How intelligent can your life be nowadays? At the opening ceremony of the 2023 Minhang Science and Technology Festival held on May 23, a batch of new technologies and products closely related to people's lives, such as smart pets, unmanned supermarkets, smart education, and AI exhibition revitalization, from the perspective of familiar life, were showcased by innovative technology for urban life.

In February this year, the Shanghai Municipal Government officially released the "Plan for Promoting the Construction of the" Big Zero Bay "Science and Technology Innovation Strategy Source Functional Zone". Taking advantage of the Shanghai Municipal Government's promotion of the construction of the "Big Zero Bay" innovation source, this year's Minhang Science and Technology Festival will carry out activities around the theme of "Science and Technology Innovation Strategy Source, Intelligent Innovation Future", opening up a new situation where science and technology innovation empowers industrial life and urban development, and consolidating innovative intelligence to empower a new pattern of innovation driven development. In the face of the future, cutting-edge technologies such as AI technology, synthetic biology, and translational medicine will also empower the further takeoff of the "Big Zero Bay".

At the opening ceremony, 12 innovative research and development centers at the district level in Minhang for the year 2022, 8 enterprises selected for the second batch of "Zhangjiang Star" cultivation plan, and 11 "Science and Technology Star" top 100 enterprises were awarded honorary medals, in order to encourage science and technology innovation enterprises to strengthen independent innovation, continuously improve their hard technological strength, and make new contributions to the economic and social development of Minhang.

On site, the Minhang Science Popularization IP Image 3.0 version was officially released, with a highly infectious image of science popularization culture. It is reported that the District Political Consultative Conference, District Science and Technology Committee Science and Technology Association, and Hotdog have jointly issued a limited edition public welfare digital blind box - Minmin Blind Box, in order to care for children with autism. Minhang Science Popularization IP digital blind boxes have been gifted to 100 families of "Star Children". Opening the blind box can randomly obtain any of the four digital blind boxes: "Maqiao Hand Lion Dance", "Aerospace Pilot", "Metro Train Attendant", and "Zero Bay Maker".

Children can visit 10 science popularization education bases for free within two years, including the Shanghai Aerospace Science Popularization Center, Shanghai Metro Museum, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Biological Genetically Modified Science Popularization Base, with the help of digital blind boxes. They hope to use the infectious power of science popularization culture to accompany "starry children" out of loneliness.