The 2025 World Computing Conference opened in Changsha on Nov. 20, with the theme of "Calculating the World to Create a New Era – Intelligent Computing Drives New Quality Productive Forces."

 
Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and governor of Hunan Province, announced the opening of the conference and met with the representatives and guests present.

 
Xie Weijiang, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, addressed the opening ceremony.

Governor Mao announced the opening of the 2025 World Computing Conference.

Zhong Zhihong, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Yang Xuejun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Xu Xiaolan, vice chairperson of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party and president of the China Electronics Society, delivered keynote speeches.

 
In attendance at the opening ceremony were: provincial leaders Wang Daoxi, Chen Fei, Chen Jing, and Wang Yiguang; CAS academicians Gao Wen, Kong Zhiyin, Li Jiancheng, and Tian Hongqi; Wu Jianjun, vice president of the National University of Defense Technology; and, academic experts from the United States, Russia, Germany, and Canada, who attended or delivered video speeches.

Qu Hai, secretary general of the provincial government, also participated.

During the meeting on the evening of November 19, Governor Mao remarked that, Hunan in recent years has thoroughly implemented President Xi Jinping's important directives on digital economy. The province has been vigorously consolidating "three critical supports"—electricity, computing power, and power; adhering to the layout of "integrated development of computing power, algorithms, computing data, and computing networks"; and, continuously reinforced the foundations while enhancing technological innovation, expanding industrial clusters, and building an application ecosystem. Hunan has cultivated the only national-level industrial cluster in the computing field, and the "Tianhe" supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Changsha has secured first place globally in graph computation performance.

 
Governor Mao noted that, currently, Hunan is fully carrying out the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC). With the implementation of the "AI Plus" initiative as a key driver and aiming at building a "computing power at the front rank nationally," Hunan is striving to create a top-tier AI industry hub in the country. He called on all parties to join hands with Hunan to jointly construct the computing power infrastructure, break through key technological bottlenecks, and explore integrated application scenarios, working hand in hand to chart a new chapter of the high-quality development in the computing industry.

Governor Mao meets with the representatives and guests present at the conference. 

Deputy Secretary Xie stated that hosting the World Computing Conference represents both a concrete action to implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and a significant measure to continuously develop Hunan into a national hub for important and advanced manufacturing industries, a sci-tech and innovation center with core competitiveness, and a pacesetter for reform and the opening-up of China's inland regions. In recent years, Hunan has positioned the computing industry as the core engine of its digital economy, forging a path of innovative development with distinct Hunan characteristics. Xie expressed his hope to leverage this conference as an opportunity to join hands with all distinguished guests in building robust supportive new infrastructure, establishing a powerful new technology system, creating a vibrant new industrial ecosystem with strong radiating effects, and sharing new application scenarios with enhanced collaborative support, and thus enjoying the benefits of the computing world together.

The conference features 12 core events, including one high-level opening ceremony and keynote forum, five specialized sessions focusing on cutting-edge computing topics, five dedicated events centered on the industry's development empowered by technologies, and an exhibition showcasing innovation achievements.

At the conference.

Compared with the previous sessions, this year's conference boasts higher international and professional levels. More than ten renowned academic experts including Nobel laureate Thomas Sargent, as well as senior executives from leading enterprises participated, sharing their views on cutting-edge fields such as advanced computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum technology.

 
A series of important achievements were released during the conference, including the Global Top 10 Computing Innovations and the Top 10 Computing Development Trends.

Hunan Province presented its "Five Top 10" list for the implementation of the "AI Plus" Initiative, highlighting ten key enterprises, ten demonstration scenarios, ten future scenarios, ten prioritized sci-tech innovation platforms (first batch), and ten support measures. The province called on all parties to collaborate in establishing an integrated ecosystem featuring deeply integration of government, industry, education, research, application, and financial sectors.

Governor Mao inspects the innovation achievements exhibition.

Permanently held in Hunan since 2019, the World Computing Conference has been held in Changsha for six sessions. It has become a high-end, international, and professional platform for exchanges and collaboration in the computing field, effectively driving the clustered development of Hunan's computing industry.

Before the meeting, Governor Mao inspected the exhibition showcasing innovation achievements.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn