Embroidery robots, surgical robotic arms, intelligent coal mining, and online hospitals... A myriad of intelligent technological products and applications shine at the exhibition of the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum, being held in the Chinese capital's innovation hub Zhongguancun, known as "China's Silicon Valley."

Running from May 25 to 30, the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum has drawn about 650 enterprises and institutions from across the world to showcase their cutting-edge scientific and technological advances and achievements in the fields such as information technology, intelligent manufacturing, green industry, medicine and health, and digital economy.

The hydrogen fuel cell technologies introduced by Hyundai Motor Group from the Republic of Korea have attracted a steady stream of visitors. Hyundai has set up its first overseas hydrogen fuel cell system R&D, production and sales base in south China's Guangzhou, which will be completed and put into operation in June, with a total investment of 8.5 billion yuan (about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars).

ABB, a Swiss tech giant in electrification and automation, brought its integrated solutions for greenhouse gas monitoring to the exhibition. It set up its first manufacturing joint venture in China over 30 years ago and has a full range of businesses, including manufacturing, sales, and services in China.

"The Zhongguancun Forum is a great platform to display our solution plans and launch dialogues with enterprise customers," said Lars Eckerlein, general manager of ABB (China) Limited. "It is already the third time for us to participate in the Forum, which brings us a lot of opportunities to seek sci-tech cooperation with global partners."

Located in northwestern Beijing, Zhongguancun is the country's first national independent innovation demonstration zone. Over time, it has become a flagbearer of China's innovation, bearing witness to the rapid development of Chinese technology, with the continuous emergence of significant sci-tech innovations, increasing investment in R&D, continuous improvement of innovation mechanisms, and strengthened international cooperation.

Last year, there were 4,244 companies in Zhongguancun with annual revenue exceeding 100 million yuan, which is 2.2 times that of 2012. Among them, 11 companies surpassed the 100-billion-yuan revenue mark.

The Zhongguancun Forum has become a global, comprehensive, and open high-end sci-tech forum, shouldering the important mission of promoting global sci-tech progress, said Saifur Rahman, president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at the forum, adding that with China's increasing integration into the global innovation pattern, China's technological development will surely become a more important engine of global innovation.