The signing ceremony at the International Young Talents Summit. [Photo/WeChat account of Optics Valley of China]

The International Young Talents Summit of the 2022 Conference on Overseas Chinese Pioneering and Developing in China (COCPDC) opened on Nov 16 in the East Lake High-tech Development Zone (also known as Optics Valley of China, or OVC).

Specialists and experts from home and abroad, renowned investors in sci-tech fields, as well as overseas Chinese from all walks of life, were invited to take part, and to discuss such topics as "sci-tech innovation in major industrial areas," "development of national emerging industries," and "innovation and entrepreneurship of young overseas talents".

At the event, Valery V. Tuchin, an academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Song Baoliang, vice president of Wuhan University, and Tang Xinfeng, chief professor in material science at the Wuhan University of Technology, together with many other experts, gave keynote lectures that were followed by a signing ceremony at which six program agreements were inked.

These programs signed at OVC involve biomedicine, new energy, and IC, will bring a number of outstanding talents to the valley and are expected to facilitate OVC's development and to strengthen industrial chains.

Having been one of the hosting units of the COCPDC since 2001, the valley has accumulated rich overseas Chinese resources via the platform, and has introduced a large number of overseas Chinese investing or starting businesses in Wuhan.

The Wuhan Overseas Scholar Business Park established in the valley has formed a full-life-cycle incubation chain featuring "makerspaces + incubators + accelerators", with the whole business incubation area reaching nearly 100,000 square meters. It is currently home to more than 140 sci-tech firms.

OVC is now building an international community able to accommodate 4,000 international personnel, and has so far gathered four Nobel Prize winners, 74 domestic and foreign academicians, over 3,000 high-level talents and more than 7,000 talent teams from home and abroad. About 54.7 percent of people working in OVC have overseas study experience.

Five experts in an on-stage discussion at the summit. [Photo/WeChat account of Optics Valley of China]