The 2024 'Sons of Oriental Architecture' selection, guided by the core orientation of 'new quality productive forces driving high-quality development', focused on dimensions such as technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and social contribution, and selected 8 industry leaders. Their practices have proven that the construction industry does not have to rely on extensive growth but can become the main battlefield for technological innovation.

At the ceremony, the 2024 'Sons of Oriental Architecture' list was announced. The advanced deeds of 8 industry leaders - Long Weiguo, Xu Quansheng, Zhou Xianghua, Zhu Lixin, Zhang Ming, Zou Sheng, Chi Haipeng, and Pan Min - were presented one by one through short videos and in-depth interviews. Leaders including Wu Huijuan presented honorary certificates and trophies to the winners.

'The high-quality development of the construction industry cannot be achieved without the guidance of role models,' Wu Huijuan pointed out in her speech. Industrialization, digitalization, greening, and intelligentization are the inevitable directions for the future development of the construction industry. She hopes that the entire industry will take role models as a mirror, accelerate the construction of a technological innovation system, promote green and low-carbon transformation, and embrace new digital technologies.

Yin Shikui believes that the selection of annual newsmakers is not only a commendation of individual achievements but also a guide for the direction of industry innovation. At present, the Sichuan construction industry is taking the 'Shu Construction Talents' training project and the 'Sichuan Construction Quality Products' certification system as starting points, and under the guidance of new quality productive forces, is building a hundred-billion-level industrial cluster in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle.

Wu Yun stated that Construction Times persists in carrying out various industry advanced selection activities from multiple dimensions to tell industry stories and spread industry voices. The 'Sons of Oriental Architecture' selection aims to commend role models who have made positive contributions to the reform and transformation, scientific and technological progress, and industry management of the construction industry and have exerted influence in the industry.

At the meeting, the 8 'Sons of Oriental Architecture', Chen Ke, Deputy Secretary-General of the Beijing Engineering Exploration and Design Association and Deputy Marketing Director of Beijing Institute of Architectural Design Co., Ltd., and Liu Gang, Vice President of Glodon Company Limited, were awarded certificates and appointed as the first batch of think tank experts.

At the 'Think Tank Observation' roundtable forum, think tank experts held in-depth dialogues on the themes of 'New Era, New Drivers, New Development - How Construction Enterprises Can Break Through and Reborn' and 'The Future Development Path of the Construction Industry Driven by New Quality Productive Forces'. Experts unanimously agreed that the future of the construction industry lies in technological breakthroughs, ecological collaboration, and moving toward the new. Only by embracing new quality productive forces can we seize the initiative in the wave of intelligentization and greening.