
Experts and scholars focus on high-level construction of Wuhan regional science and technology innovation center and offer suggestions
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The "Academic Forum on Promoting the Rise of Central Region in the New Era·2026" aims to explore high-quality development and innovation-driven paths in the central region.
China News Service, Wuhan, November 13 (Ma Furong, Zuo Ying) The "New Era Academic Forum on Promoting the Rise of the Central Region·2026" was held at Huazhong University of Science and Technology on the 13th. Experts and scholars focused on the theme of "accelerating the construction of a fulcrum driven by innovation - the theoretical logic and practical path of building a high-level Wuhan regional science and technology innovation center" and offered suggestions.
Du Debin, professor and dean of the Institute of Global Innovation and Development at East China Normal University, pointed out that Wuhan is rich in science and education resources and has a solid industrial foundation. It should be based on these unique endowments and rely on the four-dimensional innovation closed loop of knowledge, technology, products and industries to systematically build five major collaborative paths - strengthening leading scientific and technological enterprises, cultivating world-class industrial clusters, strengthening the core leadership of the Optics Valley, cultivating local talents, optimizing the global innovation ecosystem, and better exerting its function as a source of scientific and technological innovation.
The "Academic Forum on Promoting the Rise of Central Region in the New Era·2026" was held in Wuhan, with experts and scholars delivering keynote speeches. (Photo courtesy of Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
"The global science and technology innovation pattern has undergone profound changes. The next five to 10 years will be a critical window period for Wuhan to transform from a 'science and education center' to a 'science and technology innovation leader.'" Chen Jin, chair professor of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and director of the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Center, suggested that technological innovation and industrial innovation should be the basic path to increase the supply of high-quality science and technology, strengthen the main position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, and develop new productive forces according to local conditions. He also emphasized that regional innovation should not only focus on the number of patents but also on real needs and scenarios, and shift from "supply-side orientation" to "demand, scenario and user-driven".
According to Fan Zhihong, president of the Wuhan Academy of Social Sciences, the next two to three years will be the finalization period for the scientific intelligence pattern. We must actively accelerate the layout to participate in the definition of national standards for independent laboratories, transform hard technological advantages into the supply capacity of scientific intelligent infrastructure, and feed back biomedicine, new materials, and semiconductors, becoming the innovation source and industrial highland of global scientific intelligence.
The forum was hosted by Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei Academy of Social Sciences, and Wuhan Academy of Social Sciences.
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