World Young Scientist Summit 2026 Opens in Wenzhou, Zhejiang

WENZHOU, China, Oct. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — It is a report by China Day by day:

On October 24, the World Younger Scientist Summit 2026 opened in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. The occasion is hosted by the China Affiliation for Science and Expertise (CAST), the Zhejiang Provincial Folks’s Authorities, and the World Affiliation of Younger Scientists. Practically 800 representatives, together with scientists, educators, and entrepreneurs from greater than 60 international locations and areas, are attending the summit.

He Junke, Vice President of CAST answerable for each day work and First Secretary of its Secretariat; Lian Yimin, Chairman and Celebration Group Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese language Folks’s Political Consultative Convention; Marcelo Knobel, Govt Director of The World Academy of Sciences; and Zhang Zhenfeng, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Wenzhou Municipal Committee, attended the summit and delivered remarks. Yao Gaoyuan, Vice Governor of the Zhejiang Provincial Folks’s Authorities, presided over the primary phase of the plenary session.

With the theme “Gathering Abilities Worldwide to Create a Higher Future,” the summit’s annual agenda is “World Youth Motion within the AI Period: Constructing a Sustainable Future.” It goals to attract on the insights of younger folks all over the world, deepen worldwide sci-tech cooperation, and collectively tackle questions on younger folks, science, the world and the longer term.

Efim Zelmanov, Fields Medalist and Overseas Member of the Chinese language Academy of Sciences; Chen Yunji, Deputy Director of the Institute of Computing Expertise, CAS, and Director of the Nationwide Key Laboratory of Processor Chips; Mary Garson, President of the Worldwide Union of Pure and Utilized Chemistry; and Lu Chaoyang, Member of the Standing Committee of CAST, Govt Dean of the Shanghai Institute of Superior Research, College of Science and Expertise of China, and Chairman of the Council of the World Affiliation of Younger Scientists, delivered keynote speeches respectively on training reform within the AI period, AI and processor chips, younger ladies scientists’ participation in science, and quantum computing. They explored new alternatives for scientific analysis, expertise cultivation, and worldwide cooperation within the AI period.

This 12 months’s summit positioned larger emphasis on the expansion wants of younger scientists, with younger skills below the age of 45 accounting for 88 p.c of members. It aimed to construct a cluster of worldwide journals, deliver collectively younger scientific expertise, facilitate a batch of worldwide collaborative initiatives and advance the appliance and commercialization of scientific and technological achievements. The summit launched the Report on the Distribution and Mobility of Younger Scientists within the Discipline of Embodied Intelligence, launched the World Younger Scientist Summit Associate Journal Program and the 2026 World Younger Scientist Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Assist Program. It additionally printed the “Younger Scientist Pioneers 2035” record and introduced the 2026 Sustainable Growth Younger Scientist Award. The awards have been offered to 4 Chinese language and overseas scientists.

Chen Tianrun, Founding father of Hangzhou Moxin Expertise Co., Ltd.; Yuan Yang, Assistant to the Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Info Sciences at Tsinghua College; and two of the 2026 Sustainable Growth Younger Scientist Award winners, César de la Fuente and Nicola Segata, amongst different Chinese language and overseas younger scientist representatives, spoke on the flash-talk session to share their analysis practices and reflections.

As well as, the convention targeted on fields akin to future manufacturing, quantum data, embodied intelligence, brain-computer intelligence, environmental science, deep-sea assets, and life and well being, and held 12 parallel boards. It additionally included the “Gravitation π” Future Expertise and Idea Merchandise Exhibition and Alternate, native thematic facet occasions, and sci-tech and humanities research visits, additional constructing an interdisciplinary, cross-regional and cross-sector platform for youth sci-tech alternate and cooperation.