“The 10th Annual Symposium and the 7th Shanghai Engineer Forum” was opened in Shanghai on Sept. 24th. Nearly 500 representatives from more than 180 academic societies, associations of science and technology of districts and counties and also from some companies in Shanghai attended the opening ceremony. The chairman of Shanghai Association of Science and Technology Mr. Chen Kaixian and the chairman of Shanghai Engineer Society Mr. Weng Shilie delivered their addresses, respectively. After the opening ceremony, the symposium started. The professor of University of Science and Technology of China, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Pan Jianwei and Director of Shanghai Museum Chen Xiejun presented their reports “The technical progress of quantum” and “Thinking about technology and humanistic philosophy” , respectively.