The Guangzhou National Laboratory successfully held the 2025 Nanshan Respiratory Health Forum, with leading international experts jointly outlining a new blueprint for the development of respiratory health.
05/27
2025
From May 23-25, the 2025 Nanshan Respiratory Health Forum and the Guangzhou National Laboratory's 4th Anniversary Series of Academic Activities, hosted by the Guangzhou National Laboratory and the Guangdong Provincial Respiratory and Health Society, and co-organized by the National Respiratory Medicine Center, the National Clinical Medical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, the Bio Island Laboratory, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, and the Guangzhou Respiratory Health Research Institute, were held in Guangzhou. “ 2025 Nanshan Respiratory Health Forum and Guangzhou National Laboratory's 4th Anniversary Series of Academic Activities ” were held in Guangzhou. Five academicians attended: recipient of the Medal of the Republic, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and director of the Guangzhou National Laboratory Zhong Nanshan; academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chairman of the National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing) He Fuchu; academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of the National Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University Li Lanjuan; academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Gao Fu; and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice director of the Guangzhou National Laboratory Xu Tao; along with Kian Fan Chung from the British Heart and Lung Institute, Parameswaran Krishnan Nair, an American College of Chest Physicians fellow and professor of medicine at McMaster University, members of the Guangzhou National Laboratory leadership team, ， and over 1400 representatives from national key laboratories, government agencies, universities, research institutes, hospitals, media, and enterprises attended the event.
This event focused on respiratory diseases and health, with 3 parallel main forums, 36 sub-forums, and advanced technology training. It comprehensively presented rich content in the field of respiratory diseases and health, including drugs, vaccines, medical devices, scientific research equipment, and science popularization, using a high-level academic platform to respond to the national strategic deployment of strengthening the respiratory disease prevention and control system. 。 Experts closely followed the theme of "Breathing Together, Creating the Future," engaging in in-depth dialogues on cutting-edge research breakthroughs, technological innovation transformation, and industrial upgrading paths, jointly drawing a new blueprint for the development of respiratory health, and contributing wise solutions to the construction of a strong technological nation and a healthy China.
Guangzhou National Laboratory Celebrates Four Years of Promoting Technological Breakthroughs for Public Benefit
In the four years since its establishment, the Guangzhou National Laboratory, as an important component of the national strategic scientific and technological force, under the leadership of the Central Committee of Science and Technology, guided by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and with the support and guarantee of Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City, has focused on respiratory diseases and their prevention and control, striving to practice a new national system, resolutely shouldering the responsibility of "overall platform and overall chain leader," deeply exploring the construction of a national laboratory system with Chinese characteristics, fully carrying out major scientific and technological research, producing dozens of key achievements, actively responding to national strategic needs, and safeguarding the health of the people. Academician Zhong Nanshan's report, Four Years of Deep Cultivation, Intelligently Starting a New Journey—The Guangzhou Laboratory's Practice and Breakthroughs in Benchmarking the Five Elements of a Strong Technological Nation systematically summarized the laboratory's three major work directions and its development over the past four years. He stated that the laboratory should be oriented towards national strategic needs, improve the ability to proactively prevent and control sudden public health events caused by sudden infectious diseases (prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and equipment), elucidate the early evolutionary patterns and pathogenesis of major chronic respiratory diseases, promote early diagnosis, early prevention, and early treatment, and achieve theoretical breakthroughs in the pathogen infection and pathogenesis of major sudden respiratory infectious diseases. He emphasized that the laboratory will further strengthen its role as an "overall platform and overall chain leader," driven by technological innovation and centered on people's health, continuously producing more original and leading results, making new and greater contributions to the comprehensive construction of a healthy China and achieving high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, so that the fruits of technological innovation can benefit the people more and more equitably.
Zhong Nanshan Science Popularization Studio Officially Unveiled, Helping to Improve Public Health Literacy
Technological innovation and science popularization are the two wings of achieving innovative development. With the promulgation and implementation of the newly revised "Science Popularization Law," the status of science popularization as an important part of the national innovation system has been further strengthened. During the forum, the unveiling of the Zhong Nanshan Science Popularization Studio became a focal point. The Zhong Nanshan Science Popularization Studio will adhere to the principles of "scientific, timely, authoritative, effective, accurate, and three-dimensional," bringing together top scientists and clinical experts nationwide, promoting the transformation of scientific research results through in-depth dialogues, and injecting strong science popularization momentum into the construction of a strong technological nation and a healthy China.
Focusing on Strategic Frontiers to Create an Academic Feast, Reports by Academicians and Experts Attract Attention
During the forum, Academician Zhong Nanshan also personally lectured on the first lecture of Respiratory Health Classroom using vivid metaphors and plain language to interpret professional medical knowledge, conveying the modern health concept of "prevention first, combining prevention and treatment" to the public, and promoting the improvement of public health literacy.
The keynote report session closely followed the current national needs for technological innovation and industrial upgrading. Academician He Fuchu's report Human Proteome Navigation Project painted a grand blueprint for drawing a dynamic map of the human proteome and constructing a "human status navigation system." Academician Gao Fu's report Scientific Issues of X Disease showed new paths and strategies for X disease prediction and respiratory disease prevention and control. Academician Xu Tao's report AI-Driven Biomedical Equipment Technological Innovation presented the innovative models and achievements of intelligent technology empowering biomedical equipment upgrades and respiratory disease diagnosis and treatment. The special reports focused on clinical transformation and primary medical care, with Professor He Jianxing and Professor Zheng Jinping respectively delivering AI+Tubeless Innovation-Driven Lung Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Rehabilitation System Construction and Exploration of the Understanding and Treatment of Airway Inflammation in Chronic Respiratory Diseases reports.
“Lung Nodule Awareness Week” was officially launched last year at the Nanshan Respiratory Health Forum. This year, the conference specially set up a Lung Nodule Awareness Week theme pavilion, with four areas: "Lifting the Fog," "Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Preservation Area," "Yuekangjia Health Gas Station," and "Doctors Up Close," providing interactive services such as health consultations, traditional Chinese medicine health preservation, and lung nodule science popularization for the attending public.
Innovation Achievements Exhibition made a strong comeback at this year's conference, creating a panoramic ecological exhibition of "technology × product × scenario × ecosystem," bringing together cutting-edge achievements from the entire biopharmaceutical industry chain, building a high-efficiency platform for industry-academia-research cooperation, using innovative momentum to promote the upgrading of the respiratory health industry, and leading the new future of China's biopharmaceutical industry.
3 Parallel Main Forums and 36 Sub-Forums Offer a Rich and Varied Program
This year's Nanshan Respiratory Health Forum includes the Lung Cancer Sub-forum (2025 CROC Annual Meeting), the Oncology Respiratory Medicine Forum (2025 CROC Annual Meeting), and the Chairman's Lecture Hall Three main parallel forums and 36 sub-forums, special sessions, and discussion sessions With a comprehensive focus on cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, sharing innovative treatment technologies, summarizing clinical practice experience, exploring disease prevention and control strategies, and interpreting public health policies. Through multi-dimensional and in-depth academic exchanges, it provides new ideas and methods for solving key problems in the prevention and control of respiratory diseases.
After two years of development, the Nanshan Respiratory Health Forum is gradually developing into a major academic event in the field of respiratory health in China. This Nanshan Respiratory Health Forum, with national-level scientific research platforms as its hub, has built “ a global gathering of wisdom, core technology breakthroughs, and whole-industry chain collaboration ” innovative ecosystem. The series of achievements formed by the forum will provide stronger support for the health and well-being of the entire population and the construction of a healthy China, and will also contribute Chinese wisdom solutions to global respiratory disease prevention and control.
