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On September 7, 2021, Mr. Linmao Xia, Member of the Standing Committee of Beijing Municipal Committee and Secretary of the work of the CPC Beijing Municipal Education Committee, led a delegation to visit USTB and Beijing Advanced Innovation for Materials Genome Engineering.
During this visit, Prof. Jianxin Xie, Director of the Center and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, gave a detailed introduction of the Center in the aspects of overall objectives, construction overview, faculty team, talent training, research and innovation, and international collaboration. Prof. Xie said that the Center is dedicated to gathering top-level talents and resources to accelerate research and innovation in materials science, technology, and engineering applications. It is aimed at solving botte-neck materials problems and propelling the leap-forward development in materials industry. Subsequently, Prof. Xiaogang Li, head of the center’s team of Big Data Technology for Materials Service Performance and Director of the National Materials Corrosion and Protection Data Center introduced the construction and technical development on the corrosion big-data observation research platform and the corrosion databases.
At the symposium after the reports, Mr. Linmao Xia emphasized that USTB should continue to promote the construction of “double first-class” initiative to effectively solve the bottle-neck materials problems and to train more outstanding talents, and should keep making its key contribution in the city’s development.