Co-hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, the 16th Pujiang Innovation Forum 2023 will be held in Shanghai from September 9th to 11th. The Country of Honor will be the Federative Republic of Brazil, and the Province of Honor will be Hubei Province.

This year, with the theme of "Open Innovation Ecosystem: Innovation for Global Connectivity", the Forum focus on current international landscape, promotes institutional opening-up at a higher level with the philosophy of "Openness, Inclusiveness, Mutual Benefit and Sharing", and creates an open, fair, impartial and non-discriminatory innovation environment and ecosystem. It helps build global science and technology cooperation networks, establish global innovation service systems, promote the effective flow of factors for innovation, and enhance the level of global innovation connectivity, so as to explore new directions, blaze new trails, draw new blueprints and pool new wisdom for the improvement of global innovation network and global innovation governance.

The Forum will include six major sections, namely Main Forum (Opening Ceremony and Plenary Session), Thematic Forum, Sub-Forum, Exhibition, Special Dialogue, and Result Release. WeStart Global Entrepreneurs Conference will be launched the first time, to build a platform to connect projects and capital. Simultaneously, Global Tech-Matching Fair (InnoMatch EXPO) will be organized, which takes "demand for innovation" , "demand for talent" and "demand for capital" as three core elements to create a "1+3+365" exhibition matching model.

After 15 sessions of development, Pujiang Innovation Forum has kept reinventing itself, pooling global wisdom and effectively promoted international exchanges and cooperation in the fields of technology, talents, projects, and organizations, etc. As a result, it has become a high-level international innovation forum with extensive influence. We welcome guests from around the world to share wisdom by the Huangpu River this September!