China Japan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cooperation Forum held in Beijing

The 2020 China Japan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cooperation Forum (CJIECF) kicked off in Beijing on Nov 4.

As an important part of the 2020 China Overseas Mass Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week, CJIECF aims to build a bridge for China-Japan exchanges and to facilitate cooperation between governments, enterprises and investment institutions, as well as pragmatically promoting cooperation in scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurial cultural exchanges.

Bai Yuanping, deputy director of the China Communication Center for Science and Technology, addressed the forum as the organizer's representative.

He said Sino-Japanese scientific and technological innovation cooperation has a long history, which has contributed to the two countries’ economic development and technological improvements. He also said that he hoped that this forum can be a new beginning for the restoration of exchanges and cooperation in science, technology, economy and trade between the two countries.

Since the Overseas Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation Week was first launched in 2017, it has become a global platform for presenting findings and sharing resources in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, Bai added.

Shu Bilei, deputy director of the Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science City, placed an emphasis on the innovative competitiveness of Haidian district as a national core area of technological innovation.

He noted that Haidian has gathered over 120 technology transfer offices and more than 40 international headquarters and research and development institutions, including Microsoft Research Asia. Haidian has also established cooperation with most countries in the world through the national promotion of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Shu said he hoped that the Japanese companies present can further deepen cooperation with Zhongguancun to jointly promote innovation and industrial development, and achieve a win-win situation.

Head of the Japanese Enterprise (China) Research Institute, Chen Yan, focused on the new changes in the two sides’ technology transfer and technological innovation, certainties in the Chinese economy and the breakthrough point of innovation between China and Japan.

The forum included the presentation of Sino-Japanese jointly incubated startups, and a seminar on Sino-Japanese science and technology innovation exchange.