(The 9th China International Import Expo) Global scientific and technological innovation seeds accelerate and “break ground” at the China International Import Expo

China News Service, Shanghai, November 5th (Lan Yini) "Welcome to the China International Import Expo!" Zhu Huiyong, a Hong Kong businessman who uses mobile phones and tablets, had just finished saying this in Chinese, and his image on the screen greeted him in fluent French - relying on artificial intelligence face translation technology, the voice of the image was naturally restored, and the mouth shape and tone were accurately matched, as if Zhu Huiyong himself was speaking an authentic foreign language.

The 9th China International Import Expo opened in Shanghai on the 5th. As the founder of Shaiqu Technology, this is Zhu Huiyong’s third appointment at the CIIE. From prototype technology to the first-generation product of delayed translation, to a new version that can "translate while speaking" and covers 32 languages, the CIIE has witnessed the growth of this start-up.

Zhu Huiyong said that last year's exhibition linked a lot of cooperation for the company, "For example, we empowered Hebei's cross-border live broadcast center to reduce the trial and error costs of small and medium-sized enterprises going overseas." This year, his "wish list" is even richer: assisting the overseas broadcast of sports events such as "Village Super League", building remote diagnosis and treatment channels for traditional Chinese medicine, and helping short dramas go overseas to countries with small languages, etc., are all new scenarios he hopes to explore.

Start-up teams are looking for partners with their technology, while international industry giants continue to invest in new developments.

Boston Scientific, an American medical company that has attended the CIIE for eight consecutive years, has transformed 26 CIIE exhibits into products. This year, its new generation cardiac pulsed electric field ablation system made its world debut here. The device was initially developed and produced overseas. Now it has been iteratively upgraded to meet China's clinical needs and has been implemented in the Shanghai factory to achieve localized production.

"Having been deeply involved in China for nearly 30 years, this is not only a product application market, but also the source of our innovation." Zhang Jun, President of Boston Scientific Greater China, said that its layout in China has extended to research and development, manufacturing, clinical research, medical education, etc. There are currently many scientific and technological innovation projects in progress, and we hope to use the exhibition to get to know more Chinese partners.

Medical films that make surgical wounds nearly "invisible", electronic skin that gives robots "tactile" perception, drones that can withstand level 10 winds... more global cutting-edge technologies are landing in the "test field" of the CIIE. This year's innovation incubation zone gathered 633 scientific and technological innovation projects from nearly 40 countries and regions, an increase of nearly 20% from the previous session. More than 100 overseas projects clearly released their demands for financing and industrial cooperation.

Chen Haojie, general manager of EGI China (the operating entity of the British EGG incubator in China), said that more and more overseas projects are looking for opportunities in China, and the track has expanded from new energy and new materials to hard technology fields such as embodied intelligence. "China not only has a huge consumer market, but also has a complete industrial chain and diverse application scenarios. The industrialization of start-up projects requires such soil."