NEWS & EVENTS
NEWS & EVENTS
UCD-Tsinghua Urban Disaster Prevention and Safety Joint Research Center Inaugurated
On the morning of September 9, the opening ceremony of UCD-Tsinghua Urban Disaster Prevention and Safety Joint Research Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Joint Research Center") took place at Tsinghua University. UCD’s General Manager Wang Hanjun and Party Secretary Li Guoqing, Tsinghua University’s Vice President Zeng Rong, and Fan Weicheng, Dean of the Institute of Public Safety Research and Academician of the Academy of Engineering, unveiled the plaque together.
Revolving around such practical issues as urban disaster prevention and safety, the Joint Research Center will put forth effort to boost innovation on theories, technologies and standards concerning urban disaster prevention and safety and emergency management to provide strong support for the prevention and mitigation of severe and major safety risks and enhancement of safety guarantee capabilities of urban infrastructure.
Zhen Shuning, Deputy Dean of the Research & Development Affairs Office of Tsinghua University, presided over the opening ceremony. UCD’s Deputy General Manager Yu Songwei participated via video link, and related personnel from UCD’s technical research institute and rail transit research institute took part in the event on the spot.
In his speech, Wang Hanjun expressed his gratitude to Tsinghua University for its support to UCD. He pointed out that urban security is an important foundation for urban development as well as a critical guarantee for a better life of the people. As a researcher and practicer in urban public safety, UCD has had its business involved in a variety of fields and in a whole process covering urban planning, urban design, urban construction and operation management, and helps with high-quality urban development with new ideas, new technologies and new concepts. With an internationally first-class research environment and a world-leading faculty, Tsinghua University is the guide for China’s public safety theories as well as the world's leading base for the development of public safety disciplines and for industrial transformation. The strong alliance between UCD and Tsinghua University and the establishment of the Joint Research Center is of critical demonstration significance for promoting the safe and healthy development of cities. In the future, the two parties will give full play to their respective advantages and cooperate in theoretical research, key technology research, talents cultivation, product research and development, industrial incubation and market expansion to jointly build a domestically first-class scientific research innovation platform and an industrial innovation base.
In his speech, Zeng Rong expressed his gratitude to UCD for its solicitude and support given all the time to Tsinghua University. He pointed out that the safety discipline is an important orientation for Tsinghua University to build itself into a world-class university. In recent years, the school has achieved remarkable results in its safety discipline in terms of discipline construction, talents cultivation, scientific research and achievement transformation, producing significant influences both at home and abroad. As a leading enterprise in the field of urban rail transit design in China, UCD is an integrated service provider of urban construction with the biggest domestic market share and the best comprehensive strength. UCD and Tsinghua University have already had in-depth cooperations in urban safety, disaster prevention and relief at the earlier stage. The establishment of the Joint Research Center will further promote Tsinghua University’s urban safety research in combining with engineering practice, and will promote the high-quality development of the school’s safety disciplines. Meanwhile, Zeng Rong hoped that both parties will be able to strengthen independent innovation on urban disaster prevention and key safety technologies and equipment so as to boost the development of urban disaster prevention and safety industries as well as the construction of China into a safe and sound country.
Fan Weicheng said in his speech that the establishment of the Joint Research Center by UCD and Tsinghua University on the principle of "friendly cooperation, mutual benefit, complementary advantages and common development" conforms to the orientation for the in-depth industry-university-research cooperation. In the urban disaster prevention and safety field, Tsinghua University has had a good scientific research foundation, while UCD has leading industrial advantages. The establishment of the center is conducive to facilitating the combination of urban safety scientific research results with engineering practice, and favors the tackling of critical technical problems in urban safety field to make contribution to urban safety development.