The 26th China Mining Conference and Exhibition opened in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Tuesday, with the goal of promoting international cooperation in the mining sector for win-win outcomes. The four-day event, themed "Promoting Mining Cooperation for a Better Future," is expected to attract nearly 400 exhibitors from over 30 countries and regions. Over 23 forums and 12 product and brand promotion sessions are set to be held during the event. After years' development, the event has become a platform for global mining industry to hold dialogs and seek investment and business opportunities.
"China is a major mining producer, importer, processor and consumer. This is determined by the country's economic structure, which features domestic trade foreign trade," said Che Changbo, Secretary of China Mining Association. The global mining industry is increasingly shifting its focus toward the new energy sector, with demand for key materials like bronze, lithium, nickel and cobalt expected to quadruple over the next 20 years.
"China has taken a leading role in solar energy development, which raises the bar for new energy storage batteries. We are now accelerating the development of new energy storage batteries and new energy vehicles, which will not only affect the vehicle industry, but more importantly, the future energy," said Che.
On Monday, reports on China's mineral resources and global mining development were released, which suggest that artificial intelligence, big data, satellite and remote sensing and the Internet of Things technologies could be applied into the mining industry to help conserve resources and achieve sustainability.
China's mining conference, exhibition opens in Tianjin
The China-Europe Talent Forum 2024 was held in Beijing on Tuesday to explore the key roles of talents in the development of China-Europe relations and further deepen bilateral exchanges and cooperation in relevant fields.
Themed "Sharing Together, Growing Together, Winning Together - Bridging Continents: Fostering Future-fit Talent Development," the forum gathered more than 240 attendees including Chinese and foreign dignitaries, renowned scholars, representatives of international organizations, Nobel laureates, academicians and experts.
Featuring keynote speeches, symposiums and summit dialogues, the event discussed topics covering science and technology, talents, culture, economy and trade, as well as international sports, aiming to further promote practical cooperation in the field of human resources between China and Europe.
"I think the development in China, the development of everything, especially in talent, is very big in the last years. We need to link each other to get more relationship between Europe and China because we have to share the talent. We have to get more relationship between Europe and China in products, in services, and especially in talent, in knowledge, in future, in intelligence," said Antonio Miguel Carmona, president of the Spanish Friends of China Association.
The forum saw the release of the Global Workforce of the Future 2024, Global City Talent Retention Index 2024 and other talent research results, providing important reference and frontier analysis of talent-related issues.
Beijing, as an international hub for exchanges and sci-tech innovation, has vowed to keep optimizing policies and services to provide a better stage for global talents to develop themselves.
"We will implement more proactive, open and effective talent policies, so that Beijing, as an international metropolis, can attract and gather more internationalized talents, and also to foster more internationalized talents. We hope that Beijing will become an important talent center in the world, and we will make unremitting efforts to this end," said Zhang Tianyang, executive dean of the Beijing Institute of Talent Development Strategy.
The forum catalyzed a number of China-Europe talent exchange and cooperation projects, including the signing of a memorandum of understanding in support of the establishment of World Science and Technology Organization in Beijing, the establishment of an internship base between the Peking University of China and Switzerland's Adecco Group, as well as the setup of a China-Europe talent innovation and entrepreneurship center.
"We have reached a lot of cooperation intentions with the European side on the integrated development of education, technology and talents. Through the cooperation in talents and closer people-to-people connections, I believe that all undertakings will achieve a better and win-win development situation," Zhang said.
"The challenges that we have on both sides are really very, very similar. In Europe and in China, we have an aging population. In Europe and in China, we have more and more IT, namely AI, which is shaping work/life in China and in Europe. What we propose is that we make it more easier for researchers, but also for young professionals, and even students in some cases, to share experiences and go to the other country," said the Swiss Ambassador to China Jurg Burri.
Since 2018, the China-Europe Talent Forum has been successfully held for five sessions and has gradually developed into an important platform for talent exchange and cooperation between the two sides.
China-Europe Talent Forum 2024 held in Beijing
