High-Value Balanced Utilization of High-Abundance Rare Earths and Green Low-Carbon Economy Forum Successfully Held at 2023 International Conference on Industry-Academia-Research-Application Cooperation

From November 3 to 5, 2023, the High-Value Balanced Utilization of Abundant Rare Earths and Green Low-Carbon Economy Forum, a sub-forum of the International Conference on Industry-Academia-Research-Application Cooperation, was held in Nanchang. The forum was hosted by the School Planning and Development Center of the Ministry of Education, organized by the People’s Government of Jiangxi Province and Nanchang University, and co-organized by the Chinese Society of Rare Earths and the China Rare Earth Industry Association.

Under the theme of Diversified Cooperation, Openness and Win-Win Results, the forum brought together nearly 200 participants, including experts and scholars from Russia, Belarus, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Chinese mainland and Hong Kong SAR, enterprise executives from Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia, Shandong and Shanghai, as well as students from the Rare Earth Experimental Class of Nanchang University. The participants focused on the technological system for the high-value balanced utilization of abundant rare earths, discussed solutions to key technical difficulties, and supported the development of energy-saving, emission-reduction, green and low-carbon economy.

Ge Gang, Vice President of Nanchang University, Academician Zhang Hongjie of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Li Bo, President of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. The opening ceremony was presided over by Li Yongxiu, Director of the Rare Earth Research Institute of Nanchang University.

The opening ceremony of the forum was presided over by Li Yongxiu, Director of the Rare Earth Research Institute, Nanchang University

Ge Gang, Vice President of Nanchang University, delivered a speech

Academician Zhang Hongjie of the Chinese Academy of Sciences delivered an address

Li Bo, Chairman of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths, delivered an address

At the opening ceremony of the forum, Vice President Ge Gang, on behalf of Nanchang University, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Shanghai Rare Earth Industry Association. He also inaugurated the "Joint Laboratory of Advanced Aluminum Alloy Materials for Automotive Lightweighting, Nanchang University - Guangdong Xingfa Aluminum (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd." and the "Aviation Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Center, Nanchang University - Jiangxi Shenzhou Liuhe Helicopter Co., Ltd."

Inauguration of the Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Industrialization Base of the Rare Earth Research Institute

Signing Ceremony of Cooperation Between Nanchang University and Shanghai Rare Earth Industry Association

The forum focused on the themes of nanocarbon materials, material recycling and green low-carbon economy, rare earth biomedicine and luminescent materials, rare earth light alloys, rare earth polishing materials, rare earth catalytic materials, as well as experience sharing in industry-academia-research-application cooperation. Academician Li Yuliang from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Academician Sherego Valery Konstantinovich of Belarusian National Technical University delivered plenary presentations. A total of 31 invited and thematic presentations were brilliantly arranged, with active exchanges among representatives from all parties. Dai Chao, Secretary of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Cai Hu, Dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wang Xiang, Chairman of the Professorial Committee of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fu Chun, Director of the International Exchange Office, and Liu Yong, Vice Dean of the School of Advanced Manufacturing, all from Nanchang University, participated in the forum and chaired some of the sessions.

Presentation by Academician Li Yuliang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences