2025 DongHu Forum Opens in Wuhan, Building a Global Platform for Sci-Tech Exchange

On October 14, the 2025 DongHu Forum opened in Wuhan, Hubei. Nearly 1,000 guests from home and abroad attended the opening ceremony.

The 2025 DongHu Forum opening ceremony

Photo by the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology

This year's forum features the theme "Science Popularization, Sci-Tech Innovation, and Sci-Tech Talent." Through three main sections—an Opening Ceremony and Main Forum, Parallel Forums, and Concurrent Activities—it builds an important platform for promoting open cooperation in sci-tech innovation and connecting with global and national innovation resources. Project roadshows and matchmaking events were also organized to create precise channels linking innovative projects with capital and talent, helping to bring sci-tech achievements from the laboratory to the marketplace. Public science outreach activities were also held, featuring interactive and hands-on experiences that allowed the public to experience the charm of science and technology up close.

At the opening ceremony, four reports were released: Global Digital Economy Development Index Report 2025, Wuhan Science and Technology Innovation Center Index Report 2025, China Basic Research Competitiveness Report 2025, and Global Corporate Innovation Index 2025.

Benjamin List delivers a keynote speech

Photo by the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology

During the keynote speech session, Benjamin List, a 2021 Nobel laureate in Chemistry and professor at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Germany, and Lena Halounova, President of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), engaged in an in-depth exchange. Drawing from their respective fields, the two leading international scholars shared cutting-edge perspectives and vivid case studies on their respective themes: "Catalysis for a Better World" and "Serving Society with Image Information."