Li meets top overseas scientists attending World Laureates Forum in the city

Shanghai Party Secretary Li Qiang met with top scientists from overseas attending the four-day World Laureates Forum in the city on Monday afternoon.

Li expressed his gratitude to the scientists for their long-term attentions and active participation into the development of Shanghai in order to make it into an innovation center of global influence. He also said that the city will stick to the reform and opening-up policy and accelerate the construction of “five centers” according to the instructions and requirements of President Xi Jinping.

Li hoped that more top scientists from all over the world will come to Shanghai to carry out scientific researches, and Shanghai will provide better service in order to make better working environment for the science circle.

Li added that he has received two letters from Roger Kornberg, chairman of World Laureates Association, in which he put forward suggestions on the development of science in China, the deepening of cooperation between top brains and Shanghai, and holding World Laureates Forum in the city.

Kornberg, also the 2006 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, expressed his gratitude for the successful opening of the forum in Lingang New City in the Pudong New Area in Shanghai.

He said Shanghai has provided vigorous support to scientific innovations, attracting innovation elements, research platforms and talent.

“We have felt the commitment of Shanghai to integrate into global scientific innovation system and carry out global cooperation and exchange,” the chairman added.

With the theme of mankind’s future in a world of new technologies, the World Laureates Forum has brought together 26 Nobel laureates and winners of achievement awards such as the AM Turning Award and the Wolf Prize.