On April 10, the Carbon Neutral Technology Innovation Summit and the unveiling ceremony of Sichuan Carbon Neutral Technology Innovation Center (CNTIC) were held in our university.
Over ten academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) attended the forum. They were Wei Fusheng, Peng Xianjue, Hao Jiming, Zhou Shouwei, Zhang Yuanhang, He Kebin, Yue Guojun, Sun Lili, Shi Bi, and Wang Qi. Also present at the forum were Li Gao, director of the Department of Climate Change of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment(MEE), Tian Yunhui, deputy director of the Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province, Peng Yong, deputy director of the Department of Ecology and Environment of Sichuan Province, and President Li Yanrong of SCU, Vice President Chu Liangyin, and over 100 experts and scholars from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Tsinghua University, SINOPEC, the State Grid, and so forth.
In his speech, Li Yanrong, on behalf of SCU, welcomed the experts and congratulated the opening of the center. He said that as a comprehensive university with a complete range of the liberal arts, sciences, engineering and medicine, Sichuan University has accumulated and ascertained advantages in carbon neutral related fields such as architecture and environment, chemical engineering, light industry, polymer science, electrical engineering and so on. Sichuan University will work together with domestic leading units and enterprises, and carry out scientific and technological research around the key areas, key technologies and application scenarios of carbon neutrality. In combination with the geographical features of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Sichuan University will strive to build an innovation network of carbon neutral technologies, and to become the academic center of China's carbon neutrality, contributing to carbon neutral technology innovation.
In his speech, Tian Yunhui hoped that the center would focus on the technological innovation and achievement transformation of carbon neutrality, have a clear-cut strategic position, deploy and concentrate on key tasks, improve its working mechanism, and form a scientific governance structure of multi-party. He also hoped that the center would make greater contribution to the national carbon neutral technology innovation such as carbon emission reduction, zero carbon emission and negative carbon emission.
Peng Yong pointed out in his speech that, centering on the major strategic needs of the nation, Sichuan University should give full play to its comprehensive advantages of multi disciplines, seize the opportunity of a new round of technological revolution, energy revolution and industrial change with the theme of green and low carbon, and cooperate with all units to build a carbon neutral technology innovation center in Sichuan Province.
On behalf of the Department of Climate Change, MEE, Li Gao congratulated the opening of the forum and the opening of the center. He said that Sichuan University, together with relevant universities, research institutions and innovative enterprises, initiated the establishment of CNTIC and actively arranged carbon neutral technology innovation, which plays an important role in promoting carbon neutrality.
Liu Falei, deputy director of the High Tech Office of the Department of Science, Technology and Information Technology of the Ministry of Education, and Zhong Ping, director of the global division of the Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21, respectively expressed congratulations on the convening of the Carbon Neutral Technology Innovation Summit and the opening of CNTIC.
In front of all the participants, Tian Yunhui and Chu Liangyin unveiled the plaque Sichuan Carbon Neutral Technology Innovation Center.
At the meeting, Shi Bi introduced the construction of CNTIC, and talked about the preliminary planning, construction scheme, preparatory process and so forth. This is one part of the heaven earth integration and ecological evolution plan in the five pilot plans of "Innovation 2035" of SCU.
At the summit, Peng Xianjue, Zhang Yuanhang, He Kebin, Yue Guojun, Sun Lili, Zhou Shouwei, Wang Qi and Han Xiaoyan delivered reports respectively. The forum was presided over by Hao Jiming, Prof. Liu Qingyou, Prof. Wang Hualin and Prof. Liu min.
It is reported that SCU, together with leading scientific research institutions and enterprises in Sichuan Province, started to prepare for the construction of "CNTIC" in 2019. By the end of 2020, the university had pooled the resources related to carbon neutrality technology and set up the "Carbon Neutral Technology Innovation Center of Sichuan University". In January this year, SCU publicized the "Innovation 2035" pilot plan, constructed the carbon neutral technology innovation center and research facilities; and the related work received strong support from Sichuan Province and Chengdu City.
CNTIC will stick to the carbon neutrality technology innovation with "biomass energy and chemical materials" as the core, and plan to follow the three carbon neutrality technology R & D directions of "carbon emission reduction", "zero carbon emission" and "negative carbon emission". It will also promote the development of related industries accordingly and build a carbon neutrality technology innovation base.
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