On June 28th, a delegation from Xiamen University of Technology (XMUT), led by Zhicheng Lin, Vice Secretary of CPC Committee, visited C-CBC. The delegation had a meeting with Dr. Xiaotao Bi along with Haochen Li, Manager of UBC China Council, and Jonathan Hayes, International Relations Officer of UBC Office of the Vice-Provost International. The delegation introduced XMUT's latest development learned about the UBC engineering areas and C-CBC, and inquired about UBC's international collaboration programs on student and scholar development. XMUT will stay in touch with UBC for further conversations on potential collaborations.
On June 11th, Mr. Chen Wang, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress led a delegation to visit UBC and C-CBC. C-CBC Director Xiaotao Bi received the delegation along with the President of UBC Prof. Santa Ono, UBC Vice-Provost International Prof. Murali Chandrashekaran, Chinese Ambassador Mr. Shaye Lu, Chinese Consul General at Vancouver Ms. Xiaoling Tong, other staff members from the Chinese Embassy and Chinese Consulate General, and a group of C-CBC members. The delegation toured our Centre and the UBC Clean Energy Research Centre. The delegation was impressed by our achievement. Mr. Wang encouraged our members to strive for higher goals and enhance the collaboration between the two countries on clean technologies including bioenergy. Together we are confident to will make C-CBC as a leading international collaboration platform on bioenergy.
A delegation from Henan Academy of Sciences visited C-CBC on May 30th, 2018. The Director Prof. Tingzhou Lei accepted Dr. Bi's invitation to join C-CBC and Henan Academy of Sciences also joined as a partner institution.
On May 26th, a delegation from the Department of Energy Conservation, Science & Technology, and Equipment, China National Energy Administration, visited C-CBC. New connections were built after the visit and the group will stay in touch to learn about the latest technologies and the market trend in bioenergy and clean energy field. They will create collaboration opportunities for the researchers and industry players in the two countries for win-win solutions.
C-CBC Director Xiaotao Bi visited South China University of Technology, Liaoning University of Technology, and Nanjing Tech University from May 21st to 25th.
We are glad to announce that our Centre has changed its name to China-Canada Bioenergy Centre (C-CBC)! Our website has migrated to a new domain www.c-cbc.center. The previous one www.ccjcberi.com will be valid for another year.
CCJCBERI members who attended the annual meeting in Beijing visited a number of universities and industries in China to build new connections and explore collaboration opportunities.
CCJCBERI Directors Tianwei Tan and Xiaotao Bi attended the third annual meeting and academic conference of the Beijing Center for Advanced Innovation in Soft Matter Science and Engineering on April 13th-14th, 2018.
On April 10th, 2018, the Third Annual Meeting of CCJCBERI was successfully held at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology. Attendees include more than 70 people from governments, research institutes, and other organizations in China, Canada, and the US.
On January 18th, 2018, the new Chinese Consul General of Vancouver, Ms. Xiaoling Tong, visited our Center.
C-CJCBERI member Dr. Chunbao Xu visited Dr. Xu Zhang at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) on Dec 21st, 2017.
C-CJCBERI member Dr. Anthony Lau visited our partner institute Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC), Chinese Academy of Sciences and the South China University of Technology from Dec 4th to Dec 8th, 2017.
