At the opening ceremony of the 2023 Minhang Science and Technology Festival held on May 23, a number of new technologies and products closely related to people's lives, such as smart pets, unmanned supermarkets, smart education, and AI exhibit activation from science and technology enterprises in the district, were displayed, showing the changes brought by scientific and technological innovation to urban life from the perspective of people's familiar life.
In February this year, the Shanghai Municipal Government officially issued the "Plan for Promoting the Construction of the "Da Zero Bay" Science and Technology Innovation Source Functional Zone, taking the opportunity of the Shanghai Municipal Government to promote the construction of the "Da Zero Bay" innovation source, this year's Minhang Science and Technology Festival will focus on the theme of "Science and Technology Innovation Sources, Intelligent Future" to carry out activities, open a new situation of scientific and technological innovation to empower industrial life and urban development, and condense a new pattern of innovative intelligence to empower innovation-driven development. In the future, cutting-edge technologies such as AI technology, synthetic biology, and translational medicine will also enable the further take-off of "Big Zero Bay".
At the opening ceremony, 12 Minhang district-level innovation and R&D centers in 2022, 8 enterprises selected for the second batch of "Zhangjiang Star" cultivation plan enterprises and 11 "Science and Technology Star" top 100 enterprises were awarded honorary medals, so as to encourage the majority of science and technology enterprises to strengthen independent innovation, continuously improve their hard science and technology strength, and make new contributions to Minhang's economic and social development.
At the scene, version 3.0 of Minhang's popular science IP image was officially released, and its image was very appealing to popular science culture. It is reported that the District Political Consultative Conference, the District Science and Technology Commission Association and HotDog jointly issued a limited public welfare digital blind box - Min Min Blind Box in order to care for autistic children, and presented 100 "star children" families with Minhang Science IP digital blind box, open the blind box to randomly get any of the four digital blind boxes of "Maqiao Hand Lion Dance", "Aerospace Pilot", "Subway Conductor" and "Big Zero Bay Maker".
With the help of the digital blind box, children can visit 10 popular science education bases such as Shanghai Aerospace Science Popularization Center, Shanghai Metro Museum and Shanghai Jiaotong University Biogenetically Modified Science Base for free within two years, hoping to accompany the "children of the stars" out of loneliness through the appeal of popular science culture.