BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- The 34th China Adolescents Science and Technology Innovation Contest will be held from July 20 to 26 in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), according to a press conference of the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) on Thursday.

The contest will invite young people and science counselors from 56 countries and regions.

A science education international forum, science fiction painting exhibition, public open day, science and technology teachers' workshop, and science and technology exchange events will be held during the contest.

CAST has also launched a youth science camp recruiting 11,980 students from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to take part in 68 sub-camps.