What they say

The event featured 131 top scientific award winners, including 68 Nobel Prize laureates and nine Turing Award winners. Of these, 26 attended the event for the first time.

Let's check out what they had to say at the forum:

Roger Kornberg, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and chairman of the WLA, said that companies in Israel and China have cooperated with universities in Shanghai and the WLA to develop anti-viral medicine.

They are researching a silent interfering RNA, also known as siRNA, which would have therapeutic potential to fight against respiratory viral infection.

"The growth of international collaboration programs has significantly increased, which is so-called inclusive collaborative research," said Yang Wei, a member of the CAS, at the Open Science Panel Discussion of WLF4 on Nov 1.

"It may not be difficult to address global challenges through scientific research, but it is difficult to gather together different groups from different countries and regions.

Michael Levitt, vice chairman of the WLA and the laureate of 2013 Nobel Prize Prize in Chemistry delivered a keynote speech at the SHE Forum of the WLF4 on Nov 2. He mentioned that, as men dominate the society, women's talents are ignored. Men and women should work together to address global challenges.

"It is very important that everybody, especially women, think about how to redefine the rules of society so that they are not partial to men." said Levitt.

Wang Zhonglin, laureate of the 2018 EniPrize said that even though the world has changed, we and have new materials or new structures, the fundamentals of physics may never change.

He also advised young scientists to continue to research chemistry and physics, as well as explore new designs and new energy.

"Science communication and talent training is very significant, as we have to keep pace with the times," said John Hopcroft, the laureate of the 1986 TuringAward, at WLF4 on Nov 1.

The focus of education should not be on what the teacher says, but what the students understand and remember, and whether it can be applied in practice.