The Advisory Committee of the Forum is the advisory body of the Forum, responsible for providing intellectual support for the Forum. Current members include: the Chair and Co-Chairs of the Forum, and Xu Rongkai, former governor of Yunnan Province, Xu Guanhua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former Minister of Science and Technology, and Chen Yiyu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former Director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.