Cutting edge tech products, application scenarios displayed at tech-matching fair in Shanghai

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Cutting edge tech products, application scenarios displayed at tech-matching fair in Shanghai

2025-09-22 15:42 Last Updated At：16:37

As an important part of the ongoing largest-ever Pujiang Innovation Forum in Shanghai, a tech-matching fair opened on Sunday in the financial hub of China, with an aim to promote global technology transfer and commercialization of sci-tech achievements.

At the tech-matching fair, over 10,000 technical needs are addressed globally, with a total investment of over 20 billion yuan (about 2.8 billion US dollars) from relevant companies. The fair also features over 1,700 international and domestic sci-tech achievements awaiting commercialization, over 800 innovative products from small and medium-sized enterprises, and over 80 cutting-edge product launches and user scenario display.

Among the shining exhibits is a dining-assisting robot developed by the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, designed for future elderly care scenarios. As soon as people open their mouth, the robot will recognize their intention to eat and delivers food to them.

"The robot's development is aimed at providing feeding care for disabled elderly people. Demonstration applications are currently underway at nursing homes in Shanghai, Changzhou and Yantai," said Wu Weiming, a PhD at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.

The fair also displays China's first set of chlorophyll fluorescence imaging equipment, developed by a research and development team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which can record the changing process of plant photosynthesis, helping scientists explore the microscopic world of plants.

The fair also features a technology conversion 'clinic', where professional project managers in the commercialization of sci-tech achievements can assess the marketability of various research projects. The one-on-one service, introduced since the event in 2024, has significantly boosted the commercialization of sci-tech achievements.

"To date, there have been over 150 projects that are in operation for consultation on the 'conversion clinic', receiving suggestions on transformation path design and follow-up development. By the end of the first half of 2025, we had already completed a transaction volume of 463 million yuan in technology transfer," said Xiong Shenzhan, director of the Technology Transfer Center of East China Normal University.

The three-day 18th Pujiang Innovation Forum, which opened on Saturday, gathered more than 550 attendees from over 300 organizations in 45 countries and regions.

Truth of Nanjing Massacre allows no distortion: Canadian historian

A Canadian historian has shed light on how the horrors of the Nanjing Massacre were largely forgotten in North America, making it susceptible for distortion and denial of crucial facts.

In an interview with China Media Group (CMG), David Wright, an associate professor at the Department of History in the University of Calgary's Faculty of Arts, emphasized that the truth of the massacre in Nanjing is beyond dispute, yet several generations later, the West has not adequately preserved the memories of this history.

"My mother's and father's generation, they were alive when the Rape of Nanking happened. They were horrified to listen to reports on radios. And especially after the war was over, when the Tokyo war crime trials began, a lot more detail about the Rape of Nanking came out. In North America, the wartime generation remembered it and remembered it well. But then the next generation, my generation, baby boomers, that abhorrence was not passed on to us adequately well," Wright said.

The notorious Nanjing Massacre by Japanese troops led to over 300,000 deaths in 1937. According to the historian, the accuracy of this figure is supported by a robust body of evidence, but Japan's right-wing forces have nonetheless attempted to deny the number of victims as well as the severity of the crimes. Often, these claims rely on the absence of physical remains of the victims.

"They're dumped into the river. They're burned, a lot of them. You cannot find the remains. So they think they can find one or two errors you've made about photographs and from that conclude that the entire Rape of Nanking never happened. It's just nonsense. There is abundant evidence that something very, very terrible did happen in Nanjing," Wright said.

"And the people who deny it, I mean, historically they are nihilists. For them, history is all about image, not about fact. And if that thing really did happen in Nanjing, that's an inconvenient fact and they want to try to erase it by denying it," he added.

The Nanjing Massacre occurred after Japanese troops captured the then-Chinese capital on Dec. 13, 1937. Over six weeks, they killed approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers in one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II.