CISDI and the University of Science and Technology Beijing are pooling their strengths to develop new steel technology which will bring about ever-greater breakthroughs in engineering and production.

Nurturing and training future talent to continue the scientific advancement of steel is another key aim of the comprehensive strategic agreement recently signed by the heads of the two organisations.

During the signing, which was carried out by video link, Guilong Wu, from USTB, known as ‘the cradle of steel’, paid tribute to a long-standing mutual co-operation with CISDI.

“Together we have already made great achievements in research and development of the intelligent and IT-based platform, smart methodology and products, big data and cloud computing, automation and digital design sectors,” he commented.

“These innovations have played an active role in advancing China’s metallurgical process and industrial chain, boosting disciplinary developments in ironmaking, steelmaking, non-ferrous metallurgy and industrial ecology.

“Today’s agreement marks a new beginning. We will collaborate on a wider and more diverse range of projects. Focusing on China’s peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality goals, we need to step up flexible technological and industrialised research and coordination in steel engineering, intelligent and IT-based applications, urban construction, energy conservation and environmental protection and front-end consulting.

“We will accelerate a number of major scientific and technological transformations into production, building demos which will drive China’s industrial upgrade.”

Congratulating USTB on its 70^th anniversary, Peng Xiao, CEO of CISDI, voiced his appreciation for the university’s long-term support. He added: ‘CISDI has long viewed innovation and globalisation as a vital strategy for its sustainable development.

“To achieve its pacesetting targets, CISDI has increased its research and development work, its application of intelligent, green and low carbon tech and its development of new materials, new processes and flows.

“The new agreement presents even greater opportunity for synergy. We will take this opportunity to make a bigger contribution to the technological progress of global steel, and strengthening China’s steel sector.”

In recent years, CISDI and USTB have worked together on multiple national science and technology support programmes and enterprise technology subjects. Two of their joint initiatives won second place in a national S&T advancements award and more than 10 have been granted provincial and ministerial S&T prizes. Talent training programmes have been very successful.

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The University of Science and Technology Beijing is China’s first higher education institute for steel.

The cradle of steel, it celebrated its 70^th anniversary in April 2022.

The Chinese Academy of Science and of Engineering has 41 academics who were educated at the university.

The university’s achievements in research and development are vast - its work has led to the granting of 7,002 patents from 10,875 patents applied for, and 182 research findings have been awarded. Its national achievements date from 1978 to 2021.

Its research for electric arc furnace steelmaking - with the application of combined blowing tech, regeneration critical technological innovation and the industrialisation of strategic metals with complicated components, and high-performance special powders’ near-net-shape manufacturing tech and applications - has reaped remarkable economic and social benefits.