(correspondent: qin nian) on may 20, southwest research & design institute of chemical industry and china university of mining and technology (cumt) (beijing) signed an agreement in chengdu on the joint establishment of a r&d center for clean energy and technology. the meeting was attended by the southwest institute general manager xu guangwen and president yang renshu of cumt (beijing) and chaired by wang xiaodong, southwest institute party secretary and deputy general manager.
gm xu welcomed the visiting delegation headed by president yang and briefed them on the innovation system of and innovations made by the institute, its influence on the industry as well as its s&t innovation plan and overall layout during the 13th five-year plan period. he also stressed that the partnership with cumt (beijing) was an important step for the institute to extend its s&t innovation chain upward to reach universities and research institutes with r&d advantages and downward to industry leaders, a key way to win-win cooperation between cumt (beijing) engaged in cutting-edge research and the institute based on technological r&d, and also a fruit of the two parties’ implementation of the innovative development strategy under new circumstances. both sides can meet the state’s energy and industrial demands, find the right starting point, jointly apply for national key s&t projects, and jointly build national key labs to make technological r&d for clean energy, new energy and environmental protection, improve the talent cultivation and academic research of cumt (beijing) and the core competitiveness of the institute and eventually realize win-win cooperation by complementing each other with their respective advantages.
president yang recognized the institute’s strength in applied basic research and industrialized application and rich experience in the commercialization and engineering application of research results. he added that cumt (beijing) was a university under the 211 project and the 985 project, one of the first research-based universities authorized to grant doctoral and postgraduate degrees and had produced a dozen of academicians for the chinese academy of sciences and the chinese academy of engineering, thus an important base and cradle for fostering professionals in energy and resource development. by complementing each other with their existing advantages, the two could strengthen cooperation in areas of new energy, new materials and environmental protection to jointly build a university-enterprise, university-institute r&d platform and advance technological innovation and the industrialization of research results. he also specified that the joint r&d center should aim at fostering and producing “state-level talents for national projects and capable of producing research results of national importance”.
last but not least, the two sides fully exchanged opinions on how to start the construction of the joint r&d center as soon as possible, and agreed on the terms and details in four aspects: the lab, r&d projects, research team and coordination & management, to translate the cooperation into real actions as soon as possible and produce visible effects during the 13th five-year plan period.
