The 1st Environmental Protection Summit of Chemical Engineering Industry was held in Huating Hotel (Shanghai) on April 26th. The Summit was jointly organized by ECUST (East China University of Science and Technology) and SCICC (Shanghai Chemical Industry (China) Council). The attendees of the Summit included Academician Wang Jiming, chairman of the ECUST board, Academician Qian Xuhong, president of ECUST, Prof. Wu Baijun, dean of ECUST School of Business, and over 200 Chinese and foreign enterprises from across the country. Prof. Yan Haifeng, deputy dean of ECUST School of Business, hosted the Summit.

Academician Qian Xuhong, president of ECUST, delivering a speech

Prof. Qian Xuhong pointed out that chemical engineering industry is an important sector of the national economy. Since the 18th National Congress was held, environmental protection and balanced economic development have become intrinsic requirement for upgrading China’s economic structure. Increasing the efficiency of resource and energy utilization and improving environmental quality have become the primary consideration for the chemical engineering industry. ECUST will establish a communication platform by integrating superior resources of the university, and provide the industry with full service that includes science and technology, personnel training and resources, so that the whole chemical engineering industry chain would be open up, which would bring more cooperative opportunities for the industry.

Academician Wang Jiming, chairman of the ECUST board, delivering a speech

Academician Wang Jiming delivered a speech entitled “Current Situation and Countermeasures of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction in the Petrochemical Industry”. He said that remarkable effects have been produced in the petrochemical industry’s energy conservation and emission reduction, but there are still many problems to solve. He suggested that enterprises should speed up closing down backward production capacities in their process of optimizing the industrial structure, and that the government should accelerate the introduction of economic policies on energy conservation and emission reduction. 

Round-table Dialogue

In the end, the forum held a round-table dialogue, in which guests from different regions and enterprises had in-depth discussion on how to better carry out work on environmental protection.