On November 15, Prof. Cui Weicheng,director of the Abyss Science and Technology Research Center of Shanghai OceanUniversity and head of the 10,000-meter manned submersible RainbowFish Project, attended the 8th Caixin Summit. At the scene ofScience Session and STEP Global Technology Summit, Cui Weicheng exchanged ideasand interacted with several Nobel Prize winners and academicians of the ChineseAcademy of Sciences and delivered a speech entitled Wonders of theAbyss.
Cui Weicheng said the current goal of theteam was to develop a manned submersible in 2021 to achieve the third manned landingin the history of mankind, and also explore the modes of state support compoundedwith investment from private enterprises, taking both scientific nature andeconomy into consideration.
Caixin Summit is one of themost authoritative and forward-looking annual events in the field of Chineseeconomy, attracting over one hundred guest speakers and more than one thousandaudience with great influence both at home and abroad. The special science sessionand the STEP Global Technology Summit invited experts in cutting-edge scienceand technology to explore the primary power for human development, lookingforward to the future science and technology blueprint from multiple dimensionsaround topics such as gravitational waves, ocean-diving, artificialintelligence, gene-editing and cutting-edge science.
The summit was divided into two sessions: shapingthe future and exploring the unknown. Scientists attending the summit further includedGeorge Smoot (cosmologist at the University of California at Berkeley, winnerof the Nobel Prize in 2006), Wu Yueliang (vice president of the University ofChinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) , director of CAS Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics), ChristofKoch (well-known neuroscientist, director of the Allen Institute ofBrain Science), Wang Zhonglin (an associate member of the Chinese Academy ofSciences, academician of the European Academy of Sciences, chief scientist ofCAS Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Systems, 2015 Nobel Prize candidate), Paul Davies (well-knownphysicist, cosmologist of University of Arizona), Cao Junwei ( a researcher atInstitute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University and head of LIGOWorking Group, Tsinghua University).