“We need science more than ever. We face global problems, global infectious diseases and global climate change. For this, we needglobal solutions and for this, we need opennessmore than ever,”said Michael Levitt, Laureate of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and vice president of the World Laureates Association at the opening ceremony of the fourth World Laureates Forum (WLF), which was held in Lin-gang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone on November 1.

Together with hundreds of other scientists from across the world, Michael Levitt called for open science.

The opening ceremony was attended by 131 honorees of top science awards (including 68 Nobel Laureates), dozens of Chinese academicians, 132 young scientists and hundreds of teenage scientists.

The WLA Prize was also launched on November 1 to recognize scientists who have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields worldwide.The amount of each individual category of the prize is as much as 10 million yuan.