President of Yunnan University attends key scientists forum

The 2022 Tengchong Scientists Forum was held in Tengchong city in Southwest China's Yunnan province on Dec 1-2 – co-sponsored by the provincial government and the China Association for Science and Technology.

During the event, Fang Jingyun, president of Yunnan University, or YNU – located in Kunming, capital of the province – led a team of participants.

Proceedings get underway at the forum. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

With its theme of "Science & Health", the forum focused on building platforms for exchanges in advanced academic thought, government-industry-university-research cooperation, the commercialization of sci-tech discoveries and developments, as well as scientific and technological cooperation between China and South and Southeast Asian countries.

Big ambitions: YNU president Fang hosts a sub-forum during the event on Dec 1, with a big goal on the agenda. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

YNU's Fang also hosted the Sub-forum of Biodiversity and Green Development. Its goal was to explore a new path for the bio economy and sustainable development in the new era, based on Yunnan's biological resources and its environmental advantages.

In recent years, the School of Materials and Energy at Yunnan University and a team led by Wang Chongyu, a professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University, have jointly built the first high-throughput computing platform for rare and precious metal materials in China.

YNU representatives get together with those from Tsinghua University and CAS to ratify an agreement at the event. [Photo/ynu.edu.cn]

At the forum, YNU signed a cooperation agreement with the Tsinghua University team led by professor Wang and academicians from the China Academy of Sciences, or CAS.

Moving forwards, plans are for the three parties to continue to establish what is known as the Yunnan Province Wang Chongyu Academician Workstation.