The Fourth World Laureates Forum was held in Shanghai on Nov 1. 

Wan Gang, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and president of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), Wu Qing, a member of the standing committee of the CPC Shanghai municipal committee and vice-mayor of Shanghai, and Roger Kornberg, chairman of the World Laureates Association (WLA) and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006, attended the opening ceremony. 

The ceremony was presided over by Xu Yanhao, deputy secretary of the leading Party members’ group of the CAST. 

Wan Gang, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC and president of the CAST, gives a keynote speech at the Fourth World Laureates Forum on Nov 1.

Wan noted that China’s scientific and technological community has always been a pioneer in global openness and cooperation, a participant in sci-tech governance and a contributor to innovation and development. China has actively advocated an open scientific spirit that goes beyond boundaries, barriers and discrimination. 

“Guided by inclusive innovation, we have implemented the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and strengthened scientific knowledge exchange and technological innovation cooperation. With high-level opening-up and cooperation, we will work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind,” Wan said. 

The forum has brought together 131 top science award winners from 23 countries across the world, dozens of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 132 young scientists and representatives from all walks of life.