China Industrial Hi-tech Forum Held in Beijing

Co-sponsored by altogether 16 units including the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering October 7 saw China Industrial Hi-tech Forum being held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. As one of the series of activities of the ongoing forum, Nobel laureate Tsung Dao Lee immediately after the opening ceremony, delivered a lecture on the popularization of science entitled "Challenge of Physics" which consists of several parts as "Physics in 21st Century", "Scientists' Training", "Chinese Physics in Ancient Times" and the like.

Premier Zhu Rongji sent a letter to Tsung Dao Lee, saying that this forum is the largest in scale in history and will certainly promote the development of science and technology in China. And Premier Zhu congratulates on the success of the forum in advance.

Present at the forum were some 10,000 audiences including over 20 academicians from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, officials, experts, scholars, and more than 1,000 students.

Tsung Dao Lee began his lecture from the part of "Chinese Physics in Ancient Times", explaining the relationship between latest result in world physics, basic research, applied research, and market research. He also put forward a view that science and arts enrich the creativeness of human beings. After the lecture, Lee was engaged as counselor on science and arts of Beijing Municipal government.

This forum is aimed at promoting the implementation of the strategy for revitalizing the nation through science and education and sustainable development. And it is also for speeding up industrial modernization, advancing the scientific and technological level in industry and raising enterprises' competitiveness in international market so as to answer for the challenge that the booming science and technology in the world and China's entry into WTO have brought to us.

A series of activities of the forum will also be held from October 7-9, including 16 sub-forums on aviation, talks for high-tech project and high-tech industrialization exposition.



By PD Online Staff Huang Ying


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