The forum’s participants speak enthusiastically about China’s scientific work
Nobel prizes and it loves things that are big. A four-day forum in Shanghai, under way aswent to press, has been a perfect union of these. It is one of the world’s largest-ever gatherings of Nobel laureates outside the award ceremonies themselves, with 44 attending—mostly scientists, plus a few economists. Winners of prizes such as the Turing award are also taking part. China staged the inaugural World Laureates Forum last year, billing it as a platform for global scientific collaboration.
In a letter to the guests, President Xi Jinping said China was willing to work with all countries to cope with the challenges of our age. Yet the concern hanging over Chinese science is whether the West is willing to work with it . America has been most active in stepping up scrutiny of Chinese researchers, worried that they may be pilfering technology. Others, including Canada and Australia, have also started taking a closer look.That is one reason why China is keen to gather foreign laureates.
The topics discussed are widely varied, covering fields ranging from dark matter and the atomic analysis of water to pre-term births. “It’s a little too remote from my field to be efficient,” says one European attendee during a break, asking for anonymity to avoid offending his hosts. But China may benefit. The head of a laboratory at a leading American university says he has tentatively offered two postdoctoral fellowships to Chinese he has just met.
The organisers also appear to have a narrower goal in mind. The forum is held on a man-made island on a perfectly circular artificial lake about 70km from downtown Shanghai. The area, known as Lingang New City, feels desolate now, with broad, empty streets and few businesses. Local officials want to make it a technology hub, home to research by the world’s best scientists. They claim already to have signed collaboration agreements with 40 of them.
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