In September, Changchun shed the summer heat and settled into a grounded, enterprising urban character.

Jilin University and Northeast Normal University both celebrated their 80th anniversaries, while the 2026 Changchun Forum, the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Conference, the Changchun Polymer Chemistry and Materials Conference, and the Changchun Venture Capital Industry Exchange Conference were held one after another, accelerating the concentration of cutting-edge technologies and premium resources.

AI + Embodied Intelligence Forum. Event after event, matchmaking session after matchmaking session, appear to be a concentrated burst of urban vitality, but are in fact the inevitable result of Changchun's years of deep cultivation in scientific innovation and industry.

This veteran industrial city has not rushed for quick success or chased fleeting trends, but has steadily rooted itself in its own strengths, nurturing new industries and accumulating new momentum, unfolding a long-term blueprint for high-quality development through calm and patient accumulation.

Science and Education Empowerment: Co-growth of Universities and the City

Changchun's development confidence lies in its deep scientific and educational heritage.

On September 10 and 16, Northeast Normal University and Jilin University held their 80th anniversary celebrations.

Rooted in the black soil for eighty years, the two universities have grown alongside the city, empowering each other and accumulating scarce scientific and educational resources and talent reserves for Changchun.

This accumulation is precisely aligned with industrial needs.

On September 15, the 2026 Changchun Forum was held at Jilin University, focusing on in-depth discussions about university-city co-growth and the integration of scientific innovation with industry.

Jilin University signed agreements with 12 well-known local enterprises on-site, focusing on collaborative research in aerospace, smart automobile manufacturing, new energy, and new materials, giving laboratory results a clear path to落地 transformation.

In Changchun, universities and research institutes have long moved beyond the traditional role of simply educating people and are deeply integrated into the city's industrial chain.

The Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Jilin University, Northeast Normal University, Changchun University of Science and Technology, and Changchun University of Chinese Medicine are working together to support the core strength of building China's Optoelectronics City and Yongchun Pharmaceutical City.

More and more local students are staying in Changchun after graduation, turning what they have learned into momentum for industrial development.

A virtuous cycle in which education empowers industry, industry nourishes the city, and the city gives back to universities is taking shape.

Diversified Tracks: Industry Builds Momentum

Relying on its scientific and educational accumulation and industrial foundation, Changchun does not seek speed or take reckless risks, but steadily forms a pattern of multi-industry advancement and differentiated development around the "3 transformations, 4 strengths, 7 new" modern industrial system.

On September 18, the 2026 Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Conference opened, with academicians, experts from home and abroad, and leading technology companies focusing on exploring integration paths in segmented fields such as "AI + aerospace information," "AI + optoelectronics," and smart agriculture.

In the view of industry insiders, Changchun's greatest advantage is its solid industrial foundation, rich scientific and educational resources, and abundant real-world application scenarios — artificial intelligence here is not a castle in the air, but a lasting driving force that can deeply empower automobiles, optoelectronics, and modern agriculture.

2026 Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Conference AI Achievement Exhibition Area. On September 19, the 2026 Changchun Polymer Chemistry and Materials Conference opened, and 12 polymer new material projects reached strategic cooperation and signed agreements; on September 21, the 2026 Changchun Venture Capital Industry Exchange Conference opened, bringing together well-known venture capital institutions, financial institutions, and universities and research institutes, opening a new channel for financing and transforming scientific research achievements.

From scientific innovation support to AI empowerment, from new materials updates to filling shortcomings in the industrial chain, this September, multiple emerging tracks in Changchun are interlinked and empowering each other, and the industrial cluster effect is steadily becoming more prominent.

Momentum Iteration: Building Strength for the Long Term

A series of solid accumulations and transformations have quietly updated Changchun's economic development logic: with scientific innovation at the core, emerging industries such as optoelectronics, artificial intelligence, and new materials are becoming new growth poles.

Optoelectronics provides hardware support for artificial intelligence, new materials help optoelectronics and automobiles improve quality and upgrade, and the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain are linked and connected, with synergistic effects continuously amplified.

Xinguang Smart Valley Industrial Park gathers a large number of optoelectronics enterprises.

Objectively speaking, there is still room for improvement in Changchun's emerging industries, and issues such as technology transformation efficiency and refined industrial chain supporting facilities still require long-term efforts.

But it cannot be denied that, relying on its profound scientific research heritage, complete industrial scenarios, and continuously optimized business environment, Changchun's trend of industrial renewal, quality improvement, and long-term progress is already very clear.

Advancing step by step, accumulating strength bit by bit.

In September, Changchun is steadily promoting the transformation of old and new growth drivers with a calm and pragmatic posture, and the path of revitalization and transformation for the old industrial base is becoming more and more solid.