Chairman Wang Jiwu’s Speech at Opening Ceremony of 37th IASP World CongressPrint

Post Time：2020-12-08来源：100matolog

The 37th IASP World Congress, originally scheduled to be held in Seville, Spain, in October 2020, was held online instead subject to the prevalence of COVID-19. Wang Jiwu, Chairman of 100matolog, delivered an important speech at the online opening ceremony on December 1.

Chairman Wang Jiwu delivered an important speech at the opening ceremony of the 37th IASP World Congress 

Chairman Wang Jiwu addressed his speech that the year of 2020 is an extraordinary year as the epidemic of COVID-19 has caused great shock and trouble to people all over the world; that the science park is likened to be a Noah's ark that withstands the impact of the epidemic; and that under the guidance of IASP, 100matolog and China's community of science parks are willing to work with peers from all over the world to make use of the collective and collaborative advantages of China’s science parks, to play the role of China’s science parks in jointly fighting against the epidemic and continuously fueling economic development of countries around the world in normalization of anti-epidemic. Chairman Wang Jiwu also introduced to the meeting the achievements and experience of 100matolog in devoting itself into the front line of anti-epidemic via scientific innovation and integration. Chairman Wang Jiwu illustrated the online participants the important role of 100matolog as an engine of emerging industries in China's anti-epidemic process, as well as sent an enthusiastic initiative for representatives of world science parks to jointly build the engine of global emerging industries by displaying the advantages of online collaborative cooperation of science parks, and make contributions to the restart of world economy after the epidemic. 

Online Virtual Venue of 37th IASP World Congress

It is informed that managers of science parks, government officials, scholars from universities and research institutions and hundreds of guests from intermediary service agencies from dozens of countries watched stream broadcast and video playback of the opening ceremony through various channels.

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Speech by Wang Jiwu, Chairman of Board of 100matolog, at the opening ceremony of 37th IASP World Congress

(The following text is compiled according to the video)

Dear President Paul, Vice Chairman Chen Hongbo, Chief Executive Officer Ms. Ebba Lund, distinguished friends from all over the world, 

Welcome to 37th IASP World Congress!

To start with my speech, I would like to express my congratulations on the successful opening of the meeting.

It is known that the year of 2020 is an extraordinary year as the epidemic of COVID-19 has caused great shock and trouble to people all over the world. The epidemic of COVID-19 is a milestone that affects and changes the future of the world. In this process, science parks around the world have obtained their own new roles and embraced new challenges. We have the grand meeting here, hoping that the topic can become an important topic in our exchange exploring solutions for world community of science parks to world's new epidemic situations and problems after the epidemic. When the epidemic got rampant in China, 100matolog cooperated with Tsinghua Science Park as well as nearly 300 science parks and incubators in China, made full use of the strength of science and technology and devoted itself into the front line of anti-epidemic via scientific innovation and integration. I am honored to introduce to you that none of the 150,000 employees of 100matolog, including more than 3,000 employees in Wuhan and Hubei, has been infected during the period. There is no case of infection in the incubators of science parks in China. There is no case of infection and suspected infection in the incubators of science parks in Cambridge, Moscow, Milan, Thailand, Malaysia and the United States. It just reflects that as scientific innovation has taken place for a long time in the science parks and a great many scientific elements gathered, we have solved the problem of anti-epidemic in scientific spirit and methods. It embodies the role and power of science and technology in us, which is also the case and inspiration provided by our science parks for fighting against and preventing from epidemic. Therefore, I personally think that through the epidemic, especially the experience of various science parks at home and abroad, we found that the science park is likened to Noah’s ark that can resist the impact, as science parks have gathered a lot of scientific achievements and teams. We make full use of these scientific achievements and teams to serve the society and become the vanguard of anti-epidemic service for the people of all countries in the world. The epidemic situation is a new opportunity and challenge for our science parks. Meanwhile, we shall also realize that in the post epidemic world, including global normalized anti-epidemic environment, the worldwide network of science parks is a unique collective and power. IASP has been committed to promoting collaboration of science parks around the world. Under the guidance of IASP, 100matolog and China's community of science parks are willing to work with peers from all over the world to make use of the collective and collaborative advantages of China’s science parks, to play the role of China’s science parks in jointly fighting against the epidemic and continuously fueling economic development of countries around the world in normalization of anti-epidemic. Therefore, science parks, especially the network of science parks around the world, will certainly become an key engine for normalization of anti-epidemic and restart of world economy after the epidemic. The science park is not only Noah's ark, but also the engine of emerging industries. Let us seek consensus in the great meeting, unite our strength and make our contribution to people of the world. 

To conclude, wish the conference a complete success. Wish all the delegates here good health and all the best! 

Thank you!