Tengchong Scientists Forum 2025 Opens in Yunnan, Unveiling Global Vision for AI-Driven Science
Tengchong, December 6 -- The Tengchong Scientists Forum 2025 opened Saturday in the southwestern Chinese city of Tengchong, bringing together more than 1,200 leaders from science, industry and finance to chart a shared path toward an AI-empowered future.
Under the overarching theme “Science: AI Changing the World,” this year’s forum features a plenary session and ten parallel summits covering quantum information, biomedicine and intelligent manufacturing. The event is co-hosted by the People’s Government of Yunnan Province and the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).
Addressing the opening ceremony, Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee and CAS Academician Ding Zhongli hailed TSF as a vital platform for nurturing an open, inclusive and gloablly shared innovation ecosystem driven by AI.
Yunnan Party Secretary Wang Ning pledged the province would turn its ecological strengths into scientific advantages, while CAST Vice President and Executive Secretary Feng Shenhong urged deeper international collaboration to forge new quality productive forces.
Forum Chairman Gu Binglin and Co-Chair Rao Zihe awarded the 2025 Tengchong Science Prize to Pan Jianwei, a pioneer in quantum communication, recognizing his role in bringing quantum encryption from lab to marketplace.
The inaugural Tengchong Young Scientist Awards were also announced, alongside ten flagship technology-transfer cases, ten landmark academic achievements and ten joint R&D programmes.
A forward-looking report, “Technology Foresight & Vision 2049,” was released, identifying ten disruptive fields—from brain-inspired computing to fusion energy—expected to redefine the global economy within the next quarter-century.
On the sidelines, Yunnan signed strategic cooperation agreements with Peking University and Nankai University focused on in-depth industry–university–research collaboration and the attraction and cultivation of high-caliber global talent, and broader provincial-university pacts with the National University of Defense Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Sun Yat-sen University, Xiamen University and Lanzhou University.
High-level talent recruitment and major industrial projects were also sealed.
This year’s forum has drawn 133 academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering as well as foreign academies, 77 university presidents from both domestic and aboard, and more than 400 distinguished researchers. Over 600 entrepreneurs and venture-capital leaders are attending deal-making roadshows designed to accelerate lab-to-market transitions.
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