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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2025 Zhongguancun Forum opens in Beijing to explore tech innovations
2025 Zhongguancun Forum opens in Beijing to explore tech innovations
2025 Zhongguancun Forum opens in Beijing to explore tech innovations
2025 Zhongguancun Forum opens in Beijing to explore tech innovations
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.
2025 Zhongguancun Forum opens in Beijing to explore tech innovations
2025 Zhongguancun Forum opens in Beijing to explore tech innovations
2025 Zhongguancun Forum opens in Beijing to explore tech innovations
2025 Zhongguancun Forum opens in Beijing to explore tech innovations
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have reaffirmed that they will not seek normalization of ties with Israel, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump's call for the two countries to join the Abraham Accords.
Saudi Arabia's position on the Palestinian issue remains unchanged, a Saudi source told Al Arabiya TV on Monday.
The source affirmed the need for "an irreversible pathway to a Palestinian state".
The remarks came after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Muslim-majority and regional countries to normalize relations with Israel and join the Abraham Accords before the U.S. reaches a peace agreement with Iran.
Saudi Arabia has repeatedly said it would not normalize relations with Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said on Tuesday that Pakistan will not join any agreement to normalize ties with Israel, adding that the country will not accept any deal that "conflicts with its fundamental ideologies".
Trump on Monday urged Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Pakistan -- countries involved in mediating U.S.-Iran talks -- to immediately join the Abraham Accords, warning that otherwise they should not participate in the mediation.
He added that if a U.S.-Iran deal is reached, Iran should also join the agreement.
The Abraham Accords, brokered by the United States in 2020 during Trump's first term, were established between the Israeli government and Arab countries including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, aimed at rapidly advancing the normalization of relations between Israel and Arab countries.
Before the outbreak of the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October 2023, the United States had been pushing for normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
After the conflict erupted, Saudi Arabia suspended normalization talks with Israel.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan reject Trump's Abraham Accords demand
