FROM: The State Council Information Office

SUBJECT:  Issues on The 2nd Pujiang Innovation Forum

WHEN: 14:00 PM,Wednesday, September 9, 2009

WHERE: No 6 Hong Yun Room at Beijing Xiyuan Hotel, No.1 Sanlihe Road, Haidian District, Beijing

WHO: Ministry of Science and Technology and Shanghai Municipal Government

CONTACT: 021-54065309 / 13564968331

NOTE: Please take the Press Conference Invitation issued by Committee during the press conference. If you have any further enquiries, please feel free to contact Cathy Huang from the convention department of the Secretariat of the forum on 86-21-54065309 or 13564968331.

Press Conference Invitation

The 2nd Pujiang Innovation Forum, to be held on the 24th &25th of October, 2009 in Shanghai, is co-hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Shanghai Municipal Government and it is a high-level international forum dedicated to academic research on innovation strategies and policies.

Building off from the success of the 1st Pujiang Innovation Forum, this year’s event will have a major focus on Economic Globalization & Innovation. The event will bring together about 40 well-known experts, scholars and government officials from around the world to conduct wide and in-depth discussions on hot, thorny and key issues of building innovation-oriented countries such as Financial Crisis and New Patterns of Global Competition, Innovation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises under the Economic Fluctuation, Globalization of Research and Development and its Influence, Typical Experience of the Technological Breakthrough in Industries of Newly-rising Industrialized Countries as well as Measures to Boost Development through Innovation.

To further develop Pujiang Innovation Forum as a communication platform and to attract more attention on innovation, the Organizing Committee will host the Press Conference for the forum at 14:00-15:30 on the 9th of September, 2009 at No 6 Hong Yun Room at Beijing Xiyuan Hotel. ( Address: No.1 Sanlihe Road, Haidian District, Beijing)

With all these issues in mind, we would like to extend an invitation for you to attend the Press Conference. Should you make a decision before the 4th of September, 2009? Please do not hesitate to make it known to us by fax the confirmation letter on 86-21-54065150 or you can send E-mail to pif2009-event@pujiangforum.org . For you review, I have attached the press conference agenda.

Organizing Committee of the Pujiang Innovation Forum

31st of August, 2009

Press Conference Agenda

14:00-14:15 Registration

14:15-14:30 Introduction on the background, achievements of last year’s forum and the preparation progress of the event in 2009

14:30-15:00 Introduction on the theme and topics of this year’s event and key

participating speakers

15:00-15:30 Q&A