Beijing   First   Global   World   City   Conference   will be  held  at  Beijing Conference Center  from September 18 to 19, 2010.  This conference is a comprehensive academic conference participated by academic elites, business leaders, and senior officials.

On the theory-discussing meeting of CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and Beijing Government held from December 9 to 10, 2009, Mr. LIU Qi, party committee secretary, pointed out that Beijing should be constructed into a world city.  From December 24 to 26, 2009, the seventh plenary sessions of the tenth CPC Beijing Municipal Committee convened.  Mr. LIU Qi indicated clearly that the city should aim at building a high-end form of international metropolises at the height of World Cities, to speed up implementation of development strategies, which are “Humanistic Beijing, High-tech Beijing and Green Beijing”, and to promote the faster and better development of the economics and society of the capital to meet a higher standard.  On January 25, 2010, Beijing 13th National People’s Congress held its third meeting; GUO Jinlong, mayor of Beijing, made government work report.  He said that Beijing had entered a new phase of fully constructing a modern international metropolis and that we must focus on the construction of a World City and enhance our modernization and international level, so that the development and construction of the capital can meet the requirements of state and the people.  In accordance with the target set out in the general urban planning of Beijing, by around 2050, Beijing should become a city in sustainable development, the economics, society and ecology of which being fully coordinated, and edge into the ranks of World Cities.  Not long before, the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and Beijing Government indicated that we should materialize the high-standard capital development goal into index system and work plan, and strive to build Beijing into a World City with Chinese characteristics, reflecting the features of humanistic, high-tech and green.

To implement and materialize the requirement of CPR Beijing Municipal Committee and Beijing Government to improve the research on World City construction, under the support of relevant departments, all preparation works of this conference are ready.

The topic of this conference is “innovation-driven development promotes World City construction”.  This conference will discuss and communicate regarding the three features – humanistic, high-tech and green – of Beijing’s World City construction and from three perspectives of intellectual capital, creative industry and innovation model.  First of all, a world city should be a city with intellectual capital; only if intellectual capital is integrated with knowledge management, and knowledge resources are fully excavated, reorganized and effectively allocated, may the core-competitiveness of Beijing during future development be continuously enhanced.  Secondly, a world city should be a city with high-end industry; creative industry, as a product of post-industrial economic era, has become a high-end form of the development of global modern industry, has brought enormous changes to the whole world, in lifestyle as well as the style of economic growth, and has a crucial role in advancing Beijing into a world creative center and in the construction of world city brand.  Thirdly, a world city should be a city with innovative development; under such current circumstances as striving to improve enterprise’s self-innovation abilities, to breed strategic new industry, and to convert the style of world economic development, a thorough discussion on innovation-driven development will provide innovative viewpoint and enlightenment for the better and faster development of the capital.

A World City, as a high-end form of international urban, should be a habitat of high-end human resources and headquarters of high-end international corporates, and should be a habitat of municipal or international activities which have important influence to global politics, economics and culture, etc.  On the conference held on September 18, we will invite officers from international organizations including World Intellectual Property Organization and European Union, and experts and scholars from Germany, Britain, Australia, Belgium, Italy, and from China’s Hong Kong and Taiwan area to give keyword speeches.  We also invited experts and scholars from Peking University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other institutions of higher learning and research institutes, who will also give out excellent speak during the Conference.

We hope, through the organization of this conference, to promote the communications among international experts, scholars and entrepreneurs, to share ideas on construction of world cities, and to advance the research on World City construction.  Let’s work together and explore the development approach to construct Beijing into a World City.

The sponsors of this conference are Beijing Academy of Science and Technology and Beijing Research Center for Science of Science, supporters are Beijing Municipal Science &Technology Commission, Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park Zone Management Committee and Beijing Intellectual Property Office, and co-sponsors are Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Promotion Office, Asia-Pacific Intellectual Capital Centre, Technical Innovation and Strategic Management Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Beijing Office.

Here through the media, we sincerely invite experts, scholars, and all friends from commercial circles who concern about the development of world city to participate in the first Global World City Conference.