From April 24 to April 27, 2024, at the invitation of the China САМС Engineering Со., Ltd. the delegation of the NAS of Belarus, consisting of the Head of the Main Department of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation of the NAS of Belarus Dr. Vladimir Podkopaev, the General Director of the CJSC “ATS” Dr. Yuri Leonovets and the Director of the Republican Centre for Technology Transfer (RCTT) Dr. Alexander Uspenskiy took part in the 2024 ZGC FORUM.

Forum organizers:

• National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China
• Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China
• State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Chinese Academy of Engineering
• China Association for Science and Technology
• The People's Government of Beijing Municipality

For reference. ZGC forums have been held since 2007 and are dedicated to the single topic “Innovation and Development”.

ZGC forums focus on discussing cutting-edge trends and hot topics in science and technology. Every year, the topics of the conferences are determined, in which leading scientists and entrepreneurs are invited to participate.

At the 2024 ZGC FORUM, in particular, the following famous scientists and entrepreneurs made presentations:

• Aaron Ciechanover, Laureate of 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, International Member of the National Academy of Sciences, United States
• Mustafa B. Shehu, President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)
• Quarraisha Abdool Karim, President of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
• Thomas M. Coughlin, President & CEO of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Lei Jun, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Xiaomi
• Piero Scaruffi, Founder of Founder of Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (SVAIRI), Author of A History of Silicon Valley
  
and others.

The Forum program can be found here.

Within the framework of the Forum, which brought together more than 2 thousand participants, negotiations were held between the delegation of the NAS of Belarus and representatives of the management of:

• Northwestern Polytechnic University
• China САМС Engineering Со., Ltd.
• AECC GAS TURBINE Co., Ltd.
• AVIC INTL, part of the Chinese aircraft manufacturing corporation AVIC
• Beijing Zhongke Boran Keji Co.,Ltd., created by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to promote the commercialization of scientific achivments.

At the meetings, issues of the state and prospects of cooperation in the field of transfer and commercialization of technologies were discussed.