Science and education

Have you ever heard of "Joseph Needham's Question"? This question was raised by biochemist and historian of science Joseph Needham: Before the 17th century, China made many important contributions to the development of human technology. Why did modern science and industrial revolution not emerge in China? At the 2023 Pujiang Innovation Forum and Innovation Culture Forum held today, Mei Jianjun, director of the Needham Institute in Cambridge, rethought on "Needham's Question". In his view, it is necessary to acknowledge that ancient China had relatively advanced science and technology, and to have full confidence in the scientific and innovative genes in Chinese civilization. One of the backgrounds in which Joseph Needham raised the question was advocating for communication and mutual learning between the two civilizations, while acknowledging the differences between Chinese and Western civilizations. This viewpoint is still valuable today, as openness and inclusiveness among civilizations contribute to building a shared future for humanity

The 2023 Pujiang Innovation Forum has truly opened on the Huangpu River. On September 9th, as one of the forum series activities, the "Science and Technology Chasing Light" themed cruise ship on the Huangpu River was renovated, dressed in ship body patterns such as Magnolia, high-speed rail, and space station, and anchored from the Dongchang Road Ferry for a cruise. After boarding the ship, from the cabin porthole to the top deck, from the anime style to the China-Chic style, there are more than 50 covers of international science and technology magazines loaded with beautiful pictures, making the whole ship become the "water version" of Pujiang Forum where scientific and technological workers communicate and interact with citizens of all sizes. At the "Walking with Science" technology journal aesthetics special exhibition held on a cruise ship, the big picture covers full of traditional Chinese cultural characteristics, such as the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and the finishing touch allusions, are cleverly combined with the principles and mechanisms of cutting-edge science and technology. For example, a famous painting

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the initiative of jointly building the "the Belt and Road". The 2023 Pujiang Innovation Forum "the Belt and Road" Symposium revealed on the 9th that since the implementation of the "the Belt and Road" science and technology innovation action plan in 2017, more than 80 intergovernmental science and technology cooperation agreements have been signed with countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road". "More than 50 joint laboratories and 1000 joint research projects have been jointly built, with a total investment of 3 billion yuan." In the face of representatives from Brazil, the guest of honor of this forum, South Africa and other countries, as well as the OECD and other participants in Shanghai, Hu Zhijian, the second level researcher and former president of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategy, said that at present, scientific and technological cooperation with countries jointly building the "the Belt and Road" has continued to make positive progress. 2023 Pujiang Innovation Forum "the Belt and Road" symposium. Lai Xinlin

As the first independent legal entity university jointly organized by China and the United States, Shanghai New York University has signed a new round of cooperation with East China Normal University and New York University in the United States. On September 9th, Linda Mills, the new president of New York University, who has been in office for two months, visited East China Normal University and signed a memorandum of understanding on the new cooperation cycle with the president of East China Normal University, Qian Xuhong, on behalf of both sides. They continue to support the current talent cultivation and joint research projects of the two universities and actively explore emerging win-win cooperation models. In the context of internationalization of higher education, East China Normal University and New York University in the United States have achieved a series of cooperative achievements in talent cultivation and joint research in the past decade. Principal Mills stated that although this was her first visit to East China Normal University since assuming the position of President of the University of New York, she had already formed a relationship with East China Normal University as early as 2012. When

Xu Deyi, a sixth grade student from Yangpu District, participated in the "One Step Forward on the Youth Red Road" Shanghai Youth Red Study Activity with his father. "As soon as you see the registration notice on the WeChat official account, you should immediately sign up. Such an activity is very meaningful!" Xu Deyi's father said. On the 9th, the "One Step Forward on the Youth Red Road" Shanghai Youth Red Study Activity was launched. 13-year-old Zhang Xiaoci is a student at the Shanghai Youth Activity Center. "Not only is there a rich and diverse range of technology, art, and sports courses here, but it also provides us with diverse practical platforms, allowing us to step out of the teaching classroom, step onto the stage, exercise and improve ourselves." Zhang Xiaoci said, "Through daily learning and repeated exercises in the activity center, we gradually broaden our horizons, enhance our confidence, and learn year after year here, achieving fruitful results.",

After 15 years of innovative development, COMAC has initially formed products such as ARJ21, C919, and C929, achieving a leap from "0" to "1" in product development. On September 10, 2023, at the main forum of the Pujiang Innovation Forum, He Dongfeng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, confidently introduced the development of China's large aircraft. From the "Ten Thousand Flying Houses" at the end of the 14th century to the first powered flight of the Wright brothers in the 20th century, the materials used to manufacture airplanes ranged from wooden structures to composite materials... Along the way of flight, countless dreamers and practitioners sacrificed their wisdom, sweat, and even sacrificed themselves to pave the way for human flight. Nowadays, the components of a large jet airliner have exceeded millions, and the fuel consumption of transporting one passenger per hundred kilometers has already exceeded

The scene on stage vividly showcases the good style of Shanghai's teachers in teaching and nurturing, and Bacon's soul casting, as well as the positive effects of high-quality education development in Shanghai. On the 9th, the theme event of the 39th Teacher's Day Celebration in Shanghai in 2023 was held at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Through various forms and rich content such as micro videos, situational narratives, and immersive micro reports, the event reflects the original mission of Shanghai's education to cultivate talents for the Party and the country through real people, events, and emotions, and uses the power of education to cultivate the foundation of people's happiness through unremitting efforts. A group of lovely children, led by kindergarten teachers, came to the green wheat fields and seasonal flower beds on campus to learn how to develop planting plans for plants such as carrots, lettuce, and potatoes

Since the first Pujiang Innovation Forum was held in 2008, this forum has been held for 16 consecutive sessions, creating the "Chinese brand" of the international innovation forum. From the "path of an innovative country" to the "open innovation ecosystem: innovation and global connectivity", for the past 16 years, the theme of each Pujiang Innovation Forum has focused on technological innovation, gradually developing into a source of cutting-edge innovation ideas, a barometer of world scientific and technological development, a booster of international scientific and technological cooperation, a gravitational field for global innovative talents, and a hub for global technology transfer. Looking back 16 years ago, when the forum was founded, it was aimed at responding to external doubts about China's path towards independent innovation; Now, standing at a new historical starting point, the forum is committed to building a "global technology innovation oriented" platform

The genes behind fingerprint "dou" and "dustpan" are actually not related to skin development, but to limb development; The composite molecular phenotype composed of five metabolites can effectively predict the incidence of senile dementia in the next five years. On September 10, at the plenary meeting of Pujiang Innovation Forum, Jin Li, an academician of the CAS Member and president of Fudan University, introduced the latest scientific research achievements of the major scientific plan of the Human Phenotype Group led by the Chinese scientific community. If genes are an internal code, then phenotypes that interact with genes and the environment are an external expression of the code, such as height and short. Life science research ultimately aims to understand the biological processes behind phenotypes. This was a very difficult task until scientists linked phenotype and genes, leading genetics into the era of genomics.

Why are the new generation of telescopes plunging into the deep waters of the ocean and lakes? From the Baikal Lake experiment, the Mediterranean telescope, to the Pacific neutrino experiment, and then to the second generation of the Antarctic "Ice Cube" with the participation of Chinese scientists, and the South China Sea neutrino telescope led by Chinese scientists under the "Sea Bell Project", the next generation of neutrino telescopes are under construction in the depths of lakes and seas on various continents around the world. This year is exactly 10 years away from the first year of neutrino astronomy. On the 10th of 2023, at the first youth special session established at the Pujiang Innovation Forum, Xu Donglian, a "Li Zhengdao Scholar" from the Li Zhengdao Research Institute, revealed that from the deep sea, deep lakes to deep ice, multiple countries and multilateral neutrino telescopes are constantly upgrading to fully capture this kind of "ghost messenger" in the universe. Xu Donglian gave a speech at the conference. Xu Rui

The attendees were greatly encouraged and expressed their willingness to promote international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation with more open thinking and measures, and to build an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness.Technological innovation is an important force for humanity to jointly address risks and challenges, promote peace and development.High level research-oriented universities as important strategies

Recently, Luckin Coffee and Moutai's co branded coffee "Sauce flavored Latte" has become popular on social media platforms. On the 11th, Professor Liu Shaowei, a food safety blogger in Shanghai, tweeted three questions about this type of "alcoholic beverage" based on multiple references. Jiefang Daily's Shangguan News reporter learned that in fact, this is not the first collision between caffeine and alcohol. This type of "alcoholic" specialty coffee has a long history, so is it suitable to drink alcohol and coffee at the same time? Will it have adverse effects on physical health? Previously, some people had tried the combination of alcohol and caffeine, but they focused on alcohol. The FourLoko brand once launched a beverage containing ingredients such as alcohol, caffeine, and taurine, with a marketing focus on making people“

At today's 2023 Global Technology Transfer Conference, a 1/2 scaled model of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft attracted the attention of many attendees. "Our company announced the demand for technological innovation and talent positions at the Global Technology Transfer Conference, and the founder also gave a speech at the WeStart Global Entrepreneurship and Investment Conference, which aroused the interest of many investors," Yue Tingting, Vice President of Yufeng Future, told reporters. The Global Technology Transfer Conference and Global Entrepreneurship Investment Conference are both exhibition and docking activities of the 2023 Pujiang Innovation Forum, aimed at building high-end platforms for enterprise technology innovation and investment and financing. In the past two days, the popularity of Zhangjiang Science Hall and China Baowu Iron and Steel Expo Center has surged. The former serves as the offline venue for the 4th Global Technology Transfer Conference, with a 10000 square meter exhibition area, showcasing

In the eyes of Dr. Jin Aimin, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Research Office of the Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology, this also aligns with the theme of "Open Innovation Ecology" at the 16th forum of this year. Jiefang Daily's Shangguan News reporter observed that the Pujiang Forum has concluded all its agenda at the main venue, the Dongjiao Hotel, today. Several major forums, including the Global Health and Development Forum and the Future Forum, were crowded with experts from various countries discussing the digital transformation from neuroscience to the development of digital technology in the field of health. The "From" obtained by the journalist

On September 11th, the Pujiang Innovation Forum · Green and Low Carbon Innovation Forum was held at the W Hotel on the Bund in Shanghai. Outside the venue, a royal valley wolf tail grass caught the attention of the attendees. This grass is quite vigorous and was planted on July 28th this year. Samples were taken from September 5th, and it has a total length of 1.4 meters, with a root system of 92 centimeters. A royal valley wolf tail grass from the desert. What's unusual about Huang Haihua's photo is that it comes from the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, the largest desert in China - Kashgar Shache, Xinjiang. This is the first desert agriculture demonstration base of the Green Technology Bank, and 700 acres of desert governance have been completed. In 2017, the Green Technology Bank took the lead in Shanghai. After years of accumulation, the Green Technology Bank, operating in a "technology+finance" model, is committed to becoming a low-carbon new industry

The Institute of Applied Economics of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center, and Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology recently jointly released the "2023 Shanghai High tech Enterprise Innovation Top 100 List", aiming to comprehensively present the innovation and development level of Shanghai's high-tech enterprises, set a benchmark to lead enterprises, and promote high-quality development of high-tech enterprises. On this list, the top ten companies are: Shanghai Automotive Group Co., Ltd., Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Hisilicon Technology Co., Ltd., SMIC International Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tencent Technology Co., Ltd., Spreadtrum Communication Co., Ltd., Shanghai Shangtang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Lianying Medical Technology Co., Ltd., and China Petrochemical Corporation Shanghai Petrochemical Research Institute.

The 20th Shanghai Education Expo in 2023 will open on September 15th. This Shanghai Education Expo will be held in an integrated online and offline manner, with offline exhibitions from September 15th to 17th, held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, and held online until the end of October. This year, the Shanghai Education Influence Electronic Map will be launched for the first time as a citizen version. This version of the Shanghai Education Influence Electronic Map further expands multiple new technological services such as multi-dimensional search, positioning navigation, and route guidance, providing convenience for serving citizens. The theme of this Shanghai Education Expo is "Jointly Creating a First Class City Education and Building a Dream of an Education Strong Country". The exhibition brings together nearly 120 education exhibitors, and the exhibition area is divided into city level exhibition area, good school theme exhibition area at the entrance of the Yangtze River Delta, national and urban development theme exhibition area for innovation strategies in Shanghai's universities

Schools are important areas for language and writing work, and the education system should make every effort to implement various key tasks, integrate language and writing work into daily education and teaching, and firmly defend the foundation of the school. The third week of September every year is the National Mandarin Promotion Week, and this year is already the 26th. During this year's promotion week, with the theme of "Promoting Mandarin and Striving for a New Journey", Shanghai will carry out a series of rich language and text promotion activities. Recently, the 26th National Mandarin Promotion Week in Shanghai opened, and a large-scale music scene recitation of "Da Ai Symphony" was held on Shanghai Education Television. Based on the collective and individual deeds of struggling in the fields of helping needy students, charity and special education, the play shows the era style of CPC and the touching charm of selfless dedication of educators in Shanghai

After two years of online exhibitions, the 23rd China International Industrial Expo was held offline at the National Convention and Exhibition Center from September 19th to 23rd this year. Among the nine professional exhibition areas of the Industry Expo, which is mainly focused on enterprises, the university exhibition area that focuses on technological innovation is unique. Through industry university research cooperation and technology achievement transformation, 815 exhibition projects cover various fields, and the number of participating universities and projects has reached a historic high. On the 13th, it was learned from a press conference that among the 87 domestic and foreign universities participating in the exhibition, 20 universities participated for the first time, with more than half of them being "Double First Class" universities, reaching 45. Additionally, 6 overseas universities from North America to Oceania also came to Shanghai. Throughout the highlights of various exhibitions, the wisdom of universities can be found in the sky and into the sea. The university exhibition area can be said to be in the fields of aviation, aerospace, navigation, and more

In mid September, during the concentrated enrollment season for college students, Shanghai, as a destination for studying and visiting in China, regained its "international style", and major universities experienced a long lost wave of international students returning to campus. Among them, Shanghai Jiao Tong University welcomed over 600 new international students from 93 different countries around the world. At the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Jiaotong University alone, 50 Russian undergraduate and graduate students in four grades will be welcomed in three batches this month. In response to the first large-scale enrollment of international students in nearly three years, the International Student Service Center of Jiaotong University has set up one-stop registration and registration service booths at three locations, including the student apartment in Building 9 of Minhang Campus, the Nanyang Beiyuan International Student Apartment, and the Taoli Garden of Xuhui Campus, based on the accommodation distribution of new students. At each location, there are workers including counselors

On September 14th, 2023, the World Association of Top Scientists Award was announced in Shanghai. The "Intelligent Science or Mathematics Award" is shared by two scientists, Arcadi Nemirowski, Chair Professor at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, and Yuri Nesprowski, Honorary Professor and Senior Scientific Researcher at the Operations Research and Econometrics Research Center and Department of Mathematical Engineering at the University of Leuven in Belgium, in recognition of their pioneering work in convex optimization theory. The "Life Science or Medicine Award" is awarded to three scientists, Caroline Luger, Professor and Chair Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States, Daniela Rhodes, Honorary Research Group Leader of the MRC Molecular Biology Laboratory in Cambridge, UK, and Honorary Professor of Biomacromolecular crystallography at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland

There are approximately 350 million people suffering from depression worldwide. The rapid antidepressant drug, ketamine, which was approved for sale in the United States in 2019, can alleviate depressive symptoms within 2-3 hours and has been awarded two breakthrough therapies, namely the treatment of refractory depression and severe depression at imminent risk of suicide. But the drug has side effects such as hallucinogenic and addictive effects, and is classified as a controlled drug. How to develop fast antidepressant drugs with fewer side effects based on the mechanism of ketamine is a focus of attention in this field. However, ketamine was discovered by chance, and the target of its action is still unclear. Recently, Chen Yelin's research group of the Center for Biological and Chemical Cross Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found the target of direct action of Esketamine, and its side effects are not based on this target, which is more important for the development of

"Why did you grab tickets to attend this class of Peking Opera?" There is a Peking Opera performer in Shanghai who is doing her best to make more people "understand" Peking Opera. She is Wang Peiyu, the fourth generation descendant of the Yu School. For this question, college students answered truthfully and humorously, "Because of curiosity, I came", "I can't understand", "Peking Opera is too slow"... Recently, the newly opened East China University of Science and Technology Art Education Classroom invited this national first-class actor from the Shanghai Peking Opera Theater to talk and sing, to explain to students what it means to "sing when there is sound, and dance when there is movement.". Jiefang Daily's Shangguan News reporter found that nearly 700 people were present at the Fengxian Bay campus to listen, staging a scene of chasing dramas and stars. So, Wang Peiyu used different tones of "good, good, good" to explain Yu Shuyan's third level rhyme, and also used cute expressions of "startled, angry, and happy eyebrows" to show it

During the start of the school season, hundreds of thousands of students from universities in Shanghai have returned to campus one after another to register. How open is the lush university campus to the outside world in the new semester? Can outsiders easily access the campus? Are teachers, students, employees, and citizens and tourists sharing harmoniously? The old building of East China University of Political Science and Law. Xu Ruizhe, a journalist from Liberation Daily and Shangguan News, visited various landmark universities on site and found that the measures for campus opening and management, as well as the degree of openness to the outside world, vary depending on the location, flow of people, and scale of the schools. Overall, from shaded green spaces to sports venues, each school is no longer a one size fits all approach in the past few years. Instead, they have all been opened to the public through card swiping or appointment making, and even the most open universities have been granted free access, restoring all their pre pandemic capabilities. Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Campus. Photo by Xu Ruizhe [Basic admission to school]

On September 13th, Chen Jining, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, met with Lan Ximu, founder of Puyue Global, and his delegation. He said that Puyue is a globally renowned science and technology innovation incubator and accelerator, which is in line with the positioning and concept of the construction of the Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center, and the cooperation space between the two sides is very broad. What kind of science and technology innovation incubator and accelerator is Puyue? At the 2023 Pujiang Innovation Forum · First Global Entrepreneurship Investment Conference held recently, Xu Jieping, CEO, Managing Partner, and Executive Director of Puyue China, delivered a speech and was interviewed by reporters. He stated that in the past 25 years, Puyue has undergone a transformation from a space incubator to an industrial accelerator, and then to a global innovation network. Now, Shanghai is cultivating high-quality incubators, and Puyue China Yangtze River Delta Regional Innovation Center will seize this opportunity to become stronger and more deeply established

If you follow the starting point of National Highway 318, Shanghai People's Square, and go west, the end of the road is the Sino Nepal border Zhangmu port in Nyalam County, Shigatse City, Xizang Autonomous Region. Now, a telescope once again connects two cities together. On September 15, the construction of the Xigaze 40m Radio Telescope Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Astronomical Observatory was started in Xigaze. It is expected that the project will have preliminary observation capability by the end of 2024 and be completed in March 2025. The site of this telescope is located on the west side of Shigatse City, about 35 kilometers away from the city center, spanning two county-level administrative regions. After its completion, this telescope will be a large 360 degree fully movable high-precision multi-purpose radio telescope, which will be used for the orbit determination of Tianwen-2 and Chang'e-7. In the future, it will also serve moon and deep space exploration missions, and will greatly promote China's radio astronomy

The demonstration of the "Intelligent Table Tennis Launching Robot" by the AIR Robot Club students at Shanghai Yuannan Middle School has attracted the interest of many visitors. The good school at its doorstep, with the theme of "Five Education Integration and Foundation for the Future", showcases the school's active implementation of the national curriculum concept, adherence to the "Five Education" principle, and laying the foundation for the lifelong development of every student from three aspects: "curriculum structure", "teaching reform", and "successful education". At the 20th Shanghai Education Expo held on the 15th of 2023, a special exhibition titled "Good Schools at the doorstep of the Yangtze River Delta" was set up, showcasing for the first time the representative "Good Schools at the doorstep of the Yangtze River Delta". The theme of this year's Shanghai Education Expo is "Jointly Creating a First Class City and Building a Dream of Education Power", with the integration of online and offline approaches

There is a group of people who are enterprise party workers, educators, science and technology workers, medical workers, financial workers, public welfare workers... They serve the world and the country, have a heart for the world, are brave enough to take on responsibilities, and have added warmth and strength to society - they are the "shining" female lecturers in Huangpu. On September 15th, the Huangpu "Luminescent" Women's Lecturer Team teamed up with two "brave the wind and waves" speakers to enter the Huangpu Bi Le Middle School affiliated with Shanghai Conservatory of Music. At the beginning of the new semester, they delivered a full of energy to the students for the first class. One is Miao Xiaohong, the second batch of female pilots in New China who soared into the blue sky at the age of 82 and even flew airplanes into the sky. The other is Miao Xiaohong, an environmental engineer who created sponge cities and has been with water for more than 30 years, helping to promote low-carbon urban development“

"Oh, isn't Mr. Duan the virtual counselor on my phone?" On the 16th, at the Shanghai Education Expo, Wang Jiayi, a 2023 freshman from the School of Hotel Management at Shanghai Business School, met Ms. Duan Yaoting, a full-time counselor at Shanghai Business School. It can be said that she was a real person version of "meeting netizens". Originally, when Wang Jiayi, a new student, scanned the QR code on the small card attached to the admission notice, he met the virtual counselor "S.AI" that had just been launched in the new semester. She was passionate and approachable. And this digital human prototype, which can be called a "small model" of education, is the nominated winner of the "2022 Shanghai University Counselor of the Year" award, Teacher Duan. During the peak consultation period of the new student registration season in previous years, a counselor provided an average of 180 consultations per day. During the Q&A process, I am unable to respond 100% immediately and sometimes I may be busy

The launch ceremony of the National Science Popularization Day in Shanghai in 2023 was held today at the Science Hall. The leaders of the Municipal Association for Science and Technology have presented awards for individuals, teams, and projects that have won the National Advanced Model of Science and Technology Volunteer Service in 2022. The "Benefiting the People Science Popularization Direct Bus" achievement exhibition competition of the Community Academy has started at the launch ceremony. Yang Yuliang, an academician of the CAS Member and president of the Chinese Academy of Ancient Books Protection and Research of Fudan University, told the story of the revival of Kaihua Paper at the science and technology conference hall activity of "Inheritance of Firewood · Walk in the Light" held after the launch ceremony. He led his team to use modern technology to restore the lost production process of Kaihua paper. This year, Fudan University's undergraduate admission letter used Kaihua paper, which is as thin as cicada wings and can be preserved for nearly 3000 years. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the National Science Popularization Day. 2023 Shanghai