On September 6, a Tsinghua-Siemens R&D Cooperation Day was held in the FIT Building at Tsinghua University. The symposium, entitled “System Integration for Low Carbon Energy”, attracted more than 50 researchers and experts from Tsinghua and Siemens. This event was the third R&D Cooperation Day jointly held by Tsinghua and Siemens.
Tsinghua University Vice Chairman of the University Council, Ceng Zhangzhi, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony. He first expressed his warm welcome to experts from Siemens on behalf of Tsinghua University, and then continued to say that Tsinghua and Siemens have established sound collaborative research relations in areas of energy and environmental protection, which are now areas of global focus. He hoped that both sides could work together to make important contributions to the development of clean energy and renewable energy research.
Dr. Reinhold Achatz, Vice President of Siemens and Head of Siemens Corporate Technologies, as well as Cheng Meiwei, CEO of Siemens Northeast Asia and President of Siemens China, also spoke at the opening ceremony, giving speeches entitled “Green Future” and “Cooperation and Innovation” respectively.
Deputy Director of the Tsinghua Low Carbon Energy Laboratory, Wang Zanji, gave a keynote speech at the opening ceremony. His speech, describing the development and achievements of low carbon energy research in Tsinghua, sparked great interest and in-depth discussions among the participants.
Professors from the Departments of Thermal Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University also introduced their research work in the areas of clean coal, smart grids, and renewable energy to Siemens experts. Siemens expressed their expectation of carrying out large-scale cooperation with Tsinghua University in these areas next year.
Tsinghua and Siemens have a close long-term collaborative relationship. In 2007, a comprehensive research cooperation agreement was signed by both parties, and in 2008 the Tsinghua-Siemens Center for Knowledge Interchange (CKI) was set up to serve as a platform to promote bilateral cooperation. This platform involves 19 departments at Tsinghua University, in areas of industry and automation, healthcare, energy and the environment.
