Chinese internet giant Tencent hosted the 2023 Tencent Science WE Summit in Beijing on Saturday (Oct 29), drawing attention to the importance of basic scientific research and the popularization of science among the public.
00:00 Chinese Internet giant Tencent on Saturday hosted the 2023 Tencent Science WE Summit in Beijing.
00:08 Themed SEED, this year's summit highlights the long-term attention to basic scientific research and public science popularization.
00:17 This year, we invited seven scientists from all over the world.
00:20 Three of them are top scientists from China.
00:23 They will talk about the latest scientific breakthroughs in super-satellite, liquid robot, stone-molecule technology and anti-aging.
00:32 At this year's WE Summit, we will also publish a joint-proposal of a digital seed bank jointly built by Tencent and China Agricultural University.
00:40 The project intends to utilize 3D modeling and other technologies to digitally scan the National Agricultural Jermplism Bank of CAAS,
00:50 which preserves more than 540,000 units of germplasm resources to present them in 3D dynamics format.
00:59 Scientists attending this year's event have spoken highly of the summit's promotion of science and technology.
01:06 Tencent has enormous outreach and to use that great penetration into the market to actually bring science to people, scientific research, especially to the younger people.
01:22 I think it's an absolutely wonderful use of their soft power and I really admire them for it. I think it's excellent.
01:31 WE Summit is a nice effort to communicate science to the wider public.
01:38 And as a scientist, I think it's always welcome when we find people outside science who are willing to work with the scientists to communicate what we do to society,
01:52 and especially to young emerging scholars, high school, middle school, college.
01:59 And to do so on a platform that can reach around the world. So I think it's a very good idea.
02:06 The WE Summit has been held annually since 2013.
02:10 The event draws scientists and innovators from various countries to anticipate future challenges and seek solutions to advance human development.
