2021 Pujiang Innovation Forum with the theme of “Innovation for the Better Life of Mankind” opened in Shanghai on June 3^rd. LI Qiang, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee, WANG Zhigang, Minister of Science and Technology, GONG Zheng, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee and the Mayor, DONG Yunhu, Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Political Consultative Conference, YU Shaoliang, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee, XU Nanping and LI Meng, Deputy Ministers of Science and Technology attended the opening ceremony. XU Guanhua, Chairman of Pujiang Innovation Forum and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, presided over the opening ceremony. Academician. CHEN Jie, President of Tongji University, attended the opening ceremony and FANG Shouen, Secretary of the Party Committee of Tongji University, attended the 2021 Board Meeting of the Forum.

GONG Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai, Ali ZAHIRi, the representative of the country of honor and the UAE Ambassador to China, XIONG Xue, the representative of the city of honor and Deputy Mayor of Chongqing, delivered speeches respectively. Seven representatives of the global technology community from Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and Springer Nature Group sent congratulatory messages via video. WANG Zhigang, Minister of Science and Technology, Sultan, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the UAE, and Bill GATES, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, participated online and delivered a keynote speech.

The Pujiang Innovation Forum, founded in 2008, is a high-level international forumjointly sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Shanghai Municipal Government and jointly hosted by Tongji University, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, China Institute of Science and Technology Development Strategy, Shanghai Zhangjiang Science City Construction Management Office, Science and Technology Daily, Shanghai Media Group, Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is committed to creating an important signal release place, an important topic leading place and an important discussion source in the field of global scientific and technological innovation.

2021 Pujiang Innovation Forum was held in a combination of online and offline methods, with the plenary meeting, the global technology transfer conference, the technology innovation youth summit, the young scientist symposium, as well as more than 10 thematic forums on future science, emerging technologies, innovation policies, regional innovation, innovation and entrepreneurship, and young talents, etc. The thematic forum-The Regional & Cities Forum hosted by Tongji University was held on June 4^th, with the theme of “Collaborative Agglomeration: New Cities, New Spaces”, focusing on the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area , the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and other major regional development strategies. HUO Jiazhen, Executive Vice President of China Academy of Science and Technology Management of Tongji University, presided over the meeting,and WU Zhiqiang, Professor of Tongji University, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, made a keynote speech.