2025 Zhongguancun Forum opens in Beijing to explore tech innovations

The 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) kicked off in Beijing on Thursday, attracting participants from over 100 countries and regions across the world to explore cutting-edge technologies and innovation-driven growth.

Themed "New Quality Productive Forces and Global Technology Cooperation," this year's forum, which will run until March 31, features 128 events across five major sections, including meetings, technology trading, and frontier competitions.

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Discussions will center on AI foundation models, embodied intelligence, quantum technology, biomedicine, 6G, and brain-computer interfaces.

Serving as a platform for collaboration among policymakers, businesses, researchers, and investors, the forum aims to accelerate the commercialization of major scientific and technological breakthroughs.

Established in 2007 with the permanent theme of "Innovation and Development," the forum has hosted over 1,000 parallel sessions and supporting events, attracting hundreds of thousands of participants in the past 15 editions.

Hong Kong's stock market declined on Friday with the benchmark Hang Seng Index down 0.29 percent to close at 26,844.96 points.

The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index lost 0.50 percent to end at 9,220.81 points, and the Hang Seng Tech Index edged down 0.11 percent to 5,822.18 points.