Theme: Let it grow

Growth takes place every moment,
Different forms of living come in panoramas.
Cities, in individual and organizational level,
Advance in accordance with place and time.
Thoughts, in all dimensions of time and space,
Spread in resonance with diversity.

Ningbo Yifu Theatre
No.187, Jiefang South Road
Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315000
China

Dafei Chen

Macroeconomic analyst

His research area includes global and Chinese macroeconomics; monetary policy and the economic cycle; innovation, Kondratiev wave theory and industrial upgrading; international political economy. In addition, he presided over and participated in several important projects of national social sciences and those entrusted by Shanghai municipal government and some projects of think tank.

Dongdong Xia

Orthopedic Physician, Postdoctoral of Harvard Medical School

Lecturer of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) in China and director of FLS program of International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF). Young member of Zhejiang Society of Osteoporosis and Bone Mineral Research, expert committee member of Ningbo Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Clinical Guidance Center, young member of Ningbo Orthopedic Association. Dr. Xia Dongdong has been engaged in the research of spinal diseases for a long time, committed to the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and related diseases in the elderly. To date, he has obtained eight national invention patents, published more than 10 SCI papers on international journals, presided over and participated in a number of international, national and provincial scientific research projects.

Guoping Sun

Director and researcher, Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology

Through more than ten years of unremitting exploration, Sun has added rich historicalinformation for the restoration of ancient social landscape in China's coastal areas. Healso motivated the comprehensive and in-depth study, publicity and protection of Hemudu Culture. Through the excavation of Jingtoushan Site directed by Sun, the origin of local heritageof Hemudu Culture has been preliminarily explored, the chronological framework of Hemudu Culture in Yuyao and Ningbo has been pushed further, and the cultural and historical source of Ningbo has been advanced to more than 8000 years ago, which has greatly promoted the relationship between the development of prehistoric culture in China's coastal areas and the environmental changes in the early and middle Neolithic Age. The academic project makes people realize that Chinese marine culture has a long history as inland culture.

J BIG

Parenting bestseller author and founder of a WeChat official account Big J Little D.

As a member of the professional committee of early childhood family education of China Family Education Association and an experienced reading promoter, Jessica has integrated educational concepts and methods with her own parenting practice, and shared them with other parents without holding back through WeChat public account, books and courses. “Family Early Education Trilogy”, "Fostering Children's Super Brain" and other works have been sold more than one million, occupying the top of the best-selling list of Dangdang parenting books all year round, and has been listed on the list of influential writers for three consecutive years. Jessica’s notion“ being a parent with growth mindset and building an ever-learning family” has influenced millions of young parents and their families in China, leading the new generation of parents to grow together, and won the title of "International Integrated Education Leader" of Forbes education in 2020.

Jia He

Community-Development Practitioner, Architect

The experience of participating in rural development and old community remolding in China made He see the imbalance between urban development and the rhythm of social construction; he also realized the disconnection between the practice of architecture and the real-life in the context of rapid urban development. On the one hand, He wants to explore the professional possibility of "designing for and with the public"; on the other hand, he also realized that architecture alone could not solve the complex proposition of sustainable development of city and society, which needs to communicate with other disciplines. Therefore, combining the "hardware" and "software" for systematic thinking to push the sustainable development of cities and communities has become He Jia's mission.

Jiahui Lu

Associate professor (Peiyang Young Scholar), School of New Media and Communication, Tianjin University

Lu received a PhD in Social Psychology from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2018 and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at the same university from 2018 to 2020. His research focuses on leveraging mobile and social media for social psychology of health, health communication, and health promotion. He has been working on research of crisis and health communication for the epidemic of respiratory infectious diseases. His current projects include the development of mobile-based participatory platforms for early warning of influenza and emerging respiratory infectious diseases, and the use of artificial intelligence to combat health-related misinformation on social media. He has published more than 10 academic articles on reputable scientific journals such as Journal of Medical Internet Research, Computers in Human Behavior, BMC Public Health, and Journal of Health Communication.

Jing Wang

Doctoral supervisor, Sound studies scholar, Sound event planner

Wang Jing focuses on sound and the relation between acoustic perception and life forms. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldworks, she explores values of sound and listening in suggesting new ways of thinking and new ways of co-existence. She calls for reestablishing a relation between human and the environment through listening, bringing a richer spiritual world through the perception of sound, and, building a system of care in the midst of this complex world system. She was the academic curator of“ Savaka” series of "Undercurrent: Reshaping the Power of Asia" in Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum. She created a field recording album "17.8 ℃" with new media artist Deng Yuejun and performed in “The Book of Daughters" tour with all female Australian experimental musicians. She was the sound director of the experimental two-way theater“ Heaven Downwards.”

Lei Li

Associate professor of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology( SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), PhD supervisor

Her research direction is the "brain-peripheral" neuroregulation mechanism. She is committed to studying the neural mechanisms of physiological function regulation such as reproductive metabolism from the perspective of integrated physiology, combining physiology and neurobiology, and interdisciplinary. The latest finding is "The superior colliculus-loercus coeruleus neural circuit mediates the regulation of the intensity of defense behavior under pressure stress", which analyzes the neural circuit mechanism of emotional abnormalities under pressure leading to abnormal behaviors. This research provides new research ideas for deepening the understanding of the state of neural circuits under stress and the intervention strategies of related diseases.

Mindong Ni

Urban planner

Ni has involved in World Bank, UNICEF and ISOCARP study on urban planning many times. He devotes himself to becoming an urban designer with warmth. He ponders that with economic booming, what a city of happiness should be like in modern urban construction. For the children and other groups who need extra care, he thinks, urban designers are supposed to focus on what children's needs are, how they care about children and keep an eye on issues that are not concerned in traditional urban planning and construction. This time, the designer does not work for the elite decision but for choosing children as their teachers and safeguarding their rights in urban planning.

Nan A

Art Paper designer

Reputed Chinese artist of original paper art, paper model and origami, Rated as the world’s top 100 emerging paper art masters on Instagram. Teacher's Nan has a precise sense of space, color and aesthetics, insists on original paper art, and turns a piece of paper into infinite possibilities. In the hands of Teacher's Nan, paper can not only be a life art, but also sublimate its value infinitely.

Sunny Sun

Director of LUXELAKES•A4 Art Museum

Sun and her team continue to explore the art museum's research on public issues in the contemporary art system, and at the same time conduct art ecological research and creation from the southwest as a regional starting point. In addition to the connection between the art museum and the local area, the international residency program emphasizes the connection between artists and the local area, which also promotes the compatibility and development of local art ecology. She hopes that after entering the museum, the public can not only feel and experience the works in the exhibition hall but also use these functional spaces to achieve greater linkage and communication. In the future, how to look at the role and value of contemporary art museums, how to establish more community connections, and how to focus on the public meaning of the art system will all be the development direction Sun and the team are thinking about.

Wenhua Liang

Liang Wenhua M.D. Deputy Chief Physician, Associate Professor, PhD Supervisor Recipient of NSFC Outstanding Youth Fund, Guangdong Young Pearl River Scholars and Guangdong Outstanding Young Medical Talents. Dr. Liang graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in 2014 and worked at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University in the Department of Thoracic Oncology. Currently, Dr. Liang serves as Assistant Director of Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, Deputy Head of Lung Cancer Group at the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Secretary General of the Guangdong Thoracic Disease Society and Chairman of the Immunotherapy Special Committee, Associate Editor of Translational Lung Cancer Research (IF 5.1), and a member of CSCO Youth Committee, Lung Cancer Special Commit- tee and Expert Group on Lung Cancer Guidelines. He mainly engaged in comprehensive diagnosis and treatment, and translational research on lung cancer. Dr. Liang has published more than 130 SCI papers and has presented multiple times at ASCO, ESMO, WCLC and other important international academic conferences, being the first scholar in China to receive awards of all the four major international conferences on lung cancer. Besides, he is also the deputy editor in chief of 5 monographs including "Lung Cancer", and received the 2020 Alibaba DAMO Academy Young Fellow, and as the main completer was awarded the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress in 2018, and National Innovation Competition Award in 2020.

Xiaoyang Yang

Fruit hunter, Popular science writer

With his efforts, Yang aims to help people realize the beauty of fruits and plants, improve the public awareness of nature protection, and build a harmonious relationship between man and nature. Yang has traveled all over the world，recorded the observation of plants after hunting more than 1000 species of fruits, and filmed the documentary "Fruit Hunter Yang Xiaoyang”, which focuses on the richness of fruits in China. With his personal monograph "Southeast Asian Fruit Hunter”, Yang hopes to help people get rid of their prejudice against fruits in our daily life, expand their understanding and perception of the great variousness of fruits, and steer their attention to the diversity of fruits and plants. He advocates to be curious and open to the fruit world.

Ya Yang

Professor of Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Science, Director of Micro-Nano Energy and Sensing Laboratory.

Yang has achieved original and innovative research results with international important influence in micro-nanoenergy and sensing field. The new type wind-driven generator without using any rotation structure invented by him makes it possible to generate electricity from breeze in daily life. In future, it can be integrated with small devices such as smart phones, to generate sustainable electricity from human movements induced wind energy. Also, it can be widely utilized in the densely-populated area, two sides of the railway and natural reserves to scavenge wind energy, where traditional wind-driven generator cannot work well. It is an important invention, which is expected to change the world energy field in future.