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The 2021 Zhongguancun Forum series of activities with the theme of "breaking through industry-university-research and connecting innovation chain" - the first "International Forum of Young Scientists - Entrepreneurs in Urban Rail Transit" was held on October 10. More than 300 people from the government, scientific research institutes, universities, industry associations and enterprises gathered together, and discussed the industry-university-research collaborative innovation, achievement transformation, innovation mode and future development direction of rail transit.

Hou Yun, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission and Administration Commission of Zhuangguancun Science Park, delivered a speech on behalf of the Executive Committee Office of Zhongguancun Forum. She said that the 2021 Zhongguancun Forum was officially upgraded to a national platform for global scientific and technological innovation exchange and cooperation, and the first "International Forum of Young Scientists - Entrepreneurs in Urban Rail Transit" is one of the very important series of activities of Zhongguancun Forum. The forum builds a platform for resource pooling and sharing in the field of rail transit, hoping that all parties in the industry can jointly promote the innovative development of rail transit industry.

Hou Yun, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission and Administration Commission of Zhuangguancun Science Park

Gao Chunhai, chairman of TCT, presided over the opening ceremony

Tap the potential of young people

Improve the scientific and technological innovation ability of the industry

Focusing on the most energetic youth group, the forum brings young scientists and entrepreneurs together to explore how to break through the key points of industry-university-research cooperation and build a bridge between basic theory and industry, promoting constructive interaction among young "scientists - entrepreneurs" in the field of rail transit, and effectively improving the scientific and technological innovation ability and core competitiveness of the industry.

To further encourage the youth groups to make important contributions to industry innovation, the first rail transit "Gao Chunhai Award" focusing on the innovation and development of young rail transit scientists and entrepreneurs was awarded at the forum, aiming at encouraging innovative and entrepreneurial talents in the industry, supporting talents to continuously innovate and driving the industry to make breakthroughs and progress.

Award of rail transit "Gao Chunhai Award”

Yu Guizhen, Professor of School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Zhang Qiang, general manager of Beijing AI for Rail Technology Co., Ltd., won the rail transit "Gao Chunhai Award" - urban rail transit young scientist and young entrepreneur

During the forum, experts from various fields also conducted multi-angle and multi-level discussions and exchanges on the contributions of young scientists and young entrepreneurs to the industry, as well as the innovation potential, future growth and industry innovation of young groups.

Moreover, the conference also set up a product display and docking link. 18 enterprises and units including Siemens, ITOCEC and Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences displayed over 30 advanced technological products in digital transformation such as industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing.

Zhou Wenzhong, former Vice Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the United States and Secretary General of Boao Forum for Asia

Zhou Wenzhong, former Vice Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the United States and Secretary General of Boao Forum for Asia, said that in the era with global competition, contemporary young scientists and entrepreneurs should constantly seek change and innovation and improve the core competitiveness of rail transit, to continuously adapt to the new demands of the international environment and the development of the times.

Cui Xulong, member of the Standing Committee of Beijing Fengtai District Committee and deputy head of Fengtai District

Cui Xulong, member of the Standing Committee of Beijing Fengtai District Committee and deputy head of Fengtai District, indicated that rail transit has become an industrial cluster of the most prominent advantages and distinctive characteristics in Fengtai District, with large-scale and complete industry chain and strong innovation ability. As a leading gathering place of rail transit industry in China, Fengtai District will further coordinate the resources of "government, industry, university, research, application and finance", promote industrial collaborative innovation, and continue to support young scientists and entrepreneurs to make innovation and start up business in Fengtai District, so as to jointly write a new chapter in the high-quality development of rail transit.

Zhu Jun, deputy secretary general of China Association of Metros

Zhu Jun, deputy secretary general of China Association of Metros, said that China's urban rail transit industry has made remarkable achievements, and the intelligent development of rail transit requires young scientists and entrepreneurs to give full play to their talents and lead the high-quality development of rail transit technology in China. This forum focuses on cutting-edge and hot issues of scientific and technological innovation, which will help accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the industry.

Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd.

Zhang Yanyou, the Secretary of CPC and chairman

Zhang Yanyou, the Secretary of CPC and chairman of Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd., expressed that the forum highlights the technological innovation and management innovation in rail transit, which will contribute to discovering more young talents and providing talent support for industry innovation. Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd is focusing on transformation of "investment + innovation", digital transformation and green low-carbon transformation. As the owner, it will provide more application scenarios for upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain and promote the intelligent development of rail transit.

Jia Yiwei, deputy general manager of Zhongguancun Development Group

Jia Yiwei, deputy general manager of Zhongguancun Development Group, hoped that the forum could further gather the strengths of all parties in the industry and accelerate the industry towards intelligence and smart. Zhongguancun Development Group will take the coordinated development of Zhongguancun rail transit industry as the window to build a service platform for the rail transit startup enterprises of the whole city and provide all-round services with innovation and entrepreneurship resources.

Yang Guangwu, executive vice president of Beijing Society of Metros

Yang Guangwu, executive vice president of Beijing Society of Metros, said that the rail transit industry is in a stage from high-speed development to high-quality development. We should target the key core of global leading technology, encourage and support young scientists and entrepreneurs to innovate and start businesses independently, and build highland for innovative industry. Beijing Society of Metros is willing to take this forum as an opportunity to jointly promote industrial technological innovation with experts, scholars and enterprises.

Explore the way of innovation

Break through the "last mile" barrier of industry, university and research

In addition to focusing on the youth groups, the forum also held parallel sub-forums such as the International Roundtable Forum on Management and Innovation Practice, the Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Rail Transit, the Forum on Digital New Infrastructure Technology of Rail Transit and the Forum on Rail Transit Basic Research Collaborative Innovation, to jointly discuss the way of innovation and development of the industry.

Yu Zujun, member of the Standing Committee of CPC and vice president of Beijing Jiaotong University, delivered a keynote speech

Yu Zujun, member of the Standing Committee of CPC and vice president of Beijing Jiaotong University, shared his thoughts on the smart development of rail transit. He believes that in the future, the smart rail transit system will have a high degree of self-control, adaptability, flexibility and interoperability, and can realize the functions of self-learning, self-operating, self-adaptive service operability, self-diagnosis and health management, self-circulation energy conservation and noise reduction.

Bernard Jaworski, chair professor of Drucker School of Management, gave a keynote speech

Bernard Jaworski, chair professor of Drucker School of Management, said that for urban rail transit, an industry with multi-service collaboration and multi-party cooperation, the important role of management is self-evident. Integrating the essence of Chinese and Western management ideas can help enterprises to achieve better development in an era of accelerated innovation and transform.

TCT PMV&CV was officially released

In the International Roundtable Forum on Management and Innovation Practice, TCT officially released the "vision, purpose, mission, values and cultural system" ("TCT PMV&CV" for short), becoming the first Chinese and Western management innovation practice and model. Dr.Virginia of Drucker School of Management, more than ten presidents of companies in the industry and management experts discussed the topics such as enterprise management pain points, Drucker's modern management theory and practice, and the differences between Chinese and Western management methods, so as to clarify management innovation ideas for urban rail transit and provide management methods for the sustainable innovation and development of the industry.

Forum on Digital New Infrastructure Technology of Rail Transit

In the Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Rail Transit and Forum on Digital New Infrastructure Technology of Rail Transit, experts from "industry, university, research" jointly sorted out the development process of artificial intelligence + new infrastructure for the industry, explored the way of integration and innovation between emerging technologies and industry and clarified the future innovation and development direction, so as to open the door of smart development of urban rail transit.

Forum on Rail Transit Basic Research Collaborative Innovation

In the Forum on Rail Transit Basic Research Collaborative Innovation, representatives from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation and the Science, Technology and Information Bureau of Fengtai District, Beijing, explained in detail the relevant policies and practical cases of basic research and achievement transformation, so as to help the implementation of industry innovation.

In terms of industry-university-research cooperation, the participating experts agreed that industry-university-research cooperation is the key link to transit from strong science and technology to strong enterprise, and then strong industry and strong economy. The key to industry-university-research cooperation lies in the cooperation and exchange between entrepreneurs and scientists. Entrepreneurs identify problems from demands and scientists solve key technologies, and they make cooperation in R & D and transformation, so as to truly realize the organic connection from original innovation to achievement transformation.

Rail Transit International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

In order to further promote the innovation and entrepreneurship in the industry, the Rail Transit International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was also held during the forum, to discover high-quality talents, advanced technology and high-quality projects through project roadshows and defense, and promote the breakthrough of key core technologies and lead the improvement of industrial capacity level by supporting excellent teams and enterprises.

Know more:

Zhongguancun Forum is a national platform for global scientific and technological innovation exchange and cooperation. As one of the 2021 Zhongguancun Forum series of activities, the "International Forum of Young Scientists - Entrepreneurs in Urban Rail Transit" aims to set up an international resource gathering and sharing platform in the field of rail transit, build a bridge between basic theory and industry, encourage constructive interaction among young "scientists - entrepreneurs" in rail transit, and promote the innovation and entrepreneurship connection of the whole rail transit upstream and downstream industry chain, so as to stimulate the innovation of talents, enterprises, industry and society.

Under the guidance of the Executive Committee Office of Zhongguancun Forum, the forum was hosted by Fengtai District People's Government of Beijing Municipality, Zhongguancun Development Group and China Association of Metros, co-sponsored by Zhongguancun Fengtai Science Park Administrative Commission, Technology and Information Bureau of Fengtai District, National Engineering Laboratory for Train Communication and Operation Control of Urban Rail Transit, Beijing Natural Science Foundation Committee Office, TCT and Beijing Zhongguancun International Exhibition Operation Management Co., Ltd., and co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co., Ltd., Beijing Society of Metros, Beijing Zhongguancun Rail Transit Industry Development Co., Ltd and Beijing Jiaotong University Urban Rail Transit EMBA Alumni Association.

In the future, the rail transit industry at the key point of intelligent innovation transformation, will seize the important development opportunities of Beijing International Center for Science and Technology Innovation as well as the construction of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and relying on the Zhongguancun Forum, a national platform for global high-tech innovation exchange and cooperation, give full play to the strong strength and R & D advantages of the rail transit industry in Fengtai District and the guiding and coordinating role of the Rail Transit Joint Foundation, to improve the collaborative innovation ability of the industry, stimulate achievement transformation, and contribute to the high-quality development of rail transit in China!