On November 22, the "2022 Hubei International Technology Exchange Conference" hosted by the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology opened in Wuhan. Shao Xinyu, Vice Governor of the Hubei Provincial People's Government, the General Office of the Hubei Provincial Government, the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People´s Republic of China, and the China Science and Technology Exchange Center online and offline. Attended the event, and the opening ceremony was presided over by Feng Yanfei, Secretary of the Party Group Department of Science and Technology of Hubei Province, director of the department.
Shao Xinyu, deputy governor of the Hubei Provincial People's Government, attended and delivered a speech to promote scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation
Hubei has a foundation, space and action. Shao Xinyu said that Hubei Province is actively building an open-oriented scientific and technological innovation cooperation mechanism. Since 2017, Hubei International Technology Exchange Conference has been held continuously, and is committed to building a cooperation and exchange platform for technology and industrial docking, and between experts, scholars and entrepreneurs at home and abroad. In the past five years, representatives of more than 200 business institutions and universities from more than 40 countries and regions around the world have carried out more than 400 technical docking and project negotiations through this platform.
Feng Yanfei, Secretary of the Party Group Department of Science and Technology of Hubei Province, director of the department, presided over the opening ceremony
In the continuous foreign cooperation and exchanges, China-Africa cooperation has achieved remarkable results. The first China-Africa Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was attended by innovation and entrepreneurship teams from 14 countries in Africa. In the end, the six projects won the first, second and third prizes respectively. In recent years, China-Africa scientific and technological innovation cooperation has developed rapidly under the framework of the Belt and Road cooperation mechanism and the China-Africa Cooperation Forum. Among them, the exchange and cooperation between China-Africa youth has laid a solid talent foundation for scientific and technological innovation cooperation between the two sides.
The exchange meeting presented awards to the winners of the China-Africa Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
Award-winning project:
In the new era, science and technology have become a new way to protect language and culture, contributing new strength to the protection of human civilization. The pioneer of African native language AI speech technology won the first prize of this competition. Zhang Linhua of the African Language Resources Research Center of Tongji University said that this project can not only enable African people to experience the good life brought by science and technology, but also learn from the experience of Chinese national language protection and adopt new scientific technology. Techniques inherit endangered languages and cultures in Africa, and also empower science and technology and culture to promote China and Africa to strengthen scientific and technological innovation cooperation in the new era.
The exchange meeting has a total of 9 special activities, from 14 countries and more than 50 overseas institutions such as Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, the United States, Canada and Russia, bringing more than 100 projects to participate in the docking negotiations. The project covers new energy, hydrogen energy, intelligent energy networked vehicles, optoelectronic information, materials and metallurgy, biomedicine, intelligent manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection and other industrial fields. Towards a new journey, Hubei's scientific and technological innovation will become stronger and stronger, and the door to scientific and technological opening will become wider and wider. This conference shows a new pattern of international scientific and technological opening and cooperation in Hubei. It is an important measure to expand Hubei's opening up to the outside world and deeply participate in international scientific and technological cooperation in the new era.
It is ten to understand the current situation of international scientific and technological innovation, improve the international vision of Hubei enterprises, and promote Hubei's industrial upgrading and high-quality development. It plays an important role in providing international scientific and technological strength for making every effort to build a national scientific and technological innovation highland. (The original text has been deleted)