Beijing Economic and Social High-Quality Development Conference held: Unite and forge ahead with determination, ensuring a strong start in the first quarter.

According to the Beijing Daily, the Economic and Social High-Quality Development Conference for the year 2026 was held on the morning of February 3. The Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Yin Li, emphasized the need to unite, innovate, and comprehensively implement all work to ensure a strong start in the first quarter, meet the annual targets successfully, lay a solid foundation for the development of the city in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and work hard to create a new situation in the modernization of the capital. Yin Li emphasized the need to vigorously develop new productive forces, take on responsibility for serving the country's high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, strengthen national strategic scientific and technological capabilities, coordinate the integrated development of education, science, and technology talents, and build a high-level talent base. Efforts should be made to strengthen the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and promote industrial development that meets the functional positioning of the capital and the needs of the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Promoting the integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, funding chain, and talent chain, accelerating the pace of building a global benchmark city for the digital economy and an international benchmark city for green economy. In-depth implementation of the "AI+" action, landing a number of demonstration application scenarios, and using digitalization to empower the development of emerging industries.