The first ZGC-Silicon Valley Global Innovation and Future Technology Summit (GIFTS) was launched at the Silicon Valley, the US on Nov 16, attracting the attendance of thousands of guests, including nearly 30 scientists from frontier industries and industrial leaders from around the world.

"Zhongguancun (ZGC) has gradually become a hub of the scientific and technological field for Chinese people in Silicon Valley," said Luo Wei, COO of ZGC Silicon Valley International Group.

Innovation is defined as the first mechanism that leads the development and gives strategic support for setting up modern economies, Luo added as he expressed his hope for more future exchanges on talents, technologies and funds between China and the Silicon Valley.

The summit presented a number of exchanges and discussions on hot topics, including artificial electronic skin, artificial intelligence, smart home life, future bioscience and medical technologies.

Divided into several exhibition halls featuring future experience and hiring, the event provided a variety of quality services and connection opportunities.

By taking the summit as a platform, enterprises incubated in Zhongguancun Silicon Valley innovation center have gained precious opportunities to demonstrate themselves, seeking more talents and linking more advanced enterprises from home and abroad.

During the summit, the center also released a white paper on fostering the ecosystem of Zhongguancun Silicon Valley, which will be on the market at the beginning of 2018, in a bid to conduct deep research on the development of Silicon Valley and incorporate it into Zhongguancun's blueprint of building an innovation ecosystem in North America.

The first ZGC-Silicon Valley GIFTS is launched at the Silicon Valley, the USA on Nov 16. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Visitors are introduced the functions of a robot at the summit. [Photo by Zhang Jiexian/people.com.cn]