USST and Xianghu Lab Signed the Cooperation Agreement

On March 5th, the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement between USST and Xianghu Laboratory was held in Room 212 of the Qinye Building.
USST president Zhu Xinyuan first expressed his gratitude to Academician Li Peiwu for his long-term concern about the development of the university. He pointed out that USST is a key applied research university under the jurisdiction of Shanghai, with a focus on engineering and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. In recent years, it has actively responded to the national innovation-driven development strategy, focused on the construction of "new engineering disciplines", vigorously promoted interdisciplinary integration, and has achieved significant results in the field of food science. The school's agricultural science has globally entered among top 1% of ESI, with multiple provincial-and-ministerial-level platforms such as the National Grain Industry Technology Innovation Center, and has achieved multiple breakthroughs in the transformation of scientific research achievements. This signing means a new starting point for the school and Xianghu Laboratory to further deepen cooperation and seek the common development. Both sides look forward to jointly strengthening scientific research and innovation cooperation around the development needs of national agriculture, food and other fields, promoting exchanges and interactions among researchers, further exploring the construction of a shared platform for advantageous disciplines, and creating a new path for the deep integration of industry, learning and research, contributing to promoting scientific and technological progress and industrial development in related fields in China.

Li Peiwu, academician of the CAE, director of Xianghu Laboratory,  delivered a speech. Xianghu Laboratory is one of the ten provincial-level laboratories approved by the Party Committee of Zhejiang and Zhejiang Provincial Government, with a benchmark of national laboratories. It is currently the most valued and supported high-level scientific and technological innovation platform. It shoulders the responsibility and mission of building a national agricultural strategic scientific and technological force and constructing an international first-class agricultural research platform. In is just over two years since its establishment, and the laboratory has gathered more than 240 international and domestic high-end scientific and technological talents. He pointed out that the cooperation between the two sides can focus on the major technological innovation needs in China's agriculture, food and other fields, strengthen joint research and development in multiple fields such as biotechnology, functional food, bio-manufacturing, and food safety, jointly apply for and undertake major scientific research tasks at the national, Shanghai, and Zhejiang levels, strengthen academic exchanges through the joint construction and sharing of scientific research and innovation platforms, comprehensively carry out exchanges and cooperation between teachers and researchers, and work together to carry out joint training of graduate students, achieving win-win cooperation. At the same time, he hopes to continuously expand the breadth and depth of cooperation in interdisciplinary fields such as electronics, information, equipment, and artificial intelligence based on the existing cooperation foundation.

Witnessed by Li Peiwu and Zhu Xinyuan, afterwards Yanghua, executive-deputy-director and deputy secretary of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Zhang Zhong, vice president of USST signed the agreement. 
After the signing agreement, both sides present carried out deep exchanges in scientific research collaboration, graduates cultivation, exploration in future collaboration pattern.

This signing not only establishes a closer cooperation bridge between USST and Xianghu Laboratory, but also provides new opportunities for technological innovation in the fields of agriculture and food for both sides.