China 2019 - China, Science and the World

Between 2009 and 2013, China experienced a meteoric expansion in R&D, doubling its research spending and overtaking the US with the largest number of researchers in any single country. How is China redrawing the map of global science?

This session was developed in partnership with Nature.

Speakers:
- Sarah bint Yousif Al-Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Sciences of the United Arab Emirates; Young Global Leader.
- Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President, European Research Council, Brussels.
- Hu Zhijian, President, Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development, Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China.
- Liu Ying, Assistant Professor, Peking University, People's Republic of China.
- Melinda Richter, Global Head, JLABS, Johnson & Johnson, USA.

Moderated by:
- Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief, Nature, United Kingdom.

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