How smart can your life be? At the opening ceremony of the 2023 Minhang Science and Technology Festival held on May 23, a batch of new technologies and products closely related to the lives of the people, such as smart pets, unmanned supermarkets, smart education, and AI exhibits, were showcased by science and technology enterprises in the area. They demonstrated the transformation brought by scientific and technological innovation to urban life from a perspective familiar to people.
In February this year, the Shanghai Municipal Government officially released the "Shanghai "Big Zero Bay" Science and Technology Innovation Source Function Zone Construction Plan", and taking advantage of the opportunity to promote the construction of the "Big Zero Bay" innovation source site by the Shanghai Municipal Government, this year's Minhang Science and Technology Festival will carry out activities around the theme of "Science and Technology Innovation Source, Smart Creation of the Future", opening a new situation of science and technology innovation empowering industrial life and urban development, and gathering innovative intelligence to empower the new pattern of innovation-driven development. Looking to the future, cutting-edge technologies such as AI technology, synthetic biology, and translational medicine will also surely empower the further take-off of the "Big Zero Bay".
At the opening ceremony, 12 of the 2022 Mianyang District-level Innovation and Research Development Centers, 8 enterprises selected for the second batch of the "Zhangjiang Star" cultivation plan, and 11 "Science and Technology Star" top 100 enterprises were awarded honor medals, encouraging a wide range of science and technology enterprises to strengthen independent innovation, continuously improve their hard science and technology capabilities, and make new contributions to the economic and social development of Mianyang.
On-site, the 3.0 version of the Minhang Science Popularization IP image was officially released, which has a strong appeal to the science popularization culture. It is reported that the District People's Political Consultative Conference, the District Science and Technology Commission, the Science and Technology Association, and hotdog jointly issued a limited edition of a public welfare digital blind box - Minmin Blind Box, and donated the Minhang Science Popularization IP digital blind box to 100 families of "children with autism", and opening the blind box can randomly get any one of the four digital blind boxes: "Maqiao Hand Lion Dance", "Aerospaces Pilot", "Subway Train Attendant", and "Ding Zero Bay Maker".
Children can visit 10 science and education bases, including Shanghai Hangyu Science and Technology Center, Shanghai Metro Museum and Shanghai Jiaotong University Biotechnology Science Education Base, for free within two years with the help of digital blind boxes. It is hoped that the influence of science popularization culture can accompany "the children of the stars" to walk out of loneliness.