China News Service, Kunming, October 18 (Reporter Chen Jing) The first Dianchi International Complex Science Conference - the 70th Anniversary of the Discovery of Parity Non-Conservation Law Frontier Physics Conference was held in Kunming from October 16 to 17, and the Kunming International Complex Science Center was simultaneously unveiled. More than 240 domestic and foreign guests including experts and scholars from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsinghua University and other universities, scientific research institutions, and business representatives attended the meeting.
Liu Hongjian (right), deputy secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the Kunming Municipal Committee, and academician Ding Kuiling, president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, jointly unveiled the Kunming International Complex Science Center. Photo provided by the organizer
In 1956, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang proposed the parity non-conservation theory and jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics the following year. The common academic starting point of these two scientific research pioneers was the National Southwest Associated University, which was established in Kunming during the Anti-Japanese War. The conference was held in Kunming to continue the scientific context of Southwest Associated University, deepen regional cooperation in scientific and technological innovation, better promote the development of basic research, and contribute to improving original innovation capabilities and building an innovative Yunnan.
Wang Ning, Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, attended the opening ceremony and met and communicated with the guests, introducing the province's new achievements in economic development, people's livelihood construction, scientific and technological innovation and other fields.
Before the meeting, Wang Ning put forward requirements for a successful meeting. All regions and departments in the province should promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, focus on the province's key industries and key areas to carry out scientific and technological research, strengthen cooperation with national-level platforms, well-known universities, and key enterprises, actively guide and support leading enterprises to deploy R&D centers in Yunnan, continue to host the Tengchong Scientist Forum, strengthen talent training and introduction, improve basic research levels, apply scientific and technological achievements to industries and enterprises, cultivate and develop new productive forces, and support high-quality development with high-quality scientific and technological supply.
Wang Yubo, deputy secretary of the CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee and governor of Yunnan, said in his speech that Yunnan is vigorously implementing the strategy of revitalizing Yunnan through science and education and strengthening Yunnan through talents, and accelerating the construction of innovative Yunnan. The majority of scientists and entrepreneurs are the "strongest brains" and "best partners" for Yunnan's high-quality development. They hope to use this meeting as an opportunity to deepen practical cooperation with all parties in strengthening basic research, promoting the transformation of results, attracting scientific and technological talents, and building an innovation ecosystem. We will promote more cutting-edge ideas to collide in Yunnan, more outstanding teams to develop in Yunnan, and more innovative results to be implemented in Yunnan, and continuously inject new momentum into creating a new situation in Yunnan's development in the process of Chinese-style modernization.
Academician Zhang Jie, Director of the Li Zhengdao Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Academician Duan Wenhui, Director of the Yang Zhenning Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University, delivered speeches. Mats Larsson, former chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee for Physics, gave a keynote speech, introducing the scientific research results of relevant fields and institutions. It expresses the need to inherit and carry forward the scientific spirit, promote the two-way empowerment of basic frontier exploration and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the collision of ideas and academic progress; encourage young scientists to cultivate their scientific interests, bravely enter the "no man's land" of science, and continuously improve their basic research and original innovation capabilities.
Academician Pan Jianwei, Executive Vice President of the University of Science and Technology of China, and Academician Wang Yifang, former director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave academic reports.
At the meeting, the Kunming International Complex Science Center was officially unveiled. The center was jointly established by the Kunming Municipal People's Government and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It aims at the paradigm change of scientific discovery driven by artificial intelligence. It is based on Yunnan's biodiversity, plateau ecology, cross-border systems and other characteristic resources to carry out basic cross-research on complex science and industrial application research on AI for Science. Relying on the location advantages facing South Asia and Southeast Asia, it implements talent exchange mechanisms such as dual employment of scientists, builds a talent training and scientific communication system for South Asia and Southeast Asia, promotes the on-site transformation of results, and is committed to building an AI for Science and complex scientific research highland with international influence. (over)
