Shanghai Master Forum shines light on science

The first Shanghai Master Forum on Science was launched on Tuesday, and professor Michael Levitt, laureate of the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, was invited as the keynote speaker of the platform that will support Shanghai in becoming an international technological innovation center, officials said.

"We are targeting building a great platform for the world's top scientists to be able to explain scientific thoughts, as well as boost Shanghai in becoming a global technological innovation center," said Dong Yunhu, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Shanghai Committee at the opening ceremony of the forum.

Shanghai is fast developing as a modern and international socialist metropolis with global influence, so the city is more than ever in need of education, science, the fundamental and strategic support of talent, as well as the guidance of scientific thoughts, said Dong.