carry passion for innovation, singing and marching forward.

The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference opens on March 25. Support policies for the Beijing (Jing-Jin-Ji) International Science and Technology Innovation Center, the “Open Science International Cooperation Action Plan,” the four major achievements: “Top 10 Scientific Advances in China 2025,” “2025 Global Engineering Frontiers,” are immediately released. Focusing closely on cultivating new productive forces and high-level scientific and technological openness and cooperation, the first day of the conference is packed with information. Through this spectacular technological feast, we gain a clearer understanding of the deep logic of innovation-led development and unlock the secrets behind China’s accelerated rise of new productive forces.

This year’s Zhongguancun Forum emphasizes the core direction of cultivating new productive forces, targeting key fields such as embodied intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and high-end instruments. It showcases major innovative achievements and promotes the transformation of scientific and technological results into new productive forces, with increasingly distinctive features and clearer focus. Among them, the “Artificial Intelligence + Industry” forum will focus on application scenarios like autonomous driving and industry large models, gathering top scholars and leading enterprises to discuss pathways and methods for AI empowering the real economy; the enterprise discovery and invention forum will focus on industrial technological needs, building platforms for deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation. Over a thousand guests from around the world gather to discuss how to cultivate new productive forces through technological innovation, providing new ideas and insights for global innovation development.

In fact, high attention to new productive forces has always been the core theme of the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference. In recent years, new productive forces have not only been high-frequency buzzwords in speeches but have also been vividly presented to the world through new technologies and scenarios, showing their development progress and industrial prospects. AI accelerates iteration, becoming an accessible everyday tool; new productive forces accelerate formation, driving profound changes in industries and scenarios; from “Zhongguancun” to “Global Village,” the forum gathers global tech innovation “trendy products”… Zhongguancun Forum is painting a future landscape of leading new productive forces with technological innovation as the brush. Here, people can truly feel that “the future” is no longer distant in time; more and more “black technologies” are shedding their “future labels” and moving rapidly into reality. The era of intelligence unfolds like a slowly expanding holographic scroll, with humanity standing at the beginning, steadily marching toward a broader future.

Innovation is never just a slogan, and new productive forces are not just conceptual ideas on paper. They are pragmatic productivity driven by innovation, the core动力 supporting economic upgrading, social progress, and technological breakthroughs. The secrets of new productive forces lie in breakthroughs in original innovation and key core technology research, seizing the commanding heights of science and technology; in promoting deep integration of innovation chains, industrial chains, capital chains, and talent chains, and in efficiently transforming scientific and technological achievements; in optimizing traditional industries, cultivating emerging industries, and proactively planning future industries; and in further deepening reforms and breaking institutional barriers that restrict the development of new productive forces.

The Zhongguancun Forum releases strong signals of new productive forces: prominently launching the “Top 10 Scientific Advances in China 2025,” focusing on new energy and healthcare, anchoring both international scientific frontiers and people’s livelihood needs; upgrading technology transaction matchmaking, with over 20 intensive activities, including roadshows of more than 500 domestic and international tech projects, setting a new record for participating investment institutions; hosting the first National Natural Science Foundation Academic Forum, focusing on frontier directions such as bionic intelligence, integrated development of electricity and computing power, and high-speed magnetic levitation transportation, promoting precise connection between basic scientific research and social-economic development; and simultaneously releasing policies for the Beijing (Jing-Jin-Ji) International Science and Technology Innovation Center, further activating Beijing’s AI resource advantages, empowering the transformation and upgrading of industries like steel, chemicals, and agriculture in Tianjin and Hebei, and jointly breaking through technological bottlenecks in integrated circuits, healthcare, and other industries… From tackling basic research to improving results transformation, from industrial layout to solving bottlenecks in new productive forces, Zhongguancun Forum not only unlocks the secrets of new productive forces on-site but also injects continuous momentum into scientific self-reliance and regional collaborative innovation at the start of the “14th Five-Year Plan” new journey.

The five-day event is not long, but the path to breaking through new productive forces is arduous and lengthy. The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference expands boundaries through innovation, promoting deep interaction between technology, scenarios, and industries. Here, we can see breakthroughs in core technologies, the implementation of cutting-edge scenarios, and more importantly, perceive those “invisible” deep-seated competitive strengths—efficient transformation from research laboratories to industry frontlines, system-level leap from single-point innovation to ecological collaboration. Behind every achievement lies China’s firm stride toward new development and high-level ascent in science and technology. This is a springtime journey of pursuit; we carry passion for innovation, singing and marching forward.

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