| On the morning of June 18, a delegation led by Wang Huiming, director of SSTRI, Qiu Shengxing, party secretary of SSTRI, Gu Changshi, deputy director of SSTRI as well as persons in charge of department of research and development and department of welding technology paid a visit to SUES to conduct specialized exchanges and discussions on the in-depth collaboration between SSTRI and SUES. SUES party secretary Teng Jianyong, SUES president Ding Xiaodong and SUES vice president Lu Jiahua attended the exchange meeting, which was also participated in by people in charge from SUES party office, SUES president office, department of research and development, department of postgraduates and school of material engineering. At the meeting, SUES leaders first of all extended their warm welcome to their counterparts from SSTRI, and then introduced the past and present of SUES plus its features and strengths. SUES leadership pointed out that in recent years, SUES has, based on its own advantages and the concepts of “planting bamboos” and “hitting nails”, achieved tremendous progress in its subjects and projects by concentrating its resources on developing distinctive majors with a continuous rise in the number of papers published in top journals and breakthroughs made in the establishment of knowledge service platform. According to the rankings published by National Natural Science Foundation Committee, the specialty of SUES’s laser welding and connection is rated among top ten among the nation. The establishment of high strength laser intelligent processing technology and equipment research and development center (the Center) has laid a solid foundation for the development of relevant majors, cultivation of talents and technology application. As one of the trustees of the Center, SSTRI has offered long-term support to the growth of SUES. Both SUES and SSTRI can further the collaboration in other fields based on the Center and the application of laser welding in shipbuilding so as to achieve an coordinated growth of university, industry and enterprise. Leaders from SSTRI made a brief introduction to SSTRI, which is the only nationwide comprehensive application research institute specializing in military fleets, civil ships and marine engineering construction, and undertaking the task of research and development of China’s shipbuilding, with the goal of modernizing shipbuilding process in China’s shipbuilding field. Like SUES, SSTRI gives priority to the combination of scientific research with practical production, with an excellent basis of cooperation between both. The urgent requirement for the new technology including laser welding in the field of shipbuilding has offered broad scope of cooperation for both. There will be brilliant collaboration prospects if both sides take advantage of SUES’s wide platform of subjects to constantly enlarge areas of collaboration in the field of shipbuilding. It is believed that there will be much consensus reached on bilateral cooperation, with both complementing each other’s strengths to jointly explore the requirements of the nation, society, and industry and work out solutions to talent cultivation, technology research and development, and engineering as well as to score bountiful achievements in application for relevant projects. At last, both sides held an in-depth discussion of signing of framework agreement on strategic cooperation and the development of other specific cooperative projects. Prior to the exchange, the SSTRI delegation also visited the labs of school of material engineering, school of urban rail transportation, school of automobile engineering, and school of aviation, gaining a deeper understanding of SUES’s relevant fields of study. |
