DBAR enters the Greater Bay Area Science Forum (GSF)
The opening ceremony of the 2023 Greater Bay Area Science Forum (GSF) was held on May 21, 2023 in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province. Huang Kunming, the Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Liang Zhenying, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and Wan Gang, Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), participated in the opening ceremony as Chief Guest. Other prominent guests included Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Ho Iat-seng, Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region, who joined the ceremony online and also delivered video speeches. Huang Xiaowei, Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group and Vice-President of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), Wang Weizhong, Deputy Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Guangdong Province, Bai Chunli, President of the Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO) and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lin Keqing, Chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Standing Committee Member of the Provincial Party Committee, and Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Samuel Ting, Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics and foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Michael Levitt, Winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry and professor at Stanford University, Daniel M. Kammen, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Alessandro Annoni, President of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), also were among the reknowed guest who attended the opening ceremony of the forum.
An important session the Session on High Quality Development of Belt and Road Initiative was held on May 22, focused on the fields of health, green development, digitalization, and innovation, and discussed opportunities, challenges, and solutions for high quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative in the new era and new global circumstances. Academician Guo Huadong, Director of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) and Chairman of the Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) International Science Program, invited as keynote speaker during the session, delivered a talk titled "Building the Digital Silk Road". He systematically introduced the "Digital Silk Road" International Science Program and stated that as a pioneering international scientific program, DBAR would provide technological support for the sustainable development of the Belt and Road Initiative by building a global big earth data platform, thereby helping countries along the Belt and Road Initiative Regions achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He pointed out that in order to serve different users from countries and regions along the Belt and Road, it is necessary to establish a systematic collaborative network, enhance capacity building and technology transfer, and further improve the capabilities of scientific support and decision-making services by fully utilizing the macroscopic, dynamic, and multiscale monitoring capabilities of big earth data. In addition, he emphasized that digital technology is becoming an important field for economic and scientific development, due to the advancement in quality of products and services and the potential economic value to the whole society. Building the Digital Silk Road with digital technology is an important strategic direction for realizing high quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
An important session the Session on High Quality Development of Belt and Road Initiative was held on May 22, focused on the fields of health, green development, digitalization, and innovation, and discussed opportunities, challenges, and solutions for high quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative in the new era and new global circumstances. Academician Guo Huadong, Director of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) and Chairman of the Digital Belt and Road (DBAR) International Science Program, invited as keynote speaker during the session, delivered a talk titled "Building the Digital Silk Road". He systematically introduced the "Digital Silk Road" International Science Program and stated that as a pioneering international scientific program, DBAR would provide technological support for the sustainable development of the Belt and Road Initiative by building a global big earth data platform, thereby helping countries along the Belt and Road Initiative Regions achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He pointed out that in order to serve different users from countries and regions along the Belt and Road, it is necessary to establish a systematic collaborative network, enhance capacity building and technology transfer, and further improve the capabilities of scientific support and decision-making services by fully utilizing the macroscopic, dynamic, and multiscale monitoring capabilities of big earth data. In addition, he emphasized that digital technology is becoming an important field for economic and scientific development, due to the advancement in quality of products and services and the potential economic value to the whole society. Building the Digital Silk Road with digital technology is an important strategic direction for realizing high quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Group Photo of Experts Presenting Reports at the Session on High Quality Development of Belt and Road Initiative
Academician Guo Huadong delivers a keynote report titled "Building the Digital Silk Road."