From October 14 to 15, 2024, Prof. Fang Yu attended the 755th Symposium of Xiangshan Science Conference as one of the four executive chairmen at the Xiangshan Hotel in Beijing and delivered a conference central topic review report titled "Innovation-driven Development Needs to Pay More Attention to Long-term Basic Research".

The theme of the conference is molecular aggregation luminescence, and the central topics of the conference are the explanation of the theoretical mechanism of molecular aggregation luminescence, the design and preparation of molecular aggregation luminescence materials and the application of molecular aggregation luminescence material system.

The Xiangshan Science Conference was initiated by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 1992 and officially established in April 1993 under the joint leadership and support of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is a high-level, interdisciplinary and small-scale standing academic conference in China’s scientific and technological circles with the main goal of exploring the frontiers of science and promoting knowledge innovation. The meeting adopts the executive chairman responsibility system, and explores the frontiers and future of science in the ways of review reports, thematic reports and in-depth discussions.