Zhongguancun Forum: Space for innovation

Experts, entrepreneurs discuss the 'new revolution' underway

Government officials, leading scholars and entrepreneurs called for innovative ways to retool the economy and industrialize new technologies during the Zhongguancun Forum that opened on Sept 12 in Beijing.

Li Meng, secretary-general of the Ministry of Science and Technology, told the conference that the world is facing a new revolution in science and technology - and that innovation is "an inexhaustible motivating force".