The first Belt and Road Conference on Science and Technology Exchange will take place in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality from November 6 to 7, the State Council Information Office said at a press conference on Monday.

The conference will focus on inter-governmental cooperation and people-to-people exchanges in science and technology, industrial innovation and development, paradigm change in scientific research, future medicine, open science and big data.

It will include the opening ceremony, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) sci-tech innovation ministerial meeting, theme activities, round tables and achievements display, and ten main activities.

Over 300 foreign participants from more than 70 countries and international organizations have been invited to attend the conference, including Nobel Prize winners, academicians, experts, scholars and university presidents, said Zhang Anjiang, vice mayor of Chongqing, adding that China's academicians, university presidents, scientific research institutions and representatives of key enterprises will also attend the conference.

China has signed intergovernmental science and technology cooperation agreements with more than 80 BRI partners, jointly building a comprehensive, multi-level, and wide-ranging science and technology cooperation pattern, said Zhang Guangjun, vice minister of Science and Technology.

The country will adopt more measures to promote international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, and accelerate the building of an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness, Zhang said.