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Singapore is Officially Confirmed to be the Country of Honor of 2019 Pujiang Innovation Forum: With Integration of Openness and Innovation, Leading the Future with Wisdom

Source:Original    Author:admin    Time:2019-03-18    View:55

Singapore has been officially invited to be the Country of Honor of 2019 Pujiang Innovation Forum.

 

Though Singapore is one of the smallest countries in the world, it enjoys the reputation of the “garden country”. With a relatively short history since its founding, it has broken through the limitations of natural condition and resource endowment, and developed into an important financial and shipping center in the world. In the Global Innovation Index (GII) issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2018, Singapore ranked fifth, surpassing the United States, Germany, Israel, South Korea, Japan and other sci-tech powers, with remarkable results in high-end and middle-and-high-end technology production, and high technology export.

 

The year of 2019 will witness the 29th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relation between China and Singapore. The two countries have maintained a good cooperative relation with economic and trade contact, scientific and technological development, and talent exchange for many years. As early as 1992, the two sides signed the China-Singapore Intergovernmental Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement and established the China-Singapore Joint Commission on Science and Technology Cooperation. They carried out extensive and fruitful cooperation in the field of science and technology innovation, and the jointly supported some joint research projects in multiple fields such as materials, bio-medicine, and smart city with some achievements. In the process of constantly deepening cooperation, China has become Singapore’s largest trading partner for five consecutive years. Meanwhile, Singapore is the largest source country of new foreign investment to China, the second largest country of destination for investment from China, and an important offshore center for RMB.

 

Last year, Premier Li Keqiang visited Singapore and had conversations with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore focusing on the “Belt and Road” cooperation and innovation development, to plan a new blueprint for the bilateral relationship, which also marked a new stage of openness, development and quality improvement and upgrading in the relationship between China and Singapore.

 

With the theme of “Technology Innovation, New Vision and New Future”, the 12th Pujiang Innovation Forum will be held in Shanghai from May 24 to 26, 2019 Since its establishment in 2008, Pujiang Innovation Forum has walked through 11 years , and will continue to consolidate the construction of a platform for exchange of innovative development, dissemination of advanced concepts, communication of academic ideas, interaction among government, industry, universities and institutions, publication of latest policies, and international cooperation on science and technology and march towards the new vision to be a platform for release of important signals, for guidance on key topics, and for source of critical statements. The Forum initiated the mechanism of the Country of Honor in 2012, and since then Germany, Finland, Russia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Portugal have been invited to be the Country of Honor successively. In this context, in order to further develop the scientific and technological partnership between China and Singapore, promote and lead higher level of international scientific and technological cooperation, and deepen the exchanges and dialogues in the fields of bio-medicine, smart city, digital economy and other innovative technologies, we have official invited Singapore, a livable country with integration of innovation and culture, to be the Country of Honor of the Forum.

 

Promoting Innovative Development with an Inclusive Mindset; Learning from Each Other, in Common Expectation of the Future. In the forthcoming 2019 Pujiang Innovation Forum, the fusion, or possibly the collision of scientific and technological thinking between China and Singapore, will win the warm attention from all of us.


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