The first BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo, showcasing frontier technologies and innovations from around the world, opened yesterday in Macau.
Around 300 multinational corporations, unicorn companies and start-ups, including the nation’s tech giants Alibaba and Tencent, are showcasing their latest achievements, covering life science, new infrastructure, smart city and future technologies, in an area of nearly 50,000 square meters.
Jason Ho Kin Tung, the co-founder of the expo and president of the Macau Technology General Association, said yesterday that the three-day event at the Venetian in Cotai focuses on discussing the future development of science and technology with the theme of “what’s next.”
Science and technology have changed the way people live and work and impacted global social issues such as climate change, environmental pollution and wealth gap, Ho said.
Zhang Yuzhuo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who also heads the China Association for Science and Technology, said at yesterday’s opening ceremony that the association will support the deepening of cooperation and talent exchange in science, technology and innovation between the Chinese mainland and Macau so as to help with Macau’s appropriate economic diversification and better integration into overall national development.
The former chief designer for the nation’s Shenzhou spaceships, Qi Faren, said he hoped that more scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs from Macau will take part in the country’s space exploration.
Experts attending the expo said they believed that the mainland’s investments in low carbon have nurtured a massive market opportunity worth trillions of US dollars, expecting the country to welcome tremendous changes in the energy industry boosted by government policies.
The expo is hosted by the Macau Technology General Association in collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the China Center for International Science and Technology Exchange, and the Chinese Medical Association.
Besides exhibitions, the expo also features several forums covering topics ranging from smart health care, architectural science and technology to artificial intelligence and green economy. – Xinhua, MPD
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng (centre) visits the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo after attending its opening ceremony at the Venetian in Cotai yesterday. – Xinhua
