[Explanation] On August 27, the 3rd Shanghai Innovation and Entrepreneurship Youth 50 Forum was held in Shanghai with the theme of "Crossing Shanghai to the Peak - New Opportunities for the City, Youth and New Future".

On the same day, well-known scientists, economists, entrepreneurs and young talents conducted in-depth exchanges on topics such as "Metaverse" and "Green and Low-Carbon" new tracks.

  [Explanation] Zhang Wei, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Mayor, said in his speech that Shanghai is seizing the four main new tracks of digital economy, green and low-carbon, Metaverse, and smart terminals. In the Metaverse Action Plan, Shanghai proposed that to In 2025, the scale of Metaverse-related industries will reach 350 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), driving the city's software and information service industry to exceed 1.5 trillion yuan, and the electronic information manufacturing industry to exceed 550 billion yuan.

  [Explanation] Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360, believes that the metaverse is the product of digital development to an advanced stage, and its essence is a digital twin.

The future of the metaverse should be the industrial metaverse, serving the digitalization of industries.

  [Concurrent] Zhou Hongyi, founder and chairman of 360 Company

  I think the metaverse is the product of digital development to an advanced stage, and its essence is a digital twin.

Virtualize the physical world, do one-to-one mapping in the virtual space, and obtain some laws that cannot be found in the real world through artificial intelligence reasoning and big data calculations, and then apply them to the real world to provide better digital development for the real world. support.

Therefore, the future of the metaverse should be an industrial metaverse, serving the real economy, manufacturing, and industrial digitization.

  [Explanation] According to Chen Rui, chairman of Bilibili, the Metaverse is not a product or technology, but a comprehensive industrial concept similar to the mobile Internet, which will consist of a variety of products and technologies.

The Metaverse will be a world where every user can participate in ecological co-construction.

  [Concurrent] Chen Rui, Chairman and CEO of Bilibili

  In the real world, for example, the Shanghai Center is created by many workers, while the digital world in the Metaverse is actually created by thousands of users.

In the metaverse, users are both producers of digital content and consumers of digital content. In the future, there will be many people who will create digital content in the metaverse as a profession, so I think the digital world of the metaverse is an ecology of content. , UGC (User Generated Content) will be the mainstream of the metaverse.

  [Explanation] It is reported that the Shanghai Innovation and Entrepreneurship Youth 50 Forum was launched for the first time in April 2020. It aims to gather wisdom, pool together, and promote cooperation, becoming an important platform to help young people devote themselves to innovation and successful entrepreneurship, and to expand the number of innovative and entrepreneurial youth The exchanges and vision of talents clearly convey to the whole society a strong signal that Shanghai is eager for all kinds of talents and a clear orientation to support youth innovation and entrepreneurship.

On the same day, the forum released Shanghai's "Top Ten Excellent Cases of Innovation and Entrepreneurship" covering frontier fields such as energy, artificial intelligence and neuroscience, the "Morning Star Program" that empowers young people to find jobs, and the "Shining Peak" project that promotes the city's brand image.

  Zhou Sunyu reports from Shanghai

Responsible editor: [Li Ji]