From December 14th to 16th, the 2023 Maritime Silk Road International Conference on the Cooperation and Integration of Industry, Education, Research and Application — International Cooperation Seminar on Metallurgy and Energy was held in Kunming. It is a sub-forum of the 6th Forum on Education Cooperation in South and Southeast Asia, hosted by the National Center for Schooling Development Programme of the Ministry of Education, and jointly organized by the Department of Education of Yunnan Province and KUST. Liu Dianwen, Vice President of KUST, and Bian Zhengfu, Vice President of China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), attended the opening ceremony.
On behalf of KUST, Liu delivered a speech. He hoped that the seminar would serve as a platform to give full play to the characteristics and advantages of all attending parties, to further deepen the cooperation, exchanges and mutual learning among them, and to provide new impetus to the high-level opening-up of education. He said that KUST would work together with South and Southeast Asian partners to build a new era of international connection, friendship and cooperation. It would accelerate the establishment of the Advanced Research Institute of Green Energy, Mining and Metallurgy, promoting the development of international cooperation on metallurgy and energy to a new stage. Liu also looked forward to more opportunities for face-to-face communication in Kunming next year when KUST celebrates its 70th anniversary.
Bian congratulated KUST for its longstanding achievements cooperating with South and Southeast Asia in industry-education research within the fields of metallurgy and energy. He expressed that the seminar is a concrete action of promoting the development and innovation of the international cutting-edge science and technology of metallurgy and energy, and it is also a vivid practice of transforming scientific achievements into industrialized technologies. Based on the previous good cooperation between the two sides, CUMT will take this seminar as an opportunity to join hands with KUST, to achieve a win-win situation and write a new chapter of international cooperation on metallurgy and energy.
With the theme of international cooperation on metallurgy and energy, the seminar set up three parallel sessions, including the session of international cooperation in metallurgy, the session of international cooperation on energy, and the session for postgraduate academic exchanges. The seminar attracted nearly 400 experts and scholars from 15 overseas universities from 11 countries and 18 universities and 4 enterprises in China. At the seminar, 60 representatives gave academic reports and the participants carried out in-depth discussions about relevant topics. Professor Sorvang Vasailor from the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Laos, talked about “Electrowinning of Copper from Dilute Sulfate Leachate of Oxide Copper Ore from the Sepon Mine”; Professor Mansoor Barati from the University of Toronto (Canada) reported “Production of Energy and High-Purity Silicon from Rice Husk: the Process of Carbon Neutrality”; Fang Zhen, Academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Professor of Nanjing Agricultural University, presented “Supercritical Conversion of Biomass: Theory to Practice”; Chung-Hwan Jeon, Vice President of Pusan National University (South Korea) shared “Development Status of Green Ammonia Co-firing Technology and Demonstrations Strategy in Korea”; Professor Jiaqian Qin from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) gave a presentation entitled “Structure and Performance Regulation of Zinc Metal Anode”; Wenhui Ma, President of Pu'er College and Professor of KUST, introduced “Carbon Neutrality and Development of Silicon Photovoltaic Module Industry”; Yaming Shi, Vice Chairman of the Titanium Zirconium Hafnium Branch of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, gave a report on “Titanium and Titanium Alloy Smelting Technology and the Industrial Development Trends”.
Translated by: ZHOU Runyi, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures
Edited by: MA Lifei, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures (English)
Source: Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering
Issued by: Division of International Cooperation (English)
Edited by: KUST News Center (Chinese)
